Sarah and I led an intensive, two-day workshop for research support staff at the University of Cape Town (UCT) on March 24-25th. The workshop was planned in collaboration with Gwenda Thomas, Executive Director of UCT Libraries and Reggie Raju, Deputy Director of Client Liaison Services at UCT Libraries. Our visit was sponsored by the Library and Information Studies Centre (LISC) at the University of Cape Town and we are very grateful to Professor Jaya Raju who made our trip possible.
Joy and I have just returned from South Africa, full of ideas and hugely impressed by the level of engagement with RDM that we encountered. We’re indebted to Professor Jaya Raju of the Library and Information Studies Centre at the University of Cape Town who made the trip possible and expertly co-ordinated the various visits and events. As well as running meetings and workshops at UCT, we visited the University of the Western Cape (UWC), the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), Stellenbosh University and CALICO.
Please note that updated guidance on customising DMPonline is now available. (10 July 2014)
We've been developing some guidelines on how to customise DMPonline for your institution.
The first thing to do is determine what you need:
Joy and I have just run a webinar organised by the Higher Education Libraries group of LIASA (Library and Information Association of South Africa). It was amazingly well-attended, with close to 100 participants representing virtually all of the 23 universities in South Africa and the National Research Foundation. We definitely need to take promotion tips from LIASA HELIG!
We spoke on four topics: