UK Research Data Service (UKRDS) is a joint project between RLUK (the Consortium of Research Libraries in the UK and Ireland), and RUGIT (the Russell Group IT Directors Group).
It is funded by HEFCE (the Higher Education Funding Council for England) under its Shared Services programme, with support from JISC (the Joint Information Systems Committee).
The objective of the UKRDS study is to assess the feasibility and costs of developing and maintaining a national shared digital research data service for UK Higher Education sector. Such a research data service is seen by the project sponsors as forming a crucial component of the UK's e-infrastructure for research and innovation, and one which will add significantly to the UK's global competitiveness.
HEFCE has agreed that the full UKRDS Feasibility Study can be made public. It can be found on the UKRDS website. See http://www.ukrds.ac.uk where the link is in the left hand column marked "The Project's Final Report".
The UKRDS project management board has continued to meet and there are discussions under way with HEFCE and JISC as to the next steps in this project. The likelihood is that there will be some funding available for a further interim phase, to work with some case study universities and their researchers and with some of the existing providers in the research data spectrum, leading to a more detailed proposal for the Pathfinder phase towards end 2009/early 2010.
Edited from an email from Jean Sykes, Librarian and Director of IT Services, London School of Economics and Political Science (29/04/09) and the UKRDS website.
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