The official project period has ended, though follow-up activity continues. It may be worth noting some recent deliverables:
May, 2009: DISC-UK members along with Ann Green (Yale) and Gail Steinhart (Cornell) gave a half-day training workshop - Data Requirements and Digital Repositories - to twenty-one data professionals at the IASSIST/IFDO 2009 conference in Tampere, Finland, based on the recently published Guide (see below).
May, 2009: Policy-making for Research Data in Repositories: A Guide is available for download (Adobe PDF). The guide is intended to be used as a decision-making and planning tool for institutions with digital repositories in existence or in development that are considering adding research data to their digital collections.
May, 2009: DataShare Final Report now available in JISC Repository. Executive Summary also available separately [PDF].
May, 2009: Two papers were contributed to the most recent edition of IASSIST Quarterly: the project manager summarised the work of the DataShare Project; Luis Martinez-Uribe reported on the requirements gathering exercise on researchers' needs at Oxford.
April, 2009: The project manager gave an invited paper -
Lessons Learned from the DISC-UK DataShare and Data Audit Framework Implementation Projects at the Digital Curation Practice, Promise and Prospects (DIGCCUR)
conference in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1-3 April.
Many thanks to everyone who got in touch with us during the project. It's been real!
