Herewith notice of the JISC Grant Funding Call 07/11, for the Managing Research Data Programme (02) 2011-13 (#jiscmrd), which will be released in the next few days. A total of approximately £4.6M will be available, divided across three strands. The deadline for submissions will be 28 July 2011. *There will be a community briefing event […]
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The fifth and final Working Groups established at the JISCMRD Phase Two Launch Workshop encompasses the whole strand of work producing discipline focussed training materials for managing research data. As well as presentations from the new projects, the Research Data Management Training Materials strand had input from the Data Management Skills Support Initiative (DaMSSI) Support Project; from […]
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IPR and Licensing #MRDipr
The IPR and Licensing Group (#MRDipr) was the fourth of five Working Groups formed at the JISCMRD Phase Two Launch Workshop. The MRDipr Group, with input from Naomi Korn, decomposed the problem in the following way: Legacy data Legacy constraints, integration/ingest problems (licence incompatibility). New data What licences are the best for different agendas? What is the […]
The Open Data Publishers Group (#MRDpub) was one of five Working Groups formed at the JISCMRD Phase Two Launch Workshop. The Group discussed how best to liaise with publishers and to encourage increased open publication of research data, linked to scientific articles, the data behind the graph. The key outcome was the recommendation to organise a Workshop […]
The MRDinteg Group was one of five Working Groups formed at the JISCMRD Phase Two Launch Workshop. The MRDinteg Group set out to discuss shared experiences of data integration using RDF. As well agreeing to share ideas and experiences, the Group agreed that it would be a good thing to organise a Hack Day centred […]
The MRDonto Group was one of five Working Groups formed at the JISCMRD Phase Two Launch Workshop. The MRDonto Group’s discussion ranged over the following areas: Data processing and data publication workflows. Generic ontologies and metadata models for describing datasets, to supplement domain- specific ontologies to describe the research field. Recording provenance for datasets. Assigning credit […]
On 22 October a workshop was held to launch the two new strands of the JISCMRD Programme. Over sixty participants attended from new and existing projects. The two new strands comprise: 1) Projects demonstrating the benefits of making research data openly available by exploring ways of citing, linking, integrating and publishing that data. 2) Projects […]
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 […]
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 […]