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.

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:

The latest edition of share from the Australia National Data Service (ANDS) newsletter is available. The theme for this edition is institutional transformation.

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.

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:

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 di

According to a report in 2011 by the World Economic Forum, big data is redrawing the boundaries of business and could be viewed as a new class of economic asset, like oil.

But just how big will big data become? How will it affect your company and what management skills will be needed to exploit its potential?

Dryad is an international data repository in the basic and applied biosciences. The goal of the repository is to preserve all the underlying data reported in a paper at the time of publications. Recognising the emerging trend of data citation, this is an excellent example of a repository supporting the management of data and sharing. See the November 2011 blog on Dryad for further information.