components of institutional research data management services workshop - introduction
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Presentation given to introduce the 'Components of Institutional Research Data Services' workshop, jointly organised by the JISC Managing Research Data Programme 2011-13 and the DCC Institutional Engagements, and which took place on Wednesday 24 October to Thursday 25 October 2012 at the NCL Conference Centre, Nottingham, UK.TRANSCRIPT
JISCMRD Programme Progress Workshop / DCC Institutional Engagements Workshop
Simon HodsonJISC Programme Manager, Managing Research Data
Wednesday 24 October
NCL Conference Centre, Nottingham
Housekeeping
Wireless: BTOpenzone, pw: green2468
No fire test. If alarm sounds, exit the building and assemble in the car park.
Fire exits front and rear.
Toilets in the west atrium and near reception.
Breakouts: 1, 2, 3, 6 in atrium. 1 and 6 have keys.
Coffee in atrium.
Bar from 6pm.
Dinner 7.30pm in restaurant.
Breakfast 7am-9am in restaurant.
Checkout before we start: warning late checkout fee!
Institutional data repositories as an elevator for data collections
Research ProjectData Store
InstitutionalData
Repository
Selection/ Triage
DisciplinaryData
Archive
FunderResearchOutputs
InstitutionalData
Catalogue
UK Research Data
Discovery Service
Institutionally Managed
LocallyManaged
UK Research DataDiscovery Service
JISC runs programmes, not collections of projects
JISC programmes are more than the sum of their parts
Building Institutional Capacity:Second MRD Programme, 2011-13
Second JISC MRD Programme, 2009-11: http://bit.ly/jiscmrd2009-11
RDM Infrastructure (policy, guidance/support, systems)17 large projectshttp://bit.ly/jiscmrd02-infrastructure
RDM Planning (DMPs, best practice, disciplinary challenges)http://bit.ly/jiscmrd2011-13-RDMP http://bit.ly/enhancing_DMPonline
RDM Training (disciplines and libraries/research support)http://bit.ly/JISCMRD02-RDMtrain
Innovative data publicationhttp://bit.ly/JISCMRD02-datapubs
JISCMRD02 Timeline
Institutional data repositories as an elevator for data collections
The Data Pyramid: taken from Royal Society Report, Science as an Open Enterprise: http://royalsociety.org/policy/projects/science-public-enterprise/report/
Institutional Role in Data Management
Beth Plale at RDA: universities in the US ‘are poised to move forward as data centres’, IRs are growing into repositories for data.
Importance of university partnerships with data centres.
Institutions necessarily have a role before point of selection and in RIM.
Universities will need to serve many areas not covered by existing centres and data infrastructure.
Significant challenges: human and technical capacity, costs etc.
This is precisely what we as a programme are seeking to explore!
Essential to have a big impact!!! And we are…
Image from Stan Gaz (2010) Sites of Impact, reviewed on The Photobook blog http://thephotobook.wordpress.com/2010/05/26/stan-gaz-sites-of-impact/
Your hard work recognised!
The Science as an Open Enterprise report recognises the importance of the JISC Managing Research Data Programme.
Recommended that it ‘should be expanded beyond the pilot 17 institutions within the next five years.’
[Royal Society 2012, Science as an Open Enterprise, p.73]
The time is …
DCC institutional engagements
Objective: Helping to build capacity, capability and skills in data management and curation
Key features• UMF funding• Sixty day term• Senior management champions• Institutionally led• Dedicated DCC effort plus back-up• Inclusive (management, support, researchers)• Several (but not all) motivated by EPSRC/other funder
requirements
IE rationale and process
Assess needs
Make the case
Develop support
and services
RDM policy development
Customised Data Management
Plans
DAF & CARDIO assessments
Guidance and training
Workflow assessment
DCC support
team
Advocacy with senior management
Institutional data catalogues
Pilot RDM tools
…and support policy implementation
Three stage developmentInitiate change- Identify drivers and champions- Scope project with a focus on the feasibility of objectives- Analyse perceived issues and challenges- Identify capability gaps- Assess costs, benefits, risks- Engage stakeholders
Diagnose data practices- Inventory data assets- Profile norms, roles and values- Identify infrastructure capacities- Analyse current workflows- Using DAF, CARDIO, Benefits Analysis Tool
Redesign research data servicesReferring to research stakeholders (management and practitioners) and core support services- Describe new service options- Produce feasible, desirable changes- Evaluate fitness for purpose
Key questions for the evaluation of IEs• Which stakeholders become engaged in
service development?• What new roles are adopted?• What are the common RDM service priorities
and the enablers/barriers to developing them?• How much intermediation is needed to enable
the use of DAF, CARDIO and other tools?• What are the institutional success indicators
and how do they measure the value of our intervention?
Components of an institutional RDM service
Workshop Objectives
Improved understanding of…
how particular challenges are being tackled by various projects;
areas where there have been successes or lessons learnt which may be broadly generalisable;
areas where significant challenges still remain;
opportunities for DCC / MRD activities which may help clarify the challenges and make them more tractable.
Workshop Approach: questions to consider
In parallel sessions, presentations and discussion should consider:
what has worked/is working?
what lessons they have learned and how generalisable these may be?
what challenges remain?
how such challenges may be approached and what the institution/project intends to do?
what DCC / MRD activity they think may help make the challenge more tractable?
Workshop Programme: Day One
Workshop Programme: http://bit.ly/JISCMRD-DCC-Workshop-Programme
1A: Institutional Policies, Strategies, Roadmaps MR1
1B: Managing Active Data Main Conference Room
2A: Data Management Planning Main Conference Room
2B1: Data Repositories and Storage
2B2: Data Repositories and Storage (ePrints/SWORD)
MR2
MR1
Poster Session Main Conference Room
Workshop Programme: Day Two
Workshop Programme: http://bit.ly/JISCMRD-DCC-Workshop-Programme
3A1: Training and Guidance3A2: Training and Guidance
MR1MR2
3B: Triage and Handover Main Conference Room
4A: Business Cases and Sustainability MR1
4B: Data Catalogues Main Conference Room
Discussion and report back Main Conference Room
Workshop: DataFlow/SWORD Main Conference Room
Workshop: Janet Brokerage MR1
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