Research Data Management

Introduction

Anne Spalding

11.12.2013

Session Outline

• Context for research data management

• Activities exploring research data and its importance

• Summary, questions and feedback

Learning Outcomes

• Describe the complex and diverse nature of research data in the visual and creative arts

• Discuss the nature of research data in your field of enquiry

• State the importance of your research data

Context

• Funders

• Open Access

• Research practice

What is Research Data?

• Introduction

• Activity 1– Examples of research data…

• Feedback

Importance?

Activity 2• Why is research data is important to you?

• Why is research data important to your institution?

• Why is research data important to those outside your institution?

Importance?

• You – evidence of your research process and method– Increased discoverability, visibility and citation– in the future may also provide a cultural record

• Institution– research data is expensive to create and therefore a valuable asset– supports external assessment exercises

• Funders– integral part of the research process– Others could be interested in either re-using it or working collaboratively with you– most now have policies which require the research data to be a part of the

research

Defining Research Data

Activity 3

• Critically review the definition of research data in the visual arts

• Define research data in terms of your own field of inquiry

Defining Research Data

“Evidence which is used or created to generate new knowledge and interpretations. ‘Evidence’ may be intersubjective or subjective; physical or emotional; persistent or ephemeral; personal or public; explicit or tacit; and is consciously or unconsciously referenced by the researcher at some point during the course of their research. Research data maybe collated in a structured way to create a dataset to substantiate a particular interpretation analysis or argument. A dataset may or may not lead to a research output, which regardless of method of presentations, is a planned public statement of new knowledge or interpretation.” (Garrett : 2013)

Questions?

Contact details:

aspalding2@ucreative.ac.uk 

Further Information

• http://datalib.edina.ac.uk/mantra/• http://www.dcc.ac.uk/• http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/curation-lifecycle-model • http://kapturmrd01.eventbrite.co.uk/• http://www.projectcairo.org/• http://www.research.ucreative.ac.uk/1054/• http://www.vads4r.ac.uk/kaptur/• http://www.vads4r.vads.ac.uk/p/welcome.html• http://www.vads4r.vads.ac.uk/p/online-learning.html• http://www.vitae.ac.uk/researchers/428241/Researcher-Development-

Framework.html • http://vocab.bris.ac.uk/data/glossary

Assessment

• ORANGE POST-IT– One thing you have learned so far…

• PINK POST-IT– One thing you would like to learn….

Thank you

for listening

and participating

Anne Spalding

Learning Outcomes?

• Describe the complex and diverse nature of research data in the visual arts

• Discuss the nature of research data in your subject area

• State the importance of your research data