[okfn-coord] Fwd: Press Release: JISC helps researchers to meet the research data challenge

Tue Dec 8 11:50:00 UTC 2009

Is Edinburgh / EDINA a possibility?  Jo, what do you think?

~Jordan

On 8 Dec 2009, at 10:30, Jonathan Gray wrote:

> Looks like CKAN could be relevant here. Would be good to start
> thinking about potential academic partnerships.
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Nicola Yeeles <n.yeeles at jisc.ac.uk>
> Date: Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:18 AM
> Subject: Press Release: JISC helps researchers to meet the research
> data challenge
> To: JISC-ANNOUNCE at jiscmail.ac.uk
> 
> 
> Press Release
> 
> JISC helps researchers to meet the research data challenge
> 
> JISC is marking the launch of its research data management programme at the
> UK e-Science All Hands meeting this week. The programme helps researchers,
> institutions, funders and policy makers meet the challenge of keeping
> research data for re-use in the future. A new briefing paper is also published.
> 
> Researchers in almost all disciplines now create 'data' in digital form.
> Some data are well-managed and kept so that they can be re-used in future.
> But the majority go un-catalogued, are stored in an ad hoc fashion and are
> thus lost to posterity, resulting in a failure to reap the full potential of
> investment from present day research.
> 
> JISC’s Managing Research Data programme is addressing the research data
> challenge from new perspectives, plugging notable gaps in current knowledge
> and making links between the needs of researchers, institutions and policy
> makers.
> 
> The programme, which ends in 2011, will provide researchers and institutions
> with case studies of good research data management, better tools for
> managing research data and training materials.  Improved tools for citing,
> integrating and linking data, including to publications, will also be
> developed. Policy makers will gain a clearer understanding of researchers’
> and institutions’ requirements, a better view of the value of different
> types of data and a roadmap outlining the steps needed to achieve a coherent
> UK policy for research data.
> 
> 'Research and scientific innovation depend on finding, integrating and
> re-using the products of previous research,' argues Dr Simon Hodson, JISC
> e-research programme manager.  'As research becomes increasingly reliant
> upon information and data held in a digital form the question of how these
> resources are maintained becomes of vital importance.
> 
> 'The Managing Research Data programme is addressing the sector’s need for
> both the infrastructure required to manage research data effectively and the
> skills and knowledge-base needed to make the most out of the research data
> asset,' he concluded.
> 
> Dr William Kilbride, director of the Digital Preservation Coalition, will
> introduce the programme during the poster session at All Hands, encouraging
> participants, all of whom create research data, to think about how they can
> ensure that their work has a lasting impact.
> 
> JISC is a major sponsor at All Hands this year. See more details of the
> meeting. http://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/2009/12/allhands09
> 
> Find out more about 'Meeting the Research Data Challenge' in the briefing
> paper. http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/documents/bpresearchdatachallenge
> 
> Read about the Managing Research Data programme.
> http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/mrd
> 
> Explore JISC's research 3.0 activity
> http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/campaigns/res3
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Jonathan Gray
> 
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