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Interim Report on UK Research Data Service
Feasibility Stu
Neil Beagrie has shared a pointer to the newly-released interim
report on the feasibility study that the UK has commissioned for a
research data service. This includes a good deal of material surveying
the current state of the art in the UK and beyond, and has obvious
relevance as we think about programs like DataNet in the United
States. I've taken the liberty of reproducing Neil's posting to the
Digital Preservation list in full below. The report is at:
Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
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(Neil Beagrie's full post)
Members of the list may be aware of the consultancy lead by
Serco Consulting over the last six months on a UK Research Data
Service feasibility study for the Higher Education Funding Council for
England (HEFCE).
The report analyses the current situation in the UK with a
detailed review of relevant literature, funders' policies, and data
drawn from four major case study universities (Bristol, Leeds,
Leicester, and Oxford). It describes the emerging trends of local data
repositories and national facilities in the UK and also looks
internationally at Australia, the US and the EU. Finally it presents
possible ways forward for UKRDS. Preliminary findings from a UKRDS
survey of over 700 UK researchers are presented in an Appendix. The
study has now moved into its second phase building on the interim
report and developing the business case.
Luis Martinez-Uribe, Digital Repositories Research Co-ordinator
at Oxford University has written on the interim report in his blog
"I highly recommend everyone with an interest in research data
management to have a look at this report as not only it captures the
current state of affairs in the UK and elsewhere but also offers
possible ways forward." See http://oxdrrc.blogspot.com/2008/09/ukrds-interim-report.html
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Neil Beagrie
Charles Beagrie Ltd
Digital Access and Preservation
Management and Research Consultancy
Blog: www.blog.beagrie.com
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