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The Importance of Good Data Management David De Roure
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Professor Dave de Roure's keynote presentation at the JISC Research Integrity Conference.
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The Importance ofGood Data Management
David De Roure
DAMES
LifeGuide
eStat
PolicyGrid
Obesity e-Lab
DReSS
OeSS
Genesis
Genesis
Rural communities
Creative Industries
Social Inclusion
Entertainment
Healthcare
highwire
Horizon
Media
Finance
Web Science
Current Nodes
e-Social Science
DE Hubs
DE DTCs
GeoVUE
MoSeS
MiMeG
CQeSS
HUB
NeISS
ncrm
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NCRM phase 2
Harnessing advances in digital technology and practice to achieve world-class social
research with maximum impact
www.digitalsocialresearch.net
We’re not starting from scratch
First?
“because good research needs good data”
…unless it can be found and it can be used
Data may as well not exist…
So avoid WORN archives (WORN = Write Once Read Never)
New forms of data, new challenges
data
method
http://www.myexperiment.org/
The Executable Thesis
new data
new results
executablethesis
PhD Student
A national facility for building better software• Better software enables better research• Software reaches boundaries in its
maturity cycle that prevent improvement, growth and adoption
• Providing the expertise and services needed to negotiate to the next stage• Software reviews and refactoring, collaborations
to develop your project, guidance and best practice on software development, project management, community building, publicity and more…
The Software Sustainability Institute
Thinking about projects in developmental stages, to allow funders – and the project leaders themselves – the opportunity to evaluate progress or potential along the way
1. We’re not starting from scratch– Best practice is out there and evolving
2. The social life of data– Find it and reuse it or may as well lose it
3. New forms of data, new challenges– Institutional secure data?
4. Data is only part of the story– Beyond the PDF, software too
5. Address incentives and reward structures– Can’t share vs won’t share
Summary
• Digital Social Research– http://www.digitalsocialresearch.net/
• Linked Data– http://linkeddata.org/
• National Centre for Research Methods– http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/
• myExperiment Project– http://wiki.myexperiment.org/
• The Software Sustainability Institute– http://software.ac.uk/
• Ithaca report– http://www.ithaka.org/ithaka-s-r/research/funding-for-sustainability
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