Newsletter archive: Issue 6, December 2014

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)

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)

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)

The kit catalogue pilot

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)

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.

equipment.data on the road

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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