the shifting research data management policy landscape joy davidson and sarah jones
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Because good research needs good data
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Digital Curation for Researchers, 28th February 2013
The Shifting Research Data Management Policy Landscape
Joy Davidson and Sarah JonesDigital Curation Centre, Glasgow
Because good research needs good data
Funded by:
Digital Curation for Researchers, 28th February 2013
Digital Curation CentreJisc-funded consortium comprising units from the
• Universities of Bath (UKOLN)
• Edinburgh (DCC Centre)
• Glasgow (HATII)
Launched 1st March 2004 as a national centre for solving challenges in digital curation that could not be tackled by any single institution or discipline
Because good research needs good data
Digital Curation for Researchers, 27th February 2013
“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
What is data curation?
Because good research needs good data
Digital Curation for Researchers, 27th February 2013
Take a minute and jot down something that you think qualifies as ‘data’.
But, what is data?
Because good research needs good data
Digital Curation for Researchers, 27th February 2013
Research data can be anything! • models and visualisations
• Workflows (Taverna, MyExperiment)
• databases
• raw data (captured from instruments)
• cleaned data (anonymised)
• blogs, tweets
• images
• audio
Whatever researchers are producing!
Because good research needs good data
Digital Curation for Researchers, 27th February 2013
Why does anyone need to curate data?
declarationdata are a public good and should be openly
available
Code of good research conductdata should be preserved and
accessible for 10 years +
Funders’ data policieswww.dcc.ac.uk/resources/policy-and-legal/funders-data-policies Common principles on data policy
www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/Pages/ DataPolicy.aspx
Because good research needs good data
Digital Curation for Researchers, 27th February 2013
Funders’ data policies
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/policy-and-legal/overview-funders-data-policies
Because good research needs good data
Digital Curation for Researchers, 27th February 2013
Not just sticks, there are carrots too!
More citations: 69% ↑ (Piwowar, 2007 in PLoS)
Help prevent data loss
Easier to do your work…
Enable validation of results
Because good research needs good data
Digital Curation for Researchers, 27th February 2013
Who is responsible for RDM?
Research Organisations
Funders
Data centres
Advisory bodies
Support services
Researchers
Publishers
Because good research needs good data
Digital Curation for Researchers, 27th February 2013
Components of a research data service
RDM policies
Archive
Preserve
& Share
Advocacy (senior mgmt & researcher)
Storage
Back-up
Access
Support staff & services
Research
environment&
systems
Tools
Metadata and documentation
Because good research needs good data
Digital Curation for Researchers, 27th February 2013
Components of a research data service
RDM policies
Because good research needs good data
Digital Curation for Researchers, 27th February 2013
Early research data policies
www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/policy-and-legal/institutional-data-policies
“Statement of commitment” Infrastructure policy
“10 commandments”mutual promises
aspirational
Baseline of RCUK Code+ procedures & support
legal compliance stylea section in uni DM policyuseful guide as appendix
Based on Edin. with a few additions
Because good research needs good data
Digital Curation for Researchers, 27th February 2013
http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/datamanagement/rdm-at-gu
Because good research needs good data
Digital Curation for Researchers, 27th February 2013
Because good research needs good data
Digital Curation for Researchers, 27th February 2013
Key questions:
• what data will be created?
• how much storage is needed?
• where will data be stored in the short and longer term?
• are there ethical issues that require consent?
Most funders expect data management & sharing plans at the grant application stage!
Data Management Planning
Because good research needs good data
Digital Curation for Researchers, 27th February 2013
Components of a research data service
Research
environment&
systems
Tools
Because good research needs good data
Digital Curation for Researchers, 27th February 2013
Data management planning
Because good research needs good data
Digital Curation for Researchers, 27th February 2013
Storing data
Key questions:
What is available?
What facilities is needed?- remote access to work from home- file sharing with others- high-levels of security for sensitive data
How will the data be backed up?
Because good research needs good data
Digital Curation for Researchers, 27th February 2013
Active research stage – an ‘academic dropbox’
National level negotiation via Janet brokerage?
www.dataflow.ox.ac.uk Piloted at Lincoln & Edinburgh
http://tiny.cc/owncloud-pilot
Because good research needs good data
Digital Curation for Researchers, 27th February 2013
Key questions:
What information do users need to understand the data?- descriptions of all variables / fields and their values - code labels, classification schema, abbreviations list- information about the project and data creators- tips on usage e.g. exceptions, quirks, questionable results
How will this capture this and who will capture/record it?
Are there standards that need to be followed?
Metadata & documentation
Because good research needs good data
Digital Curation for Researchers, 27th February 2013
Guidance:
Create metadata at the time – it’s hard to do later
Use standards for interoperability
Develop processes so everyone does the same
Record contextual information in a text file (such as a‘read me’ file) in the same directory as the data
Think about how to name, structure & version your fileswww.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/crossmedia/advice/choosing-a-file-name
Because good research needs good data
Digital Curation for Researchers, 27th February 2013
Components of a research data service
Archive
Preserve
& Share
Because good research needs good data
Digital Curation for Researchers, 27th February 2013
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?
Selecting what to keep
Because good research needs good data
Digital Curation for Researchers, 27th February 2013
Archiving – institutional data repositories
Not intended to replace national, subject or other established data
collections
Acknowledge hybrid environment
http://datashare.is.ed.ac.uk
www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/https://databank.ora.ox.ac.uk
Essex-RDR and DataPool at Southampton
Because good research needs good data
Digital Curation for Researchers, 27th February 2013
Archiving – external data centres
Research funders’ data centres…
List of data centres: http://databib.org
Structured databases
Disciplinary& community initiatives
Because good research needs good data
Digital Curation for Researchers, 27th February 2013
Data catalogues (finding data)
Develop a research dataextension to the cerif standard
JISC & DCC planning National coordination
http://cerif4datasets.wordpress.com
Because good research needs good data
Digital Curation for Researchers, 27th February 2013
GU research data catalogue
Because good research needs good data
Digital Curation for Researchers, 27th February 2013
Components of a research data service
Because good research needs good data
Digital Curation for Researchers, 27th February 2013
Guidance and training
http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/datamanagement/
Because good research needs good data
Digital Curation for Researchers, 27th February 2013
Disciplinary training (RDMTrain)
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/training/train-trainer/disciplinary-rdm-training/disciplinary-rdm-training
Because good research needs good data
Digital Curation for Researchers, 27th February 2013
Good data management is about
making informed decisions
Because good research needs good data
Digital Curation for Researchers, 27th February 2013
Any questions?
For DCC guidance, tools and case studies see:www.dcc.ac.uk/resources
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