The DCC has recently started working on a one-to-one basis with a number of Higher Education Institutions. The work takes the form of a series of Institutional Engagements which allow the DCC to provide tailored support to institutions and help them increase their research data management capability.
Read the lastest publication from the DCC '5 Steps to Research Data Readiness' a handy pocket sized guided aimed at IT service managers.
Registration is now open for the DCC Roadshow for the Northwest of England. The event is being organised in conjunction with The Library, University of Salford.
The roadshow runs between 20-21 March 2011, and will be held at the the Clifford Whitworth Building, University of Salford.
DCC Associate Director Liz Lyon gave a keynote speech on Wednesday 8 February 2012 at the VALA2012 conference in Melbourne, Australia. The talk entitled 'The informatics transform : re-engineering libraries for the Data Decade' looks primarily at research data and considers how librarians fit into the data space.
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and Digital Curation Centre (DCC) are delighted to announce a new issue of our joint newsletter ‘What’s New’.
Managing Research Data aims to introduce the broader research community to such core issues of data management as the terms of compliance with funder expectations, the context and recommended approaches to individual and institutional data management planning, the roles and responsibilities of key players in the research data lifecycle, as well as detailed reports of initiatives, strategies...
The JISC Research Data Management training projects (RDMTrain) produced a range of disciplinary training materials. These are available for reuse and have been deposited in JORUM.
To help users find relevant resources, we've mapped the RDMTrain outputs to the data management activities in the DCC lifecycle model.
Mapping of RDMTrain materials to DCC lifecycle model
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We're planning the DCC East Midlands roadshow and want your views to set the programme for the training day. Vote for the topics you want to see covered.
The event will take place in Loughborough in early February 2012. Further details will be on the event page once the dates have been finalised.
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Registration is now open for the seventh DCC Roadshow: Institutional Challenges in the Data Decade which is being organised in conjunction with Cardiff University Libraries.