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Agenda• Part 1. Introduction to research data management:
activities, roles and requirements• Exercise: Data management quiz• Part 2. Developing data policies and services• Exercise: Developing a roadmap• Part 3: DMP Online tool and guidance
• With thanks to Joy Davidson, Sarah Jones and Kerry Miller (DCC)
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Introduction to Research Data Management: activities, roles and
A Quick Introduction• What is research data management? • Who is involved and how? • What skills and support are needed?
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What is Research Data Management?• Caring for,• Facilitating access to,• Preserving and • Adding value to digital
research data throughout its lifecycle.
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Typical Activities• Creation and sharing of data
• File naming and description
• Dealing appropriately with sensitive data
• Data storage
• Appraisal, selection and disposal
• Data licensing
• Data management planning
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What are the main drivers?• National and international policy development
• The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development describes data as a public good that should be made available
• Research Councils UK in its Code of Good Research Conduct says data should be preserved and accessible for 10 years +
• The data management policies of funding bodies are increasingly demanding of institutional commitment and provisions ...
• The needs of• Researchers
• Institutions
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Benefits to researchers• Scholarly communication/access to data • Re-purposing and re-use of data • Stimulating new networks/collaborations & • new research • Knowledge transfer to industry • Verification of research/research integrity • Re-purposing data for new audiences • Secure storage for data intensive research • Availability of data underpinning journal articles • Increased visibility/citation
Keeping Research Data Safe Factsheet http://www.beagrie.com/KRDS_Factsheet_0910.pdf Keeping Research Data Safe Factsheet http://www.beagrie.com/KRDS_Factsheet_0910.pdf
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The researcher perspective• Managing and sharing data is simply part of good
research:• Adhering to disciplinary and/or institutional codes of practice
and policies• Has been practiced since the advent of modern science, but
not always consistently; data intensive research makes it even more critical
• Meeting the specific requirements of funding bodies
• Reputational risks if data management is not handled properly
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Institutional drivers• Safeguarding research integrity• Increasing number of FOI requests for data• Adhering to existing codes of research practice and ethics • Developing new institution-wide strategies, policies and services
for data storage and management• Increased institutional focus on research management (e.g., in
response to REF) • Benchmarking – self-assessing infrastructure and planning for
improvement • More demands but less resources to work with
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Research codes of practice (1)• UK Research Integrity Office Code of Practice for
Research (2009)Data management planning is an essential part of research design
Organisations should have in place procedures, resources (including physical space) and administrative support to assist researchers in the accurate and efficient collection of data and its storage in a secure and accessible form [3.12.5]
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Research codes of practice (2)• RCUK Code of Conduct on the Governance of Good
Research Conduct (2011)Primary data and research evidence [should be made] 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)
Responsibility for proper management and preservation of data and primary materials is shared between the researcher and the research organisation [although deposit within national collections is endorsed]
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Research funding bodies• UK Research Councils
• Help fund some data archives, e.g.:• Archaeology Data Service, European Bioinformatics
Institute, the NERC data centres, UK Data Archive• Support for JISC (and DCC)• RCUK Common Principles on Data Policy
• Recognises that data are a critical output of the research process
RCUK Principles (in a nutshell)• Publicly funded research data should be made openly available
• Data with acknowledged long-term value should be preserved and remain accessible and usable for future research
• Sufficient metadata should be recorded to enable other researchers to find and understand the research to enable re-use; published results should always include information on how to access the supporting data
• Recognition that there may be legal, ethical and commercial constraints
• Recognition that researchers may need privileged use of data for a limited period
• All users of research data should acknowledge their sources
• Appropriate to use public funds to support MRD
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Funder expectations• Institutions need to inform themselves about main
funder policies (mandates) with respect to research data management
• There is an explicit link between research income and appropriate data management infrastructures
EPSRC expectations (1)• EPSRC policy (2011) expected all institutions
receiving grant funding:• To develop a roadmap aligning their policies and processes
with EPSRC’s expectations by 1st May 2012• To be fully compliant with these expectations by 1st May
2015
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EPSRC expectations (2)• Appropriate metadata (including unique IDs) to be made
freely available on the Internet within 12 months of data generation
• Data not generated in digital format should be stored in a manner to facilitate it being shared
• Data should be securely preserved for a minimum of 10 years after privileged access expires or the last date access was requested by a third party
• Adequate resources from existing funding streams• EPSRC will monitor progress and compliance, and reserves
the right to impose appropriate sanctions
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Implications for researchers• Increasing number of research councils and funding bodies with data
management and sharing requirements
• Potential loss of research income if these mandates are not met
• Need to determine the costs associated with short and longer-term management and curation and to request funds as part of grant
• Responsibility for infrastructure shifting more to HEIs and less to centralised data archives, but institutional infrastructures and services are still emerging
• Need guidance - some good external support
• But also need more local support; often fragmented (need to draw upon existing channels within your institution wherever possible)
• Data documentation and metadata – layered approaches: top-level discovery (core metadata, collection/experiment-level?), role of standards like DCMI, CERIF, DDI, etc.
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Activities, roles, requirements (5)• Data issues:
• Appraisal: selection criteria, retention periods (who decides?)• DCC How to appraise and select research data for
curation guide• Documentation: metadata, schema, semantics• Formats: proprietary formats, community standards, etc.• Provenance and authenticity• Citation (assignment of persistent IDs?) • Access (embargo policies?)• Licensing
• DCC How to license research data guide
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Who are involved?• Funding bodies• Archives / long-term data repositories• At institutions:
• Senior management• Researcher(s)• Research support officers / project staff• Lab technicians• Librarians / Data Centre staff• Faculty ethics committees• Institutional legal / IP advisors• FOI officer / DPA officer / records manager• Computing support• Institutional compliance officers
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Approaching the Issue• What data exist and are being created?• Where are greatest recoups on investment available?
• Training?• Storage?• Policy development
• What are the requirements?• Who needs to be involved?
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Making the most of what we’ve got
• Local expertise more widespread than you think• Ethics committees
• Data protection office
• IT Services
• Repository Service
• If you need help, ask!
From University of Glasgow’s Data Management micro-site
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Data management planning• A plan to address critical data management issues:
• What data will be created (format, types) and how?
• How will the data be documented and described?
• How will ethics and intellectual property considerations be addressed?
• What are the plans for data sharing and access?
• What is the strategy for long-term preservation?
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Integrating is a tricky business• Make a sound case for investing in data management training • Draw upon existing policies and mandates wherever you can• Spend some time identifying current data holdings, researchers’
practice and future training needs• Make sure you are putting your effort where it will count• Don’t reinvent the wheel – augment or adapt existing training
and support materials with data management aspects
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What the DCC can help with
Delivering support
Customised Data Management Plans – templates / guidance to be added to DMP Online
Training – institutional/disciplinary tailored courses, online resources
Incremental – repackaging existing support to raise awareness and make guidance more meaningful to researchers
Developing strategic institutional RDM framework
Strategy development – getting key people together to discuss/plan for RDM
Policy development – scoping, defining, embedding research data policies
Costing - assist with the development of costing and pricing for RDM services
Risk management - identify risks in RDM practice and recommend mitigations
Institutional data catalogues - recommend options for exposing metadata about your research data via CRIS systems, repositories, or a mix of these
Needs assessment
CARDIO Tool– collaborative assessment & benchmarking of RDM strengths/weaknesses
Data Asset Framework – interviews to scope current RDM practice and recommend improvements
Workflow assessment – methodology for analysing current RDM workflows
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Exercise: How are you performing?• Individually, complete the quick data management
quiz (5 mins)• Compare results, try to learn from those with
confidence in those areas in which you consider yourself to be weaker (10 mins)
• Based on your group’s discussions... • Write down one practical thing you can do at work in order to
edge towards an A.
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Part 2:Developing data policies and
services
Based on a presentation prepared by Sarah Jones (Digital Curation Centre)
• £2m funding to date• Petascale facility – expandable• 3 machine rooms – resilience (tape archive 2012)• Available to all researchers for research data
http://data.bris.ac.uk
1st 5TB free per Data Steward then £400 per TB p.a. for disk storage; tape backup £40 per TB
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Tools – an ‘academic dropbox’
National level negotiation via Janet brokerage?
www.dataflow.ox.ac.uk Piloted at Lincoln & Edinburgh
http://tiny.cc/owncloud-pilot
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Archiving – institutional data repositories
Not intended to replace national, subject or other
Funding body requirements• Typically a short (c.1-2 pp) statement, covering:
• What data will be created (format, types, volume, avoidance of duplication)
• Standards and methodologies to be used (including metadata)
• How ethics and Intellectual Property will be addressed• Plans for data sharing and access • Strategy for long-term preservation
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DCC support• Guidance• Examples• Tools
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What is DMP Online? • A web-based tool to help researchers write plans• It features:
• Templates based on different requirements • Tailored guidance (disciplinary, funder etc) • Customised exports to a variety of formats• Ability to share DMPs with others
• https://dmponline.dcc.ac.uk
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Start a plan Pick relevant
fundertemplate
Get a list of their
specific questions
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Create a plan at the
bid stage
...answer the questions based on initial researchideas
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Once funded, flesh the plan
out(roles, etc)
...answer the questions based on detailed workplan
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When project is finished
...answer the questions based on the outputs that are beingkept