Dr Josep Grau-Bove is a Lecturer in Science and Engineering in Arts, Heritage and Archaeology; he works at the Institute for Sustainable Heritage in the Bartlett School Environment, Energy & Resources, University College London (UCL). He is the Assistant Director of one of the Institute’s Programmes for MRes students. In our interview he reflects on the benefits of Data Management Plans for research students, the […]
Dr Jenny Bunn is Program Director at Archive and Records Management at UCL. Jenny Bunn worked has previously worked as an archivist at the V&A Museum, The Royal Bank of Scotland Archives, Glasgow University Archives and The National Archives before moving to teaching and research at UCL. Our discussion with Jenny offered an interesting perspective. Alongside Jenny’s insights as a researcher her professional experience as […]
Dr Martin Zaltz Austwick is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at the Bartlett in University College London (UCL). Martin’s research and teaching makes extensive use of a wide variety of data sources including government data, business data and textual data. Our interview with Martin provides a clear example of a researcher are already making extensive use of open data and […]
LEARN recently hosted a webinar about our new Toolkit of Best Practice for Research Data Management. The speakers were: Wouter Schallier, ECLAC Paolo Budroni, University of Vienna Martin Moyle, UCL The webinar is now available for anyone to view, via the video below. The Toolkit, and other project resources, can be downloaded from our Tools & Resources page.
The LEARN Project is all about creating tools and resources which help institutions improve the way research data is managed. Through workshops and other activities, we’ve spoken to many institutions about the challenges they face in this area. However, data management isn’t something that only comes from institutions. Researchers also need to be actively involved, and institutions need to understand how to encourage researchers when […]
Research data is the new currency of the digital age. From sonnets to statistics, and genes to geodata, the amount of material being created and stored is growing exponentially. However, the LERU Roadmap for Research Data identifies a serious gap in the level of preparation amongst research performing organisations. This gulf is prominent in areas such as policy development, awareness of current issues, skills development, […]
Dialogue between research funders and Research Performing Institutions (RPIs) is key, but starting this dialogue is not always easy. Questions often asked include: How can RPIs get in touch with funders? Are commonly practised Customer Relation Management (CRM) techniques also valid for the maintenance of relations between RPIs and funders? To what extent can funders be defined as customers of RPIs? How can the efforts and […]
On invitation from the International Council for Science – Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (ICSU – ROLAC) and CODATA, the Hernán Santa Cruz Library (ECLAC) — a LEARN Project Partner — participated in the region’s first Open Data meeting, organised in Panama City, Panama on 12-13th January 2017. The purpose of the meeting was to develop an Open Data/Open Science strategy in […]
A year after the first LEARN Workshop in London, Universitat de Barcelona hosted the fifth and last workshop of the Project. The Aula Magna of the university was the chosen venue to hold this final workshop entitled ‘Shaping and Aligning Research Data’. On the morning of 26 January 2017, around fifty people attended the workshop — all of them geared up to participate actively in […]
In November 2016, e-Infrastructures Austria organized two major closing events in Vienna: A Data Management Plan (DMP) Workshop (17 November 2016) in cooperation with DCC and the final General Assembly (18 November 2016) of the project. Data Management Plan Workshop with DCC While Kevin Ashley (Director DCC) and Sarah Jones (Senior Institutional Support Officer DCC) gave lectures on Horizon 2020, the Open Research Data Pilot […]
