We're seeking your opinion on our new draft checklist for data management planning, produced as part of the development of our suite of 
The 4C project is issuing an open consultation to find people interested in clarifying the costs of curation for their organisation. It consists of an online questionnaire that will start a communication channel for further engagement.
Research Data Netherlands partnership launched
Brief report on a webinar given by Joy Davidson and Sarah Jones to the LIASA HELIG community.
Photo of South African flag by Mister-E: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mister-e/3050826409
Details of a 3 hour training session for librarians developed in collaboration with the University of Northampton as part of the Institutional Engagement programme.
The course slides and handbook are CC-BY licensed for reuse.
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and Digital Curation Centre (DCC) are delighted to announce a new issue of our joint newsletter ‘What’s New’.
Issue 56 of the Society of College, National and University Libraries (SCONUL) Focus newsletter contains a number of intersting pieces relating to research data management.
A new Jisc funded study on the scholarly practices of academic chemists has been released by Ithaka S+R . The study covers themes such as data management, research collaboration, library use, discovery, publication practices, and research funding.
The issue of disciplinary metadata standards - what they are, who's using them, how to use them - has been gaining attention in the RDM community. To support this, the DCC has created a Disciplinary Metadata page for those who need help figuring out what standards might address their own needs.
Data management planning is a topic of increasing importance to researchers, their host institutions and research funders alike. Increasing numbers of funders require plans as part of grant proposals; some are already assessing the quality of these plans as part of bid assessment; and some require further planning to be carried out for successful proposals and are discussing ways to monitor the execution of plans and compliance with funder requirements.
IDCC13 is now fully booked and we are looking forward to welcoming you all to the M��venpick Hotel in Amsterdam.
The DCC is pleased to release 
I'm very pleased to announce that we're able to make one final extension to the early bird booking rates for 
Storage and the potential role of cloud and shared services are issues that arise regularly in the DCC's work with UK universities. We hope, therefore, that a forthcoming event we're planning in collaboration with colleagues in JISC and the JANET brokerage on storage service requirements will prove to be of interest to many.
The 
"Infrastructure, Intelligence, Innovation: driving the Data Science agenda" .......So what is a Data Scientist?
The IDCC13 Programme will address this question in a Symposium to be held on Tuesday 15 January.
The DCC is recruiting - we're looking for a developer to join the team in Edinburgh.
Only just over 8 weeks to go until IDCC13 in Amsterdam!
Don’t forget to 
The IDCC13 Workshops Programme is now available. The workshops will be held on Monday 14 January and Thursday 17 January 2013 at the M��venpick Hotel, in Amsterdam City Centre. The majority of workshops will be free of charge and include refreshments and lunch for all attendees. Registration is open.
Registration for the Dundee roadshow is now open!
The event takes place on 5-6 December in the Library and Learning Centre, University of Dundee.
Further information, including a draft programme, is available on the 
The Call for posters and demonstrations will close on 29 October 2012
JISC have released a white paper on Curation in the Cloud, which looks at the potential and practicalities of using cloud-based solutions for the curation and long-term preservation of digital materials, focusing particularly on data that originates from research or that supports research processes.
The DCC are pleased to announce that the Paper Submission date for IDCC13 has been extended by 10 days. The Call will now close at 12 noon BST on Thursday 30 August 2012.
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Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation is a new publication from Educopia, which establishes a set of starting points for building a greater alignment across digital preservation, and highlights the need for strategic international collaborations.
Sally Rumsey, Digital Collections Development Manager at the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, reviews the book Managing Research Data, edited by DCC's Graham Pryor.
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and Digital Curation Centre (DCC) are delighted to announce a new issue of our joint newsletter ‘What’s New’.
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and Digital Curation Centre (DCC) are delighted to announce a new issue of our joint newsletter ‘What’s New’.
CIRSS Associate Directory Cathy Blake has been awarded a Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program grant from The Institute of Museum and Library Services totaling $498,777 to create a specialization in Sociotechnical Data Analytics (SODA) within both the master’s and doctoral degrees.
"One of the exciting aspects about the SODA education program is the dual emphasis on social and technical aspects of data analytics," Blake, who will serve as principal investigator on the project. In addition to the mathematical modeling that typifies data analytics, students who graduate from the GSLIS SODA program will also understand the social, ethical, and policy aspects of big data. "That combination will make students uniquely prepared to fill the growing workforce gap in people who can effectively manage and analyze big data—a gap that, according to The McKinsey Global Institute report on Big Data, will culminate in a shortfall of 1.5 million data-savvy managers and analysts by 2018," she said.
The SODA research group was formed in 2010. The group, which includes faculty members Jana Diesner, J. Stephen Downie, Miles Efron, Brant Houston, Jerome McDonough, Vetle Torvik, and Michael Twidale, is part of the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS), where Blake serves as associate director. SODA research explores how to best design, develop, and evaluate new technologies in order to better understand the dynamic interplay between information, people, and technology. Group members conduct research in information retrieval, data and text mining, knowledge discovery, social computing, collaboration, and most recently network analysis.
"I am thrilled that we will now be able to formalize an educational program that mirrors the outstanding faculty research," Blake said. "In addition to our faculty, we have some great partners who will enable us to better integrate real-world data sets into the classroom, and augment the classroom experience with a hands-on practicum and projects where students work side-by-side with scientists and business analysts."
The new program will complement an existing Specialization in Data Curation led by Carole Palmer, GSLIS professor and director of CIRSS, as well as the Certificate of Advanced Study in Digital Libraries led by Jerome McDonough. "SODA is just one more piece in the evolving constellation of programs that give the next generation of information professionals the expertise they need to thrive in the information age," said Blake.
The DCC in collaboration with the wider Research Data Management community is organising a workshop on insitutional data repositories on July 9, in conjunction with Open Repositories 2012, to be held in Edinburgh.
A draft whitepaper of the Community Capability Model Framework for data-intensive research, developed by UKOLN and Microsoft Research, is available for comment.
Last year in April 2011, the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) 
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and Digital Curation Centre (DCC) are delighted to announce a new issue of our joint newsletter ‘What’s New’.
The Digital Curation Centre is pleased to announce the launch of DMP Online v3.0
This new release marks a major progression in the software’s functionality. For the first time users can create data management plans incorporating multiple templates, so if your institution, your funder and your publisher all require data management plans, you can now create a single plan to satisfy them all.
The DPC, Richard Wright and Charles Beagrie Ltd have recently announced (30 April 2012) the release of the latest Technology Watch Report ‘Preserving Moving Pictures and Sound’, written by Richard Wright, formerly of the BBC.
In collaboration with the Research Information Network (RIN) and the Society of College, National and University Libraries (SCONUL), Vitae is pleased to announce the publication of The 
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and Digital Curation Centre (DCC) are delighted to announce a new issue of our joint newsletter ‘What’s New’.
The 
St��phane Goldstein, Research Information Network (RIN), has authored an article for LIBER Quarterly that summarizes the collaborative approaches fostered by the RIN Working Group on Information Handling and the DaMSSI project.
The DCC is a member of the working group and led the work of the DaMSSI project.
Friday saw the launch of two new UMF-funded data management infrastructure projects: Dataflow and VIDaaS. DataFlow is a two-tier data management infrastructure that allows users to manage and store research data. VIDaaS (Virtual Infrastructure with Database as a Service) is software that enables researchers to build databases online as part of a cloud infrastructure.
The DCC has recently started working on a one-to-one basis with a number of Higher Education Institutions. The work takes the form of a series of Institutional Engagements which allow the DCC to provide tailored support to institutions and help them increase their research data management capability.