Glossary for RDM
There are many words used around Research Data Management and providing a glossary seems like a good idea. A few already exist: http://researchdata.ox.ac.uk/home/glossary/ http://vocab.bris.ac.uk/data/glossary/ http://www.dcc.ac.uk/digital-curation/glossary http://dictionary.casrai.org/Category:Research_Data_Domain and there are OA FAQs: http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/services-and-support/staff/research/services/open-access-at-manchester/faq/ http://openaccess.ox.ac.uk/home-2/faq/ http://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/support-for-staff/scholarly-communication/open-access/faq/ How do we make it big enough to cover what we want, keep it up to date, point people to […]
RDM Principles: Research inception and planning
More thoughts about the University of Leicester Research Data Management Principles. Research inception and planning 2. Data management planning is an integral, essential and dynamic component of the research process from inception and should include provision for the selective long term custodianship of research data. 3. Research proposals should include all possible recovery of direct […]
Trust and Digital Preservation
On 4th June 2013 I attended the first day of Trust and Digital Preservation organised by the Alliance Permanent Access to the Records of Science in Europe Network (APARSEN) at the elegant library of the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin. We were welcomed by William Kilbride, Executive Director of the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and given an Introduction to the […]
Why deposit your research in LRA
This morning I helped present a short session in the library and on-line as part of our Research elevenses sessions on Managing your research output: Making your publications available through the Leicester Research Archive. A recording will be available soon. My part was on why a researcher might want to deposit their research in our archive. I collected some […]
Making a start
I’m just getting started in my new job as manager of Leicester Research Archive. I plan to use this blog as a companion as I learn about digital preservation, the open access political landscape and the workflows and technologies of open access archiving of research publications and in the future the data behind the publications. […]
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