RDMF3: Value and Benefits of Data Sharing and Management

30 April - 1 May 2009

Chancellors Hotel and Conference Centre, Manchester

Overview

In partnership with the Research Information Network, the DCC held the third RDMF workshop on the Value and Benefits of Data Sharing and Management at Chancellors Conference Centre, Manchester.

See the programme

Presentations

"What do we mean by value and benefits in the data sharing and management context?" Astrid Wissenburg (Economic and Social Research Council)
"The policy perspective" Neil Jacobs, Simon Hodson (JISC), Stéphane Goldstein (RIN)
"Identifying benefits from curation and the open sharing of research data" Jenny Fry (Loughborough University)
"Collecting the metrics: social science as an exemplar discipline" Matthew Woollard (UK Data Archive)
"Benefits beyond the sector: repurposing data with industrial partners" Jenny Walsby (British Geological Survey)
"The British Library perspective" Adam Farquhar (British Library)
"Why everybody else should share their data" Phillip Lord (Newcastle University)
"Actions from the last meeting" Graham Pryor (Digital Curation Centre)

Venue

Chancellors Hotel and Conference Centre [external] is set in five acres of landscaped gardens, and yet only three miles from Manchester city centre. It incorporates modern conference facilities with a country house ambience which lends itself well to residential conferences.

Travel/Location

Chancellors Hotel is conveniently located for all local amenities and is only 3 miles from the newly refurbished Piccadilly Train Station and approximately 5 miles from Manchester International Airport.

For further information on transport to the venue and location maps please visit the venue website [external].

Further Information

If you have any questions about the conference, or would like to become a sponsor, then please contact our event organiser.