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Joss Winn wrote a new post, Orbital used to release library activity data under CC0 license, on the site Orbital 10 hours, 8 minutes ago

1.8 million library loans from the University of Lincoln under CC0 – Copac Activity Data/SALT2 project

Joss Winn wrote a new post, A Minimum Viable Product: Orbital v0.1, on the site Orbital 18 hours, 29 minutes ago

This is a post about our first release of Orbital.

About a month ago, Dr. Tom Duckett, Reader in The Department of Computing and Informatics approached the Orbital project because he urgently wanted to publish […]

Joss Winn wrote a new post, Development roadmap, on the site Orbital 18 hours, 39 minutes ago

The first release of Orbital (v0.1) was on May 16th 2012. Orbital is a research and development project that has initial funding until March 2013. Given that timeframe, what follows is a high-level roadmap of […]

Joss Winn wrote a new post, Orbital: Impact and benefits, on the site Orbital 5 days, 12 hours ago

I’ve been asked to highlight the benefits of running the Orbital project so far. We’re seven months or so into Orbital, which is an 18 month project. In our initial Project Plan, we identified the anticipated […]

Joss Winn wrote a new post, Learning a craft, on the site Expedient Means 5 days, 13 hours ago

During my attendance at Dev8D last week, I used the time to start pulling together some ideas I’ve been knocking around for a few months now. Most of the projects I’ve helped set up or led over the last three […]

Joss Winn wrote a new post, MRD Hack Day, on the site Orbital 5 days, 15 hours ago

Nick, Harry and I attended the MRD Hack Day, organised by the DevCSI project. You can read about the event and our contributions over on the event report. Lots of videos, presentations and interviews around the […]

Joss Winn wrote a new post, Shared, versioned network drives, on the site Orbital 1 week, 3 days ago

I’m at the DevCSI #mrdHackday with Nick, Harry and about 30 other people interested in hacking around research data. One of the user requirements identified among some MRD projects is the need for personal and […]

Joss Winn commented on the post, New public profiles, on the site my.blogs.lincoln 1 week, 4 days ago

Hi Jane,

Do you mean space for photo galleries, or the ability to add more photos to your profile page here on the blogs?

Joss Winn wrote a new post, EPSRC Research Data Management Roadmap, on the site Orbital 2 weeks ago

As part of their Policy Framework on Research Data, the EPSRC have requested that all institutions in receipt of their funding develop a clear roadmap for research data management, which should be implemented by […]

Joss Winn wrote a new post, Data Assets Framework survey summary, on the site Orbital 2 weeks, 2 days ago

Over the last month, we’ve been asking academic staff to complete a local version of the DAF survey. Here are the anonymised results. For almost all questions, there was a comments box, which many staff used and […]

Joss Winn wrote a new post, Update to survey of institutional URIs, on the site Linking You 3 weeks, 2 days ago

A few months ago, Jamie Mahoney spent several tedious hours looking at a further 66 HEIs’ websites, recording their URI syntaxes. It builds on the work of Alex Bilbie, who looked at an initial 40 HEIs for the […]

Joss Winn wrote a new post, A month of email, on the site Expedient Means 3 weeks, 5 days ago

I’m sure I’m not the only person who’s playing around on a Friday afternoon with a new script for GMail that provides statistics about your email habits. It doesn’t include spam, calendar invites or my chat […]

Joss Winn commented on the post, University of Lincoln library access to the IEEE!, on the site Library News 1 month ago

NIce. What did it cost us?

Joss Winn wrote a new post, Implementation Plan, on the site Orbital 1 month, 1 week ago

Introduction
The Orbital Implementation Plan (WP6) is intended to be a synthesis of our initial user requirements gathering (WP5), an assessment of Engineering research data (WP9), an evaluation of standards and […]

Joss Winn wrote a new post, Helping Hackers Hack survey results, on the site Expedient Means 1 month, 1 week ago

As I mentioned a few weeks ago, while attending Dev8D, I surveyed developers working in or for universities. Here are the results. Click on the images below to view them full size. The data can be downloaded […]

Joss Winn wrote a new post, News from Orbital: Policy, Implementation Plan and a first release date, on the site Orbital 1 month, 1 week ago

It feels like there’s been quite a lot coming together recently. Here’s what we’re working on:

A draft RDM policy (WP7)
Our Implementation Plan (WP6), which includes our Literature Review (WP4), initial user […]

Joss Winn wrote a new post, Drafting a Research Data Management Policy, on the site Orbital 1 month, 1 week ago

This morning, four of us (Bev Jones and Paul Stainthorp, Library; Annalisa Jones, Research Office; and Joss Winn, Centre for Educational Research and Development) met for three hours to draft a Research Data […]

Joss Winn commented on the post, Drafting a Research Data Management Policy, on the site Orbital 1 month, 1 week ago

I’ve tried to highlight the merges in the version now on Github: https://github.com/lncd/RDM-Policy You can see the commits with messages here: https://github.com/lncd/RDM-Policy/commits/master