The Research Data Alliance formed in 2012 with a vision for researchers and innovators to openly share data across technologies, disciplines, and countries to address the grand challenges of society. “Participation in RDA is open to anyone who agrees to its guiding principles of openness, consensus, balance, harmonisation, with a community driven and non-profit approach.” […]
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Jisc RDM Shared Service Pilot
Workshops 18th and 19th Nov and Expressions of interest for pilot institutions. Based on demands from the academic community Jisc is looking at delivering a research data management shared service over the next 18 months. In order to achieve this we will need to work in close partnership with a number of UK HEI’s to […]
The S-lab conference last week was a most inspiring and interesting event. It had everything, from a keynote speaker representing NASA to an awards dinner with Matthew Cobb revealing life’s greatest secret, and exhibitors showing the newest lab designs and coolest lab equipment. It was attended by close to 400 participants both from higher education […]
If you are following research data spring or at least one of the projects we funded and would like to look through their outputs and progress, here is a comprehensive reading list for each of the projects. I will be updating this post as more reports, blogs, videos and links will be available General reading […]
On the second day at the Repository Fringe, Rachel Bruce, Linda Naughton and I ran a session on research data management and relevant research at risk projects. Rachel started the session with a few updates around the research at risk project. Each of us then run a parallel break out group focusing on a particular […]
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Repository Fringe 2015
This year, the Repository Fringe organised by the DCC, EDiNA, and University of Edinburgh and sponsored by ULCC, Arkivum and EPrints services offered a buffet of all you can handle technical and non-technical ideas, features and projects around repositories. The event partly followed an unconference style, but was focused around two general topics: open access […]
Jisc Shared Services Workshop 9 July 2015 At the recent Research Data Shared Services Workshops a draft top level RDM architecture was presented for feedback from participants. In this post John Kaye explains this architecture and its purpose and welcomes feedback from the wider community In planning RDM shared services for Jisc’s Research at Risk […]
On 14th of July, 15 research data spring projects presented their progress and their objectives for another 4 months of development. This all started back in November, when researchers, librarians, publishers and developers were invited to post and discuss their ideas on our online IdeaScale platform. In February, during the first sandpit workshop, we selected 16 […]
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Research Data Metadata Workshop
On the 7th July Jisc hosted an event to discuss Research Data Metadata with the broad aim to begin the path to gaining community consensus around a discipline neutral metadata specification that would be compatible with multiple research systems. There were just under 40 attendees from institutions and research system providers. The event was a […]
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Research Data Metadata
In this blog post John Kaye outlines the aims, objectives and content for a Jisc hosted Research Data Metadata event to be held in London on Tuesday 7th July. There are a few places available – if you’re interested, register here for the metadata workshop. During the consultation for Jisc’s Research at Risk challenge area […]