Yesterday we were visited by some representatives from the Digital Curation Centre. Their visit was intended to provide an introduction, guidance and support to data management tools they have developed. The visit covered the Data Audit Framework (DAF), Assessing Institutional Digital Assets (AIDA) and Keeping Research Data Safe 2 (KRDS2). The final hour was devoted to a discussion on where the Data Management Planning for ESRC Research Data Rich Investments project can learn from and contribute to the DCC.
What I took from this meeting was that there are already some very good data management tools in existence. These can be used, refined, and adapted and offered back to the data management community. For example, our remit is to consider data management practices at centre and programme level - effectively looking at cross institutional, multi-research data. This will identify issues that would not exist at departmental level, within institutions, or within single research projects. My sense from this was that there is no generic solution for all scientific and social research.
It was rewarding to meet others in the data management community, and discuss our relationship within that community.
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