Because good research needs good data The Shifting
Because good research needs good data The Shifting Research Data Management Policy Landscape Joy Davidson and Sarah Jones Digital Curation Centre, Glasgow joy. davidson@glasgow. ac. uk sarah. jones@glasgow. ac. uk Funded by: C 4 D Workshop, 26 th July 2013
Because good research needs good data Be clear on what activity is being covered in your policy “the active management and appraisal of data over the lifecycle of scholarly and scientific interest” Data have importance as the evidential base of scholarly conclusions Curation is part of good research practice C 4 D Workshop, 26 th July 2013
Because good research needs good data Research data can be anything – be clear on what research data means in your policy! • models and visualisations • Workflows (Taverna, My. Experiment) • databases • raw data (captured from instruments) • cleaned data (anonymised) • blogs, tweets • images • audio Whatever researchers are producing! C 4 D Workshop, 26 th July 2013
Because good research needs good data Funders’ data policies http: //www. dcc. ac. uk/resources/policy-and-legal/overview-funders-data-policies C 4 D Workshop, 26 th July 2013
Because good research needs good data Not just sticks, there are carrots too! Help prevent data loss Enable validation of results More citations 9 -30% increase shown in study (Piwowar H. and Vision T. J 2013 , https: //peerj. com/preprints/1. pdf) Easier to do your work… C 4 D Workshop, 26 th July 2013
Because good research needs good data Components of a research data service C 4 D Workshop, 26 th July 2013
Because good research needs good data Early research data policies “Statement of commitment” Infrastructure policy “ 10 commandments” mutual promises aspirational legal compliance style a section in uni DM policy useful guide as appendix Baseline of RCUK Code + procedures & support Based on Edin. with a few additions www. dcc. ac. uk/resources/policy-and-legal/institutional-data-policies C 4 D Workshop, 26 th July 2013
Because good research needs good data Institutional Roadmaps http: //www. dcc. ac. uk/resources/policy-and-legal/epsrc-institutional-roadmaps C 4 D Workshop, 26 th July 2013
Because good research needs good data http: //www. gla. ac. uk/services/datamanagement/rdm-at-gu C 4 D Workshop, 26 th July 2013
Because good research needs good data C 4 D Workshop, 26 th July 2013
Because good research needs good data Data management planning C 4 D Workshop, 26 th July 2013
Because good research needs good data Active research stage – an ‘academic dropbox’ www. dataflow. ox. ac. uk Piloted at Lincoln & Edinburgh http: //tiny. cc/owncloud-pilot National level negotiation via Janet brokerage? C 4 D Workshop, 26 th July 2013
Because good research needs good data Selecting what to keep Key questions: • What data must be kept? (for validation, etc) • What must not be kept? (e. g. personal data) • Is it worth keeping the data? – cost/benefits • Where will the data be kept? • Who pays? C 4 D Workshop, 26 th July 2013
Because good research needs good data http: //www. dcc. ac. uk/resources/how-guides http: //www. nerc. ac. uk/research/sites/data/documents/data-value-checklist. pdf C 4 D Workshop, 26 th July 2013
Because good research needs good data Archiving – institutional data repositories http: //datashare. is. ed. ac. uk Not intended to replace national, subject or other established data collections Essex-RDR and Data. Pool at Southampton Acknowledge hybrid environment www. dspace. cam. ac. uk/ https: //databank. ora. ox. ac. uk C 4 D Workshop, 26 th July 2013
Because good research needs good data Archiving – external data centres Research funders’ data centres… Structured databases Registries of international data centres Disciplinary& community initiatives C 4 D Workshop, 26 th July 2013
Because good research needs good data Data catalogues (finding data) Develop a research data extension to the cerif standard http: //cerif 4 datasets. wordpress. com JISC & DCC planning National coordination C 4 D Workshop, 26 th July 2013
Because good research needs good data GU research data catalogue C 4 D Workshop, 26 th July 2013
Because good research needs good data Guidance and training http: //dcc. ac. uk/training/dc 101 http: //www. gla. ac. uk/services/datamanagement/ http: //www. jourm. ac. uk/ C 4 D Workshop, 26 th July 2013
Because good research needs good data The DCC offers guidance, examples and tools to help with compliance http: //www. dcc. ac. uk/resources C 4 D Workshop, 26 th July 2013
Because good research needs good data Good data management is about making informed decisions Any questions? Follow us on twitter @digitalcuration and #ukdcc C 4 D Workshop, 26 th July 2013
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