tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82929225322449000922024-03-19T09:59:42.324+00:00Oxford University Digital Repositories Research Co-ordinatorThis blog aims to serve as a tool to both record the progress of the Scoping Digital Repository Services for Research Data Management project and to disseminate outputs and information about relevant activities in the converging domains of data curation, digital repositories and e-Research.Luis Martinez Uribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537007264260786165noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8292922532244900092.post-53188320455099495892009-06-02T15:50:00.000+01:002009-06-02T17:17:29.360+01:00New project and end of this blog<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I am glad to announce that the activities carried out through the </span><a href="http://www.ict.ox.ac.uk/odit/projects/digitalrepository/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Scoping Digital Repository Services for Research Data Management project</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> are now being continued through a project called Embedding Institutional Data Curation Services in Research (EIDCSR)</span><a href="http://projects.oucs.ox.ac.uk/eidcsr/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">funded by JISC under the </span><a href="http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/inf11.aspx"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Information Environment Programme 2009-11</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 16px; font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Therefore, this is now the official final post for this blog. I would like to thank to everyone that has been reading and contributing to it and hope you will continue to follow our work in this new venture. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 16px; font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 16px;font-family:arial;font-size:13px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 16px; font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">A new </span><a href="http://eidcsr.blogspot.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">EIDCSR project blog</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> has been set up. Please follow our new activities there!</span></span><br /></div>Luis Martinez Uribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537007264260786165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8292922532244900092.post-4745869505928553012009-05-15T14:33:00.003+01:002009-05-15T14:45:39.159+01:00IASSIST Quarterly on research data repositories<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip97LVwnWXggPRlSZ4BvQoRXkClsOtpg0GsrQUD6bCUnjanD1AprPvQUFDmZ6eLB9C7rTj8_djwGkNY4iWvNTlZC0S0vK0TN0z6ziD4e2hwktddiCMViAzHlqXuhwZAR4vZ16u9C8qs10/s1600-h/Picture+2.png"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 155px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip97LVwnWXggPRlSZ4BvQoRXkClsOtpg0GsrQUD6bCUnjanD1AprPvQUFDmZ6eLB9C7rTj8_djwGkNY4iWvNTlZC0S0vK0TN0z6ziD4e2hwktddiCMViAzHlqXuhwZAR4vZ16u9C8qs10/s200/Picture+2.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336046283290079058" /></a><br /><a href="http://iassistdata.org/publications/iq/iqvol31.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">IASSIST Quarterly IQ Vol. 31 issue 3&4</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"> 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. </span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">And it contains an article by me : </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><a href="http://www.iassistdata.org/publications/iq/iq31/iqvol313martinez.pdf"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Digital Repository Services for Managing Research Data: What Do Oxford Researchers Need?</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> where I describe the findings of the requirements gathering exercise with researchers in Oxford.</span></span></span></span><br /></span></div>Luis Martinez Uribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537007264260786165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8292922532244900092.post-50966707939896365972009-05-13T11:17:00.007+01:002009-05-13T11:24:33.931+01:00Digital Preservation AnimationsDigital Preservation Europe (DPE) has just released the following great video in youtube explaining digital preservation in a funny and simple way. Good job!<div><br /></div><div> <object width="370" height="305"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/pbBa6Oam7-w&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6&border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/pbBa6Oam7-w&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="370" height="305"></embed></object></div>Luis Martinez Uribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537007264260786165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8292922532244900092.post-84839369886622376632009-04-29T15:20:00.007+01:002009-05-12T17:09:59.563+01:00Report on the Digital Repositories Workshop in Oxford<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt1-tY1JqzVcQu89BiPVKB9xsEgccWpKl467TRZdE9i3u4r4wKzCppebzVUb47Mg-hfjUaJ-sCN5GckgWOoQk7sZemAMgsi4buTfxV4Dumdr311a8JfC7PL5rTGAm5TAFcyhl6zqBxi0w/s1600-h/oxf.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 180px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt1-tY1JqzVcQu89BiPVKB9xsEgccWpKl467TRZdE9i3u4r4wKzCppebzVUb47Mg-hfjUaJ-sCN5GckgWOoQk7sZemAMgsi4buTfxV4Dumdr311a8JfC7PL5rTGAm5TAFcyhl6zqBxi0w/s320/oxf.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330135715007077794" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">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.</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The workshop brought 37 delegates from a variety of colleges and departments in Oxford. The morning was dedicated to showcasing repository activities in the University. After this a technical session was held in the afternoon and this included a group task to address the following question:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">"from your experience, what are the technical components required to manage and curate research data in Oxford, why and what developments are more urgent?"</span></span></blockquote></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">A full report of the event as well as copies of the presentations can be found at:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><a href="http://www.ict.ox.ac.uk/odit/projects/digitalrepository/Workshops-Repositories.xml"></a></span></div><div><a href="http://www.ict.ox.ac.uk/odit/projects/digitalrepository/Workshops-Repositories.xml"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">http://www.ict.ox.ac.uk/odit/projects/digitalrepository/Workshops-Repositories.xml</span></a></div><div></div>Luis Martinez Uribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537007264260786165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8292922532244900092.post-84475325256662560102009-03-27T15:30:00.002+00:002009-03-27T15:52:50.799+00:00Consultation with Service Units in Oxford<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I have just published the last report of the Oxford scoping study, </span><a href="http://www.ict.ox.ac.uk/odit/projects/digitalrepository/findings_consultation.xml"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"Research Data Management Services: Findings of the Consultation with Service Providers"</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> . </span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">This document reports back from a consultation with service units in Oxford aimed to validate the researchers requirements for services gathered through the scoping study interviews as well as to determine the data management services available to researchers and plans for future ones. The report also includes the the two main recommendations produced by the Oxford Digital Repositories Steering Group after considering an earlier version of the document.</span></div>Luis Martinez Uribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537007264260786165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8292922532244900092.post-84656390901519269362009-03-25T12:21:00.005+00:002009-03-26T15:38:59.708+00:00Digital Repositories Workshop: Tools and Infrastructure<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">An internal event, </span></span><a href="http://www.ict.ox.ac.uk/odit/projects/digitalrepository/Workshops-Repositories.xml"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">the Digital Repositories Workshop: Tools and Infrastructure</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, organised under the auspices of the </span></span><a href="http://www.ict.ox.ac.uk/repositories/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Oxford Digital Repositories Steering Group</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> will take place on Thursday 23 April.</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">This workshop aims to provide an overall view of best practice in the deployment and use of digital repositories to manage digital content in Oxford. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The event is only open to Members of the University of Oxford and Colleges. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">To register please email: </span><a href="mailto:Julia.Bremble@oerc.ox.ac.uk"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Julia.Bremble@oerc.ox.ac.uk</span></span></a></span></div>Luis Martinez Uribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537007264260786165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8292922532244900092.post-54578708831090786652009-03-25T10:27:00.004+00:002009-03-25T10:51:01.736+00:00Using the DAF Methodology in Oxford<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The document </span><a href="http://www.disc-uk.org/docs/DAF-Oxford.pdf"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"Using the Data Audit Framework: An Oxford Case Study"</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> reporting on the Oxford experience applying the <a href="http://www.data-audit.eu/">DAF Methodology</a> has now been published as a deliverable of the JISC funded </span><a href="http://www.disc-uk.org/datashare.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">DISC-UK DataShare project</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">.</span><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The DAF Methodology proved to be an excellent complement to the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.ict.ox.ac.uk/odit/projects/digitalrepository/findings.xml">interview framework </a>used to gather researchers' requirements for services to <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">help them manage their data as part of the</span><a href="http://www.ict.ox.ac.uk/odit/projects/digitalrepository/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "> Scoping Digital Repository Services for</span></a></span></span></div><div><a href="http://www.ict.ox.ac.uk/odit/projects/digitalrepository/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> Research Data Management project</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In the Oxford DAF two research groups participated in the exercise mainly through their Data Managers who provided incredibly valuable information about their groups' data and data management practices. In both cases, their practices where mapped, see example below, to the <a href="www.dcc.ac.uk/docs/publications/DCCLifecycle.pdf">DCC Lifecycle Model</a> which we felt it needed to be integrated with the DAF Methodology.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5nGxo6mLHVIdc7xkntNDeI4_Jb7pdsoMlUZADLz398Ommw3R28tFG-f-ObeljgCcTs49Rp3wJ69SNZ20Lzi_Qn9xuS9jWtbBmplhEOzyTzLE6_l6eh_O0gD9W1ozKAaZXHSRLj7E4dWA/s400/YLCurationLifeCycle.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317073656793369490" /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In addition to this, the DAF data assets register was used to compile information about data resources being made available through the Oxford website.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">We have had a really good experience with the DAF Methodology here in Oxford and will certainly make use of it in the future.</span></div>Luis Martinez Uribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537007264260786165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8292922532244900092.post-31925998783611280112009-02-25T12:21:00.003+00:002009-02-25T12:40:05.338+00:00The UKRDS Final Report<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I have just discovered that the executive summary of the </span><a href="http://www.ukrds.ac.uk/UKRDS%20Final%20report%20Exec%20summary.doc"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">UKRDS Final Report</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> has been published on their website. This summary reports an overall estimated savings delivered by a scale-up UKRDS service over a period of five years to be the financial equivalent of 63.5 FTEs . </span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The report also offers the following 2 key recommendations:<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:16px;"><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:13px;"></span></span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:16px;"><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:13px;">1.</span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:13px;"> </span></span></span><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:13px;">That a UKRDS is feasible and should be considered for funding over a period of at least 5 years;<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:16px;"><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:13px;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:16px;"><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:16px;"><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:13px;">2.</span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:13px;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:13px;">That in the first instance a 2-year Pathfinder phase should be funded at a cost of £5.31m</span>.<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:13px;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:16px;"><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:13px;">The <a href="http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/ukrds-2009/">International Conference on the UKRDS</a> tomorrow will certainly be a worthwhile and highly stimulating event. </span></span></span></span></span></span></div></div>Luis Martinez Uribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537007264260786165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8292922532244900092.post-65721604813833808582009-02-20T14:32:00.008+00:002009-02-23T09:06:22.790+00:00A new Oxford project: BRII<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5c4Y3JkodgqxcUikBKDrXnHE7uhlzTWNHFXWjBNeZmjy_PYJEWBhdLZYoj5jDn7rOvrR0UUB9XgCy6ITpqWIJbpNy1lxVudZK0rzi1Qzps0OsIqZpJFDzRppVrCAMnd4w6G1yXuYv01o/s1600-h/Picture+1.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 97px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5c4Y3JkodgqxcUikBKDrXnHE7uhlzTWNHFXWjBNeZmjy_PYJEWBhdLZYoj5jDn7rOvrR0UUB9XgCy6ITpqWIJbpNy1lxVudZK0rzi1Qzps0OsIqZpJFDzRppVrCAMnd4w6G1yXuYv01o/s320/Picture+1.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304889275732212930" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br />The </span><a href="http://brii.medsci.ox.ac.uk/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Building the Research Information Infrastructure (BRII)</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> is an innovative JISC funded project led by </span><a href="http://brii.medsci.ox.ac.uk/about-us/sally-rumsey/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Sally Rumsey</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> and </span><a href="http://brii.medsci.ox.ac.uk/about-us/anne-bowtell/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Anne Bowtel</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> that will make use of semantic web technologies to harvest data about research activity from existing sources in Oxford to re-use them in novel ways as well as to make them available to others. </span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The data about research activity is also known as research management data (not research data!).<a href="http://brii.medsci.ox.ac.uk/about-us/cecilia-loureiro-koechlin/"> Cecilia Loureiro-Koechlin</a>, BRII Project Analyst, explains very effectively what these data are in her recent </span><a href="http://brii-oxford.blogspot.com/2009/02/what-is-research-management-data.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">blog post</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">. The BRII team will use existing data sources like the Oxford Research Archive or the Medical Science Division website, organize the data using RDF ontologies/taxonomies and develop APIs and web services that can enable the re-use of the data for other purposes.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Linking information like this about researchers' fields of expertise, projects, publications, roles, groups, collaborators, etc has the the potential to impact how scholars identify their peers in particular areas and could empower them to establish new multi-disciplinary relationships which in some cases may help attract funding.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I see this project having strong synergies with research data management activities. In a way, research data outputs could be one of the pieces of information that could be linked to their authors, disciplines and publications, improving discoverability as well as providing additional information about the data. Moreover, the interviews I conducted as part of the scoping study revealed researchers' interest to identify who else in the institution handles the same types of data so that they could benefit from their experiences. Therefore, this type of research information infrastructure could help promoting best practice in research data management. One could also foresee, service providers making their existing services explicit in a similar form so that researchers can discover them more easily but this is certainly not within the scope of this project. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">In sum, this is an extremely exciting new initiative and I would highly recommend to keep an eye on the <a href="http://brii-oxford.blogspot.com/">project's blog</a> that will surely produce some stimulating material.</span></div></div>Luis Martinez Uribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537007264260786165noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8292922532244900092.post-23409562920686631992009-01-12T12:10:00.008+00:002009-01-12T15:17:03.980+00:00Economics of Digital Preservation<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj50Pudmgbcr1Ujdpgk1XWGWRym679SD6O02aCfmT9lDmMFRG9ZodP5y9Ou_pjRtTnJrosVYOrD6rWzPzaZ-BccOCEFwwfj6Qa6H-0weYV_uicqm0ssT-gnWt74vGpSFByZ6TUANMwj1is/s1600-h/Picture+2.png"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwxwb1KKpVpoEtbJDnSoJq07DHu-NuTeBt6X-5Llemgj5QjTgtSbe7sL3ffZ4ummnW51bdg4wPQSKDtH13gv3pzVijkUxCZqGAwm1jk5CdFR8FS7PU2g-_b_P9QBQcW4Q_UV3NjFNNywI/s1600-h/Picture+1.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 159px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwxwb1KKpVpoEtbJDnSoJq07DHu-NuTeBt6X-5Llemgj5QjTgtSbe7sL3ffZ4ummnW51bdg4wPQSKDtH13gv3pzVijkUxCZqGAwm1jk5CdFR8FS7PU2g-_b_P9QBQcW4Q_UV3NjFNNywI/s320/Picture+1.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290421859635096194" /></a><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><a href="http://brtf.sdsc.edu/index.html"><span style="text-decoration:none;text-underline:nonecolor:windowtext;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access</span></span></span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> published in December 2008 the report </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><span style="text-decoration:none;text-underline:nonecolor:windowtext;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><a href="http://brtf.sdsc.edu/biblio/BRTF_Interim_Report.pdf">"Sustaining the Digital Investment: Issues and Challenges of Economically Sustainable Digital Preservation".</a> </span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">This Task Force made up of international <a href="http://brtf.sdsc.edu/members.html">leading experts in digital preservation and curation</a> has been brought together to investigate issues around the economic sustainability of digital information. This first report presents a conceptual framework that will guide the Task Force efforts in 2009. </span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">A definition is provided for</span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> economically sustainable digital preservation</span></span></b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">: </span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:21.3pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">“set of business, social, technological, and policy mechanisms that encourage the gathering of important information assets into digital preservation systems, and support the indefinite persistence of digital preservation systems, enabling access to and use of the information assets into the long-term future.”</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">And a set of requirements to achieve this are proposed: </span></span></span></p> <ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="square"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list 36.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Recognition of the benefits of preservation on the part of key decision-makers;</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list 36.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> Incentives for decision-makers to act in the public interest;</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list 36.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">A process for selecting digital materials for long-term retention;</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list 36.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Mechanisms to secure an ongoing, efficient allocation of resources to digital preservation activities;</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list 36.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Appropriate organization and governance of digital preservation activities. </span></span></span></li></ul> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The report goes into defining business and economic models explaining how </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">"the economic model describes how economic reality works and the business models provide templates for acting within that reality". </span></span></i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Consequently, the Task Force suggests that </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">good business models will rely on complete economic models</span></span></b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> and they propose a minimum set of properties for the latter: </span></span></span></p> <ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2; tab-stops:list 36.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">They will account for the resources used to produce sustainability and access.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2; tab-stops:list 36.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">They will pay special attention to the role of time, in both the simple sense of the elapsed time that leads to bit rot, and in the more complicated sense that over time ownership of the data and available technologies may change.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2; tab-stops:list 36.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">They will enable us to examine the effects of different organizational and technical strategies on the quality of preservation and access.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2; tab-stops:list 36.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">They will enable us to assess the technical and the economic risks of losing data.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2; tab-stops:list 36.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">They will allow us to evaluate alternative policies, including changes in intellectual property law.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2; tab-stops:list 36.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">They will allow us to evaluate the implications of the five components of our sustainability definition, both individually and collectively. </span></span></span></li></ul> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">After this, a synthesis of a review of the literature on economics of digital preservation is provided and two UK projects are examined: </span></span></span></p> <ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="square"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3; tab-stops:list 36.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><b><a href="http://www.life.ac.uk/"><span style="text-decoration:none;text-underline: nonecolor:windowtext;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">LIFE Project</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">, </span></span></b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">a</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> British Library and UCL collaboration which generated the lifecycle preservation model shown below that helps establishing the cost to preserve digital materials. </span></span></span></li></ul><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj50Pudmgbcr1Ujdpgk1XWGWRym679SD6O02aCfmT9lDmMFRG9ZodP5y9Ou_pjRtTnJrosVYOrD6rWzPzaZ-BccOCEFwwfj6Qa6H-0weYV_uicqm0ssT-gnWt74vGpSFByZ6TUANMwj1is/s320/Picture+2.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290422229181549714" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></span><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Figure 1. LIFE’s preservation model (taken from Blue Ribbon Task Force report) </span></span></p> <ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="square"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3; tab-stops:list 36.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><b><a href="http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/publications/keepingresearchdatasafe.aspx"><span style="text-decoration:none;text-underline: nonecolor:windowtext;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Keeping Research Data Safe study</span></span></span></a></b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> that focused on developing guidance to enable UK HE institutions to develop cost models to manage and preserve research data. The cost framework suggested by the study consisted of three parts: </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li> <ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="circle"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l3 level2 lfo3; tab-stops:list 72.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">key cost variables and units that affect the cost of preservation</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l3 level2 lfo3; tab-stops:list 72.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">an activity model that identifies activities with cost implications</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l3 level2 lfo3; tab-stops:list 72.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">a resources template providing a framework to draw the previous elements together </span></span></span></li></ul></ul> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The report finishes with six lessons learned: </span></span></span></p> <ol style="margin-top:0cm" start="1" type="1"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4; tab-stops:list 36.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">It is easier to ‘sell’ outcomes than processes.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4; tab-stops:list 36.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Avoid excessive discounting of the benefits from digital preservation</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4; tab-stops:list 36.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Separating preservation costs from other costs is difficult</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4; tab-stops:list 36.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Diversity of funding streams is important for sustainable digital preservation</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4; tab-stops:list 36.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Non-monetary incentives are important.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4; tab-stops:list 36.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Consider the full range of options when selecting an economic model to support digital preservation. </span></span></span></li></ol> <span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Overall, this interim report provides an extremely useful synthesis of the issues around the economics of digital preservation for those organizations that are considering taking up the challenge. The next report promises to offer a set of scenarios with common conditions and associated suitable economic models for supporting long-term digital preservation.</span></span></span><br /><p></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Garamond"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"></span></span></p></div>Luis Martinez Uribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537007264260786165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8292922532244900092.post-16638380227973475052008-12-09T11:59:00.009+00:002009-02-05T15:27:48.351+00:00Research Data Management and Curation Services Framework<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">In the last months we have been conducting a consultation with service units in Oxford to validate the requirements gathered through the researchers interviews as well as to define what </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">data management services</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> are on offer and where the gaps in service provision are.</span><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Researchers' top requirements for services were:</span><div><!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:3.9pt;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Advice on practical issues related to managing data across their life cycle. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">A secure and user-friendly solution that allows storage of large volume of data and sharing of these in a controlled fashion way allowing fine-grained access control mechanisms.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">A sustainable infrastructure that allows publication and long-term preservation of research data for those disciplines not currently served by domain specific services such as the UK Data Archive, NERC Data Centres, European Bioinformatics Institute and others.</span></span></li></ul><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Those requirements helped to produce the following framework of research data management services :</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 92px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioC7TRiHxHSLWS5BdMQIYJDL8UjgDMkmFUHrFr2IjwpHsMnvEtfLF0BsAXD0dI6Do-Q4By-mzxiAJ82Q20ZOvwryxR_qO3XIGa4h7sUfZdVSMKsUADq5ZGjoJJtQ3ljRgPJ6wQQ81nWSM/s400/Picture+1.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277761810800312626" /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><!--StartFragment--> <table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="margin-left:5.4pt; border-collapse:collapse;border:none;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <tbody><tr> <td width="113" valign="top" style="width:4.0cm;border:solid windowtext .5pt; border-bottom:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:left"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Data Management and Sharing Plans</span></b><span style="font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> <td width="378" valign="top" style="width:377.85pt;border-top:solid windowtext .5pt; border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext .75pt;border-right:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 3.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Support and advice to help researchers prepare their data management and sharing plans. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="113" valign="top" style="width:4.0cm;border-top:none;border-left:solid windowtext .5pt; border-bottom:solid windowtext .75pt;border-right:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:left"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Legal and Ethical</span></b><span style="font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> <td width="378" valign="top" style="width:377.85pt;border-top:none;border-left: none;border-bottom:solid windowtext .75pt;border-right:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 3.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">This service includes support to assist researchers with t</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 3.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">he legal and ethical implications of creating, sharing and using data.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="113" valign="top" style="width:4.0cm;border-top:none;border-left:solid windowtext .5pt; border-bottom:solid windowtext .75pt;border-right:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:left"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Best Formats and Best Practice</span></b><span style="font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> <td width="378" valign="top" style="width:377.85pt;border-top:none;border-left: none;border-bottom:solid windowtext .75pt;border-right:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 3.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Support for researchers to decide which are the best formats and practice for producing and documenting specific data. This service may also include provision of support for database design. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="113" valign="top" style="width:4.0cm;border-top:none;border-left:solid windowtext .5pt; border-bottom:solid windowtext .75pt;border-right:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:left"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Secure Storage </span></b><span style="font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> <td width="378" valign="top" style="width:377.85pt;border-top:none;border-left: none;border-bottom:solid windowtext .75pt;border-right:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 3.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Secure storage includes infrastructure that allows storing research data providing backup and version control capabilities amongst other things. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="113" valign="top" style="width:4.0cm;border-top:none;border-left:solid windowtext .5pt; border-bottom:solid windowtext .75pt;border-right:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:left"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Metadata</span></b><span style="font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> <td width="378" valign="top" style="width:377.85pt;border-top:none;border-left: none;border-bottom:solid windowtext .75pt;border-right:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 3.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Tools and support to permit researchers describe their data from the moment of creation</span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="113" valign="top" style="width:4.0cm;border-top:none;border-left:solid windowtext .5pt; border-bottom:solid windowtext .75pt;border-right:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:left"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Access and Discovery</span></b><span style="font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> <td width="378" valign="top" style="width:377.85pt;border-top:none;border-left: none;border-bottom:solid windowtext .75pt;border-right:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 3.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">A support service as well as tools to help researchers locate and access research data. This service could also include tools to help research groups to find about their data resources using the Data Audit Framework methodology</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="113" valign="top" style="width:4.0cm;border-top:none;border-left:solid windowtext .5pt; border-bottom:solid windowtext .75pt;border-right:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:left"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Computation, Analysis & Visualization </span></b><span style="font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> <td width="378" valign="top" style="width:377.85pt;border-top:none;border-left: none;border-bottom:solid windowtext .75pt;border-right:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 3.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Software and computing resources that allow analysis and visualization of research data as well as the training needed to equip researchers with the appropriate skills.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="113" valign="top" style="width:4.0cm;border-top:none;border-left:solid windowtext .5pt; border-bottom:solid windowtext .75pt;border-right:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:left"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Restricted Sharing</span></b><span style="font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> <td width="378" valign="top" style="width:377.85pt;border-top:none;border-left: none;border-bottom:solid windowtext .75pt;border-right:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 3.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Technical infrastructure to share research data with selected individuals or groups.</span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="113" valign="top" style="width:4.0cm;border-top:none;border-left:solid windowtext .5pt; border-bottom:solid windowtext .75pt;border-right:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:left"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Data Cleaning</span></b><span style="font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> <td width="378" valign="top" style="width:377.85pt;border-top:none;border-left: none;border-bottom:solid windowtext .75pt;border-right:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 3.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Support to clean and prepare data to the standard required for publication. This service should include help with anonymizing data.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="113" valign="top" style="width:4.0cm;border-top:none;border-left:solid windowtext .5pt; border-bottom:solid windowtext .75pt;border-right:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:left"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Publication</span></b><span style="font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> <td width="378" valign="top" style="width:377.85pt;border-top:none;border-left: none;border-bottom:solid windowtext .75pt;border-right:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 3.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Infrastructure that permits researchers to publish documented data and link them to research articles and other materials located in other repositories. In some cases researchers may want to exploit their data commercially. DRAMBORA could serve as a tool here to assess repositories that publish the data.</span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="113" valign="top" style="width:4.0cm;border-top:none;border-left:solid windowtext .5pt; border-bottom:solid windowtext .75pt;border-right:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:left"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Assess Value</span></b><span style="font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> <td width="378" valign="top" style="width:377.85pt;border-top:none;border-left: none;border-bottom:solid windowtext .75pt;border-right:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 3.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">One of the main challenges with research data is deciding what data needs to be kept and for how long.</span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="113" valign="top" style="width:4.0cm;border-top:none;border-left:solid windowtext .5pt; border-bottom:solid windowtext .75pt;border-right:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:left"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Preservation</span></b><span style="font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> <td width="378" valign="top" style="width:377.85pt;border-top:none;border-left: none;border-bottom:solid windowtext .75pt;border-right:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 3.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">This service would be responsible for looking after the data in the long-term applying the required measures so that the data is accessible through time.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="113" valign="top" style="width:4.0cm;border:solid windowtext .5pt; border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:left"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Add Value</span></b><span style="font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> <td width="378" valign="top" style="width:377.85pt;border-top:none;border-left: none;border-bottom:solid windowtext .5pt;border-right:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 3.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Once the data is stored with the metadata associated with it, value can be added by organizing similar data in groups, promoting it, linking it to other materials or allowing annotations.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div> </td> </tr> </tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">In order to validate this framework we mapped it to the DCC Curation Lifecycle Model, see below: </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span><div style="mso-element:footnote-list"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHlR-9nr_vzOz7x_QbFpf4dV8IkZCDxVkmf4WskfpBrgdpO7ifYcQ1j4VENdOs2hy94d4H8V5EI0fYIzgn2gBHl_vWdMXxTx6RICsz9qfkcZ1jHAzGqOoXpT9GqXFk7jb015kFxfchebE/s400/Picture+2.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277762134293703714" /> <div style="mso-element:footnote" id="ftn1"> <p class="MsoFootnoteText"><!--StartFragment--> </p><table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse:collapse; border:none;mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <tbody><tr> <td width="497" colspan="3" style="width:496.65pt;border:none;border-bottom:solid white 2.25pt; background:#CCCCCC;mso-shading:white;mso-pattern:gray-20 black;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:4.0pt;margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:4.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:center;mso-pagination:none; tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Mapping between DCC Curation Lifecycle and Research Data Management Services</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="98" style="width:97.55pt;border-top:none;border-left:none; border-bottom:solid white 2.25pt;border-right:solid white 2.25pt;mso-border-top-alt: solid white 2.25pt;background:#CCCCCC;mso-shading:white;mso-pattern:gray-20 black; padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:2.0pt;margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:center;mso-pagination:none; tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">DCC Lifecycle Model Sequential Actions</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> </td> <td width="121" style="width:120.5pt;border-top:none;border-left:none; border-bottom:solid white 2.25pt;border-right:solid white 2.25pt;mso-border-top-alt: solid white 2.25pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid white 2.25pt;background:#CCCCCC; mso-shading:white;mso-pattern:gray-20 black;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:2.0pt;margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:center;mso-pagination:none; tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Research Data Management Services</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> </td> <td width="279" style="width:278.6pt;border:none;border-bottom:solid white 2.25pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid white 2.25pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid white 2.25pt; background:#CCCCCC;mso-shading:white;mso-pattern:gray-20 black;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:2.0pt;margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:center;mso-pagination:none; tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Description</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="98" valign="top" style="width:97.55pt;border-top:none;border-left: none;border-bottom:solid white 2.25pt;border-right:solid white 2.25pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid white 2.25pt;background:#F2F2F2;mso-shading:white; mso-pattern:gray-5 black;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:2.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 2.0pt;margin-left:0cm;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Conceptualise</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> <td width="121" valign="top" style="width:120.5pt;border-top:none;border-left: none;border-bottom:solid white 2.25pt;border-right:solid white 2.25pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid white 2.25pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid white 2.25pt; background:#F2F2F2;mso-shading:white;mso-pattern:gray-5 black;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-top:2.0pt;margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:left;mso-pagination:none; tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Data Management/ Sharing Plans; Best Formats and Best Practice; Legal and Ethical</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> <td width="279" valign="top" style="width:278.6pt;border:none;border-bottom:solid white 2.25pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid white 2.25pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid white 2.25pt; background:#F2F2F2;mso-shading:white;mso-pattern:gray-5 black;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:2.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 2.0pt;margin-left:0cm;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">This stage is related to services to support researchers in the production of data management and data sharing plans. It is also related to the advisory services for best formats and best practice for data creation as well as legal and ethical services for data creation (for instance to clearly define the ownership of the data to be created or how can they be used) and sharing.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="98" valign="top" style="width:97.55pt;border-top:none;border-left: none;border-bottom:solid white 2.25pt;border-right:solid white 2.25pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid white 2.25pt;background:#CCCCCC;mso-shading:white; mso-pattern:gray-20 black;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:2.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 2.0pt;margin-left:0cm;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Create or receive</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> <td width="121" valign="top" style="width:120.5pt;border-top:none;border-left: none;border-bottom:solid white 2.25pt;border-right:solid white 2.25pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid white 2.25pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid white 2.25pt; background:#CCCCCC;mso-shading:white;mso-pattern:gray-20 black;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-top:2.0pt;margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:left;mso-pagination:none; tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Best Format and Best Practice; Metadata</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> <td width="279" valign="top" style="width:278.6pt;border:none;border-bottom:solid white 2.25pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid white 2.25pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid white 2.25pt; background:#CCCCCC;mso-shading:white;mso-pattern:gray-20 black;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:2.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 2.0pt;margin-left:0cm;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">At this point researchers need support to figure out best formats and best practice as well how to best document their data with appropriate metadata.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="98" valign="top" style="width:97.55pt;border-top:none;border-left: none;border-bottom:solid white 2.25pt;border-right:solid white 2.25pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid white 2.25pt;background:#F2F2F2;mso-shading:white; mso-pattern:gray-5 black;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:2.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 2.0pt;margin-left:0cm;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Appraise and select/ dispose </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> <td width="121" valign="top" style="width:120.5pt;border-top:none;border-left: none;border-bottom:solid white 2.25pt;border-right:solid white 2.25pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid white 2.25pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid white 2.25pt; background:#F2F2F2;mso-shading:white;mso-pattern:gray-5 black;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-top:2.0pt;margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:left;mso-pagination:none; tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Assess Value</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> <td width="279" valign="top" style="width:278.6pt;border:none;border-bottom:solid white 2.25pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid white 2.25pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid white 2.25pt; background:#F2F2F2;mso-shading:white;mso-pattern:gray-5 black;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:2.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 2.0pt;margin-left:0cm;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">This phase relates to services to assess value of the data.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="98" valign="top" style="width:97.55pt;border-top:none;border-left: none;border-bottom:solid white 2.25pt;border-right:solid white 2.25pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid white 2.25pt;background:#CCCCCC;mso-shading:white; mso-pattern:gray-20 black;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:2.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 2.0pt;margin-left:0cm;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Ingest</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> <td width="121" valign="top" style="width:120.5pt;border-top:none;border-left: none;border-bottom:solid white 2.25pt;border-right:solid white 2.25pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid white 2.25pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid white 2.25pt; background:#CCCCCC;mso-shading:white;mso-pattern:gray-20 black;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-top:2.0pt;margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:left;mso-pagination:none; tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Data Cleaning, Add Value</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> <td width="279" valign="top" style="width:278.6pt;border:none;border-bottom:solid white 2.25pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid white 2.25pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid white 2.25pt; background:#CCCCCC;mso-shading:white;mso-pattern:gray-20 black;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:2.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 2.0pt;margin-left:0cm;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Before data are ingested, they will need to be prepared and cleaned. During ingestion other information can be added to enhance them.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="98" valign="top" style="width:97.55pt;border-top:none;border-left: none;border-bottom:solid white 2.25pt;border-right:solid white 2.25pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid white 2.25pt;background:#F2F2F2;mso-shading:white; mso-pattern:gray-5 black;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:2.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 2.0pt;margin-left:0cm;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Preservation Action</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> <td width="121" valign="top" style="width:120.5pt;border-top:none;border-left: none;border-bottom:solid white 2.25pt;border-right:solid white 2.25pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid white 2.25pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid white 2.25pt; background:#F2F2F2;mso-shading:white;mso-pattern:gray-5 black;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-top:2.0pt;margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:left;mso-pagination:none; tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Preservation</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> <td width="279" valign="top" style="width:278.6pt;border:none;border-bottom:solid white 2.25pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid white 2.25pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid white 2.25pt; background:#F2F2F2;mso-shading:white;mso-pattern:gray-5 black;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:2.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 2.0pt;margin-left:0cm;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Obviously relates to preservation services.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="98" valign="top" style="width:97.55pt;border-top:none;border-left: none;border-bottom:solid white 2.25pt;border-right:solid white 2.25pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid white 2.25pt;background:#CCCCCC;mso-shading:white; mso-pattern:gray-20 black;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:2.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 2.0pt;margin-left:0cm;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Store</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> <td width="121" valign="top" style="width:120.5pt;border-top:none;border-left: none;border-bottom:solid white 2.25pt;border-right:solid white 2.25pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid white 2.25pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid white 2.25pt; background:#CCCCCC;mso-shading:white;mso-pattern:gray-20 black;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-top:2.0pt;margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:left;mso-pagination:none; tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Secure Storage </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> <td width="279" valign="top" style="width:278.6pt;border:none;border-bottom:solid white 2.25pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid white 2.25pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid white 2.25pt; background:#CCCCCC;mso-shading:white;mso-pattern:gray-20 black;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:2.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 2.0pt;margin-left:0cm;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">This stage clearly relates to the secure storage.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="98" valign="top" style="width:97.55pt;border-top:none;border-left: none;border-bottom:solid white 2.25pt;border-right:solid white 2.25pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid white 2.25pt;background:#F2F2F2;mso-shading:white; mso-pattern:gray-5 black;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:2.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 2.0pt;margin-left:0cm;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Access, Use and Reuse</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> <td width="121" valign="top" style="width:120.5pt;border-top:none;border-left: none;border-bottom:solid white 2.25pt;border-right:solid white 2.25pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid white 2.25pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid white 2.25pt; background:#F2F2F2;mso-shading:white;mso-pattern:gray-5 black;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-top:2.0pt;margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:left;mso-pagination:none; tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Publication; Legal and Ethical; Computation, Analysis and Visualization</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> <td width="279" valign="top" style="width:278.6pt;border:none;border-bottom:solid white 2.25pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid white 2.25pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid white 2.25pt; background:#F2F2F2;mso-shading:white;mso-pattern:gray-5 black;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:2.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 2.0pt;margin-left:0cm;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">This phase relates to several of the research data management services. Publication of data as well as access and discovery belong to this stage.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">When publishing data there is a legal aspect that needs to be addressed and hence the relation here to legal services. In addition to this, the use and reuse of data is tightly coupled to analysis and computational services.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="98" valign="top" style="width:97.55pt;border:none;border-right:solid white 2.25pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid white 2.25pt;background:#CCCCCC;mso-shading:white; mso-pattern:gray-20 black;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:2.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 2.0pt;margin-left:0cm;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Transform</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> <td width="121" valign="top" style="width:120.5pt;border:none;border-right:solid white 2.25pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid white 2.25pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid white 2.25pt; background:#CCCCCC;mso-shading:white;mso-pattern:gray-20 black;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-top:2.0pt;margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:left;mso-pagination:none; tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Computation, Analysis and Visualization; Preservation</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> <td width="279" valign="top" style="width:278.6pt;border:none;mso-border-top-alt: solid white 2.25pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid white 2.25pt;background:#CCCCCC; mso-shading:white;mso-pattern:gray-20 black;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:2.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 2.0pt;margin-left:0cm;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Transforming the data relates to producing new derived version of them by either analysis, visualization or for preservation purposes.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table><br /><!--EndFragment--> <p></p></div><div style="mso-element:footnote" id="ftn1">And now we are using this framework to establish the levels of service provided for each of the services in the framework in order to identify those that need to be develop further. </div></div></div><p></p> <!--EndFragment--> </div></div>Luis Martinez Uribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537007264260786165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8292922532244900092.post-71155130461513359042008-11-20T10:10:00.004+00:002008-11-20T10:32:37.612+00:00A bright future for research libraries<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeW8AM9ljavMH7ODq_00D3u3jg7BGd7E9Zj3_jeXB7Qk6mlwDtFANZJq783KTvPN-vpHN5eZ2059SyOnyZ6sJJbOwMMuVSiRCSWlaHHEMXeNPOUvdMq2TIrklnZ4l2yx6T0yRenNhI5y8/s1600-h/Picture+3.png"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 292px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeW8AM9ljavMH7ODq_00D3u3jg7BGd7E9Zj3_jeXB7Qk6mlwDtFANZJq783KTvPN-vpHN5eZ2059SyOnyZ6sJJbOwMMuVSiRCSWlaHHEMXeNPOUvdMq2TIrklnZ4l2yx6T0yRenNhI5y8/s320/Picture+3.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270685703782313346" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The </span></span><a href="http://www.rin.ac.uk/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Research Information Network (RIN)</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> has just published </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.rin.ac.uk/bright-futures-libraries"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">"Ensuring a bright future for research libraries"</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">, a</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> 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.</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The guide provides a framework of issues that need to be considered when developing library and information services. One of the framework headings </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">curation, preservation and disposal </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">includes a section on research data:</span></span><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"></span></span><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">"</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">cooperate with research funders, others institutions and specialist agencies in developing a coherent and comprehensive framework of </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Optima;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">services to ensure that valuable research data are managed effectively </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">from the point of creation</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">, preserved and made accessible to others."</span></span></span></span></span></span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-style: italic;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">A selection of good practice examples are also offered and the LSE Data Library features there as a research support service that establishes close connections between library and researchers.</span></span></span></div>Luis Martinez Uribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537007264260786165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8292922532244900092.post-89968523635897022292008-11-14T09:47:00.004+00:002008-11-14T10:01:57.758+00:00Datasets Seminar in MadridOn Monday I will be participating in a <a href="http://www.esds.ac.uk/international/news/madrid.asp">seminar</a> organized to discuss the issues around the inclusion of data in digital repositories. The event has been organized by the <a href="http://www.consorciomadrono.es/">Consorcio Madroño</a>, a consortium of universities in Madrid with the aim of fostering inter-library collaboration. The seminar will also bring Alicia Medina from UNED, Stuart Macdonald from the University of Edinburgh and Dr. Celia Russsell from Manchester University.<div><br /></div><div>I have been told that the presentations will be filmed and made available on the web. As soon I know where I will post it here. <br /><div><br /></div><div> </div></div>Luis Martinez Uribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537007264260786165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8292922532244900092.post-46925563191603919292008-10-27T11:54:00.006+00:002008-10-27T14:10:47.341+00:00Institutional and National Research Data Management Services<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Last week the</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">second event organized as part of the </span></span><a href="http://www.ict.ox.ac.uk/odit/projects/digitalrepository/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Scoping Digital Repository Services for Research Data </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Managemen</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">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: </span></span><div><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">San Diego Super Computer Data Central, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">the UK Research Data Service, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">the Digital </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Curation</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> Centre, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">the UK Data Archive, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">the </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">NERC</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> Environmental </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Bioinformatics</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> Centre, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">the Archaeology Data Service and </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Oxford Legal Services. </span></span></li></ul><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Throughout the day a wide range of services were described including infrastructure and tools for storage, access, discovery, use or preservation as well as services related to support, advice and training starting as early as possible in the research </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">lifecycle</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The final panel discussion between some of the service units in Oxford evidenced the need for coordination and funding to provide the range of support services that Oxford researchers need. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The presentations are now available at: </span></span><a href="http://www.ict.ox.ac.uk/odit/projects/digitalrepository/Workshops-DataServices.xml"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">http://www.ict.ox.ac.uk/odit/projects/digitalrepository/Workshops-DataServices.xml</span></span></a></div></div>Luis Martinez Uribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537007264260786165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8292922532244900092.post-44017649582594539112008-10-11T21:00:00.014+01:002008-10-13T11:51:34.999+01:00iPres'08 and DCC Digital Curation 101 Course<div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">In the last couple of weeks I have attended the </span></span><a href="http://www.bl.uk/ipres2008/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">iPres</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> 2008 conference at the British Library and the</span></span><a href="http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/904/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">DCC Digital Curation 101</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> course at NeSC. Both events have been great to learn more about latest developments, tools and concepts on digital preservation and data curation.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">iPres 2008</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> has been widely commented in other blogs such as the </span><a href="http://digitalcuration.blogspot.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">DCC's</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> and </span><a href="http://blog.beagrie.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Neil Beagrie's</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">. I particularly liked the keynotes from both days. Lynne Brintley ,CEO British Library, highlighted the increasing maturity of the digital preservation field, called for join up of pieces of the big jigsaw and for a different label like </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><img style="text-align: justify;float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFcvIZrLI9WXSJRtpKhIGE0YjVMKJs0rNdFK-6ijsDDokTZATcxf8SYmXt93Cc6gaNpUN-myTc9GBLoREe_4yM4U_6wk63BKxhKCHgc56mxJDLSppiXIKMZ3vIAZNRMaFMYPbfr3abElg/s320/Picture+2.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255998437369556754" /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">digital life</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> or </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">preservation for long-term access</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">. The second day's keynote brought Dr Horst Forster, from the European Commission, who argued that </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">“less than 20% of UK organizations have preservation as per legal requirements and 50% still print the documents to preserve them” and </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">ensured that the European Commission will continue to fund activities in this area.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Some of the tools that called my attention included </span><a href="http://hul.harvard.edu/jhove/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">JHOVE 2</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> and </span><a href="http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pronom/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">PRONOM</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">. The former helps to identify, validate and characterize digital objects whilst the latter is a format registry. The </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Danish Data Archive DANS presented their </span></span><a href="http://www.datasealofapproval.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Data Seal of Approval</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">, a collection of guidelines for producing data </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">future-proof</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">. It was also of interest to see some presentations touching on issues around collaboration between advanced computational science and digital preservation services (see: <a href="http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/library/resources/pubs/docs/SDSC_LC_data-storage_report_3.pdf">Data Center for Library of Congress Digital Holdings</a> and <a href="http://chronopolis.sdsc.edu/">The Chronopolis Digital Preservation Archive and Demonstration</a>). </span></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">DCC Digital Curation 101</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> course combined an excellent set of lectures and hands-on exercises provided </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.dcc.ac.uk/docs/publications/DCCLifecycle.pdf"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></a></div></div></div></div><img style="text-align: justify;float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq1fIBIR180pI9uinfRictLNayeAIOADVZjNlUVpY-CBmv8KKr8Uqdf6wB9LB0PwUd_BEqWsP-TrEiWIqysQPeA3ZLq81pyb6nxJnxsqwl8pjwKnDrHNoZ96zOGhfBcLs6ZX9SEz-9XRo/s320/Picture+3.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255992495397476626" /><div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">by leading experts. The sessions were structured using the stages of the DCC Curation Lifecycle Model: </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li>conceptualize, <br /></li><li>create&receive, <br /></li><li>appraise&select, <br /></li><li>ingest&store, <br /></li><li>preserve, <br /></li><li>access&reuse. <br /></li></ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">During the four days the course lasted, the lectures covered the previous stages pointing out the issues present and highlighting the importance of early (in the lifecycle) collaboration between researchers, information professionals and IT specialists. The hand-on sessions allowed us to:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li>use some sample data sets to identify their significant properties, <br /></li><li>practice using the Data Audit Framework, <br /></li><li>look at data quality issues and assessed file format robustness, <br /></li><li>find and use data from the British Atmospheric Data Centre, <br /></li><li>create a detailed data management plan putting in practice everything learnt during the course.<br /></li></ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The course was brilliantly organized and delivered. There was the perfect mixed of researchers, information professionals and IT specialists. Perhaps in the future the course could focus on specific disciplines but I really hope there will be more. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div></div>Luis Martinez Uribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537007264260786165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8292922532244900092.post-66157598401435817702008-10-02T16:07:00.002+01:002008-10-02T16:32:01.293+01:00QUT's Practical Data Management GuideQueensland University of Technology has just published <a href="http://eprints.qut.edu.au/archive/00014923/">"Practical Data Management: A Legal and Policy Guide"</a>. This is a very useful resource for researchers and repository managers with an interest in managing legal rights in data.<div><br /><div>The guide provides a detailed introduction to copyright covering what it protects, who owns it and how is relevant for data available in digital repositories. It then considers other legal aspects of data management such as moral rights, confidential information and privacy. After looking at data management policies that all research projects should have in place, it covers what data management plans (DMP) should cover :</div><div><br /></div><div><ul><li>ownership of the data to be generated<br /></li><li>who is responsible for managing the data</li><li>address the legal controls applying to collection or use of the data <br /></li><li>security to protect the data collected</li><li>the long-term preservation of the data</li></ul>It is highlighted that <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; ">" [a] data management plan will need to be consistent with the research institution's IP policies and data management policies"</span><br /> </div><div><br /></div></div>Luis Martinez Uribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537007264260786165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8292922532244900092.post-13842803804459133992008-09-26T17:31:00.006+01:002008-09-26T18:42:08.064+01:00Spatial Data Visualization Tools Briefing Paper - DataShare<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">The JISC funded DataShare project has just published the second part of the briefing paper </span><a href="http://www.disc-uk.org/docs/spatial_data_mashup.pdf"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Data Visualization Tools: Spatial Data in a Web 2.0 Environment and Beyond</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> 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.</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">The vision proposed is that </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">"b</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">y opening up their code to repository developers (e.g. through APIs) numeric and spatial data tools could be utilised further within this environment to engage potential depositors, to enhance output, and to provide analysis and visualisations as part of ‘value-added’ functionality."</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-style: italic;font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-style: italic;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">This is a must read for anyone interested in Geo Web or Geo 2.0!</span><br /></span><div><div><div><div><br /></div><div><br /><div><br /></div><div> <div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Luis Martinez Uribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537007264260786165noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8292922532244900092.post-80385309131069538842008-09-19T08:50:00.006+01:002008-09-19T16:33:45.115+01:00New JISC report on role and skills of data scientists<blockquote></blockquote>I wrote a summary of this report for DISC-UK DataShare <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-style: italic;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"></span></span></div><blockquote><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">"In my opinion, this is another very useful report that, amongst other things, calls for urgent action from research funders, universities and the library community to not only train future professionals in this field but to develop ways to recognise their work. I am very pleased to see the strong emphasis on libraries and data librarians and I am looking forward to see how the recommendations can be addressed. " </span></span> <br /></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Times;"><div style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; width: auto; font: normal normal normal 100%/normal Georgia, serif; text-align: left; "><blockquote><div><div></div></div><div></div></blockquote><div></div></div></span></div></div></blockquote><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Times;"><div style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; width: auto; font: normal normal normal 100%/normal Georgia, serif; text-align: left; "><div> You can read the full summary at : <a href="http://jisc-datashare.blogspot.com/2008/09/new-report-skills-role-and-career.html">http://jisc-datashare.blogspot.com/2008/09/new-report-skills-role-and-career.html</a></div></div></span></div></div>Luis Martinez Uribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537007264260786165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8292922532244900092.post-64755457434423876612008-09-17T13:56:00.005+01:002008-09-17T14:23:00.754+01:00Upcoming Project Workshop - 20th OctoberThe <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Institutional and National Services for Research Data Management Workshop</span> is the second event organized as part of the Scoping Digital Repository Services for Research Data Management project. <br /><div><br /></div><div>Speakers from San Diego Supercomputer Centre, the UK Data Archive, the Archaeology Data Service and the NERC Environmental Bioinformatics Centre will show through examples and case studies the types of research data services that could potentially be delivered at Oxford. After this, a panel formed by representatives of Oxford service providers will discuss their role in supporting researchers with their data management.</div><div><br /></div><div>To find more information and register please visit:<a href="http://www.ict.ox.ac.uk/odit/projects/digitalrepository/Workshops-DataServices.xml"></a></div><div><a href="http://www.ict.ox.ac.uk/odit/projects/digitalrepository/Workshops-DataServices.xml">http://www.ict.ox.ac.uk/odit/projects/digitalrepository/Workshops-DataServices.xml</a></div>Luis Martinez Uribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537007264260786165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8292922532244900092.post-10053754263826966922008-09-13T13:04:00.009+01:002008-09-13T17:52:41.476+01:00UKRDS Interim Report<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYo9lQteV2q51xX13YRGxeleLaxft54KmnLcdSEn9hhUgauv49rqxqT0kWUfvTTz77nP-v85zz1kVwsYKTy4gp60VSYROY1r6sls_maPwtYa-niR-j45KPEF1zsFiD74I8jKqG-mRWWqY/s1600-h/Picture+1.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYo9lQteV2q51xX13YRGxeleLaxft54KmnLcdSEn9hhUgauv49rqxqT0kWUfvTTz77nP-v85zz1kVwsYKTy4gp60VSYROY1r6sls_maPwtYa-niR-j45KPEF1zsFiD74I8jKqG-mRWWqY/s320/Picture+1.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245476005910559842" border="0" /></a>SERCO has published the <a href="http://www.ukrds.ac.uk/UKRDS%20SC%2010%20July%2008%20Item%205%20%282%29.doc">UKRDS Interim Report </a>where "<span style="font-style: italic;">The </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.ukrds.ac.uk/SCmembership.htm">Committee</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> is asked to consider the role of UKRDS as a vehicle for achieving coherence in data management strategy and service provision across the UK.</span>"<br /><br />This report analyses the current situation in the UK with a detailed look at relevant literature and funders policies, it then moves into describing the emerging trends of local data repositories and national facilities to finally look at Australia, the US and the EU, competitors and partners of the UK. It suggests three options for UKRS models:<br /><br /><ul><li>No change</li><li>Massively centralised</li><li>Hybrid/Umbrella</li></ul><br />The Hybrid/Umbrella model is presented as a lower risk and more managable option and promotes the UKRDS "<span style="font-style: italic;">representing the interests of many UK data repositories, both those based around single institutions and those based on storage for a single discipline."</span> Amongst the functions of this model of "<span style="font-style: italic;">grid computing and cloud-base data storage</span>", UKRDS would play the role of <span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">mediator</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">standards-setting body</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">source of information</span> </span>similar to the Digital Curation Centre (DCC)<span style="font-style: italic;"> and in time <span style="font-weight: bold;">a data repository in its own.</span> </span><br /><br />I highly recommend everyone with an interest in research data management to have a look at this report as not only it captures the current state of affairs in the UK and elsewhere but also offers possible ways forward. The Hybrid/Umbrella model seems like a sound option to me, specially if UKRDS would be able to address what Liz Lyon's termed as the big gap during the <a href="http://www.ict.ox.ac.uk/odit/projects/digitalrepository/Workshops.xml">Oxford Workshop</a>, the joint up from funding bodies and councils for a national data strategy . As far as I am aware, UKRDS will report to HEFCE at the end of the year and hopefully the UK will have a new body to support and guide those institutions that, like Oxford, have an interest in developing services for research data management.Luis Martinez Uribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537007264260786165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8292922532244900092.post-16083426648649364992008-08-21T16:11:00.009+01:002008-08-22T15:54:28.023+01:00Oxford to use the Data Audit Framework as part of DataShare<blockquote></blockquote><div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">From the </span><a href="http://jisc-datashare.blogspot.com/2008/08/new-datashare-deliverable-southampton.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">DISC-UK DataShare blog</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">:</span></span></div><div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">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. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">JISC funded the </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitalrepositories2007/dataauditframework.aspx"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Data Audit Framework (DAF) Development</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "> Project to develop a methodology to enable </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">universities to carry out exercises to map research data resources and data management practices across departments and research centres. This should help departments and institutions to identify what data they have, where they are located and how they are being looked after as well as to raise awareness of the importance of actively managing research data. Four projects were funded to pilot the methodology at University College London, Imperial College London, University of Edinburgh, and King's College London.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In the University of Oxford, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/people/luis-martinez-uribe"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Luis Martinez-Uribe</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> will conduct the data audit as part of the </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.ict.ox.ac.uk/odit/projects/digitalrepository/">Scoping<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"> </span></a><a href="http://www.ict.ox.ac.uk/odit/projects/digitalrepository/">Digital Repository Services for Research Data</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; "><a href="http://www.ict.ox.ac.uk/odit/projects/digitalrepository/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "> Management project</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">. After having captured requirements for services to assist researchers with their data management, Luis will use DAF to gain deeper understanding of the research data held in some departments and those data published on departmental websites.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Harry Gibbs and Teresa McGowan will be leading the DAF work at the University of Southampton aiming to build a picture of the research data used and generated in the School of Social Sciences and to gain understanding of the School’s current data management processes.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><br /></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Helvetica;"></span></span></span></p></div><div><p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Helvetica;"></span></span></span></p></div>Luis Martinez Uribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537007264260786165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8292922532244900092.post-20699227096982041282008-08-03T10:13:00.000+01:002008-08-22T10:32:42.767+01:00Repository Fringe Presentation<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb8xIkHEKUdIy2_q6EUczX7Lp5M0IpZ_enuAbD_Y1PFgTXai_8LnOUPyKAJOKALffCCb1PeHTlkh41Q4mycc-lo0Vt8PJ0aLUo11ljqEMqMg1kPcJvEJnu7kukavvBXmC3Nbtx7ze86-Y/s1600-h/Picture+6.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb8xIkHEKUdIy2_q6EUczX7Lp5M0IpZ_enuAbD_Y1PFgTXai_8LnOUPyKAJOKALffCCb1PeHTlkh41Q4mycc-lo0Vt8PJ0aLUo11ljqEMqMg1kPcJvEJnu7kukavvBXmC3Nbtx7ze86-Y/s200/Picture+6.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237271277775122082" /></a><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:13px;">The </span><a href="http://www.repositoryfringe.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:13px;">Repository Fringe</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:13px;"> took place in Edinburgh on July 31st and 1st August. A very interesting and successful event that I hope will have continuation in future years.</span><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Stuart Macdonald blogged </span><a href="http://jisc-datashare.blogspot.com/2008/07/notes-from-small-island-or-rather.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Dorothea Shalo's keynote</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">, some </span><a href="http://jisc-datashare.blogspot.com/2008/08/post-repository-fringe-notes.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">post conference notes</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> and very kindly a report from </span><a href="http://jisc-datashare.blogspot.com/2008/07/digital-repository-services-for.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">my presentation</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">. </span></div>Luis Martinez Uribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537007264260786165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8292922532244900092.post-89378051549057658432008-07-25T11:15:00.002+01:002008-07-25T11:25:35.812+01:00Findings Report-Oxford Data Management<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The findings from the scoping study interviews with Oxford researchers and the complementary workshop are now available at : <a href="http://www.ict.ox.ac.uk/odit/projects/digitalrepository/findings.xml">http://www.ict.ox.ac.uk/odit/projects/digitalrepository/findings.xml</a></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The findings report documents current data management practices amongst Oxford researchers and it also captures the top requirements for services to help researchers manage their data more effectively.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Thanks to everyone who participated in the interviews and the workshop for their time and support. If you would like to comment on the report please send your feedback to </span></span><a href="mailto:luis.martinez-uribe@oerc.ox.ac.uk"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">me</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p>Luis Martinez Uribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537007264260786165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8292922532244900092.post-81440238176952912762008-07-22T10:33:00.008+01:002008-07-22T11:14:29.441+01:00JISC Innovation Forum: Research data-Whose problem is it?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIwDm_RuP7z_3myy815V__nEoGuU3MbN4recc1F46y0rc3sjUJpR_JiGZKcHZRlB9ggwfqEyWkpWeE_JQq06O8eDQa-Ic67ANbaElbAkxWooxnUNXHZCLGtRwT8nFcspw6TZKwUCGO68Q/s1600-h/Picture+1.png"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIwDm_RuP7z_3myy815V__nEoGuU3MbN4recc1F46y0rc3sjUJpR_JiGZKcHZRlB9ggwfqEyWkpWeE_JQq06O8eDQa-Ic67ANbaElbAkxWooxnUNXHZCLGtRwT8nFcspw6TZKwUCGO68Q/s200/Picture+1.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225779633492317090" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">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:</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> - legal and policy </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> - capacity and skills</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> - technical and infrastructure </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">These sessions generated a lot of interesting discussion and are blogged at: <a href="http://jif08.jiscinvolve.org/theme-2-the-challenges-of-research-data/">http://jif08.jiscinvolve.org/theme-2-the-challenges-of-research-data/ </a></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">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:</span></span></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> 1. within a research environment – can we facilitiate the data curation using the carrot of sharing systems? (IT systems in the lab)</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> 2. additional context beyond the metadata</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> 3. how do we help institutions understand their infrastructural needs</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> 4. what has to happen with the various dataset systems (fedora etc) to help them link with the library and institutional systems</span></span></div><div><br /></div></div>Luis Martinez Uribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537007264260786165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8292922532244900092.post-1756689938995251992008-06-20T12:03:00.003+01:002008-06-27T16:36:11.795+01:00Workshop presentations available<!--StartFragment--><span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The Research Data Management Workshop was successfully held on Friday 13th of June at the Said Business School. There were 46 attendees throughout the day from 24 departments, research centres and colleges. There were also representatives from </span><a href="http://www.jisc.ac.uk/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">JISC</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, </span><a href="http://www.ukrds.ac.uk/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">UKRDS</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, </span><a href="http://www.rin.ac.uk/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">RIN</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, </span><a href="http://www.dcc.ac.uk/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">DCC</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, </span><a href="http://www.ebi.ac.uk/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">EBI</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> and the NERC </span><a href="http://www.ceh.ac.uk/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Centre for Ecology and Hydrology</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></span><!--EndFragment--><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Feedback from the workshop suggested that participants liked particularly the discussion at the end, the range of examples shown and hearing about data management issues from researchers. They missed the perspective of Humanities researchers and funding bodies. For future workshops participants ask for more information on IP related issues, more practical examples tailored to the different divisions and learning about who can help</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> them with their data management problems.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 19px; font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Presentation slides and audio recordings can be found at : </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><a href="http://www.ict.ox.ac.uk/odit/projects/digitalrepository/Workshops.xml"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">http://www.ict.ox.ac.uk/odit/projects/digitalrepository/Workshops.xml</span></a></span></span></span></span><br /></span></div>Luis Martinez Uribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537007264260786165noreply@blogger.com0