This document discusses drivers and organizational responses to research data management (RDM) maturity from transatlantic perspectives. It describes external funder mandates in the US and UK that require open sharing of research publications and data. Universities have responded by developing RDM policies, tools, expertise, and education/outreach for researchers. Key RDM components discussed include policies, storage and repository tools, expertise and staffing models, and outreach/education activities. Connecting electronic lab notebooks to other RDM infrastructure is presented as an approach to better integrate researcher workflows with institutional RDM. The document concludes with an invitation to provide comments on RDM maturity through an online survey.
In order to be reused, research data must be discoverable.
The EPSRC Research Data Expectations* requires research organisations to maintain a data catalogue to record metadata about research data generated by EPSRC-funded research projects.
Universities are increasingly making research data assets available through repositories or other data portals.
The requirement for a UK research data discovery service has grown as universities become more involved in RDM and capacity develops.
In order to be reused, research data must be discoverable.
The EPSRC Research Data Expectations* requires research organisations to maintain a data catalogue to record metadata about research data generated by EPSRC-funded research projects.
Universities are increasingly making research data assets available through repositories or other data portals.
The requirement for a UK research data discovery service has grown as universities become more involved in RDM and capacity develops.
The role of the ‘traditional librarian’ is evolving with advent of Google and other online utilities as well as the rapid pace of change in relation to information management, delivery, consumption, curation, and of course the data deluge!
Research Data Management (RDM) is a hot topic which requires a range of information handling skills (organisation, metadata, research support, service delivery, resource discovery).
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Abstract:
Edinburgh DataShare, an institutional data repository, is six years old. It was built as a demonstrator in DSpace by EDINA and Data Library and has been given new life by the University of Edinburgh’s Research Data Management initiative. Following testing by pilot users in various departments last year, DataShare is confirmed as a key RDM service. Since 2008 much external infrastructure has grown around data sharing, and software developers, publishers and librarians are creating new innovations around the sharing and re-use of data daily. How can DataShare be shaped to fit in to this ever-more-sophisticated environment? A number of ongoing developments are helping us integrate the repository in the global context. DataShare is being indexed in Thomson-Reuter’s Data Citation Index. We aspire to attain the Data Seal of Approval for DataShare, a badge that confers trustworthiness through peer review. It is listed in re3data.org and databib registries of data repositories. We offer via extension, peer review of datasets to our depositors by listing journals that publish ‘data papers’ such as F1000 Research. Locally, as Information Services builds new data services such as the Data Store, [private data] Vault and the [metadata-only] Register, we can focus DataShare on its named purpose.
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The role of the ‘traditional librarian’ is evolving with advent of Google and other online utilities as well as the rapid pace of change in relation to information management, delivery, consumption, curation, and of course the data deluge!
Research Data Management (RDM) is a hot topic which requires a range of information handling skills (organisation, metadata, research support, service delivery, resource discovery).
Presented by Robin Rice at the "IRs dealing with data" workshop at the Open Repositories 2013 Conference in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, on 8 July 2013.
Presentation given by Chris Higgens at the Annual Infrastructure for Spatial Information in European (INSPIRE) Conference Krakow, Poland. 22 June 2010.
Now we are six: Integrating Edinburgh DataShare into local and internet in...Robin Rice
#iassist40 presentation, Toronto, 6/6/2014.
Abstract:
Edinburgh DataShare, an institutional data repository, is six years old. It was built as a demonstrator in DSpace by EDINA and Data Library and has been given new life by the University of Edinburgh’s Research Data Management initiative. Following testing by pilot users in various departments last year, DataShare is confirmed as a key RDM service. Since 2008 much external infrastructure has grown around data sharing, and software developers, publishers and librarians are creating new innovations around the sharing and re-use of data daily. How can DataShare be shaped to fit in to this ever-more-sophisticated environment? A number of ongoing developments are helping us integrate the repository in the global context. DataShare is being indexed in Thomson-Reuter’s Data Citation Index. We aspire to attain the Data Seal of Approval for DataShare, a badge that confers trustworthiness through peer review. It is listed in re3data.org and databib registries of data repositories. We offer via extension, peer review of datasets to our depositors by listing journals that publish ‘data papers’ such as F1000 Research. Locally, as Information Services builds new data services such as the Data Store, [private data] Vault and the [metadata-only] Register, we can focus DataShare on its named purpose.
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• Dive into how to offer support with data management plans
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• Identify additional training opportunities and open educational resources you can use to develop robust DM services
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Educause 2015 RDM Maturity
1. Drivers and Responses Toward
Research Data Management Maturity:
Transatlantic Perspectives
Jan Cheetham • Rory Macneil • Brianna Marshall • Robin Rice
2. Take the online version of our
RDM maturity survey at:
tinyurl.com/edu15RDM
Please include #edu15RDM
in your tweets!
3. About Us
Brianna Marshall
Lead, Research Data Services
UW-Madison
Jan Cheetham
Research Cyberinfrastructure
Liaison
UW-Madison
Robin Rice
Data Librarian
University of Edinburgh
Rory Macneil
CEO
Research Space
4. Session Overview
UW-Madison (USA)
• Drivers
• Organizational responses
• Components
University of Edinburgh (UK)
• Drivers
• Organizational responses
Research Space (UK)
• Components
Survey results and open discussion: How do we define RDM maturity?
5.
6. Drivers: External Funder Mandates
• Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) memo
• Released spring 2013; took effect fall 2015
• Requires open sharing of published articles and data
• Publication repository is provided; data repository is not
• Applies to agencies with $100M + in R&D
• Fair Access to Science and Technology Research (FASTR)
• Identical bills introduced to House and Senate in spring
2013
• Requires open sharing of published articles
• Must be passed into law to take effect
• Applies to agencies with $100M + in extramural
spending
7. Drivers: Organizational
• Compliance with external requirements
• Stewardship of institutional assets
• Safeguarding reproducibility and intellectual
property
• Enabling research that is increasingly data-
driven and collaborative
8. Drivers: Researcher needs and changing
work patterns
• Ample technology to generate data but few skills to
manage it effectively
• Movement toward openness, impacted by OSTP and
spurred by early career researcher expectations
• Disciplinary culture shifts toward data reuse +
reproducibility
• Need for multi-purpose online spaces to collaborate,
share, store, and archive research outputs (including
data)
9. Organizational responses: Delivery
Focus of delivery has been on:
• Policies
• Tools
• RDM expertise
• Education/outreach for researchers
Challenges
• Who owns RDM?
• How do you staff RDM?
• Who pays for RDM?
10. Components: Policies
Data governance
• Policies and standards
• Information quality
• Privacy, compliance, security
• Architecture, integration
Data stewardship policy
• Retention for 7 years or more
• PI is steward
12. Components: Expertise and staffing
Library
• Research Data Services
• Liaison librarians
Central IT
• Engagement staff
Advanced Computing
• Facilitators
• Faculty (Data Carpentry)
Disciplines
• Staff experts in privacy, data
analysis, documentation,
sharing
13. Components: Outreach and education
DMP Consultations
Workshops
Researcher challenges:
• Common data curation methods
in research groups
• Long-term archiving resources
• Need to focus resources on data
analysis phase, keeping up with
hardware and software changes
• Restrictive policies
14.
15. Drivers: External
Funder mandates:
• ESRC & NERC have long-standing data archiving policies
• Research Councils UK publish Common Principles on Data
Policy, 2011
• EPSRC turns tables, makes institutions responsible, 2012,
full compliance expected by May 2015
• European Commission Horizon2020 funding includes ‘Open
Data Pilot’
• Overall, data management plans expected for funded
research
Publishers’ policies to mandate making data available helps too
16. Drivers: Organizational
• FOI legislation - University
of East Anglia ‘climategate’
negative publicity
• Desire to showcase all
research outputs
• Desire to support
researchers to comply with
funder policies
• Promote research integrity /
avoid scientific fraud
• Mostly - not to lose EPSRC
funding!
http://www.news24.com/SciTech/News/UK-cops-close-
Climategate-investigation-20120718
17. Drivers: Researcher needs and changing
work patterns
• Open Access publication mandates driving culture change
• Importance of UK Research Excellence Framework
• Shifting (generational?) norms about sharing & social media
• ‘Impact agenda’ & altmetrics
• Larger, broader collaborations
• Data-driven science
• Discipline-specific changes,
• eg AllTrials.net campaign
• Slowly changing perception of data as ‘first class research
object’
18. Organizational responses: Structural
University of Edinburgh Information Services takes up
mantle:
• Library, Computing Service & Data Library
Early projects set the tone:
• DISC-UK DataShare and Data Asset Framework (DAF)
‘Enabling’ (and first) UK university RDM policy, May 2011
RDM Roadmap to implement policy, 2012-present:
• Fit to data lifecycle: planning, active storage, stewardship
Governance
• Academic-led steering group
19. Organizational responses: Priorities
• Support for Data Management Planning, DMPOnline tool
customization, template
• Half terabyte per researcher storage with Dropbox-like
functions (DataStore, DataSync)
• Open Access data repository (Edinburgh DataShare)
• Long term Data Vault (private storage)
• Awareness raising, training, joining up support functions
http://datalib.edina.ac.uk/mantra
20. Organizational responses: Delivery
• RDM ‘action group’
• Raising awareness has a number of challenges
• CIO has been crucial champion of the cause
• Interaction with schools (departments)
• Next step: moving from umbrella of (confusing) services
to a unified and comprehensive research data service
under a service management framework
21. ELN as integrating RDM component
at Edinburgh
An online tool used by researchers in biology, chemistry,
biomedicine and related fields to collect and share
research data
Connected ELN
An ELN designed to integrate with core RDM
components at an institution level including file
storage, repositories and archives
Standalone ELN
A standalone tool used by individual labs
Electronic Lab Notebook
22. ▶ Individual researchers
Ease of use
▶ Research data managers
Integration with RDM
infrastructure
▶ IT managers
Ease of deployment
and administration
Connected ELN challenge:
Satisfy four sets of requirements
Researchers Administrators
▶ PrincipaI Investigators
Lab management
24. Results
ELN just another silo
Storage Repository Archive ELN
Data does not get captured by institution
25. Data
Data, file links
and metadata
Data, file links
and metadata
RSpace Connected ELN at Edinburgh
Lab
file stores
Data
DataStore
Repository
Archive
Researchers Administrators
26. Enabling institution to capture more high
quality research data, fulfilling funder
requirements for data preservation and
availability
RSpace@Edinburgh brings together
RDM tools and researcher workflow
28. RDM Maturity
• Comments on presentations and/or ideas in
the survey?
• What does RDM maturity mean to you?
• What is your institution focusing on to reach
maturity?
29. Help Us Improve and Grow
Thank you for participating
in today’s session.
We’re very interested in your feedback. Please take
a minute to fill out the session evaluation found within
the conference mobile app, or the online agenda.
Editor's Notes
Mention Purdue and other examples, article about RDS services at libraries
PI is steward and manages access
ELN
Campus data stewardship policy
Box
Unlimited quotas
Possible ELN integration
Storage
IR – ask Brianna what to say
Can’t directly cite but can allude to results from our 2014 survey
Focus on meeting with research groups, departments
Research organisations in receipt of EPSRC funding are expected to have a roadmap in place by May 2012 for compliance with the EPSRC policy framework on research data by May 2015. - See more at: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/policy-and-legal/research-funding-policies/epsrc#sthash.lJo0p8lN.dpuf
Images on right: which is the message the public received about the East Anglia University hacked email scandal?
Research Excellence Framework
Raising awareness has a number of challenges:
Information at point of need
Getting beyond early adopters & champions
Messages conflicting with received norms
CIO has been crucial champion of the cause
Early policy push, getting senior academic buy-in
Achievement of sustainable RDM funding stream