DCC Roadshow Loughborough

The 8th DCC regional roadshow took place on 7-8th February at Burleigh Court in Loughborough.

The roadshow was organised in conjunction with the Department of Information Science at the University of Loughborough.

• Day 1 was a general introduction, sharing best practice through case studies to build a community of RDM expertise in the East Midlands.
• Day 2 was a strategic training day for research support staff to start to plan research Research Data Management services.

See the event programme for full details.

Image credit: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND by Alex Drennan

Event contact: Sarah Jones, 0141 3303549

Blog summary of day 1 by Rachel Proudfoot, Leeds RoaDMap project

Blog summary of event by Anne Spalding of the Kaptur project

Day 1 presentations:

• Kevin Ashley, The Changing Data Landscape [ppt] [pdf]
• Bill Hubbard, The ADMIRe project: A Data Management Infrastructure for Research at the University of Nottingham [ppt] [pdf]
• Paul Stainthorp, The Orbital project: managing engineering data at the University of Lincoln [google docs]
• Miggie Pickton & Sarah Jones, RDM initatives at the University of Northampton [ppt] [pdf]
• Jonathan Tedds, Research Data Management at the University of Leicester [ppt] [pdf]
• Martin Hamilton, Storm chasing: updating IT strategy for cloud computing, post-pc, open data and more! [slideshare] [video]
• Sarah Jones, What the DCC can do for you [ppt] [pdf]

Day 2 presentations and exercises:

• Andrew McHugh, Introduction to Research Data Management: activities, roles and requirements [ppt] [pdf]
• Exercise 1: CARDIO Quiz - assess RDM strengths & weaknesses
• Monica Duke, Data Management Planning [ppt] [pdf]
• Exercise 2: How to support data management planning
• Sarah Jones, Facing the data challenge: Developing data policy & services [slideshare]
• Exercise 3: Developing a roadmap for research data management