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Opening remarks, research data network
The document summarizes a meeting hosted by the Office of Scholarly Communication at the University of Cambridge for the Research Data Network. It welcomes attendees to Cambridge and highlights the importance of good research data management (RDM) practices for ensuring research integrity, reproducibility, impact, and cost-effectiveness. While RDM poses challenges such as sustainability, preservation of big data, and meeting new 21st century needs, these problems are not unique to Cambridge and require collaboration between institutions to address.
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Opening remarks, research data network
- 1. Office of ScholarlyCommunication Research Data Network meeting 6 September 2016 Dr Peter Hedges Head of the Research Office University of Cambridge Peter.Hedges@admin.cam.ac.uk
- 2. OSC Welcome toCambridge We are really proud to host this event in Cambridge Thank you for coming
- 3. OSC RDM inCambridge: Good RDM – underpinning research integrity Good RDM – business critical for Cambridge Transparency Reproducibility Impact Cost- effectiveness Excellent research
- 4. OSC It isnot always easy Sustainability Preservation Big Data New needs in 21st century But these problems are not limited to Cambridge
- 5. OSC We needto collaborate
- 6. OSC We needto collaborate
- 7. Office of ScholarlyCommunication Some housekeeping notes
- 8. OSC …and Cambridge! Enjoy themeeting… The Eagle pub Corpus Christi’s dining hall (lunch!) Colleges Punting
Editor's Notes
- #3 Welcome to Cambrigde. We are really proud to host this event in Cambridge Thank you to everyone who travelled from other places in the UK
- #4 Cambridge perceive research data management as an area of strategic importance. Good data management – at heart of research integrity Cambridge perceives sharing of research data as very important: For transparency in research To ensure research reproducibility To make research more impactful: Others can re-use the results which leads to new inventions and new knowledge The creators (and Cambridge!) get credit for their outputs Public money better spent – funders don’t need to pay for data generation twice Very important now when it is so difficult to win grants Good RDM is a must for excellent research, and Cambridge wishes to continue doing excellent research
- #5 Challenges: Sustainability How to satisfy the growing demand for RDM services? Example: our RDM workshops were so good, that now the Grad. School for Life Sciences wants them compulsory for their PhD students. Good news but they 400 new grad students per year And this is just one of 6 Cambridge schools How can we meet this demand sustainably??? How can we ensure preservation? EPSRC wants data to be preserved for 10y from the last access This might mean perpetuity How can we ensure that data will not be obsolete after all these years? That files will maintain integrity, but most importantly that researchers will have the software to open the data and appropriate contextual information to re-use the files? How do we deal with the growing amount of data? Cambridge has over 15PB of active data Recent survey on RDM (thanks to Jisc for helping us organise this) indicated that many researchers think about archiving hundreds of TBs of data – that’s scary and we don’t know how to handle this How do we effectively support changing needs of researchers in the 21st century? We are now re-active and we are playing a catch up game to support the basic needs of our researchers How can we be more pro-active and support the changing needs of researchers? Data visualisation Preservation of dynamic data But we share these problems across all the UK institutions
- #6 Other UK institutions face similar problems: let’s face them together Exchange good practice Share the pain Provide advice Brainstorm together Meetings like today are an excellent opportunity to do this
- #7 And so we are very happy to be part of the Jisc Shared Services pilot project. Thank you Jisc and thanks once again to everyone who came today to Cambridge to collaborate
- #8 Some housekeeping notes: There are no scheduled fire alarms. So if you hear an alarm, find the nearest exit (show where it is) and run! Switch off the sound in your mobiles (but don’t switch them off – keep tweeting about the event!) The toilets are available
- #9 Remember to also enjoy Cambridge: All the Colleges – Corpus Christi is one of them, and you will eat lunch in it’s Dining Hall today Try out punting The Eagle (next door!) is a must go – that’s the place where DNA was discovered - you can still see the plaque in memory of this event inside the pub and you can have a pint(s) of the Eagle’s DNA