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Managing your research data - workshop

Published: Thu, 2013-10-03 13:53 by Phil Yorke-Barber
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Managing research data effectively has become an important part of researchers' responsibilities. The Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research stresses the importance of good stewardship of research data.

A one hour Research Data Management workshop will be held:

  • Date: Tuesday 22 October
  • Time: 10-11am
  • Location: Dorothy Hill Engineering and Sciences Library, eZone training room
  • Book online

The workshop will cover: Why manage research data? Creating a research data plan, tools to discover data, citing data, data storage and making your data visible using UQ eSpace.

Please email us if any queries.

Data Descriptons now available in UQ eSpace!

Published: Mon, 2013-09-16 10:30 by Susan Wilson
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It's Research Week, and UQ Library is launching a new Research Data Collections form in eSpace. The new form will allow researchers and research groups to describe their data according to good practice.

UQ eSpace can now support either open access or mediated access to your research data collections, and aid the discovery, dissemination and preservation of research data as a first class research output at UQ.

Having your research data described in eSpace will:

  • make it visibile via search engines such as Google, as well as through national data repositories such as Research Data Australia
  • create a record for that data under your My UQ eSpace profile (there is a new 'My Research Data' tab just for this purpose).
  • enable you to build an index of your research data, and count the number of times it has been viewed and downloaded, therefore contributing to your research profile.


How can I use this new service?

There a few simple steps to adding your research data into UQ eSpace.

  • Researchers need to provide a description of their data using the new eSpace data collections form. RIS librarians can also provide assistance with data descriptions - email data@library.uq.edu.au
  • Ensure your data will be offered as either mediated access (by providing a contact for the data) or open access (by uploading the data or providing a link to the data).
  • Make your data re-usable without any limiting software requirements
  • If your school or department already stores your data in an existing repository, you can still fill in the data collections form and provide a link to the location of the data in the form.

Further information can be found in the FAQs tab in eSpace, and in a guidance document located on the main UQ eSpace page.

Staff Development - Research Data Management: What's Involved?

Published: Mon, 2013-08-19 10:22 by Susan Wilson
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Good stewardship of research data is a key requirement for the responsible conduct of research. Adequate management of research data is also a legislative and funding body requirement, including an obligation under the Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research.

This timely staff development course will:

  • raise your awareness of what is required for good stewardship of data
  • identify the benefits of adequately managing research data
  • develop strategies for managing research data
  • raise awareness of tools and services available to help manage the stewardship process

Course Details

Do you have data management issues?

Published: Tue, 2013-03-19 10:53 by Tristine Blackall
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http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2011/08/01/why-you-need-a-data-management-plan/
This is a real example from a Cambridge University RHD Student.

Don't let it happen to you!

Come along to our
'Research Data Management: Introduction' Training Session
and learn about your responsibilities,
funder requirements,
and all the tools available at UQ
to help you with your research data management.


The session is relevant
if you haven't started collecting your data yet,
if you are in the process of collecting it,
or if you have finished collecting it -
there will be something for everyone!


Friday 5 April 2013
10.00am-11.00am

Gatton Campus Library, eZone 2


Register online at: www.library.uq.edu.au/training/

Data Management and Institutional Transformation

Published: Wed, 2013-02-13 09:45 by Jane Smeathers
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ands.jpgThe latest edition of share from the Australia National Data Service (ANDS) newsletter is available. The theme for this edition is institutional transformation.

Ross Wilkinson (ANDS) states, this issue of share celebrates and explains the changes that have taken place at Australian institutions to enable researchers to use data differently - working in new partnerships, addressing new problems and getting properly acknowledged for their data (Feb 2013).

Contents include:

  • Progressing Melbourne University's agenda
  • Deakin's Library plays a vital role
  • Flinders' cross-institution collaboration
  • CSIRO's data treasures revealed
  • Griffith: Doing it differently

and more.......... share ANDS newsletter, February 2013

Looking for a Data Repository

Published: Fri, 2013-01-11 09:23 by Jane Smeathers
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Digging into Data is a useful online resource listing repositories.

It includes:

  • Digital libraries
  • Data archives
  • Data repositories

For each repository, you'll find a description of their contents, contact information, and other details.

UK Data Archive - Data in Use

Published: Fri, 2012-10-26 13:32 by Jane Smeathers
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The UK Data Archive is the largest UK collection of digital research data in the social sciences and humanities. "Deposit Data our data in use" gives examples how researcher and teacher are using UK Data Archives data.

Examples include:

  • 100 families, 1900-1988: In-depth interviews into family life, the data has been used in a project on Masculine preserves.
  • School Leavers Study 1978: Research based on household labour and community life on the Isle of Sheppey, the data has been used for living and working project on Sheppey.
  • The last refuge 1958-1959: Examining if long stay institutions were still needed for the elderly, this data as formed the foundation for several studies on residential care for old people.

To find more examples go to Deposit Data our data in use.

Dying languages get digital home

Published: Thu, 2012-10-11 11:24 by Miranda Mariette
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A SURF project has helped create a digital home for dying languages. The University of Leiden Library in Holland, in collaboration with the CARDS (Controlled Access to Research Data Stored Securely) project of SURF in the Netherlands, is working on a project with Roberta D'Alessandro, Professor of Italian at Leiden University, to develop a data management system to manage and share important research data on dying Italian dialects. For Roberta and her team being able to upload and share the data they have collected is a central feature of the system, simplifying collaboration and allowing other language researchers to use the material. To read the full report go to Research Information: August/September 2012

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