An RDM Model for ResearchersJohn Borghi, PhD

What are we doing?

Why are we doing it?

• We are building a guide that will allow researchers to assess where they are in regards to research data management.

• Our goal is to build a tool that is comprehensive, practical, and user friendly

• Researchers are faced with new expectations and obligations in regards to how they manage their data.

• We believe research data management is an essential component to initiatives aimed at ensuring researach integrity, openness, and reproducibility.

Three Legged Stool of Digital PreservationSEI Maturity Model for Software

Paulk et al. (1993). Capability Model for Software.Kenney and McGovern (2005). The three legged stool: Institutional response to digital preservation.

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ANDS Capability Maturity Guide Community Capability Model

Australian National Data Service (2011). Research data management framework capability maturity guide.Lyon et al. (2013). Community capability model framework.

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DMVitals

Sallans and Lake (2014). Data management planning and assessment tools.Adapted From:

Detective Comics #33 (Nov, 1939)Adapted From:

DataONE Data LifecycleUK Data Archive Research Data Lifecycle

Adapted From:http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/create-manage/life-cyclehttps://www.dataone.org/data-life-cycle

Our RDM Guide for Researchers: Working Draft

What are our next steps?

How can you help?

• We are soliciting feedback from research data management practitioners. Namely, researchers.

• We are looking to define the divisions and steps within our guide and determine what specific practices we should include.

• Would you find a tool like this useful?

• Should there be more discrete “steps” within our framework?

• What else should we put into our model?

Thanks!