Sarah Jones - National approaches to data management

National approaches to data management

Sarah Jones

Digital Curation Centre, Glasgow

sarah.jones@glasgow.ac.uk

Twitter: @sjDCC

RDA Ireland, 8th September 2017, Dublin

What needs to be addressed?

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Components of RDM services

www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/how-guides/how-develop-rdm-services

UK Open Data Concordat

• Multi-stakeholder group: RCUK, HEFCE, Universities UK, Wellcome Trust

• Developed in response to criticism about varying policy requirements

• Provides a set of principles and roles for all

www.rcuk.ac.uk/documents/documents/ concordatonopenresearchdata-pdf

DMPTuuli for DMPs

https://www.dmptuuli.fi

• Project supported by the Ministry of Education

• Single national service that all unis can customise

• Developed national DMP template

• Liaison / piloting with Academy of Finland and other research funders

Secure data services

TSD provides a platform for researchers working at University of Oslo and in other public research

institutions to collect, store and analyze sensitive research data. TSD complies with the directive of privacy and electronic communication in Norway.

www.uio.no/english/services/it/research/storage/sensitive-data/index.html

Dutch DataVerse network

• A network of data repositories

• Based on open source repository solution

• Supported by participating institutions and DANS

• Provides storage, sharing and registration of data, during the research period and up to prescribed term of ten years after its completion.

https://dataverse.nl

National / domain repositories

CESSDA social science data centres

BioSharing portal of databases in life sciences

www.cessda.eu https://biosharing.org

Research Data Australia

https://researchdata.ands.org.au

• National portal to Australian research data

• Harvests metadata from 100+ research orgs, government agencies, and cultural institutions

• Funded projects within institutions to ‘seed the commons’

MANTRA online training

http://mantra.edina.ac.uk

• Online toolkit, created with international reuse in mind

• CC-BY licensed to permit widest reuse

• Lots of uptake: embed in VLE, inspire new variants, led to MOOC…

Guidance resources

What do we learn from these examples?

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Lots of potential to get started

• Many services can be offered at a national level

• It helps to build on good practice emerging from universities or other countries

• Understand community needs and priorities

• Tackle one aspect at a time

Research Data Shared Service vision

www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/research-data-shared-service

• Provide an end-to-end system, offered as a managed service

• Procure services on behalf of the sector

Will always be a hybrid environment

Local National Global

NIH Commons

EOSC

African Open Science Platform

National Data

Services

Diverse mix of stakeholders acting at different levels

Universities

Discipline-specific, community-based services

Third-party service providers

Registration agencies

Coordinate across the levels

Dutch front-office back-office concept from DANS

Critical to provide fora to exchange ideas

DCC’s Research Data Management Forum (RDMF)

• Informal network with bi-annual events since 2008

• Topics based on current issues raised by members

• Overnight stays to promote networking opportunities

• Model replicated in Portugal

www.dcc.ac.uk/events/research-data-management-forum-rdmf

Dutch National RDM Coordination Point

• Formal coordination to facilitate national strategy

• Five issues / working groups

• Members from unis, UMCs, unis of applied sciences, data centres, national services and other institutes

• Coordinated by SURF with other agencies

www.surf.nl/en/lcrdm

Potential role for national RDA

group?

Lots of ways to get started

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National projects• DLCM (Swiss Data Lifecycle Management) funded by

swissuniversities to combine existing efforts on RDM

• Five project tracks:

1. Guidelines, polices and Data Management Plan2. Publication and preservation3. Active data management4. Consultation and training5. Outreach and dissemination

• Similar projects elsewhere to coordinate RDM e.g. e-Infrastructures Austria and Tuuli project in Finland

www.dlcm.ch

Establish centres of expertise

Australian National Data Centre (ANDS)

“to make Australia’s research data assets more valuable for

researchers, research institutions and the nation”

www.ands.org.au

Funding programmes e.g. MRD

The Jisc Managing Research Data programmes were instrumental in seeding RDM activity in a wide range of unis and building community

MRD 01: October 2009 – July 2011

• £4.3 million investment• Strands: infrastructure projects, DMPs, citation, training, tools (costs & reqs)• www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/mrd.aspx

MRD 02 – October 2011 – July 2013

• £4.6 million investment• Strands: infrastructure projects, DMPs, training, data publication• www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/di_researchmanagement/managin

gresearchdata.aspx

Lots of workshops and coordination by DCC & Jisc throughout

Membership organisations

Canadian Portage network

• Launched in 2015 by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL)

• Supported by Library memberships for 2 years (business plan)

• Aim is to coordinate and expand existing expertise, services, and infrastructure for RDM

• Collaborate with other relevant national groups e.g. Compute Canada, RDC, Canadian Association of Research Admins (CARA) & Ethics Boards (CAREB)

https://portagenetwork.ca

Questions

• Do you have all the stakeholders at the table?

• What resources do you have to commit?

• Where are things at now?

• Which are the most pressing priorities?

• What does it make most sense to centralise?

• What should be provided, by whom, at what level?

Thanks for listening

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