research data guidance: turning policy into practice

Research Data Guidance. Turning policy into practice.

Wendy White24 October 2012

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Guiding principles• Mixed authorship - Research and Innovation

Services, iSolutions (IT), Library, helped share knowledge across services

• Practical – iterate with academic community, scenarios and FAQs

• Signposting – service, discipline and external expertise

• Context – set with other research support e.g. bibliometrics, open access, identifier assignation

• Visible - first DMP query came from someone who found pages via Google!

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DataPool Service Model

adapted with permission from Martin Lewis (2012) Working with other RDM actors slide 2(http://www.rluk.ac.uk/content/clarifying-roles-libraries-research-data-management-discussion-day-find-creative-

solutions Firefox only)

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Seeding - Serendipitous discovery important Challenges when ideas are exciting but also hard to deliver Invite discovery and

engagement

Peer word of mouth

Informal networks e.g. USRGs

Senior staff to endorse culture

Balance between individual enthusiast and institutional service

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Lessons - unpacking specific queries

I just need a

statement to cut

and paste into bid

Can I have some more

storage?

I would like

others to be able to

query these data

I need to do a DMP

by this afternoon

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Enrichment

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Full institutional engagement

Top down/bottom up & broad coverage/specific queries

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Main challenge - Reach

Nuance of sub-disciplinesMultidisciplinary synergiesCommunication networksTrusted approach to sharing

Knowledge

ImpactRelevance