Workshop presentations available

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 JISC, UKRDS, RIN, DCC, EBI and the NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology.

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 them with their data management problems.

Presentation slides and audio recordings can be found at : http://www.ict.ox.ac.uk/odit/projects/digitalrepository/Workshops.xml

Data Librarianship

My colleague Stuart Macdonald, Edinburgh University Data Library, and I were interviewed last year by CILIP's editor Elspeth Hyams. The interview focused on our roles as Data Librarians and the emerging need of Librarians to participate in the active curation of research data.

The interview is available at:

http://www.cilip.org.uk/publications/updatemagazine/archive/archive2008/june/Interview+with+Macdonald+and+Martinez-Uribe.htm

Research Data Management Workshop

I am glad to announce the first event organized under the umbrella of the Scoping Digital Repository Services for Research Data Management. This first workshop is aimed at Oxford researchers to hear about good examples and interesting practice on data management across disciplines. So far we have secure an outstanding group of speakers and I am sure it will be a extremely useful event for researchers in Oxford.

To find out more information and register go to : www.ict.ox.ac.uk/odit/projects/digitalrepository/Workshops.xml