DRHack: The results of our Digital Research Hackathon
May 8, 2018
On the afternoon of Friday 27 April, at the same time as the Digital Research Week’s closing ceremony, DRHack kicked off. We co-hosted this event with HackSoc, a student society dedicated to hacking. We invited students to come and try their hand at designing and creating new ways of engaging with research data. Hackathon participants …
Digital Research Week: Bring your Research Data to life at DRHack, our Digital Research Hackathon in partnership
April 11, 2018
Bring your research data to life with DRHack, our Digital Research Hackathon On Friday 27 April and Saturday 28 April 2018, as part of the University Of Nottingham’s Digital Research Week, the Digital Research Team are pairing up with HackSoc to organize a 24-hour hackathon. We are calling all researchers at the University of Nottingham …
Transcription Services: A First Step Toward Safe Use
May 2, 2017
Researchers who carry out interviews or focus groups will typically digitally record the audio for later reference and analysis. This data will then get transcribed by the researchers or via a transcription service for a set fee. When using a service, researchers will transmit the audio files to the provider, who then carries out the transcription and …
Sharing research data – benefits, not burdens
February 7, 2017
UK Research Councils typically require researchers to share their research data externally, in line with a common set of principles established in 2011, but with precise details about what should be shared being defined within individual sets of funder regulations. Effective sharing of research data does require effort and advance planning, and it can be …
