An update on the research at risk projects and timeline.

1. Status Update
Research at RiskNovember 2015

2. Timeline 2015-2016

3.  Jan 15 Mar 15 May 15 Jul 15 Sep 15 Nov 15 Jan 16 Mar 16 May 16 Jul 16 Sep 16 Nov 16 
DIRECTIONS FOR RDM IN UK
UNIVERSITIES
Timeline 2015-16
Vision and Planning
Supporting Practice and Policy
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RESEARCH DATA HUB
BUSINESS CASE AND COSTING
FOR RDM
GUIDANCE ON MEETING RESEARCH
FUNDER REQUIREMENTS
Update quick guide Scope
RD Hub-lite Wire frame
Clear web presence for RDM
EPSRC guide
EPSRC case studies Ongoing engagement with research data concordat group
Review progress and update
Directions for RDM report
Deliver business case guidance, toolsShare initial scope
Scope
Medium priorityHigh priority

4. Timeline 2015-16
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RESEARCH DATA MANAGEMENT
SHARED SERVICE
SHARED SERVICES IN THE
PRESERVATION & CURATION GAP
USAGE STATISTICS FOR RESEARCH
DATA
RESEARCH DATA METADATA
Shared Services & Infrastructure
Medium priorityHigh priority
Early consultation ProcurementSurvey
Requirements refinement workshop
Outline RDM architecture Early adopters engaged
Beta Business case
Early intelligence gathering Requirements defined
Scope
Prototype with IRUS software Service design Business case
BetaConsultative group established
Input to COUNTER Live service
Community consultation workshops Refine schema Sustainability planning
Share outputs for wider comment Implementation

5. Timeline 2015-16
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UK RESEARCH DATA DISCOVERY
SERVICE
JISC-ARMA ORCID PILOT
JOURNAL RESEARCH DATA
POLICIES REGISTRY
RESEARCH DATA SPRING
Pre Co-Design Research Data Activity
Medium priorityHigh priority
Pilot early adopters engaged
Use case and requirements Alpha
Beta – HEIs and DCs Business case
Live service
National ORCID consortium
Live service and on-going support
Sandpit workshop
Sandpit workshop 2 BetaWorkshop 3 Alpha
Lessons / decisions on implementation
Requirements defined
Define use cases
Expert group agrees recs.
Best practice toolkit design
Finalise toolkit
Launch toolkit
Expert group established
Rapid Prototype

6. An overview of the projects

7. Vision and Policy
A shared state of play and set of
directions in consultation and
collaboration with key
stakeholders, in particular
ARMA, SCONUL, RLUK, RUGIT
and UCISA.
DIRECTIONS FOR
RDM in UK
Universities M
•Start: September 2014
•End: March 2015
•Outputs: Workshop,
http://bit.ly/1T4XG5l
Report, http://bit.ly/1KqoUjI
•End Goals: A plan for the way
ahead & a baseline for progress
Clear guidance on how to meet
funder policies & engagement
with Research Data Concordat
Group on funder policy
harmonisation and
implementation.
Guidance on
meeting Research
Funder requirements
•Start: November 2014
•End: September 2016
•Outputs: Guide on meeting the
EPSRC research data policy &
case studies http://bit.ly/1Jtpfko
•End Goals: funder policies are
easier to meet.
H
An agreed set of guidance for
the case for RDM and costing
information to support the
business case in HEIs for
research data management.
Business Case and
Costing for RDM
•Start: July 2015
•End: December 2016
•End Goals: Defined value of
RDM, business case template
and costing tool for HEIs
H
HHigh priority MMedium priority LLow priority CCompleted
Research Data
Champions
•Start: X
•End: X
•Status: Deferred
L
Advocate researchers for RDM in
a range of disciplines. To set out
case studies to enhance
understanding of how good DM
enhances research practice. To
ensure researcher for input into
the development of R@R
solutions.

8. Shared Services
To determine the need and
scope of a shared service,
underpinned by a clear RDM
architecture. To then procure the
development & delivery of a
shared service for RDM.
Shared services in
active RDM &
storage
•Start: April 2015
•End: December 2017
•Blog: http://bit.ly/1IMKkn6
•End Goals: HEIs can meet funder
mandates easily and have a cost
effective solution.
H
To work with institutions to
determine the need and scope of
shared solutions to meeting
research data needs for curation
and preservation
Shared services in
the preservation &
curation gap
•Start: January 2015
•End: December 2017
•Website: http://bit.ly/1IMKkn6
•End Goals: Shared service to
meet preservation needs so HEIs
have trusted long-term access to
data.
H
Research Data
Management Shared
Service
H
•Start: April 2015
•End: December 2017
•Blog:
•End Goals: RDM shared service that
enables easy implementation of a solution
for RDM in UK HEIs
HHigh priority MMedium priority LLow priority CCompleted

9. Shared Services
HHigh priority MMedium priority LLow priority CCompleted
To develop a shared service to
make research data easier to
discover and re-use - this aims to
be a shared national catalogue of
research data
UK Research Data
Discovery Service
•Start: November 2014
•End: December 2016
•Website: http://bit.ly/1Iseikh
•End Goals: A shared service for
research data to enhance re-use
and impact of data; possibly part
of the RDM shared service
H
To increase understanding of
metrics & usagefor RD, todevelop
a usagestatisticsservice to enable
UK HEIs to count data use,to
contributeto incentives for
sharing research data & to
contributeto determining the
point of use
Usage Statistics for
Research Data
•Start: June 2015
•End: November 2016
•Blog: http://tinyurl.com/qcxfaao
•End Goals: a shared research
data usage statistic service &
common related standards
M
To build consensus and
standardisation around a core
metadata schema that applies
across disciplines
Research Data
Metadata
•Start: July 2015
•End: December 2016
•End Goals: a shared solution for
non disciplinary specific RD
metadata
M
To develop a registry of DMPs so
that they can be interrogated for
use cases such as: planning data
storage, planning costs; planning
infrastructure, fulfilling
mandates etc.
Data Management
PlanOnline Registry
•Start: X
•End: X
•Status: Deferred
L

10. Advice and Guidance
Starting with a Lite approach -to
develop an easy to access web
presence of RDM advice and
guidance & second phase to look
a potential wider ‘one stop shop
access’.
Research Data Hub
•Start: July 2015
•End: November 2016
•End Goals: Easy access to
advice, tools and tips for HE
stakeholders
H
HHigh priority MMedium priority LLow priority CCompleted
To develop best practice on
journal policies between
publishers & other stakeholders.
To make it easy for researchers
to know how to follow policies
and for journals to create RD
policies
Journal Research
Data Policies
Registry
•Start: April 2015
•End: September 2016
•Website: http://bit.ly/1Ks8jhb
•End Goals: best practice toolkit
and guidelines to drive policy
expressions for authors and
support staff
M

11. Community Innovation
HHigh priority MMedium priority LLow priority CCompleted
To bring together key actors in
the research data management
arena to develop innovations for
improving workflows,
interoperability and new shared
tools and services
Research DataSpring
•Start: November 2014
•End: July 2016
•Website: http://bit.ly/1LCrmEG
•End Goals: A range of
interoperability issues improved,
shared advice & in some cases
tools for all HEIs.
M

12. Summary of outputs
November 2015
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13. Output summary to November 2015
» Directions for Research Data Management for UK Universities
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/blog/are-you-addressing-research-data-management-31-mar-2015
http://repository.jisc.ac.uk/5951/4/JR0034_RDM_report_200315_v5.pdf
» EPSRC workshop, guide & case studies
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/blog/how-can-universities-meet-the-expectations-in-the-epsrc-research-data-policy-27-mar-2015
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/other-dcc-events/RDM-readiness
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/guides/meeting-the-requirements-of-the-EPSRC-research-data-policy
http://repository.jisc.ac.uk/6062/5/Jisc-DCC-EPSRC_CASE_STUDY-UEL.pdf
http://repository.jisc.ac.uk/6062/2/Jisc-DCC-EPSRC_CASE_STUDY-Edinburgh.pdf
http://repository.jisc.ac.uk/6062/3/Jisc-DCC-EPSRC_CASE_STUDY-Leeds.pdf
http://repository.jisc.ac.uk/6062/4/Jisc-DCC-EPSRC_CASE_STUDY-St_Andrews.pdf
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14. Output summary to November 2015
» Supported 15 Research Data Spring projects – and held two sandpits (10-11 December is next
one)
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/research-data-spring
http://researchdata.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2015/07/23/research-data-spring-second-phase-results/
http://researchdata.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2015/09/14/research-data-spring-reading-list/
» Established the basis for the research data discovery services with 9 universities and 5 data
centres and created an alpha test service so we can look at all the data
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/uk-research-data-discovery
http://rdds.jiscinvolve.org/wp/
http://ckan.data.alpha.jisc.ac.uk/
http://ckan.data.alpha.jisc.ac.uk/
» Hosted a metadata schema workshop for experts to consider a core common schema
http://researchdata.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2015/07/21/research-data-metadata-workshop/
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15. Output summary to November 2015
» Undertaken a survey for research data ( & related ) systems
http://researchdata.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2015/04/17/research-at-risk-survey-of-services-and-systems-for-research-
data-other-scholarly-outputs/
» Defined an architecture for RDM
https://www.flickr.com/photos/131203184@N03/20502068742/
» Held an early consultation, a sector and vendor workshop, issued request for participation to HEI’s and are now
poised to procure the services/products that will be deployed by HEI’s as part of the pilot service:
› Briefing document and requirements
http://researchdata.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2015/11/10/rdm-shared-service-briefing-and-updated-requirements/
› RDM SS Call for Expressions of Interest
http://researchdata.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2015/11/06/research-data-management-shared-service-call-for-formal-
expressions-of-interest/
› Results of Sector andVendorWorkshop
http://researchdata.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2015/11/23/rdm-shared-service-workshops/
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16. Output Summary to November 2015
» Updated the Jisc RDM quick guide and developed a spec for an Research Data hub lite approach
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/guides/research-data-management
» Established the journal research data policy registry project, developed a prototype and made
recommendation for future activity to build and share good practice and develop toolkits
http://journalrdregistry.jiscinvolve.org/wp/
http://repository.jisc.ac.uk/6089/
» Established plans for a research data usage and metrics project and convened an expert group
» ORCID pilot and national consortium agreement
http://orcidpilot.jiscinvolve.org/wp/
http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/ORCID-consultation/
http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/News/ORCID/
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