DCC News Archive

  • A conversation with the funders

    A conversation with the funders

    Posted on 30 April 2013 by graham.pryor | From DCC
    The organisers of DCC’s special event, Funding Research Data Management, which took place on 25th April at Aston University, can surely claim that the essence of the debate (about what is acceptable, feasible and achievable in the use of research...

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  • The sweet smell of sustainability – JISC MRD projects make the business case

    The sweet smell of sustainability – JISC MRD projects make the business case

    Posted on 11 April 2013 by angus.whyte | From DCC
    The MRD Workshop at Aston University 25-6 March heard about the business case advanced by four projects; at Universities of Bristol, Nottingham and Oxford and, with a slightly different take on things, from the Archaeology Data Service.read more

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  • To the 17th century, and beyond!

    To the 17th century, and beyond!

    Posted on 28 March 2013 by angus.whyte | From DCC
    The final session of the closing workshop for the JISC Managing Research Data ought to be a time for reflection on the whole programme, and of course it was. Programme Manager Simon Hodson introduced a six-strong panel to answer two questions, first &l...

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  • IDCC13 and the Research Data Alliance

    IDCC13 and the Research Data Alliance

    Posted on 17 March 2013 by kevin.ashley | From DCC
    I'm currently on my way to Gothenburg for the first plenary meeting of the Research Data Alliance, or RDA as I'll refer to it from here on. It seems an appropriate point to fulfil a promise I made a month ago in my overview of IDCC13. I promise...

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  • IDCC13: on reflection

    IDCC13: on reflection

    Posted on 5 February 2013 by kevin.ashley | From DCC
    IDCC13 and its associated workshops took place in Amsterdam a few weeks ago - the first time we've run the International Digital Curation Conference in continental Europe. The increased attendance and enthusiastic involvement of many new colleagues...

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  • IDCC13: Panel on confidentiality and open access to research data

    IDCC13: Panel on confidentiality and open access to research data

    Posted on 31 January 2013 by Digital Curation Centre blogs | From DCC
    In his talk at IDCC, Ewan Birney, Associate Director of the EMBL European Informatics Institute, described how the field of genomics has paved the path to large-scale data sharing. The field now publicly confronts the issues arising from breaches to pr...

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  • RDM within the University of St Andrews IT support

    RDM within the University of St Andrews IT support

    Posted on 28 January 2013 by Digital Curation Centre blogs | From DCC
    During the JISCMRD workshop in October 2012, I gave a presentation on the outcomes of the DCC institutional engagement project at the University of St Andrews and how that project has influenced the development of research data management (RDM) support...

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  • IDCC13 Data Publication: generating trust around data sharing

    IDCC13 Data Publication: generating trust around data sharing

    Posted on 23 January 2013 by angus.whyte | From DCC
    Publishing data is hardly a new concept, for example the Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data is in its 42nd volume. But reference datasets are of course an exception to the rule; maps of the known disciplinary terrain rather than the stuff ...

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  • The value of a one-to-one

    The value of a one-to-one

    Posted on 31 October 2012 by sarah.jones | From DCC
    Marieke and I were in Northampton yesterday as part of the DCC institutional engagements. A few months back Miggie suggested we kick off our one-to-one support by running a preliminary 'research data clinic' where we invite researchers to come ...

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  • JISC workshop takes data repository options further

    JISC workshop takes data repository options further

    Posted on 30 October 2012 by angus.whyte | From DCC
    Alternative solutions to depositing data in repositories were the topic of one sessions in the JISC workshop on Components of Institutional Research Data Services, 24-25 October in Nottingham. This was one of the more popular of the eight sessions, so ...

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