Tuesday 14 February 2012

DaMaRO project

The Data Management Rollout at Oxford (DaMaRO) Project is creating a research data management policy for the University and the infrastructure to enable researchers to comply with it. We will be taking the outputs of the various research data management projects that the University has been engaged in over the last few years and combining them into a better-integrated suite of tools and discovery mechanisms that will support researchers throughout the data life-cycle, from planning to re-use.

Of particular note is the ‘DataFinder’ tool that DaMaRO will be developing. This will enable the discovery of data hosted in various places around the University and beyond, including the Bodleian Libraries' 'DataBank' (developed through the Admiral and DataFlow projects), the Database as a Service (DaaS) system (created during the Sudamih and VIDaaS Projects), departmental and other local data stores, the Web 2 research management network 'Colwiz', and hopefully the 'LabTrove' system developed by the University of Southampton. It will also connect this data with research papers and publications held in the Oxford University Research Archive (ORA).

Information Security Project Started

The InfoSec project will move the University to a new degree of information assurance, make it more secure, mitigate information risk, and undertake the work necessary to create a permanent enterprise-wide activity that will deliver she best possible Information Security (IS) for Oxford. The project has established a team which is responsible for helping the Collegiate University to be compliant with a set of IS policies which have been developed and will be endorsed by Council in TT 2012.

VIDaaS/Dataflow Workshop, 2 March 2012

On Friday 2nd March the VIDaaS Project will be staging a joint workshop with our colleagues from the DataFlow Project at the Saïd Business School in Oxford. The day will run from 10:30 am until 5pm, and feature demonstrations of the database-as-as-service software developed by the VIDaaS Project and the DataStage software that forms the centrepiece of the DataFlow Project. Delegates will also get to look at the DataBank data repository system that Oxford is introducing, and hear about the cloud infrastructure that the University has built – partly in order to host the outputs of VIDaaS. There will also be plenty of time to ask question, discuss developments, and get to know the other delegates.