Today we presented our work at the great EIDCSR Workshop in Oxford - http://eidcsr.oucs.ox.ac.uk/policy_workshop.xml

This was a brilliant event, particularly seeing how the univerwites of Melbourne, Oxford and Edinburgh are tackling data management and curation. It appears that we are all sharing the same views on how this needs to be done from the top-down and from the bottom-up to make it work.

You can read more about EIDCSR (Embedding Institutional Data Curation Services in Research) @ http://eidcsr.blogspot.com/

Over 60 staff from across the University of Southampton attended the first IDMB workshop on 24th March 2010. This awareness raising event provided a lively forum for discussion on the project so far, including some preliminary results from our survey of data management.

The lunchtime discussion included a brainstorming session for participants in which they were asked to think about:

- Quick Wins, achieveable immediately to improve researchers data management experience;

- Dreams and Aspirations, what researchers want in an ideal world, and;

- Issues and Frustrations, things that currently work against researchers.

This workshop proved that the research community wants to engage in this project, which bodes well for the future.

You can see what our researchers think byviewing  the presentation below...

We had a great visit by Ed Pinsent from ULCC to discuss our use of AIDA. We are going to use it at School and institutional level to evaluate our data management capability. It should be very interesting to see the results, and how the IDMB project can move us forwards.

Interesting discussion around the 'three stools' model: Organisation, technology and resource.

Find out more about AIDA @ http://aida.da.ulcc.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/AIDA