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AuthorRaman Ganguly

Raman became part of the team of the Computer Centre at the University of Vienna in 2008. Since 2011, one of his main focuses is the management and archiving of research and educational data. In this capacity, he is responsible for designing the technical infrastructure of the data management ecosystem of the University and for the sustainable operation of the technical infrastructure for long-term data preservation. He is the technical director of the PHAIDRA digital asset management system for long-term preservation. PHAIDRA is currently used by the University of Vienna and 21 institutions throughout Europe.

A focus group study on data sharing and research data management

There are growing calls that data from publicly funded research should be publicly available. And, while many academic institutions across the globe now mandate data sharing as part of a data management plan, there is often a gap in the training available to researchers. Our guest on this edition of Epistemicast has sought to analyse and address this challenge. In an inspirational paper in the...

Challenges of digitizing information in museums and science institutions

This episode of Epistemicast explores the challenges of digitizing information in museums and science institutions. We learn from Hanna’s pragmatic approach and her choice to use an open source repository as a solution to the problem of data being locked away and inaccessible to others. She explains how the repository now, not only serves as a tool for in-house collections, but also as a much...

Digital Humanities in the API Economy

The inner workings of organisations from lean tech start-ups, to government departments and the largest global corporations are all being abstracted into open, standardised and easily accessible Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Shielded from the complexities of the underlying IT systems, the API economy is giving birth to a new breed of online entrepreneurship. How do we get things...

exploring open academia