In this guest blog post, Steve Crouch, research software group lead at the Software Sustainability Institute, talks about the lightweight sustainability assessment of the research data spring projects and his feedback and impressions as a part of the judging panel. He also briefly touches upon the latest webinar we run for the projects on financing […]
In this blog post, Rachel Persad, the senior policy adviser on research and innovation at GuildHE, reports on the progress and engagement of small and specialist higher education institutions with research data management. She also highlights the challenges that CREST institutions are facing and the goals they have as a pilot within the research data […]
CRIS systems going national and providing new avenues for research into research management Tamsin Burland, our research subject specialist reports on the CRIS2016 conference, where she delivered a session. The ‘CRIS2016’ conference, organised by euroCRIS, was held 8th -10th June at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. This is a biennial conference focussed on […]
On Tuesday last week, I was lucky enough to be the Jisc envoy – along with a few other Jisc colleagues and two project leads from our research data spring initiative – at the Science and Innovation Conference 2016. The conference took place in the fabulous and very central venue – The Queen Elizabeth II […]
Last week, Martin Hamilton and I attended the S-lab conference at the BBSRC Rothamsted Research. S-lab is an initiative that supports world class science through engaging the discussion on efficiencies around laboratory equipment and facilities. The conference kicked off with a few keynote speakers. David Parfrey of BBSRC said that the recipe for a bioeconomy […]
We have put together an overview of our progress with the Research at Risk co-design challenge since our last update in December 2015. Over the past 6 months, we have been mostly busy with: Establishing the supplier framework and selecting the vendors for each lot within the research data shared service as well as holding […]
As part of the research data spring initiative, we have worked with the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) to review and help each project ameliorate. In this blog, Paul Wheatley of the DPC, recalls previous Jisc projects around preservation and reflects on the new research data spring initiative and how […]
Caroline Ingram, research data management subject specialist at Jisc, talks about the Horizon 2020’s Open Research Data Pilot. All European Commission (EC) Horizon 2020 funded projects must deposit their peer-reviewed publications to ensure Open Access. A subset of the funded projects are also required to take part in an Open Research Data Pilot, or can […]
Back in November 2014 we started research data spring with 70 ideas looking to develop or enhance technical tools and software that would improve the management of research data. The first two phases saw 16 and then 11 of these ideas being developed and tested. For the third and last phase of research data spring, […]
Caroline Ingram, research data management subject specialist at Jisc talks about our latest guide on engaging researchers to manage better their data. We have recently published a guide on engaging your researchers with managing research data. It will be of interest to university researchers and research data management support staff, including those who are responsible […]