1. 1 Challenge the future A PhD student’s experience with open research data J.A. Pascoe Open Access Symposium, 23 rd of October 2014

2. 2 Challenge the future Introduction 3rd year PhD student at Aerospace Engineering Studying fatigue crack growth in adhesive bonds Raw data from experiments and further analysis Uploaded to 3TU.Datacentrum3TU.Datacentrum So far open data used to support 2 publications 1 Conference paper, 1 journal paper (under review)

3. 3 Challenge the future Why Open Data / Datacentrum? Idealism: Science requires openness and sharing Idealism: Public funds -> public data Rules: H2020 and NWO moving toward requiring open data Will (soon) require data management plan

4. 4 Challenge the future Why Open Data / Datacentrum? Metrics: Dataset is citable and usage can be tracked Self-protection: High profile fraud cases -> ‘lost’ data not acceptable Ease of use: Data is safely backed-up Ease of use: Data can be shared by sending one url

5. 5 Challenge the future Issues to keep in mind IP / Data ownership Increased scrutiny File formats Metadata / organise for ‘audience’ Archive is frozen Data publication strategy

6. 6 Challenge the future My experience Fatigue crack growth experiments Raw Data Crack length Fatigue machine outputs Processed data Data collection

7. 7 Challenge the future My experience My process: Create new folder / subfolder structure especially for the dataset Select data (ready to be ‘frozen’, supports a publication) Format data into.csv,.dat,.txt, etc. Add descriptive headers Write ‘read-me’ files in.txt and.pdf (equations) Upload to 3TU.Datacentrum Obtain DOI (can be pre-allocated) Data organisation

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9. 9 My experience 1 Conference paper, 1 journal paper (under review) based on data, both cite dataset Dataset uploaded concurrently with publication submission Journal paper: reviewer checked data & suggested additions Supplementary dataset Publishing

10. 10 Challenge the future My experience Approached by Italian researcher Has computer model, but not experimental data Could share data by e-mailing 1 url Need account to access data Dutch University OpenID 3TU.Datacentrum account Sharing

11. 11 Challenge the future Questions & Discussion