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A DASISH workshop on trust and certification
This post is co-written with Claudia Engelhardt, Göttingen State and University Library. It is also published on the DHd-Blog. On 16-17 October 2014, a workshop on the topic of trusted digital repositories took place in The Hague. The workshop was … Continue reading →
Hallelujah and praise the LARD! The first London Area Research Data group meeting
This is a guest post by Laurence Horton, Data Librarian at The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) It was a hot and stormy day; the rain fell in torrents – except at occasional intervals, when I dodged … Continue reading →
Destination: CESSDA Training
As you may have noticed here and there, some developments have been going on behind the scenes at the Archive and Data Management Training Center. Since the official launch of CESSDA AS in Bergen on December 5th, 2013, we have … Continue reading →
The long journey of the research penny
National governments and ministries of research and education have an interest to see their money travel far, and not only as far as the unexplored edges of science. The real target is eternity. To achieve eternity, research funding bodies across … Continue reading →
Walking in our shoes! Training the trainers in digital preservation
This blog is co-written with our former colleague Laurence Horton (London School of Economics and Political Science). It is based on a workshop presented at Archiving 2014, Berlin and IASSIST 2014, Toronto. “Digital preservation isn’t my job. Leave it to … Continue reading →
RDM? Ja bitte! German Rectors’ Conference actively supports Research Data Management
A recommendation published by the German Rectors‘ Conference (Hochschulrektorenkonferenz, HRK) asserts that German Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) should take an active role in systematically addressing the challenge of research data management [1]. An association of currently 268 HEIs serving 94% of … Continue reading →
Horizon 2020, Research Data Management, You, and Us.
Horizon 2020[i] is the European Union’s latest research and innovation funding programme, making €80 billion available in the seven years between now and 2020. Horizon 2020 embraces the global movement amongst research funders that requires data generated be made available for verification, … Continue reading →
DOIs and the danger of data “quality”
I’ve just spent a moment looking at guidelines [PDF] from the UK’s National Environment Research Council (NERC) on how NERC funded research can obtain a persistent identifier through the DOI® system. NERC have a data sharing policy, and fund data centres … Continue reading →