Research Data Management @ uWaterloo

WATITIS 2013

RACHEL MCNEILKATHY SZIGETIAGNES ZIENTARSKA-KAYKO

What we will talk about

• The what and why of data management• The international and national situation• What is happening here at Waterloo

Why Manage Data?

“Research cannot flourish if data are not preserved and made accessible. All concerned must act accordingly.”"Editorial: Data's Shameful Neglect" (10 September 2009). Nature 461, 145 doi:10.1038/461145a; Published online 9 September 2009; Corrected 23 September 2009.

What are Research Data?

What is Data Management?

http://www.healthcare-informatics.com/sites/healthcare-informatics.com/files/DataManagement_14505346_SMALLER.jpg. Accessed Nov 27, 2013

Research Data Lifecycle

http://ukdataservice.ac.uk/manage-data/lifecycle.aspx. Accessed Nov 22, 2013

Sample data management plan

• Types of data produced• Data and metadata standards• Policies for access and sharing• Policies for re-use and redistribution• Plans for archiving and preservation

International and National Situation

• United States• United Kingdom • Australia• Canada

United States• Funding Agencies

– National Science Foundation– National Institutes of Health – US Department of Agriculture

• Data Repositories– GenBank– ICPSR– DataONE

United Kingdom• Funding Agencies

– European Union– Natural Environment Research Council– Engineering and Physical Sciences Research

Council • Data Repositories

– UK Data Archive– UK Data Service

• The Digital Curation Centre (DCC)

Australia• Funding Agencies

– Australian Research Council– National Health and Medical Research

Council• Data Repositories

– Australian Data Archive– Australian National Data Service

Canada• Funding Agencies

– The Tri-Council Agencies: CIHR, NSERC, SSHRC, CFI (TC3+)

• Data Repositories– [Polar Data Catalogue]

Canada• Initiatives

– Research Data Canada– Consultation Document from TC3+– CARL: A Proposal for a Canadian Research

Data Management Network– OCUL Cloud Storage Network– CASRAI International Conference

Local Digital Collections

• UWSpace• Dataverse• Polar Data Catalogue

UWSpace

• Waterloo’s Electronic Dissertations and Theses (EDT) repository– Masters and PhD student theses and

dissertations– Recently upgraded to DSpace 3.1 from 1.4

Dataverse

• Provided by Scholars Portal– Research data repository– Hosted on Canadian servers– Privacy options

Polar Data Catalogue

• Arctic and Antarctic researchers– Data and metadata

• Federal Geographic Data Committee standard format

Data Management Day

• Sponsored by the Library and the Polar Data Catalogue

• Annual event during Open Access Week• Raise awareness about open data and

make connections with key players• http://

subjectguides.uwaterloo.ca/datamanagementday

Continuing the Conversation

• Collaborate: Data Management– https://collaborate.uwaterloo.ca/data-manage

ment/

Concluding Remarks

• Data management is coming• Are we ready?

– Library – IT