DevCSI, together with the JISC Managing Research Data Programme and the JISC Orbital Project, organised a Managing Research Data hack event in Manchester in early May 2012. The event was designed to bring together software developers, project managers, data librarians and experts with an interest in the area of managing research data to share, talk, collaborate and create useful solutions.
A comprehensive report is available on the Devsci website - with links, slides, video and feedback from the day. One of the key outcomes from the event was a consensus about the need for a different paradigm to deal with moving and managing big data, compared to smaller data sets or multiple small data sets.
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