3-month report: March to May 2014

Highlights James Cummings has recruited the DiXiT project’s Oxford Marie Curie ITN Experienced Researcher: Magdalena Turska started started work on 1 April 2014 for 20 months investigating and implementing improvements to the requirements for publication of scholarly digital editions. During … Continue reading

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3-month report: Dec to Feb 2014

Highlights The University launched a data support service for researchers website to bring together all the support researchers can currently get with respect to managing their data. Our team will work with colleagues in the libraries and admin departments to … Continue reading

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3-month report (November 2013)

Highlights The ABM service is growing. We have taken advice from the ITLP team and introduced a new one hour lunchtime talk which was so popular Ken had to do an additional talk on the same day to cater for … Continue reading

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Highlights from the Digital Research Conference

Ken Kahn’s report on a selection of the presentations at the Digital Research Conference: Citizen Science and Crowd-sourcing Biological Data — Developed a phone app that greatly improved previous citizen science projects that relied upon email with photo attachments. Most examples … Continue reading

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3-month report (August 2013)

Highlights This summer we had the pleasure of working with three outstanding interns: Rachel Holmshaw worked with the Jisc Software Hub team to make a range of videos that tell the story of a few successful open source software projects … Continue reading

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DiXiT: Large EU-funded bid on Scholarly Editions; James Cummings as Oxford PI

Dr James Cummings, from the University of Oxford’s Academic IT Services, is the Oxford PI on a large multi-million Euro funded project investigating the creation and publication of digital scholarly editions. DiXiT is funded under the Marie Curie Initial Training … Continue reading

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3-month report (May 2013)

The Research Support team: Offers free advice (30-120 minute meetings) on a wide range of topics e.g. research data management (RDM), the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), and agent-based modelling (ABM). Supports academics in designing and writing funded project proposals. Manages … Continue reading

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3-month report (February 2013)

The research support team: Offers free advice (30-120 minute meetings) to academics on a wide range of topics e.g. research data management (RDM), the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), agent-based modelling (ABM), building an academic online presence Supports academics in designing … Continue reading

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