Pictures from IASSIST DataShare workshop

http://www.fsd.uta.fi/iassist2009/workshops.html

New DataShare Deliverable: Southampton and Oxford Data Audits

In the coming months the Universities of Southampton and Oxford will conduct data audits using the JISC Data Audit Framework Methodology as part of the JISC DISC-UK DataShare project.

JISC funded the Data Audit Framework (DAF) Development Project to develop a methodology to enable universities to carry out exercises to map research data resources and data management practices across departments and research centres. This should help departments and institutions to identify what data they have, where they are located and how they are being looked after as well as to raise awareness of the importance of actively managing research data. Four projects were funded to pilot the methodology at University College London, Imperial College London, University of Edinburgh, and King's College London.

In the University of Oxford, Luis Martinez-Uribe will conduct the data audit as part of the Scoping Digital Repository Services for Research Data Management project. After having captured requirements for services to assist researchers with their data management, Luis will use DAF to gain deeper understanding of the research data held in some departments and those data published on departmental websites.

Harry Gibbs and Teresa McGowan will be leading the DAF work at the University of Southampton aiming to build a picture of the research data used and generated in the School of Social Sciences and to gain understanding of the School’s current data management processes.

Open Data blogs

As part of the Festival for Social Science week, Intute is hosting a blogging special this week. Today DataShare project officer Stuart Macdonald, who is an editor of the Data and Statistics section of Intute, describes his favourite blogs about Open Data.

http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/blog/2008/03/11/blogs-for-statistics-and-data-in-the-social-sciences-and-beyond/