ANDS Webinar 30 March 2012 Martin Donnelly & Sarah Jones
Research data management and the Digital Curation Centre
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Running order 1.About the DCC 2.The UK scene 3.Key
trends/topics for deeper discussion i.Data Management Planning
ii.Roadmaps and Policies iii.DCC support for institutional RDM
iv.JISC Managing Research Data programmes 4.Q&A
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Running order 1.About the DCC 2.The UK scene 3.Key
trends/topics for deeper discussion i.Data Management Planning
ii.Roadmaps and Policies iii.DCC support for institutional RDM
iv.JISC Managing Research Data programmes 4.Q&A
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Digital Curation Centre ( ) -Founded in 2004 -Three partners:
Universities of Edinburgh (lead), Glasgow and Bath -Main funder is
JISC, with shorter-term funding from various other sources Helping
to build capacity, capability and skills in data management and
curation across the UKs higher education research community. - DCC
Phase 3 Business Plan
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What do we do? Offer guidance helpdesk, briefing papers, how-to
guides Run training & events DC101, roadshow, RDMF, IDCC
Develop tools CARDIO, DAF, DRAMBORA, DMP Online Support the JISC
esp. via the Managing Research Data programmes
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Support offered by the DCC Assess Needs Make the case Develop
support and services RDM policy development Customised Data
Management Plans DAF & CARDIO assessments Guidance and training
Workflow assessment DCC support team Advocacy with senior
management Institutional data catalogues Pilot RDM tools
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Running order 1.About the DCC 2.The UK scene 3.Key
trends/topics for deeper discussion i.Data Management Planning
ii.Roadmaps and Policies iii.DCC support for institutional RDM
iv.JISC Managing Research Data programmes 4.Q&A
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UK Research Data Management Three key trends: -Economic factors
-Increased openness and sharing -Increasing requirements (and
scrutiny)
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Economic factors Open access to government data (ideological,
UK government driven: private sector should be able to benefit from
public resources)
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6.9 The Research Councils expect the researchers they fund to
deposit published articles or conference proceedings in an open
access repository at or around the time of publication. But this
practice is unevenly enforced. Therefore, as an immediate step, we
have asked the Research Councils to ensure the researchers they
fund fulfil the current requirements. Additionally, the Research
Councils have now agreed to invest 2 million in the development, by
2013, of a UK Gateway to Research. In the first instance this will
allow ready access to Research Council funded research information
and related data but it will be designed so that it can also
include research funded by others in due course. The Research
Councils will work with their partners and users to ensure
information is presented in a readily reusable form, using common
formats and open standards.
http://www.bis.gov.uk/assets/biscore/innovation/docs/i/11-1387-innovation-
and-research-strategy-for-growth.pdf Government pressure on
RCs
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Institutional and funder perspectives -Research today is
technology enabled and data intensive -Data as long-term asset;
identify and preserve -The fragility and cost of digital data;
curate to reuse and preserve -Data sharing: research pooling,
cross-disciplinary and global partnering, new research from old,
the wealth of knowledge -The cost of technology and human
infrastructures -Pressure to show return on public investment of
3.5bn -Compliance with legislation and funder policies -The data
deluge: volume and complexity, not just in HEIs -Financial and
human consequences from lost data -The cost of administering
unmanaged datasets
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Increased openness and sharing Surfing the Tsunami Science, 11
February 2011 For science to effectively function, and for society
to reap the full benefits from scientific endeavours, it is crucial
that science data be made open
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Increasing policy reqts & scrutiny
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Policy EPSRC expects all those institutions it funds to develop
a roadmap that aligns their policies and processes with EPSRCs
expectations by 1 st May 2012; to be fully compliant with these
expectations by 1 st May 2015. Compliance will be monitored and
non-compliance investigated. Failure to share research data could
result in the imposition of sanctions. RCUK Policy and Code of
Conduct on the Governance of Good Research Conduct, 2008 ( updated
October 2011 ) UNACCEPTABLE RESEARCH CONDUCT includes mismanagement
or inadequate preservation of data and/or primary materials,
including failure to: keep clear and accurate records of the
research procedures followed and the results obtained, including
interim results; hold records securely in paper or electronic form;
make relevant primary data and research evidence accessible to
others for reasonable periods after the completion of the research:
data should normally be preserved and accessible for 10 yrs (in
some cases 20 yrs or longer); manage data according to the research
funders data policy and all relevant legislation; wherever
possible, deposit data permanently within a national collection.
Responsibility for proper management and preservation of data and
primary materials is shared between the researcher and the research
organisation.
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Running order 1.About the DCC 2.The UK scene 3.Key
trends/topics for deeper discussion i.Data Management Planning
ii.Roadmaps and Policies iii.DCC support for institutional RDM
iv.JISC Managing Research Data programmes 4.Q&A
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i. Data Management Planning
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DMP-related resources Dealing with Data (Lyon, 2008) Analysis
of Funder Policies (Jones, 2009) Checklist for a Data Management
Plan (Donnelly and Jones, 2009) DMP Online (Donnelly, Richardson
and Pattenden-Fail, 2010-2012) How to Develop a Data Management and
Sharing Plan (Jones, 2011) Edinburgh: Digital Curation Centre Data
Management Plans and Planning (Donnelly, 2012) in Pryor (ed.)
Managing Research Data, London: Facet Links to all DCC resources
via
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/data-management-planshttp://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/data-management-plans
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ii. DMP Online: features Helps users meet requirements from
multiple masters (funders, publishers, institutions) Provides
tailored guidance at point of need Acts as a communication
mechanism between different stakeholder groups Collateral benefit:
raises awareness of RDM issues and may be suitable as a training
tool (new JISC projects exploring this)
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DMP Online v3.0 New features in v3.0 (March 2012) -Overlaying
multiple templates for hybrid DMPs -Template phases (e.g. pre- /
during / post-project) -Granular read / write / share permissions
-Customised institutional versions -API for systems
interoperability -Shibboleth authentication -Multilingual support
-Boilerplate text
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ii. Policies and roadmaps EPSRC expects all those it funds to
have developed a clear roadmap to align their policies and
processes with EPSRCs 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
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Growing list of uni RDM policies
www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/policy-and-legal/institutional-data-policies
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The UK base model www.ed.ac.uk/is/research-data-policy
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iii. DCC support for institutional RDM Three main strands: Data
management roadshows Institutional Engagements New guidance / case
studies
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Data Management roadshows to allow every institution in the UK
to prepare for effective research data management, and understand
more about how the DCC can help
www.dcc.ac.uk/events/data-management-roadshows The roadshow as a
whole will feed into the implementation plan we are developing
following the passing of our RDM policy I was looking for a
foundation in the issues for a librarian. Spot on!
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Exercises at the roadshow Assessing strengths & weaknesses
with CARDIO http://cardio.dcc.ac.uk/quiz Supporting data management
planning www.dcc.ac.uk/webfm_send/770 Making the case for RDM
www.dcc.ac.uk/webfm_send/793 www.dcc.ac.uk/webfm_send/793
Developing a roadmap http://tiny.cc/roadmap-slides
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Institutional Engagements With funding from HEFCE were: Working
intensively with 18 HEIs to increase RDM capability 60 days of
effort per HEI drawn from a mix of DCC staff Deploy DCC &
external tools, 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
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Support offered by the DCC Assess Needs Make the case Develop
support and services RDM policy development Customised Data
Management Plans DAF & CARDIO assessments Guidance and training
Workflow assessment DCC support team Advocacy with senior
management Institutional data catalogues Pilot RDM tools
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Some current IE activities Assessing needs RDM roadmaps
Piloting tools e.g. DataFlow Policy development Policy
implementation
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How to develop RDM services In development! Why develop
services? Roles and responsibilities Process of service development
The components / building blocks Policy Data Management Planning
Storage Data registry..... Getting started Examples and case
studies to develop into toolkit
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iv. JISC MRD programmes MRD 01: October 2009 July 2011 4.3
million investment www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/mrd.aspx
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_researchmana
gement/managingresearchdata.aspx
www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/di_researchmana
gement/managingresearchdata.aspx Programme Manager: Simon Hodson
[email protected]@jisc.ac.uk
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MRD strands Research Data Management Infrastructure (RDMI)
Projects 18 month institutional projects to pilot (& embed) RDM
systems and support services Data Management Planning Projects
Funder collaborations, 6 month disciplinary projects & 12 month
DMP Online pilots Research Data Management Training Materials
Projects Disciplinary courses and professional training for
librarians & support staff Citing, linking, integrating &
publishing data 12 month projects on data publication, citation,
DRYAD-UK pilot, journal policies etc Support and Tools Projects
costs & benefits, skills development, CARDIO tool
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JISC UMF Shared Services & Cloud Various strands,
including: DCC institutional engagement programme Four tools to be
piloted as shared services http://
www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/umf.aspx BRISSkit Managing
sensitive patient data between hospital & university
infrastructure http://tiny.cc/BRISSkit Sheer curation: ease
transition DataStage DataBank www.dataflow.ox.ac.uk Database as a
Service http://vidaas.oucs.ox.ac.uk Smart Research Framework
LabTrove, Blog3, and LabBroker services as a shared virtual
infrastructure www.mylabnotebook.ac.uk www.mylabnotebook.ac.uk
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Key JISC projects to check out 1.DataFlow (tool) 2.Research
Data MANTRA (online training) 3.Sudamih / Incremental (guidance)
4.DMTPsych (customisation of DMP Online) 5.ADMIRe (institutional
approach Uni of Nottingham)
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DataFlow an integrated set of tools to manage data within
projects and then easily transfer to repositories research groups
run own instance of DataStage & institutions deploy
DataBankDataStageDataBank make it easy to preserve and publish
valuable data DOIs assigned to gain academic credit Currently
recruiting users for testing! www.dataflow.ox.ac.uk
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Research Data MANTRA Online RDM course from University of
Edinburgh Includes quizzes, videos, case studies... Available for
reuse CC-BY http://datalib.edina.ac.uk/mantra
DMTPsych PowerPoint slides to be used in taught research
methods courses PowerPoint slides Workbook containing psychology
specific guidance on completing the DCCs Online Data Management
Planning Tool (including worked examples) WorkbookOnline Data
Management Planning Tool A paper copy of the DMPT to be completed
by studentspaper copy of the DMPT www.dmtpsych.york.ac.uk
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ADMIRe http://admire.jiscinvolve.org/wp
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Find out more MRD project blogs:
http://tiny.cc/MRDblogshttp://tiny.cc/MRDblogs Twitter hashtag:
#jiscmrd International conference to showcase outputs planned for
March 2013 in UK
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Running order 1.About the DCC 2.The UK scene 3.Key
trends/topics for deeper discussion i.Data Management Planning
ii.Roadmaps and Policies iii.DCC support for institutional RDM
iv.JISC Managing Research Data programmes 4.Q&A
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Thank you Image credits: Slide 1: DCC Team at IDCC Tim Gander
Slide 25: Networking at the Cambridge roadshow (CC-BY) This work is
licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 UK: Scotland
License. Martin Donnelly Digital Curation Centre University of
Edinburgh [email protected] Twitter: @mkdDCC Sarah Jones
Digital Curation Centre University of Glasgow
[email protected] Twitter: @sjDCC Check out DCC at:
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