Presentation given to SCURL on the 17th April 2013. It gives some high-level context on the significance of RDM and points to work from the Jisc Managing Research Data programme and DCC Institutional Engagements as examples to reuse.
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1. Research Data Management (RDM) initiatives Sarah Jones
Digital Curation Centre [email protected]:
sjDCC
2. WHY IS RDM IMPORTANT TO UNIS? 3. Data sets are becoming
thenew instrumentsof scienceDan Atkins, University of Michigan 4.
Digital data as the new special collections?Sayeed Choudhury, Johns
Hopkins 5. Research data:institutionalcrown
jewels?http://www.flickr.com/photos/lifes__too_short__to__drink__cheap__wine/4754234186/
6. Expectations of public accessPublicly 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 thatdoes not harm intellectual property.RCUK
Common Principles on Data
Policyhttp://www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/Pages/DataPolicy.aspx 7. open
datahttp://www.bis.gov.uk/innovatingforgrowth 7 8. ...personal data
9. EPSRC expects all those it funds to have developed a clear
roadmap to align their policies and processes with EPSRCs
expectations by 1stMay 2012, and to be fully compliant with
theseexpectations by 1st May 2015....institutional
responsibilitywww.epsrc.ac.uk/about/standards/researchdata/Pages/default.aspx
10. HOW IS RDM BEING SUPPORTED?- DCC Institutional Engagements-
Jisc Managing Research Data programmes 11. The DCC MissionHelping
to build capacity,capability and skills in datamanagement and
curationacross the UKs higher education research community Phase 3
Business Planwww.dcc.ac.uk 12. DCC Institutional EngagementsWith
funding from HEFCE were: 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
communitywww.dcc.ac.uk/community/institutional-engagements 13. Some
unis we are working with 14. 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 ... 15. 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.aspxProgramme Manager: Simon Hodson
[email protected] 16. Jisc MRD strands RDM Infrastructure
projects DMP projects guidance, training and tools RDM training
disciplinary and support staff Citation and publishing 17.
DEVELOPING RDM SERVICES- Examples of RDM initiatives at UK unis 18.
Components of RDM services 19. Institutional RDM
policieswww.dcc.ac.uk/resources/policy-and-legal/institutional-data-policies
20. Early research data policies legal tone / languageStatement of
commitmenta section in uni DM policy Infrastructure policyuseful
guide as appendix10 commandmentsmutual promises aspirational Based
on Edin. Baseline of RCUK Code with a few + procedures &
supportadditions 21. RDM strategies and roadmaps A series of blog
posts www.dcc.ac.uk/newsLinks to example roadmaps
http://tiny.cc/EPSRCroadmaps 22. 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
23. Guidance webpageswww.gla.ac.uk/datamanagement
www.bath.ac.uk/research/data 24. Training
http://datalib.edina.ac.uk/mantra 25. Training for librarians Data
Intelligence for librarians, 3TU,
Netherlandshttp://dataintelligence.3tu.nl/en/about-the-course DIY
Training Kit for Librarians, University of
Edinburghhttp://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 26. 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 ... 27. Research data storage 2m funding
to date Petascale facility expandable 3 machine rooms
resilience(tape archive 2012) Available to all researchers
forresearch data 1st 5TB free per Data Steward then Blue Peta at
Bristol 400 per TB p.a. for disk storage; tape backup 40 per
TBhttp://data.bris.ac.uk 28. Institutional data repositoriesNot
intended toreplace national,subject or
otherhttp://datashare.is.ed.ac.ukestablished data Research Data at
Essex andDataPool at Southamptonrepositories Acknowledge
hybridenvironment www.dspace.cam.ac.ukhttps://databank.ora.ox.ac.uk
29. Bringing it all together into a serviceDiagram courtesy of
Sally Rumsey, University of Oxford 30. What do you still need to
do?Guide and case
studies:www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/developing-rdm-services 31. Thanks
any questions?DCC guidance, tools and case studies:
www.dcc.ac.uk/resourcesFollow us on twitter:@digitalcuration and
#ukdcc
