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  • JISC MRD progress workshop slides & poster

    JISC MRD progress workshop slides & poster

    On Wednesday 24 and Thursday 25 October 2012, Cathy and I attended the JISC MRD programme progress workshop in Nottingham. The workshop was an excellent opportunity to share the lessons we’re learning on the Research360 project and learn from colleagues working on research data management elsewhere, including a number outside the JISC-funded MRD programme. Our slides [...]

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  • BRISSKit: Connecting researchers with clinical data

    BRISSKit: Connecting researchers with clinical data

    The UK government is starting to recognise the value of data to the economy and is developing policy that aims to realise that worth. One of the largest and, potentially, most useful repositories of information in the country is the NHS, housing vast q...

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  • JISCMRD: Developing and implementing RDM policy

    JISCMRD: Developing and implementing RDM policy

    The development of research data management (RDM) policy has been a hot topic over the previous year with the EPSRC’s deadline of May 1st 2012 for the production of a ‘roadmap’ strategy document driving activity in this area. Now the ...

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  • The value of a one-to-one

    The value of a one-to-one

    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 ...

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  • JISC workshop takes data repository options further

    JISC workshop takes data repository options further

    Alternative solutions to depositing data in repositories were the topic of one sessions in the JISC workshop on Components of Institutional Research Data Services, 24-25 October in Nottingham. This was one of the more popular of the eight sessions, so ...

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  • IDCC13 Preview: Kevin Ashley

    IDCC13 Preview: Kevin Ashley

    The 8th International Digital Curation Conference is just around the corner and we are anticipating great discussions about data science when our international audience gather in Amsterdam in January 2013. In the first of our series of preview posts, D...

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  • How to Cite Datasets and Link to Publications : A Report of the Digital Curation Centre

    How to Cite Datasets and Link to Publications : A Report of the Digital Curation Centre

    Duke, M. and Ball, A., 2012. How to Cite Datasets and Link to Publications : A Report of the Digital Curation Centre. At: 23rd International CODATA Conference, 2012-10-27 - 2012-10-31, Taipei.

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  • Data citation tutorial slides now available

    Data citation tutorial slides now available

    The slides from the tutorial given at iPres 2012 on October 2nd 2012 are now available from the DCC website.

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  • Presentation on Data Citation Guide

    Presentation on Data Citation Guide

    Alex Ball will be presenting How to cite datasets and link to publications – a report of the Digital Curation Centre on Tuesday 28th October 2012 in the data Publication and Data Citation track at the 23rd CODATA meeting in Taipei, Taiwan.

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  • Working with Commercial Partners (Presentation)

    Working with Commercial Partners (Presentation)

    Pink, C., 2012. Working with Commercial Partners (Presentation). At: British Library DataCite Workshop - Managing and citing sensitive data, 2012-10-29 - 2012-10-29, London.

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