This document summarizes Goldsmiths' efforts to develop a research data management policy. A working group was formed to review existing policies, discuss data storage and training. They drafted a policy addressing the research data lifecycle, responsibilities of researchers, and the college's role in preserving access to data. A data repository was also created. Key recommendations include identifying stakeholders, being practical, and tying the policy to the university's strategic goals. The overall aim is to improve research support through better research data management.

1. Towards a research data
management policy at
Goldsmiths

2. Goldsmiths
• Top 20 in UK for Arts • ‘major investments are
and Humanities difficult to find in this
turbulent and uncertain
• Top 30 in UK for Social
funding environment.
Sciences and Consequently our future
Management planning…places a clear
• 5313 undergraduates emphasis on identifying
• 2845 postgraduates new academic ventures
and new ways of working
• 1500 staff that would not just
• Range of disciplines bolster our reputation but
also bring financial
benefit’

3. Case Study
• Environmental
Assessment
• Key teams
• RDM working policy
group
• The policy
• Data Repository
• Key
Recommendations http://www.flickr.com/photos/articnomad/1615305
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4. Researchers vs Everyone else
• Painters • Research office
• Sculptors • Library
• Video artists • IT
• Art historians • Senior management
• 3d model designers • Funders
• Furniture designers
• Installation artists
Moonie Wedding Crowe, Nick and Rawlinson,
Ian. http://eprints.gold.ac.uk/6751/

5. EA: Terminology
materials, things, information, stuff, data

6. EA: Process
“anything’s part of it”

7. EA: Roles
Dean, Mark. 2010. Christian Disco
http://eprints.gold.ac.uk/7093/

8. EA: Collaboration
Otto (2012) Crowe, Nick and Rawlinson, Ian.
http://eprints.gold.ac.uk/6756/

9. EA: Access
Bad Chair Day"2003 Annie Whiles http://eprints.gold.ac.uk/4681/

10. Library and Research Office
• Goldsmiths Research
Online
• Roadshows
• RAE/REF
• Access to researchers
• Regular meetings
• Training
Two East German Drinking Glasses, 2009
Crowe, Nick and Rawlinson, Ian.
http://eprints.gold.ac.uk/6752/

11. IT/Faculty/Senior Management
• Key individuals
• Policy landscape
• Record management
• Data storage
• Training provisions
Born out of pleasure – Harrell Fletcher
http://eprints.gold.ac.uk/7655/

12. RDM Policy Working Group
• Reviewed existing
policies and regulations
• Data storage
• Training provisions
• Funder requirements
• Draft policy
• Group set up
• DCC
• Ratification and
approval
Not yet Whiles, Annie 2008
http://eprints.gold.ac.uk/2890

13. The policy!
• Agreed standards/Funding
body requirements
• Throughout research data
lifecycle
• PI responsibility
• Capture, management,
integrity, confidentiality,
retention, sharing, reuse,
publication
• College will preserve access
(up to 10 years)
• Deposit elsewhere should be
registered
• FOI needs to be considered
• Data repository
Unrealised Project – Mabb, David
http://eprints.gold.ac.uk/7360/

14. Data Repository
• http://eprints-
data.gold.ac.uk/
• Eprints Services
• Library Research
Support Team
• Storage under review
• Record of the data
Untitled - Kelly, Susan. 2012. JURISDICTIONS.
http://eprints.gold.ac.uk/7263/

15. Key Recommendations
• Meet with individuals on a
semi-informal basis first
• Identify key people
• Be practical
• Specific recommendations
• Tie-in RDM actions with wider
improvements to research
support
• Tie-in RDM plans with
university’s strategic aims
• Ratifying a policy about
research data management is
just one step towards better
research data management
Harper, Andy. 2011. Towards a New
Architecture. http://eprints.gold.ac.uk/7088/

16. Thanks and Questions
Andrew gray
a.gray@gold.ac.uk
http://www.gold.ac.uk/
research-data/
Whiles, Annie. 2011. Beggars Belief. http://eprints.gold.ac.uk/6916/