data management

New year, new responsibilities

4 January, 2012 | in DCC News

UK universities are increasingly developing strategies for research data management. In some cases new posts are created and in others responsibility is assigned to existing IT teams, libraries and other research support services.

If you're beginning to address research data management, the DCC roadshows are a great way to hear examples of good practice and tips to help you get started.

Dates for the next two regional roadshows are set:

East Midlands, Loughborough, 7-8 February 2011
Northwest England, Salford, 20-21 March 2011

We're also planning to run roadshows in London in May, and in Northeast England in April or June.

Come and join us!

Image Creative Commons BY-NC-SA by Matti Mattila

Developing institutional data policies: trend for 2012

22 December, 2011 | in Blogs

The DCC is supporting a number of UK universities with research data management and top of the wishlist for most is a data policy. The EPSRC policy framework is often cited a key driver. We’re also seeing lots of policy development courtesy of the new JISC Managing Research Data programme, so predict this will be a key trend in 2012.

Disciplinary RDM training materials

22 December, 2011 | in DCC News

The JISC Research Data Management training projects (RDMTrain) produced a range of disciplinary training materials. These are available for reuse and have been deposited in JORUM.

To help users find relevant resources, we've mapped the RDMTrain outputs to the data management activities in the DCC lifecycle model.

Mapping of RDMTrain materials to DCC lifecycle model

Front page image CC-BY-NC by Arenamontanus

Tools for data management planning

12 December, 2011 | in Blogs

The DCC ran a workshop at IDCC which brought together the teams that have developed the UK and US data management planning tools: DMP Online and DMP Tool.

The workshop initially looked at the data policies in each country that define requirements for data management and sharing plans. After coffee we had a demo of each of the tools and discussed future development plans.

Image: Creative Commons licenced by CC-BY Henry Swanson 420

Tips for institution-wide data management planning

8 December, 2011 | in Blogs

A report on one of the break out sessions on institution-wide approaches to data management held during the JISC Managing Research Data programme meeting, 1-2 December 2011.

Researcher perspectives at #idcc11

7 December, 2011 | in Blogs

Summary of presentations in the researcher perspectives session at #idcc11

Give Researchers Credit for All of Their Research

Mark Hahnel, FigShare, Digital Science

Reproducible Research

Victoria Stodden, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Columbia University

Data Use Attribution and Impact Tracking

Heather Piwowar, DataONE post doc with NESCent

Photo (c) Tim Gander

Northampton research data policy

29 November, 2011 | in Blogs

The University of Northampton research data policy is now available online.

Miggie Pickton spoke at the last RDMF about data management initiatives at the University of Northampton and how their policy was developed. You can see her slides on the event page.

Project MANTRA new release

17 October, 2011 | in DCC News

The JISC-funded Research Data MANTRA project has produced a course for postgraduate students and early career researchers who work with data and would like to learn more about how to manage it effectively. Course content is geared towards the geosciences, social and political sciences and clinical psychology; however, many of the issues covered apply equally to all research disciplines. The MANTRA course, which consists of an online module and practical exercises in data handling, is now openly available at http://datalib.edina.ac.uk/mantra.

Incentivising Data Management and Sharing

4 October, 2011 | in DCC News

The next Research Data Management Forum, the seventh in the series, is set to tackle the challenging theme of how best to incentivise researchers so that they will be motivated to manage and share their data.

Making the Case for Research Data Management

19 September, 2011 | in DCC News

DCC has released a new Briefing Paper titled Making the Case for Research Data Management, to coincide with the JISC Research Integrity Conference.

Promoting the Phase 3 programme

You work hard to get research results – make sure that your data do just as much for you in return. The DCC is here to help you tackle your data curation needs, so read on to find out what we have lined up for the third phase of our programme.

data management

Promoting the Phase 3 programme

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