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Because good research needs good data

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Research Data Management:What’s happening & why should you

care?Kevin Ashley

Director, DCC

director@dcc.ac.uk

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Because good research needs good data

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Why care?

• Data is expensive – an investment• Reuse:

• More research• Teaching & Learning• Planning

• Impact – with or without publication• Accountability• Legal & regulatory requirements

Because good research needs good data

5-year programme to realise maximum value and benefit from research data

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Focus on creating capacity and capability within research institutions

National services, support, coordination from DCC

Because good research needs good data

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•Invest £24m

•Result £120m

•(Wait 5 years…)

Because good research needs good data

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Without good RDM – BAD THINGS HAPPEN

With good RDM – GOOD STUFF HAPPENS

Because good research needs good data

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Funder pressures

Researcher demand

Legal issues

Value Realisation

Because good research needs good data

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http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/about/standards/researchdata/Pages/expectations.aspx

EPSRC expects all those institutions it funds

•to develop a roadmap that aligns … with EPSRC’s expectations by 1st May 2012;

•to be fully compliant … by 1st May 2015.

Because good research needs good data

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• Awareness of regulatory environment

• Data access statement

• Policies and processes

• Data storage

• Structured metadata descriptions

• DOIs for data

• Securely preserved for a minimum of 10 years from last use

Because good research needs good data

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•NERC

•European Commission

•Wellcome

•MRC

•ESRC

•BBSRC

•NSF

Because good research needs good data

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TOOLS & SERVICES

ON-SITE SUPPORT

ADVICE

Because good research needs good data

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Understanding Data Requirements

http://www.dcc.ac.uk/

Because good research needs good data

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Data management plans

Because good research needs good data

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How to cite data

What data to keep

Because good research needs good data

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Data Licensing

• Bespoke licences• Standard licences• Multiple licensing• Licence mechanisms

Because good research needs good data

Institutional Engagement

• In-depth support from team of DCC staff• Helping with:

• Re-skilling• Policy development• Costing• Use of tools• Professional liaison

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Because good research needs good data

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Because good research needs good data

What’s it to you ?• Repositories can be homes for data• They can be homes for metadata• Publications and data need to be linked• Data requires persistent, resolvable identifiers• Institutions need a data policy

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Because good research needs good data

•Institutional Policy

•…article in

•International Journal of Digital Curation www.ijdc.net

Because good research needs good data

•Institutional Policy

Because good research needs good data

•DCC Policy Summary

•http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/policy-and-legal

Because good research needs good data

Because good research needs good data

Words of caution• Data isn’t always like a publication• Don’t push it, don’t force it[1]• It doesn’t always belong to you

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•1. Heywood, O. L. “Don’t push it” Los Angeles: 20th Century (1980)

Because good research needs good data

Roles for you• Someone needs to take leadership

• Bring together library, IT, research office and academic requirements and skills

• Give guidance on appropriate data centres, journal and funder policies on data

• Educate researchers about the benefits• Help with persistent IDs

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Because good research needs good data

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•Or2012.ed.ac.uk 9-13 July 2012

Because good research needs good data

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•IDCC13

•14-16 January 2013

•Amsterdam

•Call for papers now open

JosVanZetten@flickr – CC-BY-NC-ND

Because good research needs good data

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Early results: public data archiving increases scientific contribution by one third

Because good research needs good data

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•OVER TO YOU

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