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  • University of Bath Data Management Plan template and guidance

    University of Bath Data Management Plan template and guidance

    One of our key tasks for the Research360 project was to produce an institutional template for data management plans (DMPs) at the University of Bath — an initial version of this is now complete and available to download, along with guidance on its completion. University of Bath Data Management Plan Template Writing your data management plan : [...]

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  • Research Data Management and REF2014

    Research Data Management and REF2014

    The Research360 project is pleased to announce the public release of its guidance document Research Data Management and REF2014, prepared by staff at the University of Bath and Charles Beagrie Ltd. It is being disseminated and shared with the research community in Bath and other universities. Many universities are still in the process of enhancing and [...]

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  • Stakeholder Benefits from Research Data Management

    Stakeholder Benefits from Research Data Management

    The Research360 project has just has released the summary stakeholder benefits analysis from the Research Data Management (RDM) business case for the University of Bath. The 4 page document is available to download in PDF format from opus.bath.ac.uk/32509. The benefits summary covers key stakeholder groups both within the university community (academic staff and researchers, students, professional [...]

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  • Sakai Development: Post Seven

    Sakai Development: Post Seven

    In which I outline the development task in more detail and start working through the code. After going round in circles trying to figure out exactly what does what, I am finally able to make my first edits. The full post is on my personal blog here.

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  • Sakai Development: Post Six

    Sakai Development: Post Six

    In which I finally am able to import Sakai into the eclipse IDE, the designated development environment. And at the end I am left wondering whether all the work has been worth it – I might have been better off developing with a text editor, old school style. The full post is on my personal blog [...]

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  • Sakai Development: Post Five

    Sakai Development: Post Five

    In which I add LDAP authentication to the test Sakai installation, and sort out a bizarre issue with the Resources tool: a complete lack of the hooks and buttons needed to add content. The full post is on my personal blog here.

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  • Sakai Development: Post Four

    Sakai Development: Post Four

    In which I finally get the test Sakai installation working, and learn about some apache modules which I have not used before which are needed to work around the problems. The full post is on my personal blog here.

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  • Sakai Development: Post Three

    Sakai Development: Post Three

    In which I work my way through the compilation of Sakai several times, ending up with a limited amount of success and experience a fair amount of frustration. This is where things start to get quite technical. The full post is on my personal blog here....

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  • The University of Bath Roadmap for EPSRC

    The University of Bath Roadmap for EPSRC

    The University of Bath has spent the past few months working on their response to the EPSRC’s letter to Vice-Chancellors. In this letter, the EPSRC set out their nine expectations for how institutions in receipt of their funding should manage their research data. Responsibility for responding to the EPSRC’s expectations – the roadmap setting out how [...]

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  • Introducing Simon McLeish, technical developer

    Introducing Simon McLeish, technical developer

    My name is Simon McLeish and I have just started working on developing the technical specification for the research data repository at the University of Bath to be developed for the Research360 project over the next year, as well as work to integrate SAKAI and SWORD2 for use with the repository. At the moment, my [...]

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