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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:
 
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

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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.

 

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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

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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

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Incentivising data sharing

4 November, 2011 | in Blogs

The theme for #rdmf7 was incentivising data management and sharing. We had an impressive line up of speakers, matched by an equally exciting and engaged audience.

Front page image: 'Sharing' by furiousgeorge81. CC-BY-NC-ND

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New DCC guide to citing datasets

21 October, 2011 | in Publications

The DCC has released a guide entitled 'How to cite datasets and link to publications'.

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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.

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FigShare: publish all your data

5 August, 2011 | in Blogs

“It’s amazing what you can accomplish as a diversion to your PhD.” This was Les Carr’s opening gambit as the questions started for Mark Hahnel of FigShare after he presented at the repository fringe. It was very inspiring, a highlight of the event. 

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Sharing research data to improve public health: A joint statement of purpose

11 January, 2011 | in DCC News

A group of major international funders of public health research have committed to work together to increase the availability of data emerging from our funded research, in order to accelerate advances in public health. A joint statement of purpose sets out the principles and goals through which our organisations will work to further this shared vision.

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