JISC have released a white paper on Curation in the Cloud, which looks at the potential and practicalities of using cloud-based solutions for the curation and long-term preservation of digital materials, focusing particularly on data that originates from research or that supports research processes.
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and Digital Curation Centre (DCC) are delighted to announce a new issue of our joint newsletter ‘What’s New’.
The DCC are pleased to announce that the Paper Submission date for IDCC13 has been extended by 10 days. The Call will now close at 12 noon BST on Thursday 30 August 2012.
Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation is a new publication from Educopia, which establishes a set of starting points for building a greater alignment across digital preservation, and highlights the need for strategic international collaborations.
Sally Rumsey, Digital Collections Development Manager at the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, reviews the book Managing Research Data, edited by DCC's Graham Pryor.
The DCC in collaboration with the wider Research Data Management community is organising a workshop on insitutional data repositories on July 9, in conjunction with Open Repositories 2012, to be held in Edinburgh.
A draft whitepaper of the Community Capability Model Framework for data-intensive research, developed by UKOLN and Microsoft Research, is available for comment.
Last year in April 2011, the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) set out its research data management expectations for institutions in receipt of EPSRC grant funding, which included the development of an institutional ‘Roadmap’.
Today, on 7 June 2012, the University of Bath has announced the publication of its Roadmap, which you can now view and download (PDF...
