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title: "#IDCC16 Day 0: business models for research data management"
date: 2016-02-22T18:20:55+01:00
slug: idcc16-day-0
draft: false
tags:
- Research communication
- IDCC16
- Research data management
- Conference
- Service planning
---

I'm at the [International Digital Curation Conference 2016][IDCC16] (#IDCC16) in Amsterdam this week. It's always a good opportunity to pick up some new ideas and catch up with colleagues from around the world, and I always come back full of new possibilities. I'll try and do some more reflective posts after the conference but I thought I'd do some quick reactions while everything is still fresh.

Monday and Thursday are pre- and post-conference workshop days, and today I attended [*Developing Research Data Management Services*][workshop]. Joy Davidson and Jonathan Rans from the [Digital Curation Centre (DCC)][] introduced us to the [Business Model Canvas][BMC], a template for designing a business model on a single sheet of paper. The model prompts you to think about all of the key facets of a sustainable, profitable business, and can easily be adapted to the task of building a service model within a larger institution. The DCC used it as part of the [Collaboration to Clarify Curation Costs (4C) project][4C], whose output the [Curation Costs Exchange][CCEx] is also worth a look.

It was a really useful exercise to be able to work through the whole process for an aspect of research data management (my table focused on training & guidance provision), both because of the ideas that came up and also the experience of putting the framework into practice. It seems like a really valuable tool and I look forward to seeing how it might help us with our RDM service development.

Tomorrow the conference proper begins, with a range of keynotes, panel sessions and birds-of-a-feather meetings so hopefully more then!

[IDCC16]: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc16
[workshop]: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc16/workshops#Workshop%201
[Digital Curation Centre (DCC)]: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/
[BMC]: http://www.businessmodelgeneration.com/canvas/bmc
[4C]: http://www.curationexchange.org/about#4cproject
[CCEx]: http://www.curationexchange.org/
