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Research data management:Benefits for the researcher,

Benefits for Society

Kevin Ashley Digital Curation Centre

www.dcc.ac.uk@kevingashley

Kevin.ashley@ed.ac.uk

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A summary

• Some benefits:– Citation & impact– Compliance with funders & regulation– Improving your research

• What stops us ?

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An alternative summary

Being Selfish

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What’s possible now

… and still benefiting others

Being Just Good Enough

Thanks to:Neil Chue Hong (@npch), Software Sustainability

InstituteORCID: 0000-0002-8876-7606

David Flanders (@dfflanders), Dr Steven Manos (DrStevenManos)

University of Melbourne.All my colleagues at the DCC

Cameron Neylon (@CameronNeylon)

“the active management and appraisal of data over the lifecycle of scholarly

and scientific interest”

Data management is part of good research practice

What is Research Data Management?

Plan

Create

Document

Use

Publish

Share

Slide by Sarah Jones, DCC

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Should all data be open?

• NO• Many reasons – most to do with human

subjects• But data existence should always be open• Allows discovery & negotiation on use• Avoids pointless replication

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95% of research results are never published

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But if you could publish just data…

• You could gain benefit even from the experiments that fail – as long you got good data

• ‘Data papers’ are one way to achieve this

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Findable, citable data has value

• Important to link publications to data (and vice versa)• Increases citations – of data & publication• Increases reuse (hence value)• But effects exist even without publication, if data is:

– Archived– Citable– Discoverable

• All benefit – researcher; institution; publisher

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Citability

• Making data available increases citations• Everyone – academic, funder, institution –

loves citations• Want evidence?– Alter, Pienta, Lyle – 240%, social sciences *– Piwowar, Vision – 9% (microarray data)†– Henneken, Accomazzi – 20% (astronomy) #

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† Piwowar H, Vision TJ. (2013) Data reuse & the open data citation advantage. PeerJ PrePrints 1:e1v1 http://dx.doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1v1

* Amy Pienta, George Alter, Jared Lyle, (2010) The Enduring Value of Social Science Research: The Use and Reuse of Primary Research Data.http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/78307

# Edwin Henneken, Alberto Accomazzi, (2011) Linking to Data - Effect on Citation Rates in Astronomy. http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.3618

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Funders are making demands

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Funder requirements

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Regulatory requirements

• Data protection, freedom of information, research ethics – all apply to data

• If your data is badly managed:– Compliance is hard

• Know what you deleted (and why) as well as what you have

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Because it’s good practice

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“Data management is essential to

excellence in research”

Professor Charlotte Clarke, Associate Dean for Research, School of Health, Community and Education Studies

Apart from the benefits for research, good data

management is vital for many reasons:

accountability, security, appropriate data-sharing,

re-use protocols and preservation for example

Prof Julie McLeod, School of Computing, Engineering & Information Sciences

www.northumbria.ac.uk/browse/ne/uninews/datamanagement?view=Standard&news=archive

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Finally…

• Well-managed data makes your research easier, now and in future

• Well-managed data is easier to share, more likely to be re-used

• ISharing data is good for you• It’s good for all of us• It isn’t as hard as you think – we’re here to

show you how!

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Roles and Responsibilities

What data to keep

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What data to keep

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Acquire research data skills

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Data reuse - messages

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Often your data tells stories that your

publications do not

Not all data comes from other researchers

One person’s noise is another person’s signal

Discipline-bounded data discovery doesn’t give us

all we need or want