Volume 3, Issue 1 of the International Journal of Digital Curation

http://www.ijdc.net/
Papers (Peer-reviewed)
Evolving a Network of Networks: The Experience of Partnerships in the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program Martha Anderson
Toward Distributed Infrastructures for Digital Preservation: The Roles of Collaboration and Trust Michael Day
Dataset Preservation for the Long Term: Results of the DareLux Project Eugène Dürr, Kees van der Meer, Wim Luxemburg, Ronald Dekker
Curation [...]

FINDINGS OF THE SCOPING STUDY INTERVIEWS AND THE RESEARCH DATA MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP

http://www.ict.ox.ac.uk/odit/projects/digitalrepository/docs/ScopingStudyInterviews-Workshop%20Findings.pdf
The project Scoping Digital Repository Services for Research Data Management is a joint effort in between the Office of the Director of IT, the Oxford University Computing Services, the Oxford University Library Services and the Oxford e-Research Centre. The project reports to the Oxford Digital Repositories Steering Group and aims to scope requirements, including underlying [...]

ANU Data Management Manual: Managing Digital Research Data at The Australian National University

Data Management Planning: a new teaching tool from The Australian National UniversityThe Graduate Information Literacy Program at ANU is now offering a course for researchers and graduate students on data management planning. This comprehensive Manual is accompanied by a Data Management Planning Template and Course Slides. These will be made available in the [...]

Investigating Data Management Practices in Australian Universities

http://www.apsr.edu.au/orca/investigating_data_management.pdf
This report presents all the findings of the Data Management Survey conducted at The University of Queensland, The University of Melbourne and Queensland University of Technology in late 2007. The report, based on the responses of 879 researchers, sheds light on all aspects of data management practice including the use of data management plans, storage [...]

Research Data Management Workshop – Friday 13th June 2008

http://www.ict.ox.ac.uk/odit/projects/digitalrepository/Workshops.xml
Presentations

Welcome and introduction – Paul Jeffreys, Director of IT at the University of Oxford (MP3 5.2MB)
Scoping Digital Repository Services for Research Data Management project- Luis Martinez Uribe, Oxford e-Research [...]

Policy on Institutional Data

:http://connect.educause.edu/Library/Abstract/PolicyonInstitutionalData/46955
Ohio State University’s policy includes institutional data procedures and resources. It also defines the scope and applicability of the policy, as well as enforcement.

Digital Research Data Curation

http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu/bitstream/1813/10903/1/DaWG_WP_final.pdf
opportunities for the Cornell University Library: A report of the CUL Data Working Group, May 2008
The purpose of the Cornell University Library’s (CUL) Data Working Group (DaWG) is to
exchange information about CUL activities related to data curation, to review and exchange
information about developments and activities in data curation in general, and to consider and
recommend strategic [...]

Dealing with Data

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/e.j.lyon/presentations.html#2008-06-goettingen
Dealing with Data: One Year On
Dr Liz Lyon, Director, UKOLN, University of Bath, UK
Associate Director, UK Digital Curation Centre
Max Planck eScience Seminar, Goettingen, June 2008.
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Dealing with Data: Perspectives on Progress to Date
Dr Liz Lyon, Director, UKOLN, University of Bath, UK
Associate Director, UK Digital Curation Centre
Research Data Management Workshop, Oxford, June [...]

The Data Management Plan: putting policy intopractice

APSR is planning an invitational workshop on the topic of data management planning within institutions, especially universities. With the increasing emphasis on eResearch and the growing reliance across all disciplines on digital media for data creation, storage, manipulation and re-use, there is a need to ensure that data management planning is [...]

Keeping research data safe

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/publications/keepingresearchdatasafe0408.pdf
Executive summary
The rising tide of digital research data raises issues relating to access, curation and preservation for HEIs and within the UK a growing number of research funders are now implementing policies requiring researchers to submit data management, preservation or data sharing plans with their funding applications. This study provides: Research [...]