RD@Essex Progress Report (March 2012)
What have we been up to recently? Well, quite a lot really: Completed data interviews with UoEssex researchers and research leaders from the four pilot departments Began drafting a full report and...
View ArticleEPrints for data: webinar report
Last Wednesday (23rd March) we held an ‘EPrints for data’ webinar for the JISC MRD community, to discuss current approaches and challenges. Present in the ‘virtual room’ were representatives of...
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Research data asset inventory [download]
In a follow up to our earlier post on the "10 questions...", we thought we'd share our full data inventory form. Though geared toward self completion, it doubles as a comprehensive interview schedule....
View ArticleDMP scoring system: RELU DMPs, 2005-2010
The Relu Data Support Service (Relu-DSS) helped researchers of the Rural Economy and Land Use (Relu) Programme manage their data throughout the research lifecycle. For the duration of the Relu...
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Re-using the IDMB toolkit (part 1)
The Institutional Data Management Blueprint (IDMB) project ran during the JISC Managing Research Data programme 2009-2011. The team, based at the University of Southampton, developed a suite of...
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Adapting EPrints for research data: metadata and design
Building on the previous post which described our IDMB-inspired basic metadata model, this post will present some more tangible results of our work so far. Toward a standard metadata schema for...
View ArticleLatest progress for RD@Essex (May 2012)
I was invited to speak on our Essex project last week) at the DCC Roadshow at Imperial College ( (21 May 2012). The workshop was well attended and the discussion useful. You can download a copy of my...
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DataCite metadata workshop & OR2012 EPrints user group
RD@E have been at a couple of noteworthy events in the last two weeks, which I'm going to report on in this post. DataCite Workshop: Describe, disseminate, discover: metadata for effective citation On...
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RD@Essex Progress (September 2012)
Various real-case data collections (previously described in this post) have now been ingested into the Essex Research Data Repository, with metadata records created. You can see an example of one of...
View ArticleEmerging technical solutions for local and cloud based research data management
Research groups and university departments need practical solutions for better managing their data. Storage and access are particular problems, as highlighted by the RDE project’s completed (and...
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Repository beta & metadata profile released
Today we have annouced two important releases from the RD@Essex team. These outputs are the culmination of our data repository development work at the University of Essex over the past year. 1. Essex...
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JISC MRD Programme Workshop 24/25 Oct: RD@E poster & presentations
There was major meeting of the JISC MRD programme last week in Nottingham - a great opportunity to focus in on particular issues and challenges the projects are facing. It was also a chance to show...
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Report on Research Data Management at the University of Essex
The report is the result of early work with the four pilot departments, having used a Data Asset Framework based methodology to gather information from research staff (including research directors) on...
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Benefits and evidence
At the JISCMRD Benefits-Evidence Workshop in Bristol on 29-30 November we showed which benefits the Research Data @ Essex project will bring to the University of Essex and to the wider data sharing...
View ArticleEvaluating Data Management Plans
During the recent JISC Managing Research Data - Benefits & Evidence workshop in Bristol, 29-30 November 2012, we discussed how to evaluate the quality of data management plans (DMPs). I promised...
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RDE at IDCC 2013
We have a presence at the DDC's International Digital Curation Conference 2013 this week, and are presenting a poster on the projects achievements so far, particularly focusing on the EPrints data...
View ArticleData management and sharing planning requirements of UK research funders, an...
On 14 January 2013, I presented an update on the UK landscape of research funder data policies and their data management and sharing planning requirements at the IDCC13 workshop 'Data Management...
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University of Essex research data survey
We have just launched an institution-wide survey at the University of Essex, targeted at those generating data through primary research. The survey aims to examine current practices and needs at the...
View ArticleUniversity of Essex data policy and guidance published
The University of Essex has published its Research Data Management Policy, its roadmap to policy implementation, and data management planning guidance developed by the Research Data @ Essex project....
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University of Essex Staff Research Data Survey
We have now analysed the results of the staff survey held amongst academic staff of the University of Essex The aim of this survey was to: raise and assess awareness amongst research staff about data...
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