ANDS Webinar. Data Management Policies and People

ANDS Webinar Data Management: Policies and People

27 April 2012

Constance Wiebrands & Julia Gross

Edith Cowan University

Seeding the Commons (StC)

at ECU

Seeding the Commons at ECU

Our objectives:

1. Describe twelve datasets

2. Design training for researchers

3. Draft a research data management policy

StC Policy … what we did

Reviewed ECU policies that related to research data Invited ECU research policy expert onto StC project

team Reviewed exemplar policies (Monash, QUT) Attended Research Data Policy Seminar at Uni

Sydney Data Management Plan template drafted (examples

UOW and QUT) Data Management Plan template went to StC

Steering Ctee for input

StC Policy … what we learned

We needed to work within ECU policy framework

ECU had a policy, but not widely known among researchers

Still need to work on procedures and guidelines

Fleshing out the detail for researchers Need a bottom up, and a top down

approach

Buy in from DVC (Research and Advancement) Met individually with key players:

Director Research Office, Assoc Deans Research Faculties, Research Centres, IT, Records, Graduate School, Ethics, Training and Development

Communication global email to all researchers individual emails to targeted researchers StC project webpage

StC People … what we did

Committees StC Steering Ctee. reps from key areas Working group, reps from Library + Research Office

Met with researchers individually Worked with Graduate Research School for

Training targeting online HRD Orientation program

StC People … what we did

Communication need to be catchy, capture attention of researchers message needs to be “what’s in it for me” helps to include endorsement of a senior person … name

dropping!

Researchers are busy, need to follow up, persist, and sometimes work

through a research project assistant or PA

Gained an understanding of difficulties of sharing data in some areas.

How to overcoming objections (eg Ethics and IP) With research data one size does not fit all

StC People … what we learned

Data librarian position

ECU used ANDS funding to establish a research data position

Data librarian worked with the project team During the project the research data librarian

learned new skills, and Gained an understanding of research data

across disciplines Conducted data interviews, working in pairs Wrote up interview, project abstract etc Learned how to create data records manually,

using RIF-CS schema

Data librarian position

Collaboration is key Role crosses over many areas in the

university No one person can know everything Need to discover where the expertise lies

within the organisation outside the organisation … ANDS, eResearch

community etc Where to now? Mainstreaming research data management

This project is supported by the Australian National Data Service (ANDS)

ANDS is supported by the Australian Government through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy Program and the Education

Investment Fund (EIF) Super Science Initiative

 We will now answer your questions