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What the DCC can do for you

- five things we do

Sarah Jones

sarah.jones@glasgow.ac.uk

What is the DCC?

• UK centre to support RDM• Established 2004• Primary funder is JISC• Three partners: Edinburgh, Glasgow and Bath

Helping to build capacity, capability and skillsin data management and curation across theUK’s higher education research community‐ DCC Phase 3 Business Plan

How do we achieve this aim?

1. Run training & events

• Train researchers and research support staff

• Annual international conference

• Build communities through the Research Data Management Forum

IDCC conferenceRDMFRoadshows...

2. Provide guidance

• Offer briefing papers, how to guides, manual...

• Aimed at different levels & audiences

• CC-BY licensed so they can be customised for your context

www.dcc.ac.uk/resources

3. Develop tools

www.data-audit.eu https://dmponline.dcc.ac.uk

http://cardio.dcc.ac.uk www.repositoryaudit.eu

4. Offer tailored support for unis

• One-off training courses or events

• Customised versions of DMP Online

• Feedback on RDM strategy development

• Pointers to existing models that you can reuse

• Institutional Engagement programme

DCC Institutional Engagements

Working intensively with 20 HEIs to increase RDM capability

• 60 days of effort per HEI drawn from a mix of DCC staff

• Support varies based on what each institution wants/needs

• Deploy DCC and external tools, approaches and best practice

• Lessons and examples to be shared with the community

www.dcc.ac.uk/community/institutional-engagements

What we offer via DCC engagements

Assess Needs

Make the case

Develop support

and services

RDM policy development

Customised Data Management Plans

Guidance and training

Institutional data catalogues

Pilot RDM tools

DAF & CARDIO assessments

Workflow assessment

DCC support

team

Advocacy with senior management

5. Synthesise good RDM practice

• Monitor the RDM landscape

• Support the JISC MRD programmes

• Collate & analyse existing practice to point to good models

How to develop RDM services

Coming soon!

We can also amplify your work

• (Re)tweet• Put details in Pipeline News & What’s New• Write guest blog posts• Profile your work in talks and training

Helping you spread good practice and

gain recognition for RDM

We’re here to meet your needs

• Ask questions via the DCC helpdesk– info@dcc.ac.uk – simple enquiries or in-depth responses

• Request a training course or other support

• Tell us what guidance documents you need

• Requests added functionality to DCC tools

What else do you need?

Tell us, we’re here to support you!

info@dcc.ac.uk

Thanks - any questions?

For DCC guidance, tools and case studies see:

www.dcc.ac.uk/resources

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