If you attended the recent webinar for this phase of the project, or read the report on the webinar, you will know that we have launched the beta version of the Discovery Service and will be providing regular updates on the progress of the project. We are now re-harvesting metadata from participants involved in phase … Read more
Introduction The following post is a report from the first webinar (held on 27 April 2017) for the third phase of the Research Data Discovery Service project. The aims of the webinar were to welcome new participants, provide an update of the project, introduce the new beta version (http://researchdiscoveryservice.jisc.ac.uk), highlight progress and review requirements from … Read more
In my previous post, I described the latest phase (three) of the Research Data Discovery Service. In this post I’d like to describe in more detail the plans for harvesting metadata from other UK HEIs and Data Centres with research data collections. In phase 2 metadata was harvested from 9 HEIs (Hull, St Andrews, Glasgow, … Read more
The latest phase of the UKRDDS will run from October 2016 to September 2017 and follows on from the second phase of the project. This post summarises work from the second phase and what’s planned for this third phase. Phase 2 This Jisc-led second phase of the project ran from March 2015 to September 2016 … 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