The University of Edinburgh provides research data management services and resources to support researchers through the entire data lifecycle. These include tools for creating data management plans, storing and sharing research data securely, and preserving data in the long term. The Research Data Service aims to help researchers comply with open science principles and data policies through a range of training programs, online guidance, and technical infrastructure. It has developed a multi-year roadmap and maturity model to continuously improve services based on researchers' needs and priorities like relationship building, communication skills, and consultation.
Staffing Research Data Services at University of EdinburghRobin Rice
Invited remote talk for Georg-August University of Göttingen workshop: RDM costs and efforts on 28 May in Göttingen. Organised by the project Göttingen Research Data Exploratory (GRAcE).
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.
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Research Data Access and Preservation Summit, 2014
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The requirement for a UK research data discovery service has grown as universities become more involved in RDM and capacity develops.
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Research Data Access and Preservation Summit, 2014
San Diego, CA
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Research Data Access and Preservation Summit, 2016
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Lightning Rounds (Thursday, May 5)
Presenter:
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February 18 2015 NISO Virtual Conference Scientific Data Management: Caring for Your Institution and its Intellectual Wealth
Building Best Practices in Research Data Management: Tisch Library’s Initiatives
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JHU Data Management Services
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A Workflow for Depositing to a Research Data Repository: A Case Study for Archiving Publication Data
Research Data Access & Preservation Summit 2013
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February 18 2015 NISO Virtual Conference Scientific Data Management: Caring for Your Institution and its Intellectual Wealth
Learning to Curate Research Data
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February 18 2014 NISO Virtual Conference
Scientific Data Management: Caring for Your Institution and its Intellectual Wealth
Capacity Building: Leveraging existing library networks to take on research data
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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).
RDAP 16 Lightning: Data Practices and Perspectives of Atmospheric and Enginee...ASIS&T
Research Data Access and Preservation Summit, 2016
Atlanta, GA
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Lightning Rounds (Thursday, May 5)
Presenter:
Christie Wiley, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
February 18 2015 NISO Virtual Conference Scientific Data Management: Caring for Your Institution and its Intellectual Wealth
Building Best Practices in Research Data Management: Tisch Library’s Initiatives
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A Workflow for Depositing to a Research Data Repository: A Case Study for Archiving Publication Data
Research Data Access & Preservation Summit 2013
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February 18 2015 NISO Virtual Conference Scientific Data Management: Caring for Your Institution and its Intellectual Wealth
Learning to Curate Research Data
Jennifer Doty, Research Data Librarian, Emory Center for Digital Scholarship, Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library
February 18 2014 NISO Virtual Conference
Scientific Data Management: Caring for Your Institution and its Intellectual Wealth
Capacity Building: Leveraging existing library networks to take on research data
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Invited talk as part of Westminster Insight Research Data Management Forum, https://www.westminsterinsight.co.uk/event/3416/Research_Data_Management_Forum
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Lightning talk given at UKSG 2018 conference in Glasgow. (See notes field for most of content.)
Conference site: https://www.uksg.org/event/conference18
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Introduction to panel presentations from Universities of Edinburgh, Southampton, Yale, Cornell at IPRES 2015 conference, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 3 Nov 2015
Now we are six: Integrating Edinburgh DataShare into local and internet in...Robin Rice
#iassist40 presentation, Toronto, 6/6/2014.
Abstract:
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Research Data Service at the University of Edinburgh
1. RESEARCH DATA SERVICE AT THE
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
Robin Rice
Data Librarian and Head of
Research Data Support
r.rice@ed.ac.uk
@sparrowbarley (Twitter)
www.ed.ac.uk/is/research-data-
service
http://datablog.is.ed.ac.uk
2. OVERVIEW
• Open Science and FAIR data as rationales for RDM
• The University’s Research Data Management Policy
• UoE (IS) Research Data Service: a lifecycle approach
• Maturity models and strategies
• The UoE RDM Roadmap
• Skills and staffing
• Your experiences / queries / comments
3.
4. BENEFITS OF OPEN DATA
- Journal of Open Archaeology
Data, CC-BY 3.0
5. • Data that contain no personal or disclosive information, e.g.
anonymised.
• Open data are usually licensed under an open licence such as a
Creative Commons Licence (http://wiki.creativecommons.org) and
users do not need to register to access the data.
• Such data can be shared openly without any restrictions.
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OPEN DATA
7. • Plan for sharing (via a Data Management Plan).
• Don’t collect personal information that’s not
needed.
• Principle of informed consent: get consent to
share data.
• Attribute, anonymize, or aggregate individual’s
data.
• Document all data processing (inside & outside
analysis package).
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WHAT CAN A RESEARCHER DO TO BE ABLE TO
SHARE?
8. FAIR PARADIGM: OPEN BY DEFAULT
• FINDABLE: “Metadata and data should be easy to find for both
humans and computers. Machine-readable metadata are essential for
automatic discovery of datasets and services.”
• ACCESSIBLE: “Once the user finds the required data, she/he
needs to know how can they be accessed, possibly including
authentication and authorisation.”
• INTEROPERABLE: “The data usually need to be integrated
with other data. In addition, the data need to interoperate with
applications or workflows for analysis, storage, and processing.”
• REUSABLE: “The ultimate goal of FAIR is to optimise the reuse of
data. To achieve this, metadata and data should be well-described so
that they can be replicated and/or combined in different settings.”
9. UNIVERSITY’S RDM POLICY (MAY, 2011)
https://www.ed.ac.uk/is/
research-data-policy/
Policy by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Alpha Stock
Images
• Commitment to
research integrity,
DMPs, open data
• Articulates clear
responsibilities of the
researcher and of the
institution
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10. UoE Research Data Service = Tools and support for
working across the data lifecycle
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https://www.ed.ac.uk/is/research
-data-service
11. Tools and Support Description
DMPOnline Online tool to create a data
management plan, based on
University and funders’ templates
Support and DMP Review Answer enquiries and review plans,
provide advice; in-depth or quick
turaround
Sample DMPs Library of successful plans to show
researchers in different disciplines
Before your research project begins
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12. Tools and Support Description
Finding data ‘Finding data’ portal and data librarian
consultancy; help with accessing / purchase
of datasets or data subscriptions
Active data storage (DataStore) Central, backed up storage for all researchers
- individual and shared spaces
Sensitive data
(Data Safe Haven)
New, secure facility for working with sensitive
data on remote server. We are pursuing ISO
27001 security certification
Code versioning (Subversion,
Gitlab)
Private or public software code storage and
management. Documents all code and allows
rollback to prior versions
Collaboration and data sync’ing
(DataSync)
Open source tool to allow external partners
to access your research data
Electronic Lab Notebook
(RSpace)
Data management for laboratory based
research; interoperable with local systems
During your research project
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13. Tools and Support Description
Open Access data repository
(DataShare)
Allows researchers to share
data publicly and preserve for
long-term
Long-term retention
(DataVault)
Deposit datasets for a specified
retention period (for example,
10 years), immutable copy
Data asset register through the
University CRIS (Pure for
datasets)
Record a description of your
dataset along with your
publications and research
projects
After your research project is finished
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14. Tools and Support Description
General RDM support Answer enquiries by email, phone or
appointment; track through helpdesk system
Online training (MANTRA
and RDMS MOOC)
Learn online at your own pace or with a cohort
of peers through our open educational
resources
Scheduled and bespoke
training
Sign up for a scheduled workshop or request a
special training session for your research group
Research Data Service
website
All the tools and support in one place,
increasingly self-serve
Blog and promotional
materials
New developments on our Research Data Blog.
Service video and brochure
Dealing with Data annual
event & workshop series
Annual conference of researchers talking about
their data challenges and solutions
Research Data Workshop
series in various settings
Compact, catered networking events for
researchers to engage with the service & each
other about challenging topics
Training and support throughout your project
15. A MATURITY MODEL FOR RDM SERVICES
Cox, A. et al. “Developments in Research Data Management in Academic
Libraries: Towards an Understanding of Research Data Service Maturity”
Journal of the Association for Information, Science and Technology -
September 2017 p. 2191. DOI: 10.1002/asi
16. RDM ROADMAP (LIVING DOCUMENT)
Frank da Silva on Flickr CC BY-
NC-ND 2.0
Academic-led steering group
governs the service
1st, August 2012 –May 2015:
Rollout and consolidation
2nd, September 2015 – July
2016: Transition, programme to
service
3rd, August 2017-July 2020:
User journey, filling gaps
32 prioritised objectives
with actions and
deliverables
17. STAFF FUNDED BY DEDICATED RDM
ALLOCATION
• Senior staff: data librarian and two team leaders –
librarian or equivalent background, Masters and PhD
• 1 p/t Research Data Support Officer – trainer background
• 3 (2.5 FTE) Research Data Support Assistants (research
backgrounds, subject Masters and PhD)
• IT infrastructure manager and 2 IT systems engineers
• 1.5 software engineers
18. VALUED SKILLS AND PRIORITIES IN RDM
SERVICES (A. COX, ET AL)
Cox, A. et al. “Developments in Research Data Management in Academic Libraries:
Towards an Understanding of Research Data Service Maturity” JOURNAL OF THE
ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY - September 2017
p. 2191. DOI: 10.1002/asi
19. • “Personal Attributes” - most highly rated category overall (70%
respondents ranked Very important +)
• “Library Skills” - lowest rated category (40%)
• Top 5 items: “Developing relationships with researchers,
faculty, etc.”; “Oral communication and presentation skills”;
“Teamwork and interpersonal skills”; “Written communication
skills”; and “One-on-one consultation or instruction.”
• Bottom 5 items: “PhD or doctoral degree”; “Professional
memberships”; “Cataloging”; “Graduate degree in a [subject
discipline]”; & “Collection dev’t.”
SOFT SKILLS HIGHLY RATED IN A STUDY OF
LIBRARIANS DOING DATA-RELATED WORK
Federer, Lisa. (2018). Defining data librarianship: A survey of competencies, skills, and training.
Journal of the Medical Library Association. 106. 10.5195/JMLA.2018.306.
20. THANKS AND SORRY ABOUT THE RAIN
What are your thoughts / questions?
Editor's Notes
“The principles refer to three types of entities: data (or any digital object), metadata (information about that digital object), and infrastructure. For instance, principle F4 defines that both metadata and data are registered or indexed in a searchable resource (the infrastructure component).” https://www.go-fair.org/fair-principles/
1st, August 2012 –May 2015: Rollout and consolidation of primary services (active storage, open repository); minimally meeting funders’ requirements
2nd, September 2015 – July 2016: Transition from RDM programme to Research Data Service; training programme & DMP support
3rd, August 2017-July 2020: Filling known gaps through major development projects, increasing usage beyond early adopters, tuning the user journey