UKOLN News » research data management http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln_news UKOLN News Fri, 02 Aug 2013 12:45:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 Enhancing Data Sharing and Interoperability http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln_news/2013/03/07/enhancing-data-sharing-and-interoperability/ http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln_news/2013/03/07/enhancing-data-sharing-and-interoperability/#comments Thu, 07 Mar 2013 14:41:19 +0000 lisrw http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln_news/?p=5813 The Community Capability Model (CCM) team at UKOLN and Microsoft Research has recently submitted its Working Group Case Statement (in draft form) to the Research Data Alliance and it is now available from the Research Data Alliance Forum pages.

The Statement explains the CCM Working Group Charter, and in the subsequent Value Proposition details the beneficiaries together with the varied impacts and outcomes of the Working Group. It goes on to describe how the WG will engage with existing work and lists final deliverables and milestones by way of greater detail and includes its Adoption Plan. You are invited to comment on the Case Statement on the Forum and it will be presented at the forthcoming RDA Launch in Gothenberg later this month.

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Developing Data Informatics Capability in Libraries at LIBER 2013 http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln_news/2013/03/06/developing-data-informatics-capability-in-libraries-at-liber-2013/ http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln_news/2013/03/06/developing-data-informatics-capability-in-libraries-at-liber-2013/#comments Wed, 06 Mar 2013 15:41:16 +0000 lisrw http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln_news/?p=5804 Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN and Associate Director, DCC will give a presentation entitled Roadmaps, Roles and Re-engineering: Developing Data Informatics Capability in Libraries at the LIBER 2013  Conference to be held in Munich over 26 – 29 June.

In this presentation, Liz will reflect on the strategic and operational approaches to developing sustainable research data management services within institutions. Her perspective will draw on the work of the UK Digital Curation Centre in supporting universities addressing the data challenge through the provision of tools, guides and training resources. She will also share experience and findings from the Research360 Project and the innovative Immersive Informatics training programme at the University of Bath. Throughout the talk, the drivers, barriers and opportunities for libraries will be highlighted, unpacked and critically assessed, with a particular focus on requirements for new data scientist roles and associated informatics skills, to support multi-disciplinary data-intensive research and open science.

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Launch of the Research Data Alliance http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln_news/2013/01/10/launch-of-the-research-data-alliance/ http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln_news/2013/01/10/launch-of-the-research-data-alliance/#comments Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:39:11 +0000 lisrw http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln_news/?p=5723 UKOLN has welcomed the announcement of the launch and first plenary meeting of the Research Data Alliance (RDA), an organisation that supports research data sharing and exchange. The purpose of the Research Data Alliance is to accelerate international data-driven innovation and discovery by facilitating research data sharing and exchange, use and reuse, standards harmonisation, and discoverability. This will be achieved through the development and adoption of infrastructure, policy, practice, standards, and other deliverables.

As “big data” achieve international importance, the RDA has issued an open invitation to all interested parties to its first plenary, entitled Open Access Research Data without Barriers, to be held over 18-20 March 2013 in Gothenburg, Sweden. The RDA will be launched by sponsors from the European Commission, the US Government and the Australian Government, and by leaders in the data community. The Plenary will be a working meeting to accelerate discussion, Working and Interest Group interaction, and data community development.

Confirming her own attendance at the RDA’s first plenary meeting, Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN, remarked, “As the importance of careful management of Big Data becomes increasingly evident, the appearance of the Research Data Alliance on the scene after just a few months of start-up activity can only be regarded as lending further support to the essential task of institutions worldwide in their role as stewards of large-scale data.”

The work of the Research Data Alliance will primarily be undertaken through its working groups. Participation in working groups, starting new working groups, and attendance at the twice-yearly plenary meetings is open to all.

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Stakeholder Benefits from Research Data Management http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln_news/2012/11/27/stakeholder-benefits-from-research-data-management/ http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln_news/2012/11/27/stakeholder-benefits-from-research-data-management/#comments Tue, 27 Nov 2012 13:32:09 +0000 lisrw http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln_news/?p=5628 The JISC-funded Research360 Project, managed by UKOLN, has released the summary stakeholder benefits analysis from the Research Data Management (RDM) business case for the University of Bath. The document, entitled Benefits from Research Data Management in Universities for Industry and Not-for-Profit Research Partners, is now available to download. Further information is available from a news feature on the UKOLN Web site.

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A Revolution in Open Science http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln_news/2012/11/27/a-revolution-in-open-science/ http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln_news/2012/11/27/a-revolution-in-open-science/#comments Tue, 27 Nov 2012 10:55:16 +0000 lisrw http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln_news/?p=5618 Liz Lyon will be taking part in a panel on open data entitled ‘Reasserting the primacy of data’ during the 10th anniversary conference of the League of European Research Universities (LERU) in Brussels on 30 November 2012. The theme of the special conference is Open Horizons: A Revolution in Open Science.

LERU was founded in 2002 as an association of research-intensive universities sharing the values of high-quality teaching in an environment of internationally competitive research.

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Community Capability Model Framework in the US http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln_news/2012/10/16/community-capability-model-framework-in-the-us/ http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln_news/2012/10/16/community-capability-model-framework-in-the-us/#comments Tue, 16 Oct 2012 09:49:51 +0000 lisrw http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln_news/?p=5575 Liz Lyon and Kenji Takeda gave a presentation entitled What is a Data Scientist? to the recent Microsoft eScience Workshop in Chicago in which they explained about the Community Capability Model Framework, funded by Microsoft Research. The Framework has attracted considerable interest including from the US NSF EarthCube initiative in its recent document EarthCube Roadmap. Slides from Liz and Kenji’s presentation to the Workshop are now available from the UKOLN Web site.

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Digital Curation for Modern Universities http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln_news/2012/09/14/digital-curation-for-modern-universities/ http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln_news/2012/09/14/digital-curation-for-modern-universities/#comments Fri, 14 Sep 2012 10:55:35 +0000 lisrw http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln_news/?p=5516 Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN and Associate Director, Digital Curation Centre, has been invited by the Modern Universities Research Group (MURG) to give a presentation in the Data Usage for Research strand of its forthcoming workshop whose theme is “Catapult Centres, Local Enterprise Partnerships, Data Usage for Research” on 28 September 2012 at Goodenough College, London.

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Exploiting Research Data for Teaching at ALT-C 2012 http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln_news/2012/09/10/exploiting-research-data-for-teaching-at-alt-c-2012/ http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln_news/2012/09/10/exploiting-research-data-for-teaching-at-alt-c-2012/#comments Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:59:11 +0000 lisrw http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln_news/?p=5486 Cathy Pink of UKOLN and Jez Cope of the University of Bath, both members of the JISC-funded Research360 Project, will be running a workshop entitled Exploiting Research Data for Teaching  (Workshop 188) on 11 September 2012 at the ALT-C 2012 Conference in Manchester. This workshop will explore how research data can be exploited for learning and teaching in Further and Higher Education, addressing the following questions:

  • What is research data?
  • How can data be exploited for teaching and learning?
  • Where can I find suitable data?
  • What licence applies to the data and how do I comply?
  • What contextual information is needed to make effective use of data?

Further information on this workshop is available.

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Managing the Material: Tackling Visual Arts as Research Data http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln_news/2012/09/06/managing-the-material-tackling-visual-arts-as-research-data/ http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln_news/2012/09/06/managing-the-material-tackling-visual-arts-as-research-data/#comments Thu, 06 Sep 2012 10:31:09 +0000 Marieke Guy http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln_news/?p=5474 The Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) in conjunction with the Digital Curation Centre (DCC), through the JISC-funded KAPTUR Project, is running a one-day workshop looking at visual arts as research data. The workshop will take place on 14 September 2012. Marieke Guy of UKOLN will be co-facilitating a session on Where’s the data? What’s the use? Please note that although it is already sold out, materials from this event will be made available.

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JISC RIM CERIF Workshop Report http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln_news/2012/07/10/jisc-rim-cerif-workshop-report/ http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln_news/2012/07/10/jisc-rim-cerif-workshop-report/#comments Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:48:26 +0000 lisrw http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln_news/?p=5420 The Innovation Support Centre at UKOLN (together with the JISC RIM and RCSI Programmes) organised a workshop in Bristol on 27-28 June 2012 on Research Information Management (RIM) and CERIF. The Innovation Support Centre has just published a blog posting on this event. Further details are available from the ISC blog.

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