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

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

    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, complementin...

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  • Coming soon: New homepage

    Coming soon: New homepage

    I'm Magdalena Getler, curation services officer at the DCC. I'm pleased to announce that we have today launched the new DCC homepage in Beta mode. The Beta period will last for about two weeks before going live. Read more

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  • Future plans for DMP Online

    Future plans for DMP Online

    Feedback on future developments for DMP Online gathered during the JISCMRD Workshop: Meeting (Disciplinary) Challenges in Research Data Management Planning on the 23rd March. Read more

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  • Associating Research Data Records using RAIDmap

    Associating Research Data Records using RAIDmap

    Ball, A., Thangarajah, U., Darlington, M., McMahon, C. and Lyon, E., 2012. Associating Research Data Records using RAIDmap. At: Meeting (Disciplinary) Challenges in Research Data Management Planning, 2012-03-23, Etc. venues, Paddington, London.

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  • Turning roadmaps to action

    Turning roadmaps to action

    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 Lee...

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  • Postgraduate DMP template first draft

    Postgraduate DMP template first draft

    A lot of people have asked for this to be made available, so here it is: Data Management Plan for PGRs v0.2. It’s also available as a PDF. This template is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. We welcome comments and suggestions for improvements, and we’d love to hear from anyone who finds it [...]

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  • A Departmental Data Management Plan

    A Departmental Data Management Plan

    The REDm-MED Project has produced its second deliverable: A Research Data Management Plan for the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath. This document begins the work of satisfying the Requirements Specification that formed the Project’s first deliverable. The plan has two main sections. The first explains how to use data management plans at the project level: [...]

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  • Gaps in Guidelines

    Gaps in Guidelines

    Gap analyses often take the form of a formal survey such as the Data Asset Framework or CARDIO. However, there are more informal ways of identifying gaps in an institution’s readiness for managing its research data. As we have been working on our new RDM policy, we have referred to a number of related policies, [...]

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  • Tools for research data management

    Tools for research data management

    Ball, A., 2012. Tools for research data management. Bath, UK: University of Bath.

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  • Hitachi Content Platform object store arrives

    Hitachi Content Platform object store arrives

    Just a little bit of geekery really. The object store that I mentioned the other week has now arrived! The cabinet on the left in the photo is almost entirely disks. We have one for each data centre, but installing them into our existing infrastructure is a non-trivial task, so it’ll be a while before they’re [...]

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