Guardian Higher Education Network Blog post offering 'Seven rules of successful research data management in universities' by Sarah Jones, DCC and Simon Hodson, Jisc 

We're seeking your opinion on our new draft checklist for data management planning, produced as part of the development of our suite of data management planning tools and resources. The new checklist is simpler and is accompanied by a set of themes which (amongst other things) will help to relate guidance from multiple sources to particular questions dealt with in a plan. We're looking for feedback by June 3rd; read the full article for details and the documents themselves.

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.

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