Events Archive

  • Metadata, metadata, metadata

    Metadata, metadata, metadata

    Posted on 15 April 2013 by Monica Duke | From DCC
    Metadata emerged as the underlying theme in this session on Data Repositories, Portals and Catalogues at the JISC MRD Achievements, Challenges and Recommendations workshop held in Birmingham on 25-26 March 2013. Programmeread more

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  • Working with commercial partners

    Working with commercial partners

    Posted on 8 November 2012 by Jez Cope | From Research360
    On Monday 29 October, Cathy Pink gave an invited presentation on research data management with commercial partners at the latest DataCite workshop. The workshop was jointly run by JISC and the British Library, and focused on issues around citing sensitive data. Cathy’s slides are now available for download from our institutional repository: Presentation — Working with commercial partners (Cathy [...]

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  • JISC MRD progress workshop slides & poster

    JISC MRD progress workshop slides & poster

    Posted on 8 November 2012 by Jez Cope | From Research360
    On Wednesday 24 and Thursday 25 October 2012, Cathy and I attended the JISC MRD programme progress workshop in Nottingham. The workshop was an excellent opportunity to share the lessons we’re learning on the Research360 project and learn from colleagues working on research data management elsewhere, including a number outside the JISC-funded MRD programme. Our slides [...]

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  • Anna Shadbolt on Australian research data management

    Anna Shadbolt on Australian research data management

    Posted on 21 June 2012 by Jez Cope | From Research360
    Last Friday our colleagues in UKOLN hosted a seminar from Anna Shadbolt, Manager of Information Management Services (part of the library) at the University of Melbourne. She gave us an overview of e-infrastructure and data management in Australia, including particular data management projects at Melbourne, and finished off with a mention of the DMVitals project from [...]

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  • Launch Workshop for DataFlow and ViDaaS

    Launch Workshop for DataFlow and ViDaaS

    Posted on 5 March 2012 by Marieke Guy | From JISC BGDP
    Mark Thorley, data management co-ordinator for NERC set the tone for the day when he explained that “Data management is too important to leave to the data managers, it needs to be an important part of research“. The launch event, hald at the Saïd Business school, University of Oxford, on Friday 2nd March 2012 for [...]

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  • VALA2012: libraries and technology down under

    VALA2012: libraries and technology down under

    Posted on 9 February 2012 by Jez Cope | From Research360
    Liz Lyon gave a keynote speech on Wednesday 8 February 2012, entitled “The Informatics Transform: Re-engineering Libraries for the Data Decade“, at the VALA2012 conference in Melbourne, Australia. The talk focused on the transformations required for libraries to keep up with digital trends, and drew on Liz’s own experience for exemplars, including the University of [...]

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  • DCC and the Sussex Roadshow

    DCC and the Sussex Roadshow

    Posted on 26 September 2011 by Marieke Guy | From JISC BGDP
    I’ve recently been appointed as an Institutional Support Officer for the Digital Curation Centre. In this role I will be raising awareness and building capacity for institutional research data by liaising with libraries, IT services, research support staff and others. My first step in getting myself up to speed will be attending the DCC Roadshow [...]

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  • Closing the Digital Curation Gap

    Closing the Digital Curation Gap

    Posted on 6 July 2011 by Marieke Guy | From JISC BGDP
    Last week on the day before the ICE Forum (28th June 2011) I attended the Closing the Digital Curation Gap Meeting. CDCG is an International Collaboration to Integrate Best Practice, Research & Development, and Training in Digital Curation. It has been running since October 2009 and was scheduled to finish in September this year but [...]

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  • JISC’10 Conference

    JISC’10 Conference

    Posted on 13 April 2010 by Greg Tourte | From PEG-BOARD
    A last minute thing, I ended up at the JISC 2010 conference today in London, with Emma Tonkin and Andrew Hewson both from UKOLN to meet with Sarah Jones, Joy Davidson (both DCC) and Neil Beagrie to talk about the … Continue reading →

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