The document provides an introduction to research data management planning, explaining what a data management plan is, what it should include, and tools and resources available for creating a plan. It discusses the key components of a data management plan such as describing the project and data, handling the data during the project, documentation, long-term preservation, and meeting requirements. Finally, it provides examples of planning tools and resources for developing a data management plan.
This slideshow was used in a Preparing Your Research Material for the Future course for the Humanities Division, University of Oxford, on 2016-05-16. It provides an overview of some key issues, focusing on the long-term management of data and other research material, including sharing and curation.
This slideshow was used in a Preparing Your Research Material for the Future course for the Humanities Division, University of Oxford, on 2016-02-22. It provides an overview of some key issues, focusing on the long-term management of data and other research material, including sharing and curation.
This slideshow was used in a data management planning course taught at IT Services, University of Oxford, on 2016-11-09. It provides an overview of the elements of a data management plan, plus an introduction to some tools that can be used to build one.
This slideshow was used in an Introduction to Research Data Management course taught for the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division, University of Oxford, on 2016-02-03. It provides an overview of some key issues, looking at both day-to-day data management, and longer term issues, including sharing, and curation.
This slideshow was used in an Introduction to Research Data Management course taught for the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division, University of Oxford, on 2014-02-26. It provides an overview of some key issues, looking at both day-to-day data management, and longer term issues, including sharing, and curation.
This slideshow was used in a Preparing Your Research Material for the Future course taught in the Humanities Division, University of Oxford, on 2014-06-09. It provides an overview of some key issues, focusing on the long-term management of data and other research material, including sharing and curation.
This slideshow was used in a Preparing Your Research Material for the Future course for the Humanities Division, University of Oxford, on 2016-11-16. It provides an overview of some key issues, focusing on the long-term management of data and other research material, including sharing and curation.
This slideshow was used in a Preparing Your Research Data for the Future course taught in the Social Sciences Division, University of Oxford, on 2014-05-19. It provides an overview of some key issues, focusing on long-term data management, sharing, and curation.
This slideshow was used in a Preparing Your Research Material for the Future course for the Humanities Division, University of Oxford, on 2016-05-16. It provides an overview of some key issues, focusing on the long-term management of data and other research material, including sharing and curation.
This slideshow was used in a Preparing Your Research Material for the Future course for the Humanities Division, University of Oxford, on 2016-02-22. It provides an overview of some key issues, focusing on the long-term management of data and other research material, including sharing and curation.
This slideshow was used in a data management planning course taught at IT Services, University of Oxford, on 2016-11-09. It provides an overview of the elements of a data management plan, plus an introduction to some tools that can be used to build one.
This slideshow was used in an Introduction to Research Data Management course taught for the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division, University of Oxford, on 2016-02-03. It provides an overview of some key issues, looking at both day-to-day data management, and longer term issues, including sharing, and curation.
This slideshow was used in an Introduction to Research Data Management course taught for the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division, University of Oxford, on 2014-02-26. It provides an overview of some key issues, looking at both day-to-day data management, and longer term issues, including sharing, and curation.
This slideshow was used in a Preparing Your Research Material for the Future course taught in the Humanities Division, University of Oxford, on 2014-06-09. It provides an overview of some key issues, focusing on the long-term management of data and other research material, including sharing and curation.
This slideshow was used in a Preparing Your Research Material for the Future course for the Humanities Division, University of Oxford, on 2016-11-16. It provides an overview of some key issues, focusing on the long-term management of data and other research material, including sharing and curation.
This slideshow was used in a Preparing Your Research Data for the Future course taught in the Social Sciences Division, University of Oxford, on 2014-05-19. It provides an overview of some key issues, focusing on long-term data management, sharing, and curation.
This slideshow was used in a Preparing Your Research Data for the Future course taught in the Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford, on 2015-06-08. It provides an overview of some key issues, focusing on long-term data management, sharing, and curation.
This slideshow was used at a lunchtime session delivered at the Humanities Division, University of Oxford, on 2014-05-12. It provides a general overview of some key data management topics, plus some pointers on where to find further information.
This slideshow was used in a Preparing Your Research Material for the Future course for the Humanities Division, University of Oxford, on 2015-02-23. It provides an overview of some key issues, focusing on the long-term management of data and other research material, including sharing and curation.
This slideshow was used in a Preparing Your Research Material for the Future course for the Humanities Division, University of Oxford, on 2015-05-20. It provides an overview of some key issues, focusing on the long-term management of data and other research material, including sharing and curation.
This slideshow was used in a Preparing Your Research Material for the Future course for the Humanities Division, University of Oxford, on 2015-11-16. It provides an overview of some key issues, focusing on the long-term management of data and other research material, including sharing and curation.
This slideshow was used in Preparing Your Research Data for the Future course taught in the Social Sciences Division, University of Oxford, on 2014-02-17. It provides an overview of some key issues, focusing on long-term data management, sharing, and curation
This slideshow was used in a Preparing Your Research Data for the Future course taught in the Social Sciences Division, University of Oxford, on 2015-03-02. It provides an overview of some key issues, focusing on long-term data management, sharing, and curation.
This slideshow was used in an Introduction to Research Data Management course for the Social Sciences Division, University of Oxford, on 2015-05-27. It provides an overview of some key issues, looking at both day-to-day data management, and longer term issues, including sharing, and curation.
This slideshow was used in a Preparing Your Research Material for the Future course for the Humanities Division, University of Oxford, on 2017-02-22. It provides an overview of some key issues, focusing on the long-term management of data and other research material, including sharing and curation.
Introduction to research data managementMichael Day
Slides from a presentation given at the JIBS User Group / RLUK joint event "Demystifying research data: don't be scared, be prepared" held at the SOAS Brunei Gallery, London, 17 July 2012.
This slideshow was used in an Introduction to Research Data Management course taught in the Social Sciences Division, University of Oxford, on 2014-01-27. It provides an overview of some key issues, focusing on long-term data management, sharing, and curation.
This slideshow was used in an Introduction to Research Data Management course taught for the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division, University of Oxford, on 2017-02-15. It provides an overview of some key issues, looking at both day-to-day data management, and longer term issues, including sharing, and curation.
This slideshow was used in a research data management planning course taught at IT Services, University of Oxford, on 2017-02-01. It provides an overview of the elements of a data management plan, plus an introduction to some tools that can be used to build one. (The presentation has been very slightly edited: references to resources provided to course participants have been replaced with web links.)
This slideshow was used in a Research Data Management Planning course taught at IT Services, University of Oxford, on 2015-11-04. It provides an overview of the elements of a data management plan, plus an introduction to some tools that can be used to build one.
This slideshow was used in a Research Data Management Planning course taught at IT Services, University of Oxford, on 2014-10-27. It provides an overview of the elements of a data management plan, plus an introduction to some tools that can be used to build one.
A talk outlining the virtues and processes of Research Data Management for PhD students in the geosciences. Given by Stuart Macdonald at the Introduction to RDM Workshop, School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, on 2 November 2015
This slideshow was used in a Research Data Management Planning course taught at IT Services, University of Oxford, on 2015-02-18 and 2015-05-13. It provides an overview of the elements of a data management plan, plus an introduction to some tools that can be used to build one.
This presentation was delivered at IT Services, University of Oxford on 2014-05-28, as part of the 'Things To Do With Data' series of lunchtime talks. It offers an overview of resources available for management and support staff whose responsibilities include planning and implementing data management strategies.
This slideshow was used in a Preparing Your Research Material for the Future course for the Humanities Division, University of Oxford, on 2018-06-08. It provides an overview of some key issues, focusing on the long-term management of data and other research material, including sharing and curation.
This slideshow was used in a Preparing Your Research Data for the Future course taught in the Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford, on 2015-06-08. It provides an overview of some key issues, focusing on long-term data management, sharing, and curation.
This slideshow was used at a lunchtime session delivered at the Humanities Division, University of Oxford, on 2014-05-12. It provides a general overview of some key data management topics, plus some pointers on where to find further information.
This slideshow was used in a Preparing Your Research Material for the Future course for the Humanities Division, University of Oxford, on 2015-02-23. It provides an overview of some key issues, focusing on the long-term management of data and other research material, including sharing and curation.
This slideshow was used in a Preparing Your Research Material for the Future course for the Humanities Division, University of Oxford, on 2015-05-20. It provides an overview of some key issues, focusing on the long-term management of data and other research material, including sharing and curation.
This slideshow was used in a Preparing Your Research Material for the Future course for the Humanities Division, University of Oxford, on 2015-11-16. It provides an overview of some key issues, focusing on the long-term management of data and other research material, including sharing and curation.
This slideshow was used in Preparing Your Research Data for the Future course taught in the Social Sciences Division, University of Oxford, on 2014-02-17. It provides an overview of some key issues, focusing on long-term data management, sharing, and curation
This slideshow was used in a Preparing Your Research Data for the Future course taught in the Social Sciences Division, University of Oxford, on 2015-03-02. It provides an overview of some key issues, focusing on long-term data management, sharing, and curation.
This slideshow was used in an Introduction to Research Data Management course for the Social Sciences Division, University of Oxford, on 2015-05-27. It provides an overview of some key issues, looking at both day-to-day data management, and longer term issues, including sharing, and curation.
This slideshow was used in a Preparing Your Research Material for the Future course for the Humanities Division, University of Oxford, on 2017-02-22. It provides an overview of some key issues, focusing on the long-term management of data and other research material, including sharing and curation.
Introduction to research data managementMichael Day
Slides from a presentation given at the JIBS User Group / RLUK joint event "Demystifying research data: don't be scared, be prepared" held at the SOAS Brunei Gallery, London, 17 July 2012.
This slideshow was used in an Introduction to Research Data Management course taught in the Social Sciences Division, University of Oxford, on 2014-01-27. It provides an overview of some key issues, focusing on long-term data management, sharing, and curation.
This slideshow was used in an Introduction to Research Data Management course taught for the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division, University of Oxford, on 2017-02-15. It provides an overview of some key issues, looking at both day-to-day data management, and longer term issues, including sharing, and curation.
This slideshow was used in a research data management planning course taught at IT Services, University of Oxford, on 2017-02-01. It provides an overview of the elements of a data management plan, plus an introduction to some tools that can be used to build one. (The presentation has been very slightly edited: references to resources provided to course participants have been replaced with web links.)
This slideshow was used in a Research Data Management Planning course taught at IT Services, University of Oxford, on 2015-11-04. It provides an overview of the elements of a data management plan, plus an introduction to some tools that can be used to build one.
This slideshow was used in a Research Data Management Planning course taught at IT Services, University of Oxford, on 2014-10-27. It provides an overview of the elements of a data management plan, plus an introduction to some tools that can be used to build one.
A talk outlining the virtues and processes of Research Data Management for PhD students in the geosciences. Given by Stuart Macdonald at the Introduction to RDM Workshop, School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, on 2 November 2015
This slideshow was used in a Research Data Management Planning course taught at IT Services, University of Oxford, on 2015-02-18 and 2015-05-13. It provides an overview of the elements of a data management plan, plus an introduction to some tools that can be used to build one.
This presentation was delivered at IT Services, University of Oxford on 2014-05-28, as part of the 'Things To Do With Data' series of lunchtime talks. It offers an overview of resources available for management and support staff whose responsibilities include planning and implementing data management strategies.
This slideshow was used in a Preparing Your Research Material for the Future course for the Humanities Division, University of Oxford, on 2018-06-08. It provides an overview of some key issues, focusing on the long-term management of data and other research material, including sharing and curation.
This presentation is specially designed to facilitate the new and growing MLIS students of AIOU Islamabad, which have to face problems and difficulties in their studies.
Presentation from a University of York Library workshop on research data management. The workshop provides an introduction to research data management, covering best practice for the successful organisation, storage, documentation, archiving, and sharing of research data.
Presentation given by Sarah Jones at a seminar run by LSHTM on 6th November 2012. http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/events/2012/11/developing-data-management-expertise-in-research---half-day-event
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Slides from a webinar delivered on 31st January 2018 for OU research staff and students. Covers practical strategies for managing research data, including policies, file naming, information security, metadata and working with sensitive data.
An introduction to Research Data Management and Data Management Planning for research managers and administrators. The presentation was given at the Open University on 18th July 2013.
A presentation given as part of the DC101 training course run by the DCC at Oxford University in June 2010. The course provided data management guidance for researchers.
This presentation was delivered as part of the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School in July 2016. It provides a general introduction to relational databases, including an overview of the benefits of this method of storing and structuring data, and a guide to designing a database structure.
Some slides include further explanation in the notes pane: download a copy of the presentation to see these.
Handout listing key research data management web resources. Accompanies the presentation Preparing Your Research Material for the Future, given to the Humanities Division at the University of Oxford.
This slideshow was used in an Introduction to Research Data Management course taught for the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division, University of Oxford, on 2015-02-09. It provides an overview of some key issues, looking at both day-to-day data management, and longer term issues, including sharing, and curation.
Handout to accompany the presentation Preparing Your Research Material for the Future (given to the Humanities Division, University of Oxford) - a sample dataset for use in the documentation and data labelling exercise.
Handout listing key research data management Web resources. Accompanies the presentation Resources for Research Data Managers, given at IT Services, University of Oxford on 2014-05-28
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2. Today’s session
Overview of data management plans
What they are
What goes in them
Tools, resources and
sources of further information
A chance for you to start
building your own plan
3. What is research data management?
Storage
Organizing
Preservation
Documenting
Sharing
Choosing
technology
Versioning
Structuring
Backing up
Curation
Security
4. What is a data management plan?
A document which outlines how data will be
managed over the course of a project
Details plans and expectations
Nature of data and its creation or acquisition
How it will be documented
Storage and security
Legal and ethical issues
Preservation and sharing
5. Why make a data management plan?
Some funding bodies require them
Anticipate possible problems – and look for
solutions
Save time and reduce stress later
Much data management is straightforward if
planned from the beginning
But much harder to do retrospectively
Particularly preparing data for sharing
6. ‘In preparing for
battle, I have always
found that plans are
useless but planning
is indispensable.’
Dwight D. Eisenhower
7. When should a DMP be created?
As early as possible – but it’s never too late
Often created when applying for funding or
setting up a project
An initial outline plan may be expanded later
Planning is a process, not a one off task
Good practice to revisit and revise plans regularly
A schedule for doing this can be
included in the initial version
9. What goes into a data management plan?
1. Description of the project and the data
2. Plans for handling the data during the project
3. Plans for documentation and metadata
4. Long-term plans for the data
5. Consideration of requirements that need to be
met (legal, ethical, institutional, funder)
6. Practical planning to ensure the plan can be
implemented
10. 1. Describing the project and data
What is the project setting out to do?
Who will be working on it?
What sort of data will the project work with?
Type (text, numerical, images, videos…)
Quantity (number and size of files)
File formats
Where will it come from?
Collected during the project? (If so, how?)
Third party data? (Where from?)
11. 2. Handling the data during the project
Where will the data be stored?
What software will be used?
How will the data be backed up?
Does data need to be shared
within the project team?
How will this be achieved?
How will data be kept secure?
How will versioning be handled?
12. Oxford provision and services
You may be entitled to storage space on a
departmental server
Ask your department’s IT officer
Nexus SharePoint can be used for sharing files
See http://help.it.ox.ac.uk/nexus/sharepoint/
IT Services’ NSMS can provide server
space (chargeable service)
See http://www.it.ox.ac.uk/nsms/
13. Oxford provision and services
ORDS (Online Research Database Service)
allows creation of online relational databases
See http://ords.ox.ac.uk/
InfoSec can advise on security
See https://www.infosec.ox.ac.uk/
HFS back-up service is free to staff
and postgraduate students
See http://help.it.ox.ac.uk/hfs/
14. 3. Documentation and metadata
How will data be documented and described?
What contextual information needs to be recorded?
Can practice be standardized?
File naming
Recording methods
Are there disciplinary metadata
standards you should be aware of?
See the DCC’s http://www.dcc.ac.uk
/resources/metadata-standards
15. 4. Long-term planning
What will happen to the data at
the end of the project?
Can the data be preserved by
depositing it in an archive?
Can the data be made available
for use by other researchers?
How will it need to be prepared for sharing?
What needs to be done during the rest of the
project to facilitate long-term plans?
16. Repositories and archives
A secure long-term home for research data
Many national disciplinary archives exist
Re3Data.org offers a
searchable catalogue
of repositories
ORA-Data is Oxford’s
institutional archive for data
without an obvious home
17. 5. Meeting requirements – legal and
ethical
Who owns the data?
Are there restrictions on what can be done with it?
If so, how will you ensure these are met?
Is any of the data confidential or otherwise
sensitive?
How will you keep data secure during the project?
Can data be shared? Do you need to ask
for consent, and/or to anonymize it?
Will any data need to be destroyed? How?
18. 5. Meeting requirements – funder and
institutional
Does your funding body impose requirements?
Are you asked to publish your data?
What does the University of Oxford Policy on
the Management of Research Data and
Records require you to do?
Data should be accurate, retrievable, and secure
Data should be retained for at least three years,
and shared if possible
View the policy at http://researchdata.ox.ac.uk/
19. 6. Practical planning
Who has responsibility for implementing each
element of the plan?
Will any additional resources be needed?
How will adherence to the plan be evaluated?
When will the plan be revisited and
(if necessary) revised?
21. Research Data Oxford website
Oxford’s central
advisory website
Details of funder
requirements
Questions?
Email
researchdata@ox.ac.uk
http://researchdata.ox.ac.uk/
22. Digital Curation Centre
A national service providing advice and
resources
‘How to develop a data management and sharing
plan’ – online guide
Checklist for DMPs
Example plans
Summary of funders’
requirements
DMP Online tool
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/
23. UK Data Archive
UK's largest collection of digital social sciences
and humanities research data
Website offers advice on:
Planning for sharing
Consent and ethics
Documentation
Storage
Etc. http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/
24. University of Bristol resources
Online guides to writing a data management
plan for each of the RCUK funding bodies, plus
some others
Also more general advice about sharing,
storage, anonymization, etc.
But remember it’s aimed
at Bristol researchers
http://data.bris.ac.uk/research/dmp/
25. Help with technical aspects of research
projects – including data management
Can provide help writing a plan, or feedback on
a draft
http://research.it.ox.ac.uk
researchsupport@it.ox.ac.uk
Research Support team, IT Services
27. DMP Online
A free online data
management
planning tool
Offers a variety of
templates
Guidance from DCC,
funders, and
University of Oxford
https://dmponline.dcc.ac.uk/
32. Twenty Questions for Research Data
Management
A document created by David Shotton
Twenty questions with sample answers
Answering the questions creates a basic data
management plan
Download this and another template for a
basic DMP from
http://researchdata.ox.ac.uk/
portfolio/dmp-templates/
33. Over to you!
Have a go at drafting a data management plan
for your own research
Use whichever template you find most useful
If there are questions you can’t answer at this
stage, make a note of
What you need to find out
Decisions you need to make
Editor's Notes
Also mention what I won’t be covering – detailed information about particular ways of handling data. But the tools and resources section should point you in the right direction.
Image credit: Microsoft clip art. Used with permission from Microsoft.
Research data management is an umbrella term – it covers both dealing with data on a day-to-day basis during the lifetime of a research project (organizing it, structuring it, choosing appropriate software or other technologies to manage it with, storing it, backing it up, and so forth) and longer term issues (sharing and preservation, for example).
Image credit: Microsoft clip art.
A data management plan is, as the name suggests, a document which outlines how data will be managed over the course of a project.
The plan gives details of what sort of data the project expects to be dealing with, and what will be done with it. This might include:
A description of the type of data that will be used and where it will come from – how it will be created, or where it will be obtained from if pre-existing datasets are being used
How the data will be documented or described to ensure it remains intelligible
How the data will be stored and kept safe during the project
Any legal or ethical issues that need to be considered
What plans there are for preserving the data after the end of the project, and for sharing it with other researchers
Image credit: Microsoft clip art.
Image credit: Microsoft clip art.
A research project isn’t – or shouldn’t be – a battle, but President Eisenhower’s words nevertheless have some relevance in this context. It is almost inevitable that unexpected events will arise – it’s very rare that everything goes exactly as anticipated. But although this means you may often have to adapt your plan on the fly, this makes having created a plan in the first place more essential, not less. If you’ve thought through all the relevant issues, you’re less likely to be taken by surprise – and you’ll be better placed to respond when the unexpected does crop up.
Public domain image, from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dwight_D._Eisenhower,_official_Presidential_portrait.jpg
Image credit: Microsoft clip art.
Image credit: Microsoft clip art.
Image credit: Microsoft clip art.
Image credit: Microsoft clip art.
Image credit: Microsoft clip art.
Image credit: Microsoft clip art.
Image credit: Microsoft clip art.
The University of Oxford has a central Research Data Management website, which provides a central information source on this subject. A copy of the University Policy on the Management of Research Data and Records can be downloaded from here.
The site was relaunched (with a new URL) in February 2014.
The Digital Curation Centre is a national service providing advice and resources to researchers and their institutions. Although their primary focus is (as their name suggests) on longer-term curation and preservation of research data, they offer information relating to the whole data lifecycle.
One particularly helpful resource is their online data management planning tool. When building a plan, you can select a template which reflects the requirements of your particular funding body.
One particularly helpful resource is the DCC’s online data management planning tool, DMP Online. When building a plan, you can select a template which reflects the requirements of your particular funding body.
When you first visit DMP Online, you’ll need to sign up. Click the plus sign in the ‘Sign up’ pane.
Complete the form, and click ‘Sign up’. You’ll then need to visit your email account to confirm the registration, and then – rather annoyingly – log in again using the password you’ve just created.
You’ll be given the option of linking your DMP Online account to your institutional credentials. If you do this, you can log in with your Oxford SSO username and password.
For step-by-step instructions (and a one-minute video walkthrough) on how to register with DMP Online and link your account, see http://researchdata.ox.ac.uk/portfolio/dmp-online/
You can add your name and, if you have one, your ORCID number. (If you don’t have one, you can visit http://ox.libguides.com/orcid to get one.)
You’re now ready to create your first plan.
A webcast of a presentation including a demo of DMP Online can be accessed via https://oxforduniversity.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=ea5e688e-b472-48af-8a69-4e81583af76f
Alternatively, see DMP Online’s own demonstration screencast, available from the DMP Online home page: https://dmponline.dcc.ac.uk/. (The screencast is only visible if you are not signed in to DMP Online.)
Practical exercise which can last a flexible amount of time. Paper templates available will include David Shotton’s ‘Twenty Questions for Research Data Management’, and a very basic data management plan template based on one developed by DataTrain. Participants can make use of whichever tool or template they find most helpful.
If it seems appropriate (and if time permits), this may be followed by a brief discussion session, in which participants are invited to give feedback on their experience of trying to draft a data management plan.
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