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Research Data Network meeting full agenda
Next week about 100 delegates are descending on the University of St Andrews to attend the third Jisc Research Data Network event. The aim of these events is to bring together people in the higher...
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Finding out what researchers really, really want from a research data shared...
By Rob Johnson, Research Consulting ‘So tell me what you want, what you really, really want’ sang the Spice Girls back in 1996. I’m pretty sure they didn’t have research data in mind at the time, but...
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Collaboration and conversation at the 3rd Jisc Research Data Network Meeting
Arriving for the first time in St Andrews last Wednesday (on St Andrew’s Day!) for the research data network meeting I could see the town nestling off to the east as the taxi swung around to some...
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Metadata focus groups – report published
In the latter half of 2016, the Research Data Shared Service project commissioned a series of focus groups with the pilot institutions. Nicky Ferguson from Clax Ltd. joined Research Consulting to...
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Research 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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Market 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...
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Research 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...
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Research 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...
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FAIR 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...
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Impressions 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...
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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...
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The 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 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...
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Research 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...
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Developing 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 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...
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Getting 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...
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The 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...
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Bad 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...
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The 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...
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