The following post has been written by Dom Fripp – senior metadata curation developer at Jisc and part of the UKRDDS team. Earlier this year, Torsten Reimer wrote a blog post entitled “Less is more? A metadata schema for discovery of research data”. In it, he considered what metadata schemas were in use in UK … Read more
Dom Fripp is senior metadata curation developer at Jisc and part of the UKRDDS team. Dom has written the following post to describe the core metadata profile developed for the Discovery Service. By way of introducing myself and my role within Jisc, I’d like to cover some of the work I’ve been doing over the … Read more
Jisc’s annual Digifest (#digifest16) took place in Birmingham on 2-3 March 2016. The Discovery Service presentation and demo featured on day 2 at the Shared Services Stand. You can view all slides from the programme page, but the presentation from this project’s session is available from SlideShare. Following the presentation, which gave a brief overview … Read more
The project team and representatives from all participating pilot HEIs and Data Centres convened in London for the second workshop of the UK Research Data Discovery Service on 18 February 2016. As well as taking the opportunity to meet face-to-face, rather than rely on the monthly webinars, the purpose of this workshop was to: Review … Read more
On St George’s Day members of the UKRDDS team from Jisc, the DCC and the UK Data Archive gathered together with pilot institutions and data centres for the project’s initial workshop. It was the first opportunity, since the initial pilot, for all stakeholders to come together and to discuss the plan for the project, the … Read more
Welcome to the blog for the Jisc UK Research Data Discovery Service. Further details about the project can be found on the About page, but this initial post provides an introduction to the project. Following on from the initial pilot (phase 1) work, where the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) piloted an approach to a registry … Read more