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"The Incremental project is a collaboration between the Cambridge University Library and Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII) at the University of Glasgow. The project is a first step in improving and facilitating the day-to-day and long-term management of research data in higher education institutions (HEI’s)....The volume of digital research data created in HEIs is expanding rapidly, allowing researchers across all disciplines to access, share, transform, and connect large and diverse sets of data. At the same time, this ‘flood’ of digital data introduces new challenges, as volumes become difficult to manage, software becomes obsolete, hardware fails, and the original contexts of data are lost. Research data are valuable resources, often worth hundreds of thousands of pounds per project. Not only does it require considerable time and money to produce these data, but they can often be re-used in future projects, or gain unforeseen value and richness when combined with other data. Many sets of data cannot be reproduced if they are lost or become impossible to interpret...."