andrew gray
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Towards a research data management policy at
Goldsmiths
Goldsmiths
• Top 20 in UK for Arts and Humanities
• Top 30 in UK for Social Sciences and Management
• 5313 undergraduates
• 2845 postgraduates
• 1500 staff
• Range of disciplines
• ‘major investments are difficult to find in this turbulent and uncertain funding environment. Consequently our future planning…places a clear emphasis on identifying new academic ventures and new ways of working that would not just bolster our reputation but also bring financial benefit’
Case Study
• Environmental Assessment
• Key teams
• RDM working policy group
• The policy
• Data Repository
• Key Recommendations
http://www.flickr.com/photos/articnomad/16153058/sizes/z/in/photostream/
Researchers vs Everyone else
• Painters
• Sculptors
• Video artists
• Art historians
• 3d model designers
• Furniture designers
• Installation artists
• Research office
• Library
• IT
• Senior management
• Funders
Moonie Wedding Crowe, Nick and Rawlinson, Ian. http://eprints.gold.ac.uk/6751/
EA: Terminology
materials, things, information, stuff, data
EA: Process “anything’s part of it”
EA: Roles
Dean, Mark. 2010. Christian Disco http://eprints.gold.ac.uk/7093/
EA: Collaboration
Otto (2012) Crowe, Nick and Rawlinson, Ian. http://eprints.gold.ac.uk/6756/
EA: Access
Bad Chair Day"2003 Annie Whiles http://eprints.gold.ac.uk/4681/
Library and Research Office
• Goldsmiths Research Online
• Roadshows
• RAE/REF
• Access to researchers
• Regular meetings
• Training
Two East German Drinking Glasses, 2009 Crowe, Nick and Rawlinson, Ian. http://eprints.gold.ac.uk/6752/
IT/Faculty/Senior Management
• Key individuals
• Policy landscape
• Record management
• Data storage
• Training provisions
Born out of pleasure – Harrell Fletcher http://eprints.gold.ac.uk/7655/
RDM Policy Working Group
• Reviewed existing policies and regulations
• Data storage
• Training provisions
• Funder requirements
• Draft policy
• Group set up
• DCC
• Ratification and approval
Not yet Whiles, Annie 2008 http://eprints.gold.ac.uk/2890
The policy!
• Agreed standards/Funding body requirements
• Throughout research data lifecycle
• PI responsibility • Capture, management,
integrity, confidentiality, retention, sharing, reuse, publication
• College will preserve access (up to 10 years)
• Deposit elsewhere should be registered
• FOI needs to be considered • Data repository
Unrealised Project – Mabb, David http://eprints.gold.ac.uk/7360/
Data Repository
• http://eprints-data.gold.ac.uk/
• Eprints Services
• Library Research Support Team
• Storage under review
• Record of the data
Untitled - Kelly, Susan. 2012. JURISDICTIONS. http://eprints.gold.ac.uk/7263/
Key Recommendations
• Meet with individuals on a semi-informal basis first
• Identify key people
• Be practical
• Specific recommendations
• Tie-in RDM actions with wider improvements to research support
• Tie-in RDM plans with university’s strategic aims
• Ratifying a policy about research data management is just one step towards better research data management
Harper, Andy. 2011. Towards a New Architecture. http://eprints.gold.ac.uk/7088/
Thanks and Questions
Andrew gray [email protected]
http://www.gold.ac.uk/research-data/
Whiles, Annie. 2011. Beggars Belief. http://eprints.gold.ac.uk/6916/