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QUT Research Data Finder

CRICOS No. 00213J

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Metadata Store Project

• Funded by Australian National Data Service (ANDS)

• Two staff – • 1 Data Librarian• 1 Java web developer

Budget

• Start: April 2012

• Finish: April 2013

Timeline

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What we set out to do…

• Create an institutional data registry (metadata repository)

– Increase awareness of and access to research data – Track the existence and location of completed datasets associated with

QUT research projects– Qualitative snapshot of research data generated/collected by QUT

researchers– Compliance with funding mandates

– Contribute records to Research Data Australia, the national research data discovery service

– Contribute researcher and research group records to Trove – national digital collection portal

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Scope

• Create metadata storage solution for records that describe QUT research datasets.

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• Investigation or development of data storage solutions.OUT

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Workflow

• Hybrid self-deposit (researchers) and mediated deposit (Liaison Librarians) system– 2014 – researchers will be self depositing records– Interim – Liaison Librarians to work with researchers to

create records

Four-tiered workfow.

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QUT research data architecture

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Service delivery

• Associate Director (Information Resources and Research Support) (Martin Borchert)Service Owner:

• Research Data Librarian (Philippa Broadley)Service

Manager:

• Research Data Team Liaison Librarians• Liaison Librarians

Frontline support staff:

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Going forward

• Number of developments to complete after project: – Update of Research Data Finder home page– Implement QUT authentication (ESOE)– Update Administrator panel– Implement integration of data capture points

• Research grant proposals• Ethics application forms• Thesis submission• Data Management Plan (formerly ‘Checklist’)

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