Welcome to our sixth issue of the equipment.data e-newsletter. In this issue Adrian Cox, Project Manager for equipment.data, explores the vendors' role in enabling efficiency through linked open data technology and Andy Milsted, our data specialist, looks at ways you can contribute easily and if you are contributing how to become autodiscoverable.
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Enabling efficiencies through linked open data technology - the vendors’ role For the equipment sharing agenda vendor engagement has become a critical component in delivering effective asset management systems... (Read more) |
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It’s easy to contribute to equipment.data! Publishing your research equipment onto equipment.data is actually much easier than you may think. The benefits of having your equipment published to UNIQUIP guidelines and the ability to search other institutions equipment are endless. (Read more) |
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How to make your equipment data fully autodiscoverable Are you contributing to equipment.data but not yet Gold compliant? Now that equipment.data is reaching the end of its development period we need to ensure institutional contributions are fully sustainable. The key to this is autodiscovery... (Read more) |
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Research intensive universities have state-of-the-art equipment available for use across HE, the wider research community and industry – from anechoic chambers to wind tunnels, mass spectrometers to supercomputers. This collaboration can help to reduce costs and enable institutions to tap into relevant staff expertise. (Read more) |
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Efficient sharing of university research data is closer than you think The ODI team are working with UUK highlighting the benefits of open data in HE on the Efficiency Exchange blog. Following his previous article on efficiencies from sharing equipment Adrian Cox has written a follow up on efficient sharing of research data which will be published on 17th December on their website. To read more about equipment efficiency and open data developments visit the Efficiency Exchange website to find out more. |
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The equipment.data team have spent a lot of time on the road in the run up to the festive season attending a number of equipment sharing, enabling efficiencies and data management event. (Read more) |
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We now have dedicated technical support, Andrew Milsted, who will be able to help you make your equipment data discoverable from meeting the requirements of the UNIQUIP Publishing Specification to setting up an OPD.
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