Just wanted to pass on sincere thanks to John for all his efforts in
getting UKRDS to this point. We at Leicester have been extremely
grateful to him for offering his advice, support and considerable
knowledge in helping us define and continue to build our support to
researchers through IT Services and the wider institution and national
providers. John has also offered valuable advice to the Wellcome
sponsored JISC Managing Research Data Halogen project to design and
build a template example of an interdisciplinary database for
researchers.

Thanks John!

Jonathan Tedds, Mary Visser, Dave Carter
IT Services at the University of Leicester

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Dr Jonathan Tedds,
Tel: +44 (0)116 252 5287
Senior Research Liaison Manager (IT Services),
Astronomical Surveys & e-Research,
Department of Physics & Astronomy,
University of Leicester,
Email: [log in to unmask]
Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
http://xmmssc-www.star.le.ac.uk/~jat
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On 4 July 2010 09:21, John Milner <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The UK Research Data Service project has completed its proposal and
> management summary which can now be found in the reports section under the
> documents tab at www.ukrds.ac.uk
>
> Our recommendations focus on two key needs:
>
> The first is embedding skills and capability within HEIs and we have
> included a modelling tool to help institutions with planning and costing the
> establishment of capability. In our judgement this approach is the best
> option to provide a scalable, sustainable and efficient organisational
> infrastructure to allow researchers to exploit a range of storage and
> curation services to manage their data effectively and to gain access to
> other data of good provenance.
>
> The second need is for national co-ordination to maintain coherence of
> approach and to foster the development of common tools, standards etc.
> within the international context. We have recommended that this role be
> fulfilled through strengthening the DCC and building on the relationships,
> tools and capability DCC has already developed.
>
> Behind these recommendations is a recognition that a value proposition for a
> dataset is important in justifying investment in curation and storage and
> that a well ordered data management planning regime is essential for
> efficient curation and storage.
>
> As project manager for the feasibility study and interim planning project my
> role is at an end and I have handed over the proposal to DCC in the hope
> that Kevin Ashley and his team will be able to take forward the
> implementation in co-operation with the JISC Research Data Management
> programme.
>
> In producing this proposal we have had the benefit of time and effort from
> many people in this fascinating and complicated field to whom grateful
> thanks.
>
> John K. Milner
>
>
>
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>