How ready is your institution to manage the research data it generates? Do you know? Do you need tools to figure it out?

CARDIO (Collaborative Assessment of Research Data Infrastructure and Objectives) is a UK-developed toolkit, which can be used to

Working papers from the 2011 Workshop on Research Data Lifecycle Management are now available. The workshop was held from July 18-20, 2011 at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.

Papers include:

• Management and Preservation of Research Data: Whose Responsibility is it Anyway?
• Communicating Scientific Data from the Present to the Future.
• An Excel Add­-in to Make Scientific Data Publishable, Shareable and Archiveable.

Papers from the Research Data Management Policy Summit, hosted by the University of Sydney, in June, are now available.