The JISC Managing Research Data Progress Workshop was held 17-18 May 2010 in Manchester. This was a great gathering from across the community, and we had many engaging discussions and breakout groups, as well as seeing some fascinating presentations from people trying to tackle the research data area.

You can see our presentation below, or download the PDF here.

A great event at UCL on 11 May 2010 brought together a wide range of researcers around 'Data as Content'. Discussions were wide ranging and was intersting to see how important data is becoming in the world of ePublishing.

You can see more about the event, including a video of the IDMB talk, @ http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/e-books/

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

We had an interesting visit from the 07/09 support team - Neil Beagrie, Joy Davidson and Sarah Jones, to see how they can help our project. Was great to hear about all of the help we can lean on: DAF, AIDA, KRDS2 and LIFE.

We have added an About us page that shows who is working on the IDMB project.

You can see the official JISC project page @ http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/mrd/idmb.aspx

JISC kicked-off the data management programme in London today. Fantastic event, very well attended, and great to see what everyone else is doing. Also good to see the high-level of support that JISC is providing, and community they are trying to build.