{"id":1551,"date":"2015-05-05T16:01:12","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T16:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/datablog\/?p=1551"},"modified":"2023-01-09T16:30:39","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T16:30:39","slug":"highlights-from-the-rdm-programme-progress-report-jan-feb-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/datablog\/2015\/05\/05\/highlights-from-the-rdm-programme-progress-report-jan-feb-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlights from the RDM Programme Progress Report: Jan – Feb 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Library and University Collections (L&UC) in association with project partner Manchester University received funding from the Jisc “Research Data Spring”<\/a> programme to define and develop an open source Data Vault application which will allow data creators to describe and store data safely in one of the growing number of archival storage options. Phase 1 of the project started in March 2015.<\/p>\n

The University of Edinburgh (UoE) were invited to contribute to a series of EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) Compliance Case Studies. Stuart MacDonald, RDM Service Coordinator, was interviewed by Jisc and the DCC in relation to the RDM programme and institutional compliancy with forthcoming EPSRC research data expectations. The case study will be published on the Jisc website in May 2015.<\/p>\n

RDM Service Coordinator Stuart MacDonald co-presented with Rory Macneil (RSpace) their practice paper \u201cService Integration to Enhance RDM: RSpace electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) case study\u201d at the International Conference on Digital Curation (IDCC<\/a>) in London (Feb 2015). The paper has been published in the International Journal of Digital Curation (http:\/\/www.ijdc.net\/index.php\/ijdc\/article\/view\/10.1.163<\/a>), open access.<\/p>\n

The RDM Service Coordinator also presented on \u2018RDM Training Initiatives @ Edinburgh\u2019 at the \u201cComparing Notes: Training Librarians for Research Data Management and Open Science Support\u201d workshop at IDCC.<\/p>\n

An EPSRC Expectations Awareness Survey<\/a> was sent out to 98 EPSRC grant holders of which 38 responded. 9** grant holders agreed to participate in a follow-up interview. The findings of the interviews will follow shortly. Dr Evamaria Krause (Marburgh University, Germany) completed a 6 week internship with L&UC where she assisted with the EPSRC Expectations Awareness Survey and EPSRC grant holder interview exercises.<\/p>\n

All Schools in the College of Humanities and Social Science (CHSS) have now added links to RDM Programme website and other RDM pages via their intranets. RDM Project Plan deadlines and deliverables\u00a0which underpin the RDM Roadmap have been updated.* For more details visit the RDM Programme wiki<\/a> (some content only available to UoE staff).<\/p>\n

Four tailored Data Management Plans sessions have been organised with research groups in the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine and CHSS, and two workshops for the European Association for Health Information and Libraries (EAHIL) conference<\/a> in Edinburgh are scheduled to run in June 2015.<\/p>\n

Edinburgh DataShare<\/a> release 1.71 has been announced with new features including faceted browsing, SOLR usage statistics, size limit on assisted deposit of items increased from 5Gb to 10Gb.<\/p>\n

DataSync (a Dropbox-like service in development) was themed and made available for beta testing to Information Services colleagues.<\/p>\n

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