These podcasts on research data management taken from the current issue of JISC Headlines may be of interest to list members.
Quality data underpins research excellence
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2011/08/podcast123kevinschurer.aspx
Ahead of JISC's research integrity conference, about the importance of good data management being held on 13 September, JISC's Rebecca O'Brien talks with Professor Kevin Schürer, Pro-Vice Chancellor (Research and Enterprise) at the University of Leicester, about how the university has developed a strategy for managing their data, and they also talk about what people attending and watching the conference online will see from his keynote.
The social life of data
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2011/08/podcast122davidderoure.aspx
The importance of good data management has increased in profile over the past 18 months due to the Government's open data campaign, academic research being misinterpreted and the future research excellence framework. JISC's Rebecca O'Brien chats to Professor David De Roure, Professor of e-Researchat the University of Oxford e-Research Centre and the UK's National e-Social Science Strategic Director with the Economic and Social Research Council, on his views on data management and he shares a taster of the keynote he will be delivering at JISC's Research Integrity Conference on 13 September 2011.
JISC's Research Integrity Conference http://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/2011/09/researchintegrity.aspx
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