DISC-UK and the UK Data Archive met at the end of April in the Lionel Robbins Building at LSE. DISC-UK place value on such meetings with UKDA and see this as a useful and worthwhile forum to share both expertise and experience. Topics discussed included: UKDA web site developments; CESSDA developments including plans to 'internationalise' the data portal; training and teaching; user registration with UKDA; UKDA-Store and the StoreLink projects; data management; the DataShare progress report; implications of the New Statistics Act.
(Pictured from left to right: Stuart Macdonald, Harry Gibbs, Karen Dennison, Tanvi Desai, Ken Miller, Jane Roberts. Not pictured: Robin Rice, Louise Corti)
Stuart Macdonald
DISC-UK DataShare
Thursday, 15 May 2008
DISC-UK meet with the UK Data Archive
My Faves for Wednesday, May 14, 2008
The Social Science Data Archive, DANS, Netherlands, has published quality guidelines for data archiving and "making data future-proof."
[tags: guidelines, report, research data, data archives, data sharing, data curation, data management]
This study investigated costs to Higher Education Institutions of the preservation of research data and developed guidance to HEFCE and institutions on these issues. It also provided a methodological foundation on research data costs for the forthcoming HEFCE-sponsored feasability study for a UK research Data Service.
[tags: preservation, research data, JISC]
Monday, 12 May 2008
My Faves for Sunday, May 11, 2008
The Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences (Data-PASS) is a broad-based partnership devoted to identifying, acquiring and preserving data at-risk of being lost to the social science research community. Examples of at-risk data include opinion polls, voting records, large-scale surveys on family growth and income, and many other social science studies....
[tags: data, preservation, project]
Thursday, 8 May 2008
My Faves for Wednesday, May 07, 2008
The infochimps.org community is assembling and interconnecting the world's best repository for raw data -- a sort of giant free allmanac, with tables on everything ...
[tags: data]
Saturday, 26 April 2008
My Faves for Friday, April 25, 2008
JISC has organised a grouping of projects interested in data curation in and out of repositories, including DataShare and the Data Audit Framework. One of the key areas of shared concerns is training.
[tags: JISC, DCC, research data, blogs, data curation, projects, training]
Friday, 25 April 2008
My Faves for Thursday, April 24, 2008
ORE will develop specifications that allow distributed repositories to exchange information about their constituent digital objects. These specifications will include approaches for representing digital objects and repository services that facilitate access and ingest of these representations. The specifications will enable a new generation of cross-repository services that leverage the intrinsic value of digital objects beyond the borders of hosting repositories. Software developers used OAI-ORE at the recent Open Repositories Conference to move digital objects to and from different repository software platforms as proof of concept
[tags: Open Archiving Initiative, metadata, harvesting]
Tuesday, 15 April 2008
My Faves for Monday, April 14, 2008
Jordan Hatcher's Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence launched at the Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) at the LSE (Mar. 2008). The ODC PDDL is a document intended to allow you to freely share, modify, and use this work for any purpose and without any restrictions. This licence is intended for use on databases or their contents (”data”), either together or individually.
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