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Hands-on RDM with SIM4RDM

Alex Ball — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 09:57:20 +0000

On 12 April 2013 I attended a workshop organised in Berlin by the SIM4RDM project.

Metadata, metadata, metadata

Monica Duke — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 08:34:16 +0000

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. Programme

To the 17th century, and beyond!

angus.whyte — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:04:59 +0000

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 “what were the biggest successes and areas of progress in the last few years”, and two “what recommendations would you make for the next steps to develop a coherent research data management infrastructure and support service?”

The value of a one-to-one

sarah.jones — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 12:01:01 +0000

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 along and share their RDM problems. This reminded me of a service we used to run via AHDS - researchers could book short consultations around the workshops that we ran. We were all fired up by the idea and put together a poster to advertise it.

Are you really on the map?

graham.pryor — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 15:18:58 +0000

Between 18^th July and 18^th September 2012, Research Office heads or the PVCs Research (or their equivalent) in one hundred UK institutions in receipt of EPSRC funding, were invited to complete an online DCC survey designed to establish reactions to (and the impact from) EPSRC’s call for the development of effective research data roadmaps. For the purpose of this survey we identified HEIs that receive more than 10% of their total funding from research and are currently in receipt of one or more EPSRC grants. This gave us our list of one hundred institutions.

DCC training workshop at iPres 2012

sarah.jones — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 23:06:04 +0000

The DCC ran a workshop in collaboration with several other digital curation stakeholders today. Pushing the Boundaries - excellence in digital curation education and training through collaboration covered a number of themes, including curriculum development, assessing course content, and developing frameworks to map skills and evaluate training.

There were lots of presentations, so I’ve limited this review to my top 3 highlights.

Demystifying research data

Digital Curation Centre blogs — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 12:10:50 +0000

Earlier this week, I attended a workshop entitled 'Demystifying research data: don't be scared, be prepared', an event that was organised by the JIBS User Group and RLUK (Research Libraries UK), and held at the Brunei Gallery, SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), University of London.

The event was intended to provide a general introduction to research data management (RDM) for subject/liaison librarians, and others responsible for providing support to academic departments.

A journey shared – on the road to research data management.

Monica Duke — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:30:08 +0000

The workshop on developing institutional data policies held in mid-March helped institutions to come together to discuss different approaches and learn from each other. This article describes some of the lessons emerging from the workshop, complementing other reports on the same workshop.

Turning roadmaps to action

angus.whyte — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:29:14 +0000

Many UK Higher Education Institutions are setting out their 'roadmap' of actions to support research data management, to meet a deadline set by funding body EPSRC. Prompted by a workshop organised by DCC and JISC with the RoaDMaP project at Leeds University, Angus Whyte considers how a roadmap fits alongside documentation of policy and process.

Navigating the potholes

sarah.jones — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 15:53:17 +0000

As part of our series of blog posts on developing RDM roadmaps, this week we're reflecting on what a roadmap looks like and where HEIs have most work to do.