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A conversation with the funders

graham.pryor — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:06:18 +0000

The organisers of DCC’s special event, Funding Research Data Management, which took place on 25^th April at Aston University, can surely claim that the essence of the debate (about what is acceptable, feasible and achievable in the use of research grant funding for the provision of data infrastructure and services) has at long last been laid bare under the light of expert scrutiny.

IDCC13: What’s in a name? The ‘data scientist’ symposium

sarah.jones — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 10:03:41 +0000

The IDCC symposium this year was on ‘What is a data scientist?’ After some shuffling of chairs, Liz Lyon opened proceedings with a quick show of hands on who thought they were a data engineer, data analyst, data librarian, data steward, data journalist or data publisher? Data librarian and data steward got the biggest response, but would these people call themselves data scientists? Or are there other terms they would use?

IDCC13: Bringing people together via DMPs

sarah.jones — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 06:41:20 +0000

The DMP workshop at IDCC brought together speakers from all corners of the globe to pursue the common interest of data management planning. The event was kicked off by Martin Donnelly of the DCC who co-organised it with Carly Strasser from the Californian Digital Library. Martin gave some background context, likening research data management to Hydra, a many-headed beast to be tamed. He explained the development of DMP resources and the DMP Online tool before handing off to the next speakers for a round of policy updates.

10 recommendations to get started with research data management

sarah.jones — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 15:17:01 +0000

Ten recommendations for libraries to get started with research data management, Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard et al, (July, 2012)

This is a breath of fresh air. An EU report that does exactly what it says on the tin - in only 3 pages!

The LIBER e-Science working group held three workshops at conferences in 2011-2012. Their final report very succinctly summarises the findings of these and gives 10 prioritised recommendations.

Demystifying research data

Digital Curation Centre blogs — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 12:10:50 +0000

Earlier this week, I attended a workshop entitled 'Demystifying research data: don't be scared, be prepared', an event that was organised by the JIBS User Group and RLUK (Research Libraries UK), and held at the Brunei Gallery, SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), University of London.

The event was intended to provide a general introduction to research data management (RDM) for subject/liaison librarians, and others responsible for providing support to academic departments.

Joint statement on data citation from STM publishers and DataCite

kevin.ashley — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:26:11 +0000

The essential data roadmap

graham.pryor — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 18:27:12 +0000

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 institutions they fund will ensure that research data generated as a result of their support is appropriately managed and shared. The DCC has provided a simple guide to creating a framework.

Developing a roadmap for RDM

sarah.jones — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:00:14 +0000

We trialled a new session at the Loughborough roadshow on developing data policy and services. This ended with an excerise on producing an RDM roadmap, as the EPSRC requirement to do this by May 2012 is uppermost on many people's minds.

Re-skilling for research – observations on an RLUK report

graham.pryor — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:08:40 +0000

The Preface to this new RLUK report opens by declaring how it “is clear that as the nature of research within our institutions changes, so must the role of the library in supporting research”.

Developing institutional data policies: trend for 2012

sarah.jones — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:44:50 +0000

The DCC is supporting a number of UK universities with research data management and top of the wishlist for most is a data policy. The EPSRC policy framework is often cited a key driver. We’re also seeing lots of policy development courtesy of the new JISC Managing Research Data programme, so predict this will be a key trend in 2012.