The Research Data Oxford team is delighted to announce that the Oxford Research Archive for Data (ORA-Data) has been awarded the Data Seal of Approval. The Seal represents an international, peer-reviewed standard which certifies a data archive according to sixteen essential criteria f
With the new EPSRC expectations coming into effect today, 1st May 2015, we have put together a simple compliance checklist for EPSRC-funded researchers at the University of Oxford. This lists the three essential steps that you need to take to ensure your future articles are compliant,
As the May 2015 deadline for new EPSRC guidelines on data preservation and sharing approaches, work has continued on providing advice and guidance. A batch of new questions and answers about what this policy means for day to day research has been added to the Research Data Oxford webs
The Online Research Database Service (ORDS) allows Oxford researchers and their collaborators to create, edit, search, and share databases online. A new demo video for the ORDS is now available, giving an overview of what the ORDS does and how it can help make researchers’ lives
It’s been a busy few months for the team behind the Online Research Database Service (ORDS). The ORDS is a free, centrally supported service which allows researchers to create, edit, search and share relational databases. Since the official launch in August, we’ve been bea
If you are planning on putting together a bid for research funding over the coming months, you may wish to consider attending the Data Curation Centre’s half-day Data Management Planning workshop on the 29th January. Full announcement below… DCC workshop: Introduction to D
The theme of the Digital Curation Centre’s 12th Research Data Management Forum was ‘Linking Data and Repositories’, although in practice speakers covered a wide range of topics from convincing researchers of the value of data preservation and curation to the new JISC investments. One
Last week’s ‘Directions for the Research Data Management in UK Universities’ workshop afforded me the chance to visit our friends in the fens and engage in the debate regarding ‘what happens next’ with RDM. The workshop gathered about 40 people together, mostly representing UK univers
This afternoon I had the pleasure of trip to London to join colleagues from the Digital Curation Centre, the BBC, and various academic institutions to road test a recently-launched tool for comparing the costs of data curation. Built as part of the EU-funded ‘4C’ Project (collaboratio
Since the Research Data Alliance began in 2012 it has rapidly grown to become the forum for discussing and coordinating efforts to improve research data management practices between organisations and academic disciplines at the international scale. Whereas the International Digital Cu
