[ckan-discuss] Using CKAN for Research Data Management?

Mon Jul 18 23:48:27 BST 2011

Thanks Tim!

I'd note that in the first instance we're looking for UK based Higher
Education / Further Education institutions who might be interested in
applying to any of these very specific funding calls on managing
research data:

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2011/06/managingresearchdata.aspx

All the best,

Jonathan

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Tim McNamara <tim.mcnamara at okfn.org> wrote:
> One easy method might be to find an inter-disciplinary cross-university
> international committee of some description to nominate someone. That is, a
> group which has clout.
> Another is to find enthusiastic graduate/post-doc students. They're always
> looking for new and inventive ways to procrastinate.
> I'll shout out via Twitter etc
>
> On 19 July 2011 10:16, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Does anyone know anyone who might be interested in using CKAN /
>> thedatahub.org for managing (collections of) research data?
>>
>> In particular, I'd be interested in seeing if anyone was interested in
>> applying to this to work with CKAN to provide open source
>> infrastructure for managing research data:
>>
>>
>> http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2011/06/managingresearchdata.aspx
>>
>> Perhaps worth blogging about this to explicitly solicit for input /
>> ideas / contact from UK HE/FE research data management community?
>>
>> --
>> Jonathan Gray
>>
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