Angue Whyte's slides from his short presentation on the role of repositories in supporting Research Data Management (RDM). These were presented on Friday 2nd August 2013 at Repository Fringe 2013.

1. The role of repositories in supporting RDM:
lessons from the DCC engagements
Angus Whyte, Sarah Jones
Digital Curation Centre
a.whyte@ed.ac.uk
Repository Fringe
2 August 2013, University of Edinburgh

2. Aims
1. Outline UK programmes to help Higher Education
Institutions develop RDM services
2. Background on the Digital Curation Centre
DCC role in developing services
1. Outline emerging RDM services
Our view of what they are
Recent surveys on library plans & priorities
2. Examples from different universities
Repository manager & subject librarian roles
Share examples and
lessons
Who do repo
managers need to
interact with in
their institution?

3. Digital Curation Centre
• Est. 2004, Jisc funded partnership across 3
universities - Bath, Edinburgh and Glasgow
• Digital curation challenges across institutions and
disciplines
• HEFCE funding from 2011 for targeted support to
help institutions build capacity and capability in
managing research data

4. Institutional engagement programme
21 Degree
awarding
Russell
Group
7 e.g.
Edinburgh
Pre-1992
13 e.g.
Surrey
Post-1992
4 e.g. Oxford
Brookes
Research
intensive
England, Wales, Scotland, N. Ireland

5. JISC Managing Research Data
• 25 x Infrastructure projects 2009-13
• DCC input - tool provision and
support for events
• Help extract, amplify and transfer
programme outputs across sector
• E.g. How-to guides, case studies

6. Envision Initiate Discover Design Implement Evaluate
RDM Development Process
But its non-linear really!
…cycles of negotiation and compromise towards ‘continuous improvement’

7. Envision Initiate Discover Design Implement Evaluate
RDM Development Process
Advocacy, policy developmentDCC

8. Envision Initiate Discover Design Implement Evaluate
RDM Development Process
Readiness, requirements and risk assessment
CARDIO – Collaborative Assessment of Research Data Infrastructure and Objectives
DAF – Data Asset Framework
DCC

9. Emerging Services – DCC/MRD

10. Emerging Services – Library Surveys
221 institutions US and Canada
(of which 99 universities)
Academic Libraries and Research
Data Services: Current practices and
plans for the future
Carol Tenopir, Ben Birch, Suzie Allard
University of Tennessee
Assoc. College & Research Libraries,
June 2012

11. Emerging Services - Surveys
81 UK higher education institutions
Research data management and
libraries: Current activities and
future priorities
Andrew Cox and Stephen Pinfield
Information School, University of
Sheffield
Journal of Librarianship and
Information Science June 28, 2013

12. Emerging Services - Surveys
82 UK higher education institutions
Bibliometrics and Research data
Management services: Emerging
trends in Library Support for
Research
Sheila Corrall, Mary Anne Kennan,
Waseem Afzal
Library Trends, Volume 61, Number
3, Winter 2013, pp. 636-674

13. RDM Services planned
High expectations of prioritising/
planning delivery over next 2-3
years.
Mixture of advice & liaison and
technical services
So what do we find Repository
Managers doing in service
development?
•Figures from
1 Cox & Pinfield (N=81)
2 Corrall et al (N-82)
Top 12 Service
priorities
1. Rank by
Top future
Priority
2. Current
(Planned)
%
Policy development 1 17 (60)
Advisory service 2 10 (40)
PGR Training 3 = 14 (43)
Early career awareness 3=
Awareness reusable
resources – data archives
5= 41 (20)
Data repository 5= 37 (37)
Data citation advice 7 41 (20)
Copyright, IPR 8
Web portal, guidance 9
Metadata, data catalogue 10
DMP advice 11= 9 (49)
External data sources –
research & retrieve
11=

14. Tales from Two Cities
• Contrasting institutions
– Post-1992, 4260 students, 100’s research active staff
– Russell Group, 31,323, 1000’s research active staff
• Some things in common
– Repository managers actively engaged in developing
– Policy response to funder requirements
– Online guidance
– Support for data mgmt planning
– Surveys/ interviews to scope research data, practices
and requirements
– Skills development for Subject Librarians

15. Oxford Brookes University
Driver: Engineering and
Physical Science Research
Council policy expectations
Steering group PVC
led, action by repository and
research office mgrs
Awareness training to
faculty, with DAF survey
follow-up, Subject Librarian
training
Research data as special collections
Help desk service being established.

16. University of Edinburgh
Driver: Institutional
reputation
Steering group CIO led, action
by Data Library & Information
Services colleagues
One of the first UK data
repositories
Data Library pivotal in RDM
developments
Pioneer of much-reused RDM policy and training
materials.

17. To sum up…
• In our experience, repository managers active in
kickstarting ‘softer’ capabilities
• Still few universities have dedicated RDM staff
• Academic liaison roles required - also indicated by surveys
– IT, Libraries, Research Office/ Business Development
– E.g. ACRL Report “Reassigning existing library staff common tactic”
• Computing services: active data storage,
• Research support: licensing .. DMP support
• Records managers: policy

18. Issues?
• Commercial data – really for the OA repository to manage?
• Who deals with abandoned data in ‘active’ storage?
• How to deal with data from retiring staff, unfunded groups?
• When staff leave what should go with them?
• How do we trust external repositories?
• What new workflows and roles for data publication?

19. Thank you
Questions, comments?
Your experiences?
Other national surveys?