Category: RDMF

RDMF19 – Costing Data Management

We can all agree that the focused management of research data can have significant benefits, not only for researchers but also for institutions and wider society. However, when it comes to the nitty gritty of how to cost this, things get a bit more tr…

To the RDMF community…

Dear colleagues,
After ten years (and one week!) I will shortly be leaving the DCC to take on a new, more internally-focused role at Edinburgh, as manager of the university’s Research Data Support team. Before moving on, I wanted to take thi…

From RDMF5 to RDMF12: How the world has changed…

I last went to an RDMF meeting in Manchester in the autumn of 2010 with a topic of “The economics of Applying and Sustaining Digital Curation”, I have just attended and spoken at RDMF12 “Linking Data and Repositories (and other system…

RDMF12: notes from breakout group 3

“Crossing boundaries: How do we cope with crossing institutional boundaries to communicate with systems we can’t control?”

This breakout group was proposed and chaired by Jez Cope, Research Data Support Manager at Imperial College London. Jez began by outlining his motivation for proposing the topic, namely a recent conversation with an astrophysicist who needs to process data originating from multiple facilities, in different parts of the world, and the challenges presented in capturing this in an institutional data catalogue.

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RDMF11: notes from breakout group 1

Report from RDMF Breakout Group 1: “How can we introduce RDM into researchers’ workflows and save them time/effort?”
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RDMF11: overview report and link to slides

The eleventh DCC-organised Research Data Management Forum event was held in London on June 20th, taking the theme of “Workflows and Lifecycle Models for Research Data Management”. Keynote speaker, the University of Manchester’s Profes…