research data management (rdm) initiatives

Research Data Management (RDM) initiatives

Sarah JonesDigital Curation Centre

sarah.jones@glasgow.ac.ukTwitter: sjDCC

WHY IS RDM IMPORTANT TO UNIS?

“Data sets are becoming the

new instruments of science”

Dan Atkins, University of Michigan

Digital data as the new special

collections?

Sayeed Choudhury, Johns Hopkins

Research data: institutional

crown jewels?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lifes__too_short__to__drink__cheap__wine/4754234186/

Expectations of public access“Publicly funded research data are a public good,

produced in the public interest, which should be made openly available with as few restrictions as possible in a timely and responsible manner that

does not harm intellectual property.”

RCUK Common Principles on Data Policyhttp://www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/Pages/DataPolicy.aspx

7http://www.bis.gov.uk/innovatingforgrowth

…open data

...personal data

“EPSRC expects all those it funds to have developed a clear roadmap to align their policies and processes with EPSRC’s expectations by 1st May 2012, and to be fully compliant with these

expectations by 1st May 2015.”

www.epsrc.ac.uk/about/standards/researchdata/Pages/default.aspx

...institutional responsibility

HOW IS RDM BEING SUPPORTED?- DCC Institutional Engagements- Jisc Managing Research Data programmes

The DCC Mission

“Helping to build capacity, capability and

skills in data management and

curation across the UK’s higher education

research community”

Phase 3 Business Plan

www.dcc.ac.uk

DCC Institutional Engagements

With funding from HEFCE we’re:

• Working intensively with 21 HEIs to increase RDM capability– 60 days of effort per HEI drawn from a mix of DCC staff– Deploy DCC & external tools, new approaches & best practice

• Support varies based on what each institution wants/needs

• Lessons & examples will be shared with the community

www.dcc.ac.uk/community/institutional-engagements

Some unis we are working with

Common DCC IE activities• Establishing steering groups

• Making the case for RDM

• Assessing needs

• Developing policy and strategy

• Piloting tools

• Offering DMP consultations

• Delivering training

• Setting up guidance websites

• ...

Jisc MRD programmes• MRD 01: October 2009 – July 2011– £4.3 million investment– www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/mrd.aspx

• MRD 02 – October 2011 – July 2013– £4.6 million investment– www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/di_research

management/managingresearchdata.aspx

Programme Manager: Simon Hodson s.hodson@jisc.ac.uk

Jisc MRD strands

• RDM Infrastructure projects

• DMP projects – guidance, training and tools

• RDM training – disciplinary and support staff

• Citation and publishing

DEVELOPING RDM SERVICES- Examples of RDM initiatives at UK unis

Components of RDM services

Institutional RDM policies

www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/policy-and-legal/institutional-data-policies

Early research data policies

“Statement of commitment” Infrastructure policy

“10 commandments”mutual promises

aspirational

Baseline of RCUK Code+ procedures & support

legal tone / languagea section in uni DM policyuseful guide as appendix

Based on Edin. with a few additions

RDM strategies and roadmaps

A series of blog postswww.dcc.ac.uk/news

Links to example roadmapshttp://tiny.cc/EPSRCroadmaps

University of Bath RDM roadmap

• Based on Monash University RDM strategy• Identifies the current position and proposes activity• Defines roles and responsibilities and timeframes

http://www.bath.ac.uk/rdso/University-of-Bath-Roadmap-for-EPSRC.pdf

Guidance webpages

www.gla.ac.uk/datamanagement www.bath.ac.uk/research/data

Training

http://datalib.edina.ac.uk/mantra

Training for librarians• Data Intelligence for librarians, 3TU, Netherlands

http://dataintelligence.3tu.nl/en/about-the-course • DIY Training Kit for Librarians, University of Edinburgh

http://datalib.edina.ac.uk/mantra/libtraining.html

• RDM for librarians, DCChttp://www.dcc.ac.uk/training/rdm-librarians

• RDMRose, University of Sheffieldhttp://rdmrose.group.shef.ac.uk

• SupportDM modules, University of East Londonhttp://www.uel.ac.uk/trad/outputs/resources

Data Management Planning support

• Guidelines / templates on what to include in plans

• Example answers, guidance and links to local support

• A library of successful DMPs to reuse

• Tailored consultancy services

• Online tools (e.g. customised DMPonline)

• Links / flags embedded in grant systems

• ...

Research data storage

Blue Peta at Bristol1st 5TB free per Data Steward then £400 per TB p.a. for disk storage; tape backup £40 per TB

http://data.bris.ac.uk

• £2m funding to date• Petascale facility – expandable• 3 machine rooms – resilience (tape archive 2012)• Available to all researchers for research data

Institutional data repositories

Not intended to replace national, subject or other established data

repositories

Acknowledge hybrid environment

http://datashare.is.ed.ac.uk

www.dspace.cam.ac.ukhttps://databank.ora.ox.ac.uk

Research Data at Essex and DataPool at Southampton

Bringing it all together into a service

Diagram courtesy of Sally Rumsey, University of Oxford

What do you still need to do?

Guide and case studies: www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/developing-rdm-services

Thanks – any questions?

DCC guidance, tools and case studies:www.dcc.ac.uk/resources

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