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Draft list of basic RDM infrastructure components – seeking your comments!
The DCC is seeking your comments and feedback on our draft list of basic RDM infrastructure components. This list has been developed through our participation in Jisc’s Research Data Spring pilot to extend the organisational profile document (OPD) to cover research data management.
The key objective for this pilot is to agree within the community a list of basic RDM infrastructure components in light of EPSRC’s Policy Framework on Research Data. This list is meant to represent the basic RDM components that need to be in put into place and maps infrastructure requirements to possible evidence of infrastructure. We’d be very grateful for any feedback from the UK HEI community and funding bodies in particular but also welcome views from other stakeholders. Is this list complete? Are there components that are missing? Please submit directly to the spreadsheet in Google Docs or email your feedback by July 10 2015.
Once the list is agreed, we will seek to make RDM infrastructure components more visible within HEIs by adapting the OPD. The OPD is a simple RDF file which was developed by Equipment.data at the University of Southampton to help HEIs comply with EPSRC’s mandate about exposing information about research equipment bought with public funds. The OPD is both human and machine readable and over 40 UK HEIs already have an OPD in place.
In the short term, this work will help HEIs to identify good practice among peer organisations. Over the longer term, we believe that an agreed list of basic RDM components will help HEIs to better cooperate to identify metrics for successful implementation, the costs associated with delivering support services and systems, and approaches to sustaining our RDM operations.
Received from:
Joy Davidson
Associate Director
Digital Curation Centre (DCC)
HATII, University of Glasgow
Email: joy.davidson@glasgow.ac.uk
http://www.dcc.ac.uk
http://www.gla.ac.uk/hatii
JPEG2000
What is being said about JPEG2000:
Ria Groenewald provided the following: Although JPEG2000 really is fantastic not all computers are equipped to read the format. The 100% quality (lossy mode) means a 80% compression which is in fact a 20% loss in quality. 48 bit colour is unrealistic at this moment as the most images are still processed at 24 bit, I would love to do it at 48 bit but that will only be a bit of an over-kill resulting in a large file (for us here in Africa struggling with storage space). PSD is not an option at all, and will always be converted to a classical format i.e. TIFF, JPeg, PNG etc which is interoperable formats.
Regardless of the above I want to stress the fact that I do not think that we are far away from the tipping point where we will start working in Jpeg2000. But having said that, the latter format has been in existence for some time now and could not push the “ancient” TIFF format aside which made me think that TIFF is still the best to rely on when it comes to digital preservation of images.
For more information, please refer to Photozone’s analysis
Workshop: Full costs of curation
DHEP Topical workshop (13 – 14 January 2014): The purpose of this workshop was to discuss the full ‘costs of curation’ of HEP data. Slides are provided in *pdf format
Relevant web sites
The following sites are worth monitoring (the details of each site were taken from the sites):
- Digital Curation Centre: the DCC is a world-leading centre of expertise in digital information curation with a focus on building capacity, capability and skills for research data management across the UK’s higher education community
- Digital Curation Exchange: this site is designed to provide an environment in which you can engage with a rich digital curation community. More than just a resting place for materials, DCE serves as a starting point for discussions on topics about and for digital curation.
- Research Data Management @ UNSW
- UK Data Archive: experts in the areas of acquiring, curating and providing access to data and a designated Place of Deposit for The National Archives
- Keeping Research Data Safe: Cost/benefit studies, tools, and methodologies focussing on long-lived data
- e-Science Portal for New England Librarians: a librarian’s link to e-Science resources and the e-Science community blog
- Geospatial Data Preservation: The Geospatial Data Preservation Resource Center is a project of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), which is working with a national network of partners on a strategy for preserving digital information for use in the future.
- DPHEP: Study group on data preservation and long term analysis in high energy physics – High Energy Physics experiments initiate with this Study Group provides a reflection on data persistency and long term analysis in order to get a common vision on these issues and create a multi-experiment dynamics for further reference.
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