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 […]
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 […]
Some info on metadata standards being used by JISCMRD projects is available on the commonalities spreadsheet. There was a breakout group at the Programme Launch Workshop on metadata standards: for blogged accounts of this session, see http://researchdataessex.posterous.com/metadata-session-feedback-mrd-2011-13-program and http://sonexworkgroup.blogspot.com/2011/12/thematic-parallel-session-on-metadata.html The Metadata Breakout Group came up with some actions, though these are reported a little differently […]
A number of JISCMRD Projects have been looking at regional collaborations. Organised by Jez Cope of Bath Research 360, the projects in the south west of the country (Bath Research 360, Bristol’s Data.Bris, UWE’s MRD Pilot and Open Exeter) met recently. There are two blog posts about this meeting which may be of interest to […]
Two projects have recently posted presentations which may be of interest to others. Bill Worthington from the #rdtk_herts project recently gave a lunchtime presentation at the University of Hertfordshire which provides a useful overview of the Research Data Toolkit Project. There are sections covering the motivation, national and local policy contexts, benefits/impact and the projects approach […]
JISC has today release a Grant Funding Call 01/12. The Call for Proposals comes from JISC’s Digital Infrastructure Team and contains four elements which are part of the Managing Research Data Programme http://bit.ly/jiscmrd2011-13 The Grant Funding Call may be found on the JISC website at http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2012/01/0112%20DI.aspx The deadline for submission is 12.00 noon on 16 […]
Some interesting observations are emerging from the Strand B Research Data Management Planning projects about the specific and model data management plans, or data management checklists, which they are developing. Many of the projects are agreed in the nature of one of the principal challenges: it is to ensure that the data management plan is […]
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JISCMRD Project Posters
A centrepiece of the JISC Managing Research Data Programme Launch Workshop was the poster session. Feedback on the session has been very positive and a lot of projects seem to have found it a useful and effective way of finding out about each others’ work and establishing points of contact. Many – but not all […]
Steve Hitchcock (@stevehit) from Southampton’s DataPool Project has published an interesting blog post about that project’s progress on taking forward a research data management policy. DataPool’s three pronged approach (addressing system, policy and training) was described in Steve’s first post. DataPool is pushing forward with the Southampton research data policy. The project is currently hoping to […]
There are a number of blog posts available providing accounts and discussions of the recent JISCMRD 2011-13 Launch Workshop. I have provided links below. I am very grateful to those of you who have posted accounts of the workshop as a whole or various sessions. A few gaps remain and I would be grateful to […]