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The Data Management Engagement Award : Submit your big idea by 31 January 2018 !

15/01/2018

Time is running out to submit YOUR BIG IDEA for engaging researchers in good Research Data Management (RDM) practices ! Remember, the winning submission will receive up to£1,750 to bring it to life. This competition, led by The University of Cambridge, SPARC Europe and Jisc, builds on the Engaging Researchers in ...

GODAN Action e-Learning Programme on Open Data Management in Agriculture and Nutrition

14/01/2018

 GODAN Action ended 2017 by delivering a new online course on open data management in agriculture and nutrition. GODAN Action has been offering various face-to-face training events to strengthen the capacity of data producers and data consumers to manage and use open data in agriculture and nutrition since 2016. As part of ...

Electronic Thesis & Dissertation ETD+ TOOLKIT : in-time advice about avoiding common digital loss scenarios for the ETD

12/01/2018

 By focusing on the Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) as a mile-marker in a student’s research trajectory, ETD+ Toolkit for Teaching File & Data Management provides in-time advice about avoiding common digital loss scenarios for the ETD (and all of its affiliated files) as well as about improving research output ...

Provide Your input on key Open Data issues for Agriculture (by 31 January 2018)

11/01/2018

State of Open data authors are looking for your insights on key open data issues for Agriculture ! Your contribution will be fed into the development of the draft State of Open Data Chapter."Open Data is digital data that is made available with the technical and legal characteristics necessary for ...

License your Research Data with help of FACT SHEET on CREATIVE COMMONS & OPEN SCIENCE

11/01/2018

"TO BE RE-USABLE: R1.1. (meta)data are released with a clear and accessible data usage license" (THE FAIR DATA PRINCIPLES , FORCE11)This information guide contains questions and responses to common concerns surrounding open science and the implications of licensing data under Creative Commons licences. It is intended to aid researchers, ...