Digital Curation Centre | because good research needs good data

8th International Digital Curation Conference

Amsterdam, 14 - 16 January 2013

#idcc13 IDCC brings together those who create and manage data and information, those who use it and those who research and teach about curation processes. Our view of ‘data’ is a broad one – video games and virtual worlds are of just as much interest as data from laboratory instruments or field observation. Whether the information originates in the arts, humanities, social or experimental sciences the issues faced are cross-disciplinary.

The Patients Participate! Workshop

London, 17 June 2011

We now have more access than ever to scientific papers and summaries of biomedical and health research. Anyone with a computer and an internet connection can read the latest research results due to initiatives like UK PubMed Central which provides free access to scientific peer-reviewed papers.

International Curation Education (ICE) Forum

London, 29 June 2011

The aim of the International Curation Education (ICE) Forum will be to provide an international meeting place for educators, trainers, students and practitioners of digital curation to: discuss, evaluate, swap knowledge, and potentially improve practice around:

DMP Online v3.0 launches

14 May, 2012 | in Press Releases

The Digital Curation Centre is pleased to announce the launch of DMP Online v3.0 This new release marks a major progression in the software’s functionality. For the first time users can create data management plans incorporating multiple templates, so if your institution, your funder and your publisher all require data management plans, you can now create a single plan to satisfy them all.

Big Data, Big Deal?

Marieke Guy, 10 May, 2012

The provocatively titled Eduserv symposium 2012: Big Data, Big Deal? provided a forum for IT professionals, and anyone responsible for managing research data or planning to work with big data in Higher Education, to discuss the meaning of big data and the challenges it presents. Speakers from both the commercial and academic world came together to reflect on big data trends and the implications for research, learning, and operations in HE.

London Roadshow - Feedback

Thank you for attending the London Data Management Roadshow, 21-22 May 2012.

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Bringing it all back home: Tailoring DMP Online for your institution

Martin Donnelly, 3 May, 2012

We are often asked how institutions can establish a customised presence in DMP Online. There are three ways to do this, in increasing levels of complexity. This blog post outlines what we can do, and how.

Vitae's Information literacy lens and Informed researcher booklet

30 April, 2012 | in DCC News

In collaboration with the Research Information Network (RIN) and the Society of College, National and University Libraries (SCONUL), Vitae is pleased to announce the publication of The informed researcher booklet and an Information literacy lens on the Vitae Researcher Development Framework.

Northwest England Roadshow - Feedback

Thank you for attending the Northwest of England roadshow, 20-21 March 2012, Salford.

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Policies for open research

Sarah Jones, 18 April, 2012

I was tweeted some great questions about RDM and open access policies today and thought they warranted more than a 140 character response.

I2S2 project

The aim of the Infrastructure for Integration in Structural Sciences (I2S2) project was to uncover what’s needed to implement a data-driven research infrastructure in the structural sciences – chemistry in particular. Issues of scale, complexity and inter-disciplinary research throughout the data lifecycle were explored over 18 months from October 2009 to March 2011.