The Call for Papers has now been released for the 9th International Digital Curation Conference which will be held in San Francisco from 24-27 February 2014. #idcc14
The University of Edinburgh seeks to appoint a Research Data Management Service Coordinator to spearhead the development of a compelling user-shaped RDM service for the University of Edinburgh academic community.
Guardian Higher Education Network Blog post offering 'Seven rules of successful research data management in universities' by Sarah Jones, DCC and Simon Hodson, Jisc
The International Journal of Digital Curation has completed its migration to a new Web host.
The International Journal of Digital Curation is moving web hosts, so it may be unavailable for a short period after 16:00 UTC on 10 July 2013.
The DCC is collaborating with a number of Jisc MRD projects to run a workshop on developing RDM training materials for research support staff.
The event will take place at the Stratford campus of the University of East London on Tuesday 16th July from 10:30-4pm.
Programme and registration
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We received lots of feedback that we should shorten the DCC Checklist for a Data Management Plan and have managed to condense it to 13 questions and some basic administrative information. More detailed questions are used as pointers to help researchers decide how to respond and we've enhanced the guidance.
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Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation wins Preservation Publication Award from Society of American Archivists. The volume includes an contribution on Education Alignment authored by Joy Davidson, Sheila Corrall, George Coulbourne and Andreas Rauber.
The International Journal of Digital Curation, Volume 8, Issue 1 has been published.
A series of workshops are being held around the UK from July until September to drive collaboration on a forthcoming NERC/TSB funding call "New Business Solution from Environmental Data." This will require commercial collaboration to produce creative and innovative reuse applications for data from NERC's data centres and other environmental data sources. Read on for full details...
