DISC-UK DataShare Workshop

This workshop will be based upon the DISC-UK DataShare project's Policy-making for Research Data in Repositories: A Guide. The guide is intended to be used as a decision making and planning tool for institutions with digital repositories in existence or in development that are considering adding research datasets to their digital collections. It also can help articulate the benefits of sound data management practices as well as the goals of data sharing and long term access.

This will be an interactive workshop format, taking advantage of the experience of the attendees to talk through decision-making for fictional repository scenarios, with some tutorial style introduction to chapters. The workshop was piloted with positive evaluations at the IASSIST conference in Tampere, Finland in May, 2009. Printed guides will be made available for those who have pre-registered in advance.