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  • The sweet smell of sustainability – JISC MRD projects make the business case

    The sweet smell of sustainability – JISC MRD projects make the business case

    The MRD Workshop at Aston University 25-6 March heard about the business case advanced by four projects; at Universities of Bristol, Nottingham and Oxford and, with a slightly different take on things, from the Archaeology Data Service.read more

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  • IGT: The key to NHS data?

    IGT: The key to NHS data?

    On Friday March 8th I attended a packed session of the NHS-HE forum convened to examine the NHS Information Governance Toolkit (IGT) and discuss its application to higher education (HE) institutions.read more

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  • To the 17th century, and beyond!

    To the 17th century, and beyond!

    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 &l...

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  • DMPonline – current status

    DMPonline – current status

    In a news post back in January, I described our future plans for DMPonline in outline. This followed an extensive series of evaluations and tests of the tool and the underlying methodology as well as a re-examination of what the tool was meant to do an...

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  • Making the business case

    Making the business case

    data.bris is the University of Bristol’s new Research Data Service. It emerges from a successful business case developed by the Jisc-funded data.bris pilot which, for the past 17 months, has been part of the MRD Programme.read more

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  • Defining institutional data storage requirements

    Defining institutional data storage requirements

    Institutions developing infrastructure in support of research data management are engaging with a whole range of issues, both cultural and technical. One that stands out as a clear priority is that of research data storage, both for “live” ...

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  • IDCC13 and the Research Data Alliance

    IDCC13 and the Research Data Alliance

    I'm currently on my way to Gothenburg for the first plenary meeting of the Research Data Alliance, or RDA as I'll refer to it from here on. It seems an appropriate point to fulfil a promise I made a month ago in my overview of IDCC13. I promise...

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  • Research data matters in the visual arts

    Research data matters in the visual arts

    Last week (6 March 2013) saw the end-of-project conference (Research data matters in the visual arts) for the Jisc-funded KAPTUR project. The KAPTUR project, led by the Visual Arts Data Service (VADS), has been investigating the current state of resear...

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  • CKAN for research data management

    CKAN for research data management

    CKAN, developed by the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF), is an open source data management system that makes data accessible, providing tools to publish, share find and use data. It has been used to provide a number of government data portals, including...

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  • IDCC13: on reflection

    IDCC13: on reflection

    IDCC13 and its associated workshops took place in Amsterdam a few weeks ago - the first time we've run the International Digital Curation Conference in continental Europe. The increased attendance and enthusiastic involvement of many new colleagues...

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