As you may have gathered from an earlier post, the REDm-MED project successfully concluded in June 2012. As a result, the time has come to close the blog; it will still be around for reference but there won’t be […]

The RAIDmap Application User Guide and RAIDmap Application Developer Guide have been converted and can now be read on the RAIDmap wiki on SourceForge. In the long term, this will make it easier to update the […]

On 12 April 2013 I attended a workshop organised in Berlin by the SIM4RDM project.read more

For some time now, the digital curation community has argued that datasets deserve to be considered first class research outputs. Now at last there is an appetite within the academic mainstream to make it happen, […]

For some time now, the digital curation community has argued that datasets deserve to be considered first class research outputs. Now at last there is an appetite within the academic mainstream to make it happen, […]

The wait is finally over! RAIDmap, the piece of software we have been developing in REDm-MED, is now available for early adoption from SourceForge. RAIDmap is an adaptation of the Compendium information mapping […]

Anyone who has done some professional writing will know that the order in which one writes things is not necessarily the order in which those things should eventually be read. I often find it easier to leave […]

On 23 March 2012, Uday Thangarajah and I gave a demonstration of the RAIDmap tool at a JISC workshop entitled ‘Meeting (Disciplinary) Challenges in Research Data Management Planning’. The slides and script I […]

On 23 March 2012, Uday Thangarajah and I gave a demonstration of the RAIDmap tool at a JISC workshop entitled ‘Meeting (Disciplinary) Challenges in Research Data Management Planning’. The slides and script I […]

The data used in molecular biology has undergone a massive shift in scale over the last decade. While this opens up many new opportunities, it means that the existing research infrastructure needs an overhaul. In […]

Citing datasets as you would a journal article or a conference paper is nowhere near as straightforward as it sounds.read more

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The REDm-MED Project seeks to provide recommendations to researchers within the University of Bath’s Department of Mechanical Engineering on tools and resources they could use to ensure […]

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The Digital Curation Centre provides many resources relevant to research data management: the Curation Reference Manual, Briefing Papers and How-to Guides (notably ‘How to Develop a Data […]

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Scientific data as a resource type is very hard to characterize, not least because of the sheer variety of requirements placed on it by different areas of research. It is no surprise, then, […]

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Keeping track of the data records associated with a research activity is vital if they are to be managed and handled effectively. Doing so is an arduous task though, particularly if one is […]

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This talk is intended to help workshop participants decide how to apply a licence to their research data, and which licence would be most suitable. It covers why licensing data is important, […]

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The Digital Curation Centre is the UK 19s leading hub of expertise in curating digital research data, providing support to institutions, projects and individuals in higher education. It […]

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REDm-MED is a seven-month project to scope, specify, design and implement a research data management plan (RDMP) suited especially to the needs of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at […]

BioMed Central Research Notes has published, in provisional form, a White Paper on the licensing of open access research papers and data.
It proposes a model whereby authors publishing in an open access journal […]

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The metadata needed to support users working with data is very different according to whether they are citing, discovering or reusing it. Only about five elements are strictly necessary to […]