ERIM, REDm-MED and Orbital

1 Orbital DMP Meeting 20.01.12

Managing Engineering Research Data

at the University of Lincoln

Part 1 of 2

Mansur Darlington20 January 2012


Purpose of Visit

• To provide an overview of Research Data

Management and what it will mean to

members of the School of Engineering at

Lincoln.

• To provide some ideas which might help the

School meet the broad demands of ERDM.

• Provide some guidance to the Orbital Team

to help them meet their goals and satisfy the

particular needs of the School.


Summary

• Introduction

• Managing Research Data:

– Background, rationale, motivation,benefits

• Research Data Management Support

• The Nature of Engineering Research Data:

– The Engineering Research Information Management (ERIM)

Project

• Engineering RDM Planning & Execution

• Data Management Planning Tasks

• Key Building Blocks for Research Data Management.


REDm-MED (Research Data Management for Mechanical Engineering Departments)

• JISCMRD Phase 2.

• 1st Nov 2011 – 31 May 2012

• To scope, specify, design and implement a

research data management approach suited

especially to the needs of the Department of

Mechanical Engineering.

• Will build upon the ERIM Project work,

• and on other recent work by the MRD

community.

• Complements Research360 Project.


The Aim of the REDm-MED Project

• To implement effective and practicalresearch data management where there is little or none,

• through the provision of:

– Procedures & Documentation,

– A Tool Set,

– Infrastructure,

• including development of the prototype RAIDmap tool.

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/projects/redm-med/


University of Bath

Department of Mechanical Engineering

• 64 Academics

• 12 Professors

• 8 Emeritus Professors

• 14 Research Officers

• 161 Research Postgrads

• 104 Taught Postgrads

• 845 Undergraduates

2008 RAE rated most of our research as being

'world-leading or internationally excellent'


Research Centres

• Aerospace Engineering Research Centre

• Biomimetics Group

• Composites Research Unit

• Innovative Design Manufacturing Research Centre (IdMRC)

• Institute for Sustainable Energy & the Environment (I-SEE)

• Laboratory for Integrated Metrology Applications (LIMA)

• Centre for Nonlinear Mechanics

• Centre for Orthopaedic Biomechanics

• Centre for Power Transmission and Motion Control

• Powertrain and Vehicle Research Centre

• Robotics and Autonomous Systems


Dept. of Mechanical Engineering

Manufacture

I in AED

Medical

Sports

Materials

Automotive

Aerospace

Mechanical

Degree themes

Design &

Manufacture

Aerospace &

Automotive

Structures &

Bio Engineering

Machine

Systems

Materials,

Medical & Sport

Academic groups

Innovative Design & Manufacturing Research

Centre

Power train & Vehicle

Research Unit

Centre for Power Transmission & Motion

Control

Materials & Composites

Research Centre

Centre for Biomimetics

& Natural Technologies

Aerospace Centre

Centre for Nonlinear

Mechanics

Centre for

Biomechanics

International Centre for

the Environment

Research Centres

Research Partners

Airbus

Ford

Renishaw

Rolls-Royce

BAESystems, MBDA

ABB and Converteam


Innovative Design & Manufacturing Research Centre

• Established in 2001 (EPSRC) (1 of 16 UK CoE)

• Research portfolio ~£10M

(£7.5 million EPSRC IMRC to October 2011)

• 12 Academic Staff (18)

• 20 Research Staff (55)

• 32 Research Students (58)

• >250 Industry collaborators

• Facilities include a research lab, metrology lab, virtual-reality suite, video conferencing and rapid prototyping systems


IdMRC

THEME Constraint-Based Design & OptimisationIdMRC

THEME Constraint-Based Design & Optimisation

IdMRC Research Themes

IdMRC

THEMEAdvanced Machining Processes & Systems

IdMRC

THEMEAdvanced Machining Processes & Systems

IdMRC

THEMEMetrology & Assembly Systems & Technologies IdMRC

THEMEMetrology & Assembly Systems & Technologies

IdMRC

THEMEDesign Information & KnowledgeIdMRC

THEMEDesign Information & Knowledge


MJD Background

• Automating hydraulic power systems design.

• Improving the understanding of EDRS

development.

• Assessing the potential of the Semantic Web.

• Developments of advanced techniques for

information delivery.

• Information Evaluation and Value.

Management:

£5m KIM Grand Challenge Project in Through-

Life Information and Knowledge Management.

IdMRC Centre Manager.


MANAGING RESEARCH DATA


Why Manage Research Data?

• Because you will HAVE TO

• Because you might WANT TO


Needing to Manage Research Data

• Funders’ Data Management Policies

• Institutional Requirements

• FOI responses

• REF

• Publisher demands


UK Funders’ Project Data Management Requirements


Needing to Manage Research Data

• Funders’ Data Management Policies

• Institutional Requirements

• FOI responses

• Audit

• REF

• Publisher demands


Wanting to Manage Research Data

• Reduction in duplicated work.

• Inspiration for new/continuation research & funding.

• Basis for knowledge extraction from aggregated data.

• Greater transparency of research.

• Improved basis for validation.

• Obviating the need for re-collection and generation.

• Providing basis for reliable data citation.

• Increasing scholarly output.


Supporting Collaboration – reciprocal benefits

• Greater confidence in sharing data through better, more case-appropriate and more transparent security measures.

• Better access to new data or data hitherto undiscoverable.

• Reduction in data loss as a result of improvements in management throughout the data life cycle.

• Support of application for and defence of patents.

• Better understanding of good RDM practice.

• Greater clarity in IP issues.


Examples of Data Sharing Benefits I

• ‘Big Science’ data sharing is routine: space science, genomic epidemiology, biosciences, etc.

• Alzheimer’s Disease Neuro-imaging Data:160 papers published using data: 80 more are in the pipeline (Feb 2011).

• @70% increase in citations for clinical trial publications associated with making their datasets publicly available.


Examples of Data Sharing Benefits II

• Incremental Sheet Metal Forming Cross-EU sharing supported multi-university collaboration.

• Email Repository @ 20,000 items: supported 2 studentships and collaboration with University of Sydney.

• Anthropometric Constraint-Modelling Data(ADAPS, Delft) shared with and augmented by Bath,UK and Christchurch, NZ.

• Machinery Packaging Data incrementally generated and shared between prime industry collaborator, researchers and students.

• KIM Grand Challenge Project. Data sharing agreement between 20 key industry collaborators and research teams.

• Life-cycle Analysis for energy and the environment.


LCA for Sustainable/Renewal Energy Data Sets

• 13 PhD students (3 completed), 1 RO.

• 4-5 MEng projects per year.

• About 8 users each ChemEng and ACE.

• 6 big research projects supported:

Supergen HDPS

Supergen HiDef

BSBEC

Transition Pathways

DEFRA Link SEIBI

EPSRC Grand Challenge Carbon Capture


RESEARCH DATA MANAGEMENT

SUPPORT ACTIVITY


Centres of Support

• Data Archives and Centres:Biomedical Informatics Research Network Data Repository

Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre

Economic and Social Data Service

Environmental Information Data Centre

Geospatial Repository for Academic Deposit andExtraction

Infrared Space Observatory

National Biodiversity Network

National Geoscience Data Centre

NERC Earth Observation Data Centre

Petrological Database of the Ocean Floor

UK Data Archive

• The Digital Curation Centre

• JISC

• UKOLN (UK On-Line Network)


JISC MRD Programme Phase I

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/mrd.aspx

• Research Data Management Infrastructure.

• Research Data Management Planning.

• Support and Tools Projects.

• Citing, Linking, Integrating and Publishing

Research Data.

• Research Data Management Training Materials.


JISC MRD Programme Phase II

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/di_researchmanagement/man

agingresearchdata.aspx

• 17 large institutional piloting or further extending RDM infrastructures as part of an institutional mission.

• 8 projects helping research groups, projects or departments fulfill disciplinary best practice and research funder requirements.

• 2 projects customising the DCC’s DMP Online tool for institutional use.Complemented by work:

• to improve the practice of data citation and explore innovative ways of publishing research data;

• to develop disciplinary focused training materials as well as training for other stakeholders.

ERIM, REDm-MED and Orbital

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