Researchers from across the UK are set to benefit from the development of new services which look to overcome the biggest challenges facing the research community, through research data spring.
Research data spring is an initiative to create innovative partnerships between researchers, librarians, publishers and developers to develop new solutions to common research problems. Such problems include data being difficult to find and therefore re-use, and different data management systems being poorly integrated, making it difficult for researchers to work with one another.
When the project launched 70 ideas for solutions were submitted. 44 were shortlisted for further consideration at a workshop in late February. Following discussions and collaborative development work, some projects merged leaving 27 pitches. Subsequently, 17 strong ideas were selected for funding by a panel of judges.
The projects include: Developing RDM tools for small and specialist institutions; Unlocking theses data; and Data vault for archiving.
Following this, more funding will be released for selected projects enabling continued development of prototypes ready for a final showcase event in summer 2016.
