Tuesday 22 July 2008

JISC Innovation Forum: Research data-Whose problem is it?


On the 15th and 16th of July the JISC Innovation Forum took place at Keele University. One of the four themes of the forum was research data and it included three sessions:

 - legal and policy 
 - capacity and skills
 - technical and infrastructure     

These sessions generated a lot of interesting discussion and are blogged at: http://jif08.jiscinvolve.org/theme-2-the-challenges-of-research-data/ 

Particularly useful to this project is Matthew Dowey's summed up of the brainstorm on the technical&infrastructure session with the four priority areas for JISC:

   1. within a research environment – can we facilitiate the data curation using the carrot of sharing systems? (IT systems in the lab)
   2. additional context beyond the metadata
   3. how do we help institutions understand their infrastructural needs
   4. what has to happen with the various dataset systems (fedora etc) to help them link with the library and institutional systems

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