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The basics
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Research Data Management Workshop 1.1
Learning outcomes
At the end of Workshop 1 you will be able to:• Discuss the definition of ‘Research Data Management’ and
‘Digital curation’• Outline the research process and reflect on the nature of
research data• Be able to compare different models of the data lifecycle• Describe the content of a data management plan (DMP)• Describe the strategic context within which RDM has appeared
on the agenda and the key drivers and issues for researchers• Reflect on the potential of the area for your interests/ career• Know where to find out more
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Session 1.1 overview
• What is research like?• What is data?• The RDM challenge• What is research data management?
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WHAT IS RESEARCH LIKE ?
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Activity 1
• What is your understanding of the nature of “research”?
• What is your experience with it?
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Conceptualising and networking
Proposal writing and research
design
Collecting and analysing data
InfrastructuringDocumenting and describing
Publishing and reporting
Engaging and translating
The research cycle (RIN, 2010)
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Features of research
• Cyclic• Iterative• Non-linear
• Complex through collaboration– Large scale– Remote collaborators
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WHAT IS DATA?
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Activity 2
• Name some examples of research data!
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A list we came up with earlier...
• Weather measurements• Photographs• Results from experiments• Government records• GIS data• Simulation data• Log data• Field notes• Software
• Images (e.g. brain scans)• Quantitative data (e.g.
household survey data)• Historical documents• Moving images• Physical objects: such as
bones or blood samples• Digitised photos / born
digital photos• Social media data: tweets• Metadata
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What is data?
• Some researchers use other terms, eg “sources”• Complex: data can be produced from other data• “Volume, Variety, Velocity”• Fragile• What is the data? The sound files of interviews,
the transcripts, summaries of interviews, notes on interviews???
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Definitions of data
• “The data, records, files or other evidence, irrespective of their content or form (eg in print, digital, physical or other forms), that comprise a research project’s observations findings or outcomes, including primary materials and analysed data” (Monash University, 2010)
• “Qualitative or quantitative statements or numbers that are (or assumed to be) factual. Data may be raw or primary data (eg direct from measurement), or derivative of primary data, but are not yet the product of analysis or interpretation other than calculation” (Royal Society, 2012: 12)
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THE RDM CHALLENGE
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Imagine
If you went round researchers’ offices talking to them about their data:• How much they have?• How they store and back it up?• Can they always refind it?• Whether they share it?• Who owns it
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Duffy (2013) on scale of the data issue at University of Birmingham
• 3000 items in institutional repository• 50,000 items in special collections• 75,000 publications for REF• 2,700,000 items in library• 700,000,000 folders in top 100 accounts• Perhaps 1,000,000,000 folders for the whole
university
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Complexity of information practices
• Information flow maps for life science research (RIN, 2009) e.g. in neuroscience illustrate– Multiple data sources, of different types
• Visual images, quantitative data, secondary data
– Storage devices– Multiple analytic tools
• Some requiring grid power
– Supporting complex scholarly communication• Different communities do things differently, eg in
terms of file types, tools used
A short (incomplete) history of research data policy in UK
• National data centres have existed for a number of decades• 1990s Growing interest in “digital curation” (Higgins, 2011)• Late 90s cyber-science, e-science, e-research• 2004 DCC founded• 2004, 2007 OECD “principles and guidelines”• 2005 - UK Research funders first phase of policy• 2009 UKRDS not funded; first JISC MRD programme• 2010 UK general election• 2011 new RCUK joint statement and EPSRC policy framework and
expectations– Harmonisation, shift from curation to sharing, more detail in policy (Jones, 2012)
• Institutional policies; second JISC MRD programme • 2012 Royal Society’s “Science as an open enterprise”
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Mandating good RDM
• Funders’ mandates– Research Councils UK Common Principles on Data
Policy: http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/Pages/DataPolicy.aspx
– EPSRC principles and expectations: http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/about/standards/researchdata/Pages/default.aspx
Activity 3
• Read your or another institution’s research data policy:– What are the two most important points you pick
up from this document?– According to this policy, what are the incentives to
take Research Data Management seriously?• You can find research data policies at http://
www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/policy-and-legal/institutional-data-policies
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Science as an open enterprise
• Data is not a private preserve
• Credit for data communication – an open data culture
• Common standards• Scientific journals require
data communication• More data scientists• New software tools
• “legitimate boundaries”:– Commercial value– Privacy– Safety– Security
“Open inquiry is at the heart of the scientific enterprise”
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What should “data communication” be like?
• Accessible – can be found• Intelligible – must be understandable to other
researchers• Assessable – potential to be evaluated• Usable – should be in form for reuse
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What is data sharing?
• With future self• With collaborators • With collaborators
beyond the institution• By request• Linked to a publication• Open data in a
repository
• Link to “open access” agenda?
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Open data?
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2zK3sAtr-4&feature=youtu.be
WHAT IS RESEARCH DATA MANAGEMENT?
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RDM: definition
• “Research data management concerns the organisation of data, from its entry to the research cycle through to the dissemination and archiving of valuable results.” (Whyte & Tedds, 2011)
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Digital curation
• “Digital curation, broadly interpreted, is about maintaining and adding value to a trusted body of digital information for current and future use.” (DCC, n.d.: 6)– Managing digital material from the point it is created– Adding value so that it can be used and re-used– Includes the destruction of data– Beyond archiving and preservation
• “Digital curation is concerned with actively managing data for as long as it continues to be of scholarly, scientific, research and/or administrative interest, with the aim of supporting reproducibility of results, reuse of and adding value to that data, managing it from its point of creation until it is determined not to be useful, and ensuring its long-term accessibility and preservation, authenticity and integrity.”
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Practical RDM
• Store data securely • Back data up• Use filename conventions and version control
– objective– meaningful– concise– standardised
• Dispose of data• Understand legal issues (e.g. Data Protection Act,
Freedom of Information Act), copyright and licensing issues
Data loss stories: https://code.soundsoftware.ac.uk/projects/sodamat/wiki/Evidence_Promoting_Good_Data_Management
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What might you be asked?
• Where to locate data for reuse in research• How to complete a DMP for a research
proposal• How to write an ethics proposal to ensure that
can produce open research data• How to cite data • How to store data in the short or long run
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Research Data Services
Activity 4: Reflection
• Which aspects of support to research are you most interested in, and why?
• How do they fit into your future role as an information professional?
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IMAGES AND REFERENCES
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Images
• Slide 31:– Jones, S., Pryor, G. & Whyte, A. (2013). ‘How to
Develop Research Data Management Services - a guide for HEIs’. DCC How-to Guides. Edinburgh: Digital Curation Centre. Available online: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/how-guides
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References• DCC (n.d.). DC 101: What is digital curation? Edinburgh: Digital Curation Centre. Retrieved from
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/webfm_send/437.• Duffy, S. (2013) Managing research data in an open access world RLUK AGM April,
http://www.rluk.ac.uk/events/rluk-agm-2013-exeter/ • Higgins, S. (2011). Digital Curation: the Emergence of a New Discipline. The International Journal of
Digital Curation, 6(2), 78-88.• Jones, S. (2012) Developments in Research Funder Data Policy. International Journal of Digital
Curation 7 (1), 114-125• Monash University (2010) Monash University Research Data Policy. • RIN. (2009). Patterns of information use and exchange : case studies of researchers in the life sciences.
London. Retrieved from http://rinarchive.jisc-collections.ac.uk/our-work/using-and-accessing-information-resources/patterns-information-use-and-exchange-case-studie
• RIN. (2010). Open to All? Case Studies of Openness in Research. London. Retrieved from http://rinarchive.jisc-collections.ac.uk/our-work/data-management-and-curation/open-science-case-studies.
• The Royal Society. (2012). Science as an open enterprise. Retrieved from https://royalsociety.org/policy/projects/science-public-enterprise/Report/.
• Whyte, A., & Tedds, J. (2011). Making the case for Research Data Management. Edinburgh: Digital Curation Centre. Retrieved from http://www.dcc.ac.uk/webfm_send/487.
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