ANDS

At the latest in the series of JISC researcherID task and finish group meetings in London yesterday, amongst other things there was a presentation on the Australian National Data Service which is now relatively well formed and is of course of interest to the C4D project which will be looking at their approach to meta data, amongst others.

Data at SMRU (Sea Mammal Research Unit @ St Andrews)

Spent this afternoon discussing research data with researchers and technicians at SMRU (Sea Mammal Research Unit at the University of St Andrews).

Fascinating insight into the procedures and data being created and who uses the data .. how and why ?

We looked  at Seal pup population data produced over several years and used to inform the annual  SCOS reports to the Government as well as at temperature and salinity data from tags attached to seals and other mammals.

The challenge is to find metadata detailed enough for the user looking for information but still with a high degree of commonality across varying data sets and disciplines. MEDIN is being explored by the British Oceanographic Data Centre as a candidate and we are aiming to work with them on the project using the SMRU data sets to pilot the approach.

 

Notes from University of Glasgow Data Management Discussion

I have been chatting with my colleagues from the Digital Curation Centre and Humanities Advanced Technology And Information Institute about plans to formalise data management and storage policies at the University of Glasgow.

Some other HEI’s have formalised policies and levels of organised support at institutional level vary.   

We will be working on this over the coming months and hope to glean a lot from previous work at other organisations.  

A long time ago I worked in the oil and gas industry where we had centralised stores of geological information that were the first point of reference before investing in a new survey.  The following links may be of interest:

http://www.cdal.com/cda-home/

http://www.oilandgasuk.co.uk/cmsfiles/custom/html/process.htm

 

Research Output Discussion Group

You may be interested in the more generic research outputs discussion notes on our IRIOS2 blog:

http://irios2.wordpress.com/2011/11/23/research-output-discussion-group/

C4D Project Poster

A poster promoting C4D is now available for download.  The poster presents an overview of the project and describes the key aims and objectives.

Download the full-size CERIF for Datasets poster or the smaller A4 version.