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"On such a full sea are we now afloat"
Such quotation -from W. Shakespeare's 'Julius Caesar'- closed Drs. Eefke Smit's talk "Taking the Current when it Serves: Research Data from the Publisher's Perspective" she delivered along 'Academic...
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JISC Repository Deposit Programme Meeting in Birmingham
A JISC Repository Deposit Programme meeting was held on Mar 1st, 2011 at Maple House Birmingham. Under coordination from Balviar Notay, JISC manager for the Deposit projects, presentations were...
View ArticleRepository take-up and embedding: the future of repositories
Being already in Birmingham for the JISC Deposit Project Meeting on Mar 1st, Sonex stayed in town for attending the JISC Repositories Take-Up and Embedding Meeting as well. Start up meeting for this...
View ArticleStrategies for research data deposit in ongoing data management projects
Prior to start performing pattern analysis for research data deposit into (institutional or subject-based) data repositories –whether or not open access– first step by Sonex is to scope ongoing...
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I2S2 Project workshop at RAL-STFC
Along a busy week in terms of research data management events (due to be shortly reported from this blog), last Friday Apr 1st Sonex had the opportunity -thanks to Simon Hodson, JISC MRD programme...
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Could external cooperation improve collection of specific JISC MRD...
In forthcoming days SONEX will be publishing some posts on the JISC MRD Programme International Workshop held last March 28-29th at Aston Business School Conference Centre, Birmingham. Certain...
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National initiatives for promoting data management strategies: an overview
- "Hello, I want to deposit my data" - "Sir, this is a library!"- "Sorry" -he whispers- "I want to deposit my data".(as told by Brian Hole, British Library, along his presentation of the DRYAD UK...
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A first analysis of data management
As previously mentioned in this blog, the Sonex workgroup is now try to extend its use case scenario analysis on 'Deposit opportunities into repositories' to the realm of research data. A first meeting...
View ArticleGettin' on...
After quite a long, not totally intended silence - schedules get so hectic every now and then- it is the purpose of the Sonex workgroup to update the project blog by briefly reporting on recently...
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CRIS and OAR 2011: "Integrating research information"
Two important euroCRIS events were held in Italy at the end of May: the 2nd workshop on CRIS and OAR (Rome, May 23-24) and the euroCRIS membership meeting 2011 (Bologna, May 26-27). Following last...
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Sword-Sonex project extension
"Data deposit nowadays... is mainly based upon submission by email... and remains labour-intensive"(Simon Hodson, JISCMRD Programme manager, on present data deposit workflows)Representatives of the...
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KULTURising research repositories
"...I can only add that research for art, craft and design needs a great deal of further research. Once we get used to the idea that we don't need to be scared of 'research' - or in some way...
View ArticleRepositories and CRIS: Working Smartly Together
Due to recent involvement in other OA repository-related activities at the University of Khartoum, reports at this blog on recent events such as the 'Repositories and CRIS: Working Smartly Together'...
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STM research data management and the Quixote Project
A one-day seminar was held yesterday Thu Aug 25th at the Zaragoza Scientific Center for Advanced Modeling (ZCAM) on research data management and the Quixote Project for data management in...
View ArticleResearch data management in crystallography at the XXII IUCr Congress
On Aug 29th a session on research data management will be held at the XXII Congress of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr2011). The session will feature talks by Brian McMahon (IuCr),...
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Progress on Researcher ID initiatives: IRISC 2011 Helsinki
The problem with names...Prof. Carlos Martínez-Alonso is a renowned Spanish senior biochemist. He was actually President of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) when the Berlin Declaration...
View ArticleCERIFying Research Information Systems... and Research Data
A couple of weeks ago Sonex was attending the JISC Research Information management (RIM2) event at MCC Manchester. It was a very good opportunity to review the four JISC-funded projects (BRUCE at...
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MaDAM: A JISC MRD Project for Research Data Management in the Biosciences......
Being in Manchester for the JISC Research Information management (RIM2) event, Sonex didn’t miss the opportunity it provided for paying a visit to the University of Manchester John Rylands University...
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euroCRIS Membership Meeting – Autumn 2011, Lille, France
On Nov 2-3 the autumn 2011 euroCRIS membership meeting was held at the University of Lille 3 in Lille, France. Attendees from 14 countries (13 European nations plus Canada) met for two days at the...
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The dawn of a new JISC MRD programme - Day I
After a successful first stage of the JISC Managing Research Data (MRD) Programme (2009-2011), a second phase of JISC MRD was launched yesterday at the NCSL Conference Centre in Nottingham, along a...
View ArticleThematic parallel session on metadata - actions to be taken
On Day II of the JISC MRD Programme 2011-13 launch event in Nottingham, last Dec 2nd, specific subject-based discussion sessions were held among the different JISCMRD02 Projects for research data...
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Report on the Knowledge Exchange Workshop on RDM released
The report on the Workshop on Research Data Management held last November by Knowledge Exchange (KE) at the Wissenschaftszentrum Bonn has already been released. This report summarizes expert group...
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SONEX work on repository interoperability to be presented at the 2nd Open...
The communication "The SONEX Workgroup for the Analysis of Repository Interoperability Issues: a Summary of Activities" (in Spanish) presented by the JISC-funded SONEX Workgroup has been accepted for...
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Northwest England DCC roadshow at the University of Salford: a report
Although not directly related to current Sonex work on analysing requirements for dataset transfer via Sword, the international workgroup was interested in attending a DCC roadshow for gathering a...
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Democratizing research data management
"A bit of competition would certainly do no harm to institutionally-driven RDM projects"(JISC MRD Project representative along a conversation on LabArchives) A press release was published last week by...
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