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  • Are you really on the map?

    Are you really on the map?

    Between 18th July and 18th 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 (an...

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  • Sakai Development: Post Nine

    Sakai Development: Post Nine

    In which I reach a staging point in my Sakai journey: not the end, but the beginning of the end, at least. The full post is on my personal blog here.

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  • Introducing the partners: AMRC

    Introducing the partners: AMRC

    The Association of Medical Research Charities (AMRC) and our 127 member charities provide a direct link to the broader citizen-patient community. AMRC member charities funded over £1 billion for research in 2009/10 – carried out mostly in the univer...

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  • Sakai Development: Post Eight

    Sakai Development: Post Eight

    In which I have some more adventures in editing the source code reaching line 6300 of the Resources Action class, and end up on the brink of actually adding something useful to it. The full post is on my personal blog here.

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  • DCC training workshop at iPres 2012

    DCC training workshop at iPres 2012

    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 develo...

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  • IRG at iPres 2012

    IRG at iPres 2012

    This week Monica Duke and Michael Day are in Toronto representing UKOLN at iPres 2012. Michael Day is speaking about the  Community Capability Model Framework developed in a Microsoft-funded project which has been running since June 2011.  A whitepaper describes the framework which was developed...

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  • Sakai Development: Post Seven

    Sakai Development: Post Seven

    In which I outline the development task in more detail and start working through the code. After going round in circles trying to figure out exactly what does what, I am finally able to make my first edits. The full post is on my personal blog here.

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  • New resources

    New resources

    There have been loads of useful links circulated recently. As an aide-memoire and signpost to others who may have missed them, here's a quick summary. First off there's a US study to demystify the data management requirements of research funder...

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  • Tackling visual arts as research data

    Tackling visual arts as research data

    KAPTUR, a JISC MRD project following on from the Keepit and Kultivate projects, will discover, create and pilot a sectoral model of best practice in the management of research data in the visual arts.read more

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  • MURG: Modern Universities Research Group

    Digital Curation for Modern Universities

    Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN and Associate Director of the Digital Curation Centre, will be speaking at a workshop of the Modern Universities Research Group (MURG) on 28 September 2012 in London. Her talk, ‘Digital Curation for Modern Universities’, will be one of three on...

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