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Dealing with Research Data in a Federated Digital Repository: Oxford University Planning Document Released

The Oxford e-Research Centre has released Scoping Digital Repository Services for Research Data Management, a project plan for determining the requirements for handling data in a federated digital repository at Oxford University.

Here's an excerpt from the "Aims and Objectives" section:

Objectives:

Capture and document researchers’ requirements for digital repository services to handle research data.

Participate actively in the development of an interoperability framework for the federated digital repository at Oxford.

Make recommendations to improve and coordinate the provision of digital repository services for research data.

Initiate and develop collaborations with the different repository activities already occurring to ensure that communication takes place in between them.

Raise awareness at Oxford of the importance and advantages of the active management of research data.

Communicate significant national and international developments in repositories to relevant Oxford stakeholders, in order to stimulate the adoption of best practices.

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