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 […]
As promised, here is a second post providing details of new projects in the JISC Managing Research Data Programme. Today, innovative data publications as a way of increasing the recognition and reward which researchers receive for publishing and sharing data. Coming soon, projects creating discipline-focussed training materials in research data management. As well as seeking […]
As well as seeking to demonstrate ways in which research data management in UK Universities can be improved, the JISCMRD programme seeks to demonstrate the benefits of making research data as openly available as possible. The JISC Call for Projects 14/09 Strand A sought to fund projects to demonstrate the innovative potential for research and […]
The objective of the JISC Managing Research Data Programme (JISCMRD) is to improve the way research data is managed in UK Higher Education and to help achieve better recognition for the fundamental place of data creation, management in the research process. The JISCMRD programme comprises 5 strands as follows: Research Data Management Infrastructure: 8 projects, each […]
Higher education institutions are coming under increasing pressure to manage the research data generated by their researchers that cannot be curated by subject-based data centres – and many are unsure how to proceed given the absence of clear good practice. To address such concerns, JISC’s Managing Research Data programme has, with an investment of nearly […]
Press Release: JISC helps researchers to meet the research data challenge JISC marked the launch of its research data management programme at the UK e-Science All Hands meeting this week. The programme helps researchers, institutions, funders and policy makers meet the challenge of keeping research data for re-use in the future. A new briefing paper […]
Below is a list of organisations which, at the 6 July Briefing Day, made themselves known as keen to be partners in a Bid to the Data Management Infrastructure Call. British Geological Survey (BGS): Jeremy Giles (jrag@bgs.ac.uk) Garry Baker (grba@bgs.ac.uk) The British Geological Survey is part of the Natural Environment Research Council. We manage the […]
JISC and DCC Joint Workshop: Digital Curation 101 Lite 15 July 2009 Park Plaza Hotel, Leeds, England http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/digital-curation-101-leeds-2009/register About the Course This course is being offered jointly by JISC and the DCC to support new bids under the JISC Data Management Infrastructure Programme call. Using our DCC Curation Lifecycle Model (http://www.dcc.ac.uk/lifecycle-model/) as a reference point, […]