Presentation by Jenny O'Neill, Data Manager in the Research Services Unit, University College Dublin Library, at the 2017 CONUL Annual Conference, Athlone, Ireland on May 30, 2017.

1. Developing
RDM Services
at UCD Library
Jenny O’Neill, Data Manager
jenny.oneill@ucd.ie

2. Michelle Dalton
Scholarly
Communications
Librarian
Jane Nolan
Maps & GIS
Librarian
Julia Barrett
Head of
Research
Services
Joseph Greene
Research Repository
Librarian
Órna Roche
Metadata Librarian
Dani Montes
Library Assistant
Audrey Drohan
Senior Library
Assistant -
Digital
Initiatives
Mary Ellen Lyons
Library Assistant
Andrew Clinch
Archinfo Assistant
Librarian
Orla Kennedy
Library Assistant
Jenny O’Neill
Data Manager
Peter Clarke
Digital Services
Programmer

4. Developing Research Data Management Services
Digital Curation Centre (DCC)
12 May 2016, London
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/training/

5. Guidance, Training & Support

6. Data
Protection
Research IT
RDM
support
Ethics
UCD
Research
UCD
Library
Intellectual
Property

7. What are the three top issues or
concerns you have regarding:
• Data management planning
• Managing active data
• Data storage & security
• Sharing and archiving of
research data
1. Survey

8. 2. Focus Group
The Library is interested to hear the views,
issues and concerns of those responsible
for managing data on campus:
• HOW can we support researchers?
• WHAT format should the support be in?
• WHO else do we need to bring in?
• WHEN in the lifecycle?

9. Training aimed
at different
levels, e.g. PhD,
Postdoc
Develop case
studies to show
best practice
Culture
Integrated
services
Clear
messaging
about the
importance of
RDM
Identify
additional
key
stakeholders
across
campus
Funder-specific
support

10. Expanded
storage
comparison
checklist for
various types of
data
A similar
system to the
University of
Edinburgh for
storage of
research data
Storage/
IT
security
Education
regarding
backups of
research data
Education
regarding
encryption of
research data

11. UCD
institutional
guidance for
existing
templates, e.g.
H2020
Data
management
planning
UCD specific
DMPOnline
templates
Provide
courses in
DMPs
Research
managers and
research
administrators
also need
training

12. Ethics &
legal
Education &
training on how
to design
consent forms
and informed
consent etc.

13. Post-project
checklist for
organising
research data
Active data
management
School,
research
institute or
research project
level policies &
procedures

14. Investigate
funding streams
for publishing
research data or
making data
open.
Talk to funders
about allowing
time &
providing
budget for
publishing
Archiving
(Publishing)
Incentives
need to be put
in place to
encourage
researchers to
publish data
Explore
options for the
long-tail of
research data
A list of
domain
specific
repositories

15. Levels of service
1. Guidance
2. Training
3. Support

16. Data
Management
Checklist
1.
Guidance
RDM
Libguide

17. Half day
workshop
Drop in
Clinics
2.
Training
On request
Writing a
Data
Management
Plan
Data
Caring
Personal
Digital
Archiving

18. RDM policy
pilot
3.
Support
DMP review
One-to-
one

20. Thank you!
jenny.oneill@ucd.ie
@jennyOLibrarian