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The document outlines the essential practices of research data management (RDM), emphasizing its importance in ensuring data accessibility and integrity throughout the research lifecycle. It discusses the necessity of data sharing to enhance scientific collaboration and citations, as well as the creation of a data management plan (DMP) to outline data handling processes. Additionally, it provides guidelines on data storage, documentation, licensing, and ethical considerations, aimed at optimizing research data usage and compliance with funding requirements.
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- 1. Research Data Management SarahJones DCC, University of Glasgow sarah.jones@glasgow.ac.uk Twitter: @sjDCC •University of the West of England, 9th July 2014 Funded by:
- 2. Programme • Quiz offunders’ requirements • Introduction to RDM • Data management planning • Demo of DMPonline • Q&A
- 3. “the active managementand appraisal of data over the lifecycle of scholarly and scientific interest” Data management is part of good research practice What is research data management?
- 4. Why manage yourresearch data? • To make your research easier! • To stop yourself drowning in irrelevant stuff • In case you need the data later • To avoid accusations of fraud or bad science • To share your data for others to use and learn from • To get credit for producing it • Because somebody else said to do so
- 5. RCUK Common Principleson Data Policy “Publicly funded research data are a public good, produced in the public interest, which should be made openly available with as few restrictions as possible in a timely and responsible manner that does not harm intellectual property.” www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/datapolicy
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- 7. Benefits of datasharing data (1) www.nytimes.com/2010/08/13/health/research /13alzheimer.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 “It was unbelievable. Its not science the way most of us have practiced in our careers. But we all realised that we would never get biomarkers unless all of us parked our egos and intellectual property noses outside the door and agreed that all of our data would be public immediately.” Dr John Trojanowski, University of Pennsylvania •... scientific breakthroughs
- 8. Benefits of datasharing (2) “There is evidence that studies that make their data available do indeed receive more citations than similar studies that do not.” Piwowar H. and Vision T.J 2013 "Data reuse and the open data citation advantage“ https://peerj.com/preprints/1.pdf 9% - 30% increase •... more citations
- 9. If you planto share your data.... • Have you got consent for sharing? • Do any licences you’ve signed permit sharing? • Is your data in suitable formats? Decisions made early on affect what you can do later
- 10. Some formats arebetter for long-term It’s preferable to opt for formats that are: • Uncompressed • Non-proprietary • Open, documented • Standard representation (ASCII, Unicode) Data centres may have preferred formats for deposit e.g. Type Recommended Non-preferred Tabular data CSV, TSV, SPSS portable Excel Text Plain text, HTML, RTF PDF/A only if layout matters Word Media Container: MP4, Ogg Codec: Theora, Dirac, FLAC Quicktime H264 Images TIFF, JPEG2000, PNG GIF, JPG Structured data XML, RDF RDBMS Further examples: http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/create-manage/format/formats-table
- 11. Documentation What would someoneunfamiliar with your data need in order to find, evaluate, understand, and reuse them? Consider the differences between someone inside your research group, someone outside your group but in your field, and someone outside your field.
- 12. Documentation and standards Metadata:basic info e.g. title, author, dates, access rights... Documentation: context, workflows, methods, code, data dictionary... Use standards wherever possible for interoperability www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/ metadata-standards
- 13. Tools for managingdata www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/external/tools-services/ managing-active-research-data
- 14. Where to storeyour data? • Your own drive (PC, server, flash drive, etc.) – And if you lose it? Or it breaks? • Somebody else’s drive • Departmental drive • “Cloud” drive – Do they care as much about your data as you do?
- 15. How to backup? •3… 2… 1… backup! – at least 3 copies of a file – on at least 2 different media – with at least 1 offsite • Use managed services where possible e.g. University filestores rather than local or external hard drives • Ask central or local IT team for advice
- 16. Archiving: data repositories http://databib.org http://service.re3data.org/search Zenodo •OpenAIRE-CERNjoint effort •Multidisciplinary repository •Multiple data types – Publications – Long tail of research data •Citable data (DOI) •Links to funding, pubs, data & software www.zenodo.org
- 17. •CREATIVE COMMONS LIMITATIONS •NC Non-Commercial • What counts as commercial? • SA Share Alike • Reduces interoperability • ND No Derivatives • Severely restricts use www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/ how-guides/license-research-data License your data for reuse Outlines pros and cons of each approach and gives practical advice on how to implement your licence
- 18. Data citation • Makesit easier for readers to locate the data and validate findings • Data citations ensure that data contributors receive proper credit • Can link to reuse to show impact • Less danger of rival researchers ‘stealing’ results from those who publish their data openly www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/briefing-papers/introduction-curation /data-citation-and-linking
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- 21. Managing and sharingdata: a best practice guide • How to write a DMP • Formatting your data • Documentation • Data sharing • Ethics and consent • Copyright • … http://data-archive.ac.uk/media/2894/managingsharing.pdf
- 22. Putting the piecestogether... ...DMPs Photo by Dread Pirate Jeff http://www.flickr.com/photos /justageek/2851643792
- 23. What is adata management plan? A brief plan written at the start of your project to define: • how your data will be created? • how it will be documented? • who will access it? • where it will be stored? • who will back it up? • whether (and how) it will be shared & preserved? DMPs are often submitted as part of grant applications, but are useful whenever you’re creating data.
- 24. Why YOU needa Data Management Plan http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/ pmr/2011/08/01/why- you-need-a-data- management-plan What if this was your laptop?
- 25. Which UK fundersrequire a DMP? •www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/policy-and-legal/ overview-funders-data-policies
- 26. DCC Checklist fora DMP • 13 questions on what’s asked across the board • Prompts / pointers to help researchers get started • Guidance on how to answer www.dcc.ac.uk/sites/default/files/documents /resource/DMP_Checklist_2013.pdf
- 27. Common themes inDMPs 1. Description of data to be collected / created (i.e. content, type, format, volume...) 2. Standards / methodologies for data collection & management 3. Ethics and Intellectual Property (highlight any restrictions on data sharing e.g. embargoes, confidentiality) 4. Plans for data sharing and access (i.e. how, when, to whom) 5. Strategy for long-term preservation
- 28. A useful frameworkto get you started Think about why the questions are being asked – why is it useful to consider that topic? Look at examples to help you understand what to write •www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/datamanagement/dmp/framework.html
- 29. Tips for writingDMPs • Seek advice - consult and collaborate • Consider good practice for your field • Base plans on available skills & support • Make sure implementation is feasible
- 30. Example plans • Technicalplan submitted to AHRC by Bristol Uni http://data.bris.ac.uk/research/planning/files/2013/08/data.bris-AHRC-example-Technical- • Rural Economy & Land Use (RELU) programme examples http://relu.data-archive.ac.uk/data-sharing/planning/examples • UCSD example DMPs (20+ scientific plans for NSF) http://rci.ucsd.edu/data-curation/examples.html • My DMP – a satire (what not to write!) http://ivory.idyll.org/blog/data-management.html More at: https://dmponline.dcc.ac.uk/help#DMPhelp
- 31. Help from theDCC •https://dmponline.dcc.ac.uk •www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/how-guides/develop-data-plan A web-based tool to help researchers write data management plans
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- 33. Thanks – anyquestions? DCC guidance, tools and case studies: www.dcc.ac.uk/resources Follow us on twitter: @digitalcuration and #ukdcc Credit to Dorothea Salo, Ryan Schryver and colleagues for content from the “Escaping Datageddon” presentation for slides 4, 11 & 14, available at: http://www.slideshare.net/cavlec/escaping-datageddon And to the Research360 project at the University of Bath for content from the “Managing your research data” presentation for slide 10, available at: http://opus.bath.ac.uk/32296
Editor's Notes
- #5 Data is increasing in significance. It will unquestionably matter to your research careers, more than it does to your supervisors’ generation. Learn good data habits now! You’ll need them later.
- #11 Some formats are better for data sharing and long-term preservation than others. It’s preferable to use formats that are uncompressed (e.g. large, high-quality files like .wav), non-proprietary (i.e. open) standards that are documented and well-understood. This aids preservation and interoperability. Some data centres have preferred formats for deposit so it’s worthwhile encouraging researchers to consult these to check.
- #13 To make sure their data can be understood by themselves, their community and others, researchers should create metadata and documentation. Metadata is basic descriptive information to help identify and understand the structure of the data e.g. title, author... Documentation provides the wider context. It’s useful to share the methodology / workflow, software and any information needed to understand the data e.g. explanation of abbreviations or acronyms There are lots of standards that can be used. The DCC started a catalogue of disciplinary metadata standards which is now being taken forward as an international initiative via an RDA working group
- #17 The EC guidelines suggest selecting a suitable repository. The Databib and Re3data lists can be useful for this. They allow you to search and browse by subject. Re3data also allows you to restrict the search by certificates, open access repositories and persistent identifiers.
- #18 Guidance from the DCC can also help researchers to understand data licensing. This guide outlines the pros and cons of each approach e.g. the limitations of some CC options Under Horizon 2020 it’s recommended that researchers use CC-0 or CC-BY to make data as open as possible.
- #29 I recommend this ICPSR resource It explains the importance of different questions as a pointer to how to answer Examples are given. This is the most frequent request we get at DCC - examples help researchers think of what to write for their context
- #32 The DCC has produced a How to guide on writing DMPs and developed a tool to help