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The MiSS Project

MiSS (MaDAM into Sustainable Service) represents a significant investment by the University of Manchester and the Managing Research Data Programme of JISC.  MiSS will deliver a Research Data Management Infrastructure at the University of Manchester, including a Research Data Management Policy, together with a supporting Service and the necessary human infrastructure to provide for the Research Data Management needs across the institution.  MiSS builds on the previous experience of the MaDAM project and runs from October 2011 to March 2013.

MiSS is led by John Rylands University Library (JRUL), in collaboration with IT Services  (ITS) and the Manchester eResearch Centre (MeRC).


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  • Recent Posts

    • Citing and Storing

      I attended the JISC webinar on DOIs and citing data last week, and very informative it was. It’s interesting to think about these kind of things when your project is interested in the whole data lifecycle. It reminds you that citing and identifying research data is generally for the end of lifecycle projects who have happily got to a set of data which proves what they set up to prove in the first place. But.. Read more »

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    • Awareness raising and outreach at UoM

      We all know implementing a Research Data Management Infrastructure is a complex endeavour. Especially if this RDMI will be translated into a service towards the end of the project for the whole of the University. Awareness raising and outreach beyond the project and its stakeholders becomes more and more important in this context to get new people, research groups and areas involved, get their input and buy-in and inform them of infrastructures to use, policies.. Read more »

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    • Gathering requirements while the sun doesn’t shine.

      27/01/2012 This week was a fantastic week of meeting people from all over the university with Meik Poschen and Mary McDerby. We were gathering requirements, talking about what researchers expected from a research data management service and what interactions they had with data from a day to day basis. Speaking with so many people who have so disparate a set of requirements has brought to light the fact that what the MiSS project is doing.. Read more »

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    • When we will be mature enough to measure reuse?

      I was going to begin this blog post by stating that we’d had a busy fortnight – but that always seems to be the case, and I think it’s indicative of the interest in Research Data Management, both internally, and more broadly within the academic community.  … having said that it really has been  busy fortnight!!! On the community side of things, the MiSS Project team split on the 30th November between three different events.. Read more »

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    • Managing expectations in research data management.

      There has been a lot of requirement meetings of late. Meetings with academic champions, meetings with interested parties, meetings with IS groups, meetings with potential users. One thing is common – everybody rightly wants their groups needs looked after in the new research data management service. One group might have huge ontologies to manage, one might have multi-terabyte storage requirements. Most are affiliated with groups whose data they would like to connect to the good.. Read more »

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