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Less Talk, More Code: Modelling and storing a phonetics database inside a store

DataShare — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:34:51 GMT

Ben O'Steen's blog post describing the DISC-UK DataShare project's approach at Oxford to incorporating a dataset type (a phonetics database) into a Fedora repository.

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Neil Beagrie’s Blog » Blog Archive » German Science Priority Initiative - Digital Information and e-infrastructure

DataShare — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:08:42 GMT

Neil introduces the report as a whole. The part about research data is extracted below:

The activities of the Alliance Initiative are directed to three areas: First, the partners wish to formulate a common data policy in order to promote both the need for action and to demonstrate the usefulness of primary data infrastructures for scientists and scholars.

Secondly, the partners wish to foster cooperation between scientists and information specialists and to offer funding for pilot projects. Such projects should develop subject-specific standards and methods of data curation and archiving; they should also define the division of labour required in the process.

These steps have the overall goal of establishing a reliable system of digital archives for primary research data, and to ensure that these remain accessible internationally and their data reusable in various interdisciplinary contexts.
Finally, the third and ultimate aim is to establish a system of discipline specific, internationally networked data repositories for primary research data. However,
this task can and should only be tackled when sufficient experience has been acquired from the funding and evaluation of pilot projects. This is to ensure that
the new structures respond to the requirements of the individual subject disciplines and are embraced by them.

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The Petabyte Problem: Scrubbing, Curating and Publishing Big Data

DataShare — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:10:47 GMT

Interesting item about how the volume of generated astronomy data has surpassed the ability of scientists to analyse it, and so how they have enlisted the public (amateur astronomers) to help.

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Research data and the JISC IE : Information Environment Team

DataShare — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:15:03 GMT

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.

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Oxford University Digital Repositories Research Co-ordinator: A UK Research Data Management Forum

DataShare — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:36:49 GMT

A report-back on the recent Research Data Management Forum organised by DCC with RIN, with links to key presentations.

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