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  • A Partnership Approach to Promoting Information Literacy for Higher Education Researchers

    A Partnership Approach to Promoting Information Literacy for Higher Education Researchers

      Stéphane Goldstein, Research Information Network, has authored an article for LIBER Quarterly which summarizes the collaborative approaches fostered by the RIN Working Group on Information Handling and the DaMSSI project. The D...

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  • Benefiting from Research360: Who, when and how?

    Benefiting from Research360: Who, when and how?

    Thinking about this blog post has provided a welcome opportunity to reflect on what we’re hoping to achieve during the Research360 project. It’s a broad project covering many aspects of research data management (RDM) and generating numerous specific outputs that, one would hope, will all benefit researchers, their collaborators, the institution and the wider RDM [...]

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  • Navigating the potholes

    Navigating the potholes

    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. Read more

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  • Launch Workshop for DataFlow and ViDaaS

    Launch Workshop for DataFlow and ViDaaS

    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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  • Requirements for Data Management Planning

    Requirements for Data Management Planning

    The REDm-MED Project has produced its first deliverable: the Research Data Management Plan Requirements Specification for the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath. The meat of the document is a table that lists a series of requirements for research data management, and for each one provides the rationale for the requirement, the rôle (principal investigator, researcher, [...]

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  • Research Data Management 101 — Data Management Planning

    Research Data Management 101 — Data Management Planning

    A few weeks ago, we got together some of our students from the Doctoral Training Centre in Sustainable Chemical Technologies to run a pilot training session on data management. As part of that, we asked them to trial a selection of data management plan (DMP) templates. We split the students into smaller groups, and assigned each [...]

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  • The essential data roadmap

    The essential data roadmap

    Last April the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) wrote to university vice chancellors explaining their Policy Framework on Research Data. This framework set out EPSRC’s principles and expectations concerning how the insti...

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  • Sharing is so Nice

    Sharing is so Nice

    Some quite nice stories are beginning to emerge from the Department of Mechanical Engineering related to the benefits (and to a lesser extent difficulties) of sharing data. This is of interest because non-data-sharing seems to be the current default. Here are a couple from the horse’s mouth. Two data sets, the core of which were in [...]

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  • Research Data Management 101 — Intro & definitions

    Research Data Management 101 — Intro & definitions

    On Wednesday 15 February, we ran our first workshop/focus group with PhD students from the Doctoral Training Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies. This is the first of a series of posts summarising the outcomes of that event. Overview We had three aims for this session: To introduce the participants to data management planning and have them start writing [...]

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  • Object stores

    Object stores

    Although my involvement in Research360 is at the level where technology and people interact, I’m also doing my best to understand how our infrastructure is developing at a much lower level so that I’m in a position to better advise non-technical stakeholders. Bath University Computing Services (BUCS) are currently in the process of procuring a new [...]

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