JISC Managing Research Data Programme

Simon Hodson

JISC Programme Manager, Managing Research Data

Friday 18 November 2011

UCL

JISCMRD Aims and Challenges

a) to address a strategic requirement for UK HE to improve its research data management capability and better to understand how this may be achieved, and b) to encourage the wider reuse and repurposing of research data for the further advancement of research.

Planning: There is little institutional support for funders requirements: how do I create an effective data management plan and how do I put it into action?

Infrastructure: There is little effective infrastructure: storage, sharing and management tools are ad hoc.

Support and Training: How well are researchers being prepared for data sharing? Help in meeting funders, institutions requirements?

Incentives and Benefits: Why should I put effort into the data? What recognition and reward will I get for publishing 'my' data? Effective links between publications and data? Effective citation for data and inclusion in metrics?

Supporting the Research Data Lifecycle

Plan

Create

Use

Appraise Publish

Discover

Reuse

Store

Annotate

Select

Discard Describe

Identify Hand Over?

Access

Supporting the Research Data Lifecycle

Plan

Create

Use

Appraise Publish

Discover

Reuse

Store

Annotate

Select

Discard

Describe

Identify Hand Over?

Access

Leadership and Policy

Development

Guidance and Training

Support for Data Management

Planning

RDM Systems and

Infrastructure

Publication and Citation

Mechanisms

JISC Managing Research Data Programme

First JISC MRD Programme, 2009-11:

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

£4.3M

Policy, support and infrastructure (eight projects).

Training and skills (six projects).

Disciplinary RDM planning requirements (six projects).

Citation and publication challenges (eight projects).

Support projects and reports.

JISC MRD Outputs Page:

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

JISC Webinar: Meeting the Research Data Challenge

JISC Webinar, meeting the research data challenge:

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/2011/10/webinarmrd.aspx

Recording and summary of the webinar, slides.

Covers the strategic, policy drivers; outputs available from the JISC

MRD Programme.

What people said:

– "I have an irrational loathing for the word 'webinar'.”

– "Phew! A lot of projects/resources to check out from #jiscmrd #jiscwebinar

Sometimes these synthesis talks scare me! ;-)”

– "a bit like drinking from a firehose! Useful stuff though."

Grant Funding Call 07/11 Strands

A(1): Institutional Research Data Management Infrastructure

– Start-up projects to help institutions that are at an early stage of

developing a research data management infrastructure

A(2): Institutional Research Data Management Infrastructure

– Embedding projects to help institutions enhance and extend an existing

pilot research data management infrastructure

B: Research Data Management Planning for Projects or Departments

– Projects to design and implement research data management plans for

specific projects/departments with supporting systems and tools.

C: Integrated Research Data Management Planning Tools

– Projects to customise the DCC’s DMP Online tool for institutional use and

ensuring interoperability with institutional grant costing and research

information management systems.

JISC Managing Research Data Programme

Second JISC MRD Programme, 2011-13:

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/di_researchman

agement/managingresearchdata.aspx

£4.6M

Policy, support and infrastructure (seventeen projects).

Disciplinary RDM planning requirements (ten projects).

Enhancing DMPonline planning tool (two projects).

Further work TBA Jan 2012 on data publication and

training/skills development.

JISC Managing Research Data Programme

Google Map of funded projects:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?msid=2104934568561360

57364.0004ab687f5a25636a285&msa=0

17 infrastructure projects.

9 institutional pilots; 4 institutional embedding projects; 3

subject focussed projects; 1 project looking at metadata

4 focusing entirely or partly on engineering; 4 on

biomedical/health sciences.

Programme Launch Meeting, 1-2 Dec; posters at IDCC.

Large Programme Conference in March 2013 (see

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

mrdinternationalworkshop.aspx)

JISC Managing Research Data Programme

13 'institutional' projects (4 A2s, 10 A1s): A2s: Manchester,

Oxford, Exeter and Southampton)

3 disciplinary projects (climate science, archaeology, creative

arts)

1 metadata project (cerif for datasets)

8 Data Managing Planning Projects

2 DMPonline projects.

JISC Managing Research Data Programme

Strand B: 8 projects looking at data management planning

and implementation in specific disciplines:

– Northumbria, Health studies (ageing)

– Hull, History

– Sheffield, Psychology

– QMUL, Digital Music

– Bath, Engineering

– UCL, Archaeology

– Imperial, Health

– Lancaster, 'Big Science'

JISC Managing Research Data Programme

Biomedical/Health

Nottingham, Leeds (biomechanics), UWE, Hertfordshire;

Manchester; Northumbria, Imperial; UCL

Engineering

Nottingham, Leeds, Bath, Lincoln; Bath

Archaeology

York, Southampton; UCL

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UCL

Strand C: Integrated Research Data

Management Planning Tools

JISCMRD Programme 2011-13 Grant Funding Call 07/11

Strand C: Data Management Plans and Support

Integrated Research Data Management Planning Tools.

Projects to customise the DCC’s DMP Online tool for institutional use

and ensuring interoperability with institutional grant costing and

research information management systems.

Aims to help universities make best use of the DCC’s DMPonline tool.

Strand C: Data Management Plans and Support

‘Minimal’ DMP

‘Core’ DMP

‘Full’ DMP

Pre-Grant Award System

CRIS

RDM Infrastructure

CRIS

Institutional Repository

Strand C: Data Management Plans and Support

Customisations of the DCC DMP Online tool:

– Skins, guidance and supporting documentation.

– Templates and customisations to meet specific departmental, institutional

needs.

Interoperation with local systems:

– Exchange of structured information with…

– e.g. pre-grant award systems, research information management systems,

RDM systems, IRs.

Strand C: Data Management Plans and Support

Customisations should be consonant with objective for DMP Online as

a cloud-based national infrastructure / service.

Technical challenge of ensuring interoperation between a cloud

service and local systems.

Requires very close coordination / cooperation with the DCC.

Customisations should not lead to stand along instances unless there

is an extremely strong case.

Thank You! Questions?

First JISC MRD Programme, 2009-11:

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

JISC MRD Outputs Page:

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

Second JISC MRD Programme, 2011-13:

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

gresearchdata.aspx

Programme Blog: http://researchdata.jiscinvolve.org/

International discussion list: RESEARCH-DATAMAN@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

E-mail: s.hodson@jisc.ac.uk

Twitter: @simonhodson99

Programme Hashtag: #jiscmrd