Dear all
I'm working with the team at Manchester University on the current RDM
program. We are about to finalise decisions on the technology that we
will use for the project, which presently includes the fedora-commons
repository, some Oracle tools and maybe some other bits and pieces.
However, Simon Hodson sensibly suggested that we poll this list to see
what other people are using before casting anything in stone.
Whilst a complete open source solution would be ideal, we are struggling
to find one that meets broadly generic research data management needs
(we plan to implement over different labs/faculties and don't want to
implement niche solutions). We did evaluate the ARCHER eResearch toolkit
which leant itself reasonably well to the problems in hand but we felt
its fragmented and grid based implementation would be difficult to
extend upon and support with the current IT infrastructure up here. For
similar reasons (and time implications) we are also not keen to
undertake a large software development program ourselves.
It would be interesting to hear what the other projects in this funding
stream have chosen in terms of technology.
Thanks and Regards
Simon
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Dr Simon Collins
DBA
National Grid Service
University of Manchester
Research Computing Services
Devonshire House
Oxford Road
Manchester
Tel 0161 2750604
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