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Institutional Data Repositories and the Curation Hierarchy: reflections on the DCC-ICPSR workshop at OR2012 and the Royal Society’s Science as an Open Enterprise report

At Open Repositories 2012 the Digital Curation Centre and ICPSR (the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) organised a workshop to consider issues around the roles and responsibilities of institutional data repositories. Graham Pryor opened the workshop with an overview of the DCC’s programme of institutional engagements.  The workshop featured three presentations relating to projects in the […]

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Recent Presentations (and an absence…)

One of the casualties of my recent stay in hospital was my moustache, which – of late – had grown to impressive proportions.  As the NHS does not employ barbers to keep the inmates kempt, the moustache became unruly and had to go.  I do not pretend that my ‘lip-joy’ has not divided opinion – […]

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Correcting a break…

I recently broke my leg: to be precise a lateral tibial plateau fracture, which required an operation, plates and pins to put back together.  This means that until the end of August 2012, I shall be in a knee brace, unable to put weight on my right leg and moving around on crutches.  The discomfort […]

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Developing Institutional Research Data Management Policies

On 12-13 March, in conjunction with DCC and the University of Leeds ROADMAP Project, the JISC Managing Research Data Programme held a workshop to examine challenges around developing institutional research data management policies. This is an important area of activity for projects in the JISCMRD Programme.  All 17 large infrastructure projects are developing policies – […]

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Meeting Challenges in Research Data Management Planning

Presentations from the JISC Managing Research Data Programme workshop on data management planning – held on Friday 23 March – are now available. The event page on the JISC website provides links to presentations given by projects tasked to explore the challenges of designing and implementing data management plans for research projects or for departments […]

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JISCMRD Projects and the OAIS Reference Model

Joss Winn has recently blogged about the Orbital Project’s use of the OAIS Reference model in which he makes some very important points. The mistake to make with OAIS is looking at the model and thinking that you have to create a system that is designed in such a way, rather than functions in such […]