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Oxford University Digital Repositories Research Co-ordinator: April 2009
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Wednesday, 29 April 2009. Report on the Digital Repositories Workshop in Oxford. On Thursday 23 April, the Digital Repositories Workshop was held successfully at the Oxford e-Research Centre. It represented a bridge between the Scoping Digital Repository Services for Research Data Management project and the recently JISC funded, and soon to be unveiled, Embedding Institutional Data Curation Services in Research (EIDCSR) project. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. My posts in other blogs.
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Oxford University Digital Repositories Research Co-ordinator: May 2009
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Friday, 15 May 2009. IASSIST Quarterly on research data repositories. IASSIST Quarterly IQ Vol. 31 issue 3&4. Is now available. This IQ is a special issue dedicated to explore different research data repositories projects. The editor, Gretchen Cano, highlights the common themes such as the importance of aligning services with researchers' needs or the role of the data manager playing an increasingly important role within research groups. . And it contains an article by me : . Wednesday, 13 May 2009.
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Oxford University Digital Repositories Research Co-ordinator: October 2008
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Monday, 27 October 2008. Institutional and National Research Data Management Services. Second event organized as part of the. Scoping Digital Repository Services for Research Data. T project took place at the Said Business School. The aim was to hear about examples of services to support researchers with their data management duties and encourage discussion amongst service units in Oxford. We had a great group of speakers coming from: . San Diego Super Computer Data Central, . The UK Data Archive, .
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Oxford University Digital Repositories Research Co-ordinator: September 2008
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Friday, 26 September 2008. Spatial Data Visualization Tools Briefing Paper - DataShare. The JISC funded DataShare project has just published the second part of the briefing paper. Data Visualization Tools: Spatial Data in a Web 2.0 Environment and Beyond. 160;by Stuart Macdonald. The paper describes an incredible collection of spatial mash-up and geo-browser tools and shows examples of academic research use of some of these technologies. The vision proposed is that . Friday, 19 September 2008. 160;You ca...
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Oxford University Digital Repositories Research Co-ordinator: February 2008
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Tuesday, 26 February 2008. The website for the project. Scoping Digital Repository Services for Research Data Management. 160;has now been launched at : . Http:/ www.ict.ox.ac.uk/odit/projects/digitalrepository/. Thursday, 14 February 2008. Is DDI a good metadata standard for scientific data? The DISC-UK DataShare project. Has just announced a new briefing paper "The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) and Institutional Repositories". Can DDI be used for scientific data? Wednesday, 13 February 2008.
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Oxford University Digital Repositories Research Co-ordinator: May 2008
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Tuesday, 20 May 2008. Research Data Management Workshop. I am glad to announce the first event organized under the umbrella of the Scoping Digital Repository Services for Research Data Management. This first workshop is aimed at Oxford researchers to hear about good examples and interesting practice on data management across disciplines. So far we have secure an outstanding group of speakers and I am sure it will be a extremely useful event for researchers in Oxford. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). This is a...
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Oxford University Digital Repositories Research Co-ordinator: November 2008
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Thursday, 20 November 2008. A bright future for research libraries. Research Information Network (RIN). 160;has just published. Ensuring a bright future for research libraries". 160;guide aimed at vice-chancellors and senior institutional managers to ensure that library and information services evolve in tune with researchers' needs. I participated as a member of the working group and it turned out to be a rather interesting and useful exercise. Curation, preservation and disposal. A consortium of univer...
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Oxford University Digital Repositories Research Co-ordinator: August 2008
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Thursday, 21 August 2008. Oxford to use the Data Audit Framework as part of DataShare. In the coming months the Universities of Southampton and Oxford will conduct data audits using the JISC Data Audit Framework Methodology as part of the JISC DISC-UK DataShare project. . JISC funded the . Data Audit Framework (DAF) Development. 160;Project to develop a methodology to enable. In the University of Oxford, . 160;will conduct the data audit as part of the . Digital Repository Services for Research Data.
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Oxford University Digital Repositories Research Co-ordinator: January 2009
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Monday, 12 January 2009. Economics of Digital Preservation. Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access. Published in December 2008 the report. Sustaining the Digital Investment: Issues and Challenges of Economically Sustainable Digital Preservation". This Task Force made up of international leading experts in digital preservation and curation. A definition is provided for. Economically sustainable digital preservation. The report goes into defining business and economic models ...
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Oxford University Digital Repositories Research Co-ordinator: March 2009
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Friday, 27 March 2009. Consultation with Service Units in Oxford. I have just published the last report of the Oxford scoping study, . Research Data Management Services: Findings of the Consultation with Service Providers". Labels: data management services. Wednesday, 25 March 2009. Digital Repositories Workshop: Tools and Infrastructure. An internal event,. The Digital Repositories Workshop: Tools and Infrastructure. 160; organised under the auspices of the. Oxford Digital Repositories Steering Group.