A video created by the Digital Curation Centre, UK offers an interesting overview of research data management. It provides insights into the researchers' role in managing their data, and also identifies some tools and resources available on the Digital Curation Centre website.

Watch the DCC video - Managing Research Data.

The University of Cambridge Library has developed some well-organised pages called Support for Managing Research Data.

The information is organised into four sections:

Librarians who want to engage with researchers around long-term data management often use interviews to gather information about the data the researchers hold.

Data repositories allow researchers to preserve and share research data over the long term. We aim to showcase a different data repository each week to raise awareness of these services.

Knowledge Exchange's A Surfboard for Riding the Wave report calls for a collaborative data infrastructure to enable researchers to use, re-use and exploit research data to benefit scientific research, and society more generally.

Think about when disaster strikes. An earthquake. A tsunami. News and information online generally appear very quickly in a variety of ways - through Facebook, blogs, tweets, YouTube, news feeds and web sites. The result? Atomisation.