By Rob Johnson, Research Consulting ‘So tell me what you want, what you really, really want’ sang the Spice Girls back in 1996. I’m pretty sure they didn’t have research data in mind at the time, but 20 years on we’ve been asking the same question of researchers in relation to Jisc’s research data shared service (RDSS). The […]
Next week about 100 delegates are descending on the University of St Andrews to attend the third Jisc Research Data Network event. The aim of these events is to bring together people in the higher education sector to exchange knowledge around the practical implementation of research data management (RDM). Attendees are expected from 28 different […]
At a number of recent events I’ve had the privilege to attend—in particular PASIG NYC and iPRES—the magical incantation “We could/should use blockchain for this” has been uttered by speakers more than once (to the delight of those who play buzzword bingo at such affairs).. There was very much a feeling amongst some participants (at […]
Earlier this month we ran the second Research Data Network and Research Data Shared Service Pilots meeting. It was kindly hosted by the University of Cambridge at Corpus Christi. In this guest blog post, Alice Motes, the research data and preservation manager at the University of Surrey shares her thoughts and experience of the two […]
On Tuesday last week, I was lucky enough to be the Jisc envoy – along with a few other Jisc colleagues and two project leads from our research data spring initiative – at the Science and Innovation Conference 2016. The conference took place in the fabulous and very central venue – The Queen Elizabeth II […]
In this post Paul Stokes reports on the Jisc Research Data Shared Service workshop held at IDCC 2016 in Amsterdam on 22nd February 2016. At IDCC 2016 Jisc held a workshop to share some of our early experiences—and those of others—in putting together the requirements for the Jisc Research Data Shared Service Pilot. Apart from sharing […]
As part of the research data spring initiative, we have worked with the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) to review and help each project ameliorate. In this blog, Paul Wheatley of the DPC, recalls previous Jisc projects around preservation and reflects on the new research data spring initiative and how […]
Caroline Ingram, research data management subject specialist at Jisc, talks about the Horizon 2020’s Open Research Data Pilot. All European Commission (EC) Horizon 2020 funded projects must deposit their peer-reviewed publications to ensure Open Access. A subset of the funded projects are also required to take part in an Open Research Data Pilot, or can […]
Back in November 2014 we started research data spring with 70 ideas looking to develop or enhance technical tools and software that would improve the management of research data. The first two phases saw 16 and then 11 of these ideas being developed and tested. For the third and last phase of research data spring, […]
Caroline Ingram, research data management subject specialist at Jisc talks about our latest guide on engaging researchers to manage better their data. We have recently published a guide on engaging your researchers with managing research data. It will be of interest to university researchers and research data management support staff, including those who are responsible […]