Project Deliverables

Anticipated Outcomes:

• Exemplars of the process, pitfalls and successful outcomes of setting up an institutional data repository service at each of the four institutions
• Documentation and open source code for adapting DSpace, Fedora and EPrints repository software for handling datasets
• Toolkits, briefing papers and other outputs to inform UKHE repository community about data management and research support
• Enhancements to partners’ IRs including testing for trusted repository status
• Technical watch on e-Research, VREs, Web 2.0 and related developments Papers, presentations and online dissemination of collected knowledge

Deliverables and milestones:

April, 2008:Report back from Open Knowledge conference, LSE, 15 March 2008 by Robin Rice [blog entry].

March, 2008: A 'lightning presentation' was given at the Open Knowledge Conference, LSE, 15 March 2008 on DataShare by Robin Rice [webcast at http://www.archive.org/details/OkCon2008 (final MP3 file, about half-way through)].

March, 2008: Article published in Online; Mar/Apr2008, Vol. 32 Issue 2, p36-40. Libraries in the Converging Worlds of Open Data, E-Research, and Web 2.0 (subscription required for access to article), by Stuart Macdonald and Luis Martinez.

March, 2008: What's Different About Data?, by Robin Rice [blog entry].

March 2008: Blogs for Statistics and Data in the social sciences and beyond - As part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science 7th - 16th March, by Stuart Macdonald.

February 2008: Web page. Collective Intellligence. RSS newsfeeds added to related sites.

February 2008: Presentations (from project team meeting). Data Documentation Initiative (DDI), by Ann Green [PDF]. Guidelines and Tools for Repository Planning and Assessment, by Ann Green [PDF]. (Other presentations and notes posted on team filestore.)

February 2008: Briefing paper. The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) and Institutional Repositories, by Luis Martinez [PDF].

January 2008: Web page. Collective Intellligence. Dynamic tag cloud with links to social bookmarks.

January 2008: Briefing paper. DISC-UK DataShare: Web 2.0 Data Visualisation Tools, by Stuart Macdonald [PDF].

December 2007: Poster session. DISC-UK DataShare: Building capacity for institutional data repositories, presented at the 3rd International Digital Curation Centre conference, December 11-13, by Robin Rice, Ann Green, Sally Rumsey.

December 2007: Leaflets. Four varieties of A5 colour leaflets printed for dissemination purposes by project team.

November 2007: Technical officer takes up post at Edinburgh.

October 2007: Progress report sent to JISC programme manager.

September 2007: Presentation. Open the Data Doors to Perception (presented at the Internet Librarian International 2007: New Realities, Roles, Resources, London, UK), by Luis Martinez and Stuart Macdonald [PPT].

September 2007: Report. DISC-UK DataShare: State-of-the-Art Review, by Harry Gibbs [PDF].

September 2007: Poster session. Repository Junction and Beyond at the EDINA (UK) National Data Centre Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: 11th European Conference, ECDL 2007 Proceedings (September 2007) Budapest, Hungary, by Robin Rice ,et al [Published summary, PDF]. Graphical poster [PDF].

September 2007: DataShare logo and newly designed DISC-UK website.

September 2007: Graphic. Data Sharing Continuum, by Robin Rice [PDF].

September 2007: Project Plan (minus appendices) [PDF]. Workpackages [PDF].

August 2007: DataShare Blog (including feeds from our social bookmarks).

July, 2007: Correspondence. DISC-UK Response to RIN consultation: Stewardship of digital research data - principles and guidelines, by Robin Rice, et al . See http://www.rin.ac.uk/data-principles for RIN documents.

See also the Publications and presentations page for DISC-UK outputs pre-dating the project .