RDM training

part one: basic principles

Anne Spalding

16.01.2013

Session outline

• Overview of the first hour

• Learning outcomes

• Kaptur project at UCA

Learning outcomes

• Understand the nature of research data in the visual arts.

• Appreciate the importance of research data and funder

requirements.

• Recognise the basic principles of appropriate curation and

preservation of research data.

Kaptur project at UCA

• Interviews

• Environmental Assessment Report

• RDM policy at UCA

What is research data?

• Introduction

• Discussion in pairs/groups

• Feedback

Why?

The importance of research data

• Drivers

• AHRC

• Good research practice

Definitions of research data

• "Anything which is used or created to generate new knowledge and

interpretations. ‘Anything’ may be objective or subjective; physical or

emotional; persistent or ephemeral; personal or public; explicit or

tacit; and is consciously or unconsciously referenced by the

researcher at some point during the course of their research.

Research data may or may not lead to a research output, which

regardless of method of presentation, is a planned public statement

of new knowledge or interpretation.“

Leigh Garrett

Principles of data curation

and preservation, 1 – overview

Why curate

What is it?

Preservation

Principles of data curation

and preservation, 2 – data lifecycle

• DCC curation lifecycle model

Principles of data curation

and preservation, 3 - curation

select -what

-why

-who

curate

FOI

IPR

ethical

Funder, requirements

internal policy/research

present

showcase organise

formats

metadata

look after/ preserve

Principles of data curation

and preservation, 4 - preservation

• Longevity

• Integrity

• Accessibility

Assessment

• One thing you know now that you didn’t know before today

– Pink post it note

• What more would you like to know

– Yellow post it note

• What are you expecting from session two

– Green post it note

Learning outcomes met?

• Understand the nature of research data in the visual arts.

• Appreciate the importance of research data and funder

requirements.

• Recognise the basic principles of appropriate curation and

preservation of research data.

Selected further sources

• Pryor, Graham ed. (2012). Managing Research Data. London: Facet Publishing

• http://datalib.edina.ac.uk/mantra/

• http://www.dcc.ac.uk/

• http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/curation-lifecycle-model

• http://kapturmrd01.eventbrite.co.uk/

• http://www.projectcairo.org/ • http://www.research.ucreative.ac.uk/1054/

• http://www.vads.ac.uk/kaptur/

• http://vocab.bris.ac.uk/data/glossary

• Online sources accessed January 2013

Questions?