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Hi all, Some pictures of a flood at our office last year. Apparently a plumber was replacing a radiator in an office upstairs and inadvertently cut through a mains water pipe... The first picture shows the leak starting and the last picture was taken about 90 seconds after - you'll note that the PCs are still on! All the notes on the desks were destroyed and the PCs on the floor were damaged beyond repair - luckily we all use university file servers so no important work was lost. I use these in our RDM training to show: 1. Why you never keep your data in 1 place 2. Why you should always photocopy your paper documents 3. That even university offices aren't safe This seems to get the message across! Tom ---- Dr Thomas Parsons Researcher Training & Development Manager The Graduate School Research & Graduate Services The University of Nottingham Tel: 0115 95 14624 Part-time: Monday to Thursday From: Research Data Management discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Isabel.Chadwick Sent: 12 September 2014 10:08 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Examples of good and bad RDM Hi all, I've got a small (growing) collection of examples of good and bad Research Data Management to use as examples when I speak to researchers about the importance of RDM. These are generally news stories, but I also have a few posters drawn by silly PHD students who've lost their laptop/USB/data etc. I was just wondering if anyone else had any good examples they could share? Ideally I'd like to have examples from a range of academic disciplines to engage researchers in all our faculties. Most of the examples I have so far are of disasters/successes for scientists. I'm particularly looking for good news stories about data sharing in education at the moment, but anything is useful. Happy to share what I've got with anyone who's interested! Isabel Isabel Chadwick Research Data Management Librarian Library Services, The Open University 01908 659682 | [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> | www.open.ac.uk/library<http://www.open.ac.uk/library> -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). The Open University is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.