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From: Clifford Lynch <cliff@cni.org>
Subject: UK DataShare Review on Data Sharing and Curation
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This is a very helpful review of the current state of data sharing 
practices from a UK perspective that has come out as part of the JISC 
funded DISC-UK DataShare project. I'm fowarding the full announcement 
from the SPARC Open Data list.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
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Hi,

As part of the JISC-funded DISC-UK DataShare project in the UK, a 
State-of-the-Art Review has been written, marking out the current 
scene on data sharing at the beginning of the project. While the 
report is UK-focused, it may be of wider interest, and has a very 
thorough bibliography.

DISC-UK is a UK consortium of data support professionals working in 
departments and academic libraries in universities (Data Information 
Specialists Committee-United Kingdom). The project is about working 
with academics and institutional repository managers at the four 
partner institutions to provide exemplars for sharing research data 
within institutional repositories (based on EPrints.org, DSpace and 
Fedora software).

Deliverables so far:

DISC-UK DataShare: State-of-the-Art Review 
http://www.disc-uk.org/docs/state-of-the-art-review.pdf by Harry Gibbs

Data Sharing Continuum graphic 
http://www.disc-uk.org/docs/data_sharing_continuum.pdf by Robin Rice

Feedback on these very welcome. More deliverables will be added as 
the project continues, at http://www.disc-uk.org/deliverables.html

The project also maintains social bookmarks on this topic at 
http://bluedot.us/users/DataShare/

Robin Rice, Project Manager
Edinburgh University Data Library


Background to the Project:
The project's overall aim is to contribute to new models, workflows 
and tools for academic data sharing within a complex and dynamic 
information environment which includes increased emphasis on 
stewardship of institutional knowledge assets of all types; new 
technologies to enhance e-Research; new research council policies and 
mandates; and the growth of the Open Access / Open Data movement.

Objectives:

   1. Build capacity of institutional repositories in UKHE to respond to
      the unique requirements of research datasets as a new 'document type'
   2. Use a range of open source software repository solutions -
      Eprints, DSpace, Fedora - to provide exemplars and add-on tools
      for managing datasets as institutional repository items
   3. Produce and disseminate findings - in cooperation with the
      Repositories Support Project (RSP) and the Repositories Research
      Team (RRT) - to inform library and repository managers about the
      organisational and technical issues associated with the deposit of
      research data
   4. Work with the RSP, Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and others to
      identify training needs and solutions for increasing skills of
      information professionals in UKHE for managing research data.

For further information see http://www.disc-uk.org/datashare.html