David Gowing from the Open University describes for us his recent experience of using a special ECT data curation grant to digitise and secure for all-time the 30+-year dataset from the Somerford Mead long-term grazing and restoration experiment in Oxfordshire. The data are now secured in NERC’s Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) and accessible to all. Read David’s blog.
Read MoreUsing an ECT special data curation grant, David Gowing and colleagues at the Open University have digitised over 30 years of data from the Somerford Mead grassland grazing experiment in Oxfordshire and deposited it in NERC’s Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC), giving access for all. Access the dataset.
Read MoreECT’s quarterly newsletter for September is now published via our newsletter archive page. It includes an update from the BIFoR-FACE experiment (new publication), reports on our major events across the summer, and exciting news about the Somerford Mead LTE dataset (decades-long) being secured for all in NERC’s Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC).
Read MoreECT is pleased to announce the award of a ‘landmark’ data curation grant to Professor David Gowing at the Open University for resources to secure and curate hardcopy survey data from the Somerford Mead long-term experiment in Oxfordshire. The data will be prepared and deposited with NERC’s Environmental Information Centre (EIDC), providing access for all.
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