Directions in research data management - Jisc Digital Festival 2015

Directions in Research Data Management

Rachel Bruce (Jisc)

Peter Tinson (UCISA)

David Kernohan (Jisc)

10/03/2015 Jisc Digital Festival, 9-10 March 2015, ICC Birmingham 3

“What we want to see, looking five years ahead, is a new position accorded to data within the scholarly communications environment”

» Collaboration with five major UK stakeholder organisations in RDM

» Events and workshops involving funders, researchers, librarians, IT managers, research office staff and data specialists

» Informed by interviews, discussions, surveys and reports

In collaboration with RLUK, RUGIT, SCONUL, UCISA, ARMA

Building the roadmap and vision

Building the roadmap and vision


» With thanks to

› Simon Ketteridge and Ray Kent, ARMA

› Caroline Taylor, SCONUL

› Mike Mertens, John MacColl and David Prosser, RLUK

› Sean Duffy, RUGIT

› Peter Tinson, UCISA

› Sheridan Brown and Christine Gormley, copy writers

In collaboration with RLUK, RUGIT, SCONUL, UCISA, ARMA

The structure


Vision

Introduction

Five key areas to action

Moving forward

Directions forResearch DataManagement(March 2015)


“We want to see data being routinely managed with the necessary articulated infrastructure (in part, provided by Jisc) in place.”

“This will be a trusted landscape, formed of data archives at the levels of institution, region and nation, and international disciplinary archives. The skills of librarians, IT specialists and others will be required to address the challenges around capture, discoverability, preservation, storage, software and retention.”

“The data equivalent of subject/liaison librarians will be blended professionalsworking in all institutions, within proper career structures: these will be data specialists.”

First expressed by John MacColl of RLUK, echoing two days of intense discussion and deliberation at our workshop in Cambridge

The Vision

The areas: Each area includes:


Focus on the five key areas of action

» Policy development and implementation

» Skills and capabilities

» Infrastructure and interoperability

» Incentives for researchers and support staff

» Business case and sustainability

» A top level discussion

» Key issues identified

» A five year vision

» Quick wins

» Longer term issues to be addressed


» Policy: Mandate messiness experienced today should have been resolved and funders requirements should be unequivocal and well aligned; universities should gave a very clear understanding of what funders require of them and what they need to achieve it. The prevailing culture will be characterised by incentives and rewards rather than primarily by mandates

In five years time…

Vision


» Skills and capability: Blended professionals –data specialists – will be working within proper career structures. Harmonised training and understanding of required skills to ensure skills can be developed and recruited

» Infrastructure and interoperability: Today’s partial, fragmented RDM landscape is a far cry from the one we envision in five years time. Data will be routinely managed with the necessary articulated infrastructure, provided in part by Jisc


Vision


» Incentives for researchers and support stakeholders: Five years from now easy access to data will be the norm, and not doing RDM well will be tantamount to research malpractice

» Business case and sustainability: All UK universities will have RDM systems and services in place, operating successfully and increasingly for the good of the institution but also for scholarship more generally. The will be compliant with funder policies, will have a clear view on financial and business benefits of RDM and researchers will be benefiting from more tangible rewards for sharing data


Vision

Policy developmentand implementation

Key issues include:» Engagement with funders» Developing institutional RDM policies» Advocacy» Advice» Policies on metadata, storage, and

archival selection

Quick wins include:» Map policy requirements,

understand what is different, common

» Institutional advocacy

Skills and capabilities

Key issues include:» Assessment of required skills

and roles» Training and development

Quick wins include:» Working with stakeholders to

identify required skills» Development of training and

guidance offer» Work-shadowing scheme



Infrastructure andinteroperability

Key issues include:» Storage» Metadata catalogue» Interoperability» Service level

Quick wins include:» Mapping key components of an

RDM service» Framework agreements» Metadata standardisation

Incentives for researchersand support staff

Key issues include:» Need for explicit rewards for

data sharing» Value of open data for better

science» Recognition for the support

staff role

Quick wins include:» Promoting data citation» Engaging “champions”» Explicit RDM focus in funding bid

reviews



Business cases andsustainability

Key issues include:» Evidence of benefit» Costing models» Capacity» Approaches to funding

Quick wins include:» Work on benefit measures

and metrics» Business case templates» Clarify what costs can be

reclaimed from funders



“If we are aiming ultimately to develop a full roadmap, the Cambridge workshop helped to formulate a commonly agreed destination and this report provides the waypoints – ideas from which a series of activities or work packages may be designed to facilitate the journey. That journey itself is likely to be as challenging as it is professionally rewarding: if it is hard going at times, it will help to remind ourselves that the ultimate prize will be enhanced scholarship in the UK’s universities.”

Moving forward


Directions in research data management - Jisc Digital Festival 2015

Education

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