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

[Mark MacGillivray]

Note also that unfortunately it has to be England based institutions -
Scotland has decided not to pay the required slice to be included in
JISC projects, so people like me and others at Scottish F/HEIs cannot
lead on these bids - although we can of course still take part.

Mark


On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
> 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?
>>>
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>>>
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