Because good research needs good data Funded by: C4D Workshop, 26 th July 2013 The Shifting Research Data Management Policy Landscape Joy Davidson and Sarah Jones Digital Curation Centre, Glasgow

Because good research needs good data C4D Workshop, 26 th July 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 Be clear on what activity is being covered in your policy

Because good research needs good data C4D Workshop, 26 th July 2013 Research data can be anything – be clear on what research data means in your policy! 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 C4D Workshop, 26 th July 2013 Funders’ data policies

Because good research needs good data C4D Workshop, 26 th July 2013 Not just sticks, there are carrots too! Help prevent data loss Easier to do your work… Enable validation of results More citations 9-30% increase shown in study (Piwowar H. and Vision T.J 2013,

Because good research needs good data C4D Workshop, 26 th July 2013 Components of a research data service

Because good research needs good data C4D Workshop, 26 th July 2013 Early research data policies “Statement of commitment”  Infrastructure  policy “10 commandments” mutual promises aspirational Baseline of RCUK Code + procedures & support legal compliance style a section in uni DM policy useful guide as appendix Based on Edin. with a few additions

Because good research needs good data C4D Workshop, 26 th July Institutional Roadmaps

Because good research needs good data C4D Workshop, 26 th July

Because good research needs good data C4D Workshop, 26 th July 2013

Because good research needs good data C4D Workshop, 26 th July 2013 Data management planning

Because good research needs good data C4D Workshop, 26 th July 2013 Active research stage – an ‘academic dropbox’ National level negotiation via Janet brokerage? Piloted at Lincoln & Edinburgh

Because good research needs good data C4D Workshop, 26 th July 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? Who pays? Selecting what to keep

Because good research needs good data C4D Workshop, 26 th July

Because good research needs good data C4D Workshop, 26 th July 2013 Archiving – institutional data repositories Not intended to replace national, subject or other established data collections Acknowledge hybrid environment / Essex-RDR and DataPool at Southampton

Because good research needs good data C4D Workshop, 26 th July 2013 Archiving – external data centres Research funders’ data centres… Structured databases Disciplinary& community initiatives Registries of international data centres

Because good research needs good data C4D Workshop, 26 th July 2013 Data catalogues (finding data) Develop a research data extension to the cerif standard JISC & DCC planning National coordination

Because good research needs good data C4D Workshop, 26 th July 2013 GU research data catalogue

Because good research needs good data C4D Workshop, 26 th July 2013 Guidance and training

Because good research needs good data C4D Workshop, 26 th July 2013 The DCC offers guidance, examples and tools to help with compliance

Because good research needs good data C4D Workshop, 26 th July 2013 Good data management is about making informed decisions Follow us on and #ukdcc Any questions?