The Southampton IDMB (Institutional Data Management Blueprint) Project is another project in the RDMI Strand of the JISCMRD Programme. The project’s aims are ambitious: nothing less than to provide the University of Southampton with a ten-year roadmap for delivery of a comprehensive data management infrastructure. The IDMB Project has run a series of workshops, interviews […]
Month: August 2010
This is the first in a set of brief posts describing progress among the Research Data Management Infrastructure (RDMI) and Research Data Management Planning (RDMP) projects of the #jiscmrd programme. Each is based on a catch-up telephone conversation held with the Project Manager. The intention is to highlight progress, indicate some key (generalisable) challenges, provide […]
The third new strand of projects in the JISC Managing Research Data Programme. Improving research data management in UK Universities requires increasing skills and capacity as well as implementing technical infrastructure. The Digital Curation Centre, which has a significant remit for training and outreach, represents a major JISC investment in this area. The DCC has […]
As promised, here is a second post providing details of new projects in the JISC Managing Research Data Programme. Today, innovative data publications as a way of increasing the recognition and reward which researchers receive for publishing and sharing data. Coming soon, projects creating discipline-focussed training materials in research data management. As well as seeking […]
As well as seeking to demonstrate ways in which research data management in UK Universities can be improved, the JISCMRD programme seeks to demonstrate the benefits of making research data as openly available as possible. The JISC Call for Projects 14/09 Strand A sought to fund projects to demonstrate the innovative potential for research and […]
The objective of the JISC Managing Research Data Programme (JISCMRD) is to improve the way research data is managed in UK Higher Education and to help achieve better recognition for the fundamental place of data creation, management in the research process. The JISCMRD programme comprises 5 strands as follows: Research Data Management Infrastructure: 8 projects, each […]