Research Data Shared Service Pilot Institutions & Research Data Network
This blog post announces the results of the call for formal expressions of interest to be a pilot institution in Jisc’s research data management shared service and also announces an accompanying...
View ArticleResearch data management shared service tender – prequalification...
Happy new year! Back in early December we launched a tender opportunity for the Jisc Research Data Management shared service. The notice has been circulated widely but just as a final announcement to...
View ArticleRealising the potential for open research data
Realising the Potential, the final report of the Open Research Data Task Force (ORDTF), examines the opportunities presented though open research data. Better incentives for researchers and a user...
View ArticleBalancing theory and practice in research data management – innovation and...
(this blog post is co-written by Monica Duke and Leo Mack) The recent DCMI (Dublin Core Metadata Initiative) conference in Porto was collocated with the International Conference on Theory and Practice...
View ArticleThe Jisc RDSS project: looking back, moving forward
The Jisc Research Data Shared Service (RDSS) project team spent the first part of this year visiting different parts of the country (and world) to provide updates on the RDSS project. It therefore...
View ArticleBad habits and best practices – a survey on RDM among early career researchers
One of the Jisc Research Data Champions, who is also a Research Data Champion at the University of Cambridge, Annemarie Eckes, writes about the results of a survey that she conducted on the practices...
View ArticleThe problem with just depositing research data to existing repositories
…Or how can RDSS bring more value? The update and demo on the Jisc research data shared service (RDSS) last week attracted interest from more than 30 UK HEIs, a handful of overseas universities, plus...
View ArticleGetting Lost In Your Data?
In parallel with the research data shared service, we are running an initiative with researchers from the pilot institutions, also known as ‘The Research Data Champions’. These are all the most brave...
View ArticleDo you speak research data? The potential of a Jisc RDM toolkit
Andrea Chiarelli (from Research Consulting Ltd) updates us on progress with the development of the Jisc RDM toolkit, and asks whether you will use it in future. On December 5th, 2017, I attended the...
View ArticleDeveloping ForSci – a repository for the forensic science community
by Helen Kara We Research It Jisc is looking at how it can use the repository infrastructure currently being built for the research data shared service to meet use cases outside the traditional...
View ArticleResearch data shared service is well into alpha
Over the past two years, we have been developing a solution for researchers and support staff within universities to enable them to deposit and preserve research data for the long-term, while also...
View Article5 highlights and next steps for the RDSS market research
Back in March, I wrote a blog on our plans and the first findings from the market research piece within the research data shared service project. We have come some way since then, but more work is...
View ArticleThe data tsunami—the Environmental Sciences perspective
Annemarie Eckes, a PhD student from Cambridge University, is one of the Jisc Research Data Champions. She’s also a Research Data Champion at Cambridge. She recently participated in the RDA EU-ENVRI...
View ArticleForSci – a repository for the forensic science community
by Helen Kara We Research It Jisc is looking at how it can use the repository infrastructure currently being built for the research data shared service to meet use cases outside the traditional...
View ArticleImpressions from the ARMA 2017 annual conference
Last week I attended my first ARMA conference which took place in Liverpool. There hasn’t been a better time to bring together research support managers from across and outside of the UK to discuss and...
View ArticleFAIR in Practice
Welcome to my first blog for Jisc. You may know me (Bas Cordewener) in the role of Coordinator of the Knowledge Exchange initiative. As the responsible project manager I’d like to introduce a new...
View ArticleResearch at risk: spring progress update 2017
Over the past year, a remarkable range of events have taken place. Anything from the launch of the Concordat on Open Research Data, to the royal assent of the Higher Education and Research Bill most...
View ArticleResearch Data Network event : trailer
We are really enjoying putting together the programme for our forthcoming Research Data Network event at the University of York in June. This is partly because so many great ideas for sessions are...
View ArticleMarket research for the research data shared service
As part of the research data shared service pilot project, we are running a market research exercise. What does this mean? Well, it can mean a number of things. Our main goal is to understand the...
View ArticleResearch data shared service – March meeting
Last week, around 40 representatives from research data shared service (rdss) pilot institutions participated in an rdss workshop. There were a number updates on the progress of the service: market...
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