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This Report explores the roles, rights, responsibilities and relationships of institutions, data centres and other key stakeholders who work with data. It concentrates primarily on the UK scene with some reference to other relevant experience and opinion, and is framed as "a snapshot" of a relatively fast-moving field. It is strategically positioned to provide a bridge between the high-level RIN Framework of Principles and Guidelines for the stewardship of research data, and practitioner-focussed technical development work

JISC's Managing Research Data programme has, with an investment of nearly £2M, funded a strand of eight Research Data Management Infrastructure (RDMI) projects to provide the UK Higher Education sector with examples of good research data management. The RDMI projects have identified requirements to manage data created by researchers within an institution, or across a group of institutions, and then piloted research data management infrastructures at institutional, departmental or research group level, to address these requirements. This report provides an analysis and synthesis of the benefits from this work identified by the eight RDMI projects in their benefits case studies, the benefits and enhancements that accrued to existing tools and methodologies from them, and the emerging business cases (as of June 2011) for sustainability being built by the RDMI projects.

With cloud computing becoming an increasingly important element of the IT function of most organizations, this five-part report presents a state-of-the-art review of the key features of cloud computing and its likely near-term and long-term development trends.

This paper is designed to encourage, inform and ultimately summarise the discussions around the appropriate strategic and technical descriptions of the Australian National Data Service; to fill in the outline in the Platforms for Collaboration investment plan.

Research data are an increasingly important and expensive output of the scholarly research process, across all disciplines. They are an essential part of the evidence necessary to evaluate research results, and to reconstruct the events and processes leading to them. Their value increases as they are aggregated into collections and as they become more available for re-use to address new and challenging research questions. But we shall realise the value of data only if we move beyond research policies, practices and support systems developed in a different era. We need new approaches to managing and providing access to research data. The framework is structured around five broad principles which provide a guide to the development of policy and practice for a range of key players: universities, research institutions, libraries and other information providers, publishers, and research funders as well as researchers themselves. In seeking to develop the framework further, all parties need to work collaboratively and to ensure that it is sensitive to the needs of researchers and the different contexts in which they work. All parties must also take account of relevant technical and policy-making developments in the UK and overseas.

This Web page provides an overview of the outputs of projects in JISC's Managing Research Data programme. It includes links to project websites, how to guides, data management planning tools and guidance, case studies, reports, and training materials.

Experts exchange their practical knowledge and experiences on digital preservation. Day 1 - 19.10.2011 "GETTING READY FOR DIGITAL PRESERVATION" The necessary "preparations" and fundamental decisions are the most underestimated challenges of digital preservation. But especially those tasks are bumps in the road which, if they aren't addressed early on, will remain constant challenges through the process of digital preservation. For those reasons the first block of the conference is dedicated to different aspects of necessary preparations and fundamental decisions. Experiences made in daily work of libraries and archives are presented and ways of dealing with challenges are communicated to the attendees. The following questions should be answered in this block: * How can a meaningful contextual and technical selection of holdings for digital preservation be made? * Which collections and digital objects should be dealt with first? * What expectations do users have in digital preservation? What do those expectations mean for the digital preservation process? * Should objects be normalized before ingest / when entering the collection? If so, how? What are recommended formats? * What gaps exist between existing digital preservation systems and institutional requirements? * What risks exist for different types of data and material? * What does the implementation of digital preservation mean for an institution? Which steps need to be considered? What are the challenges? * Which aspects of digital preservation are unanswered as of today / what are the main areas of further development, research and action? Day 2 - 20.10.2011 THE INGEST PROCESS FOR DIFFERENT TYPES OF DIGITAL MATERIAL Ingest describes the entire process of information transfer into the digital archive. The focus of this presentation block will be practitioner reports about experiences made in the development and implementation of ingest workflows for differe

The Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS) at Queen Mary, University of London has embarked on a three year project to undertake academic research in relation to cloud computing and to disseminate the key findings of that research.

This year's APA conference addresses the theme "Putting the infrastructure in place for digital preservation" and brings together leaders in the field from Europe and around the world, from academic, large scientific research, industrial and commercial stakeholders. Topics will include: * the challenges which major information holders and solution providers are addressing * the latest news on developing a coherent view of what works in digital preservation and how the research efforts and developments fit together * what infrastructure is being put in place to help you * how to check whether you or those you fund are doing an adequate job in preserving information - and how to improve * how to build the business case for preservation * how preservation fits into the commercial world, including privacy and security * success stories from which we can learn The keynote speaker will be EU Commissioner Neelie Kroes, Vice-President for the Digital Agenda; we also have speakers from the Centre of Excellence for Digital Preservation in India, the US National Archives (NARA) and Library of Congress. A senior representative of the British Government will speak on the second day. Looking at the role of the commercial sector in digital preservation and re-use, Microsoft, Google, Oracle and IBM will be taking part in a discussion panel on the High Level Expert Group's report 'Riding the Wave'. The purpose of the conference is to inform our members and the wider international communities about progress in the area of digital preservation and related infrastructure from many sources, academic as well as industrial and commercial. We aim to get feedback about needs, expectations and experiences. Traditional memory institutions and at least some of the scientific community have been aware for some time about the importance of digital preservation and it is very clear that commerce, industry, the arts, banking and investment in

The DC-2011 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications keynote speakers are Mikael Nilsson, Google and Emmanuelle Bermès, Centre Pompidou. The remainder of the conference program on 22-23 September consists of peer reviewed papers, project reports and posters. Pre-conference activities on 21 September include either: (1) a full day of tutorials with Stephanie Taylor (UKOLN), Antoine Issac (Web an Media Group, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Paul Hermans (Erfgoedplus.be ('heritage-plus')), and Emma Tonkin (UKOLN); or (2) a full day special session on Vocabulary Management and Alignment. DCMI Community working sessions are held throughout the conference.

The previous paper pointed major disruptive impacts of cloud as a business service. The changing technological base together with the disrupters will channel many innovative services and reconfiguration of the supply industry.

Part three focuses on the impacts cloud will have on buyers and service providers.

Part two focuses on the challenges cloud will present for buyers and providers of services.