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Research Data Management (RDM) initiatives Sarah Jones Digital Curation Centre [email protected] Twitter: sjDCC

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Research Data Management (RDM) initiatives

Sarah JonesDigital Curation Centre

[email protected]: sjDCC

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WHY IS RDM IMPORTANT TO UNIS?

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“Data sets are becoming the

new instruments of science”

Dan Atkins, University of Michigan

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Digital data as the new special

collections?

Sayeed Choudhury, Johns Hopkins

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Research data: institutional

crown jewels?

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

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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

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

…open data

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...personal data

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“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

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

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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

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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

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Some unis we are working with

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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

• ...

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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 [email protected]

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Jisc MRD strands

• RDM Infrastructure projects

• DMP projects – guidance, training and tools

• RDM training – disciplinary and support staff

• Citation and publishing

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DEVELOPING RDM SERVICES- Examples of RDM initiatives at UK unis

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Components of RDM services

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Institutional RDM policies

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

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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

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RDM strategies and roadmaps

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

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

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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

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Guidance webpages

www.gla.ac.uk/datamanagement

www.bath.ac.uk/research/data

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Training

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

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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

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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

• ...

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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

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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

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Bringing it all together into a service

Diagram courtesy of Sally Rumsey, University of Oxford

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What do you still need to do?

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

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Thanks – any questions?

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

Follow us on twitter: @digitalcuration and #ukdcc