Towards a research data management policy at

Goldsmiths

Goldsmiths

• Top 20 in UK for Arts and Humanities

• Top 30 in UK for Social Sciences and Management

• 5313 undergraduates

• 2845 postgraduates

• 1500 staff

• Range of disciplines

• ‘major investments are difficult to find in this turbulent and uncertain funding environment. Consequently our future planning…places a clear emphasis on identifying new academic ventures and new ways of working that would not just bolster our reputation but also bring financial benefit’

Case Study

• Environmental Assessment

• Key teams

• RDM working policy group

• The policy

• Data Repository

• Key Recommendations

http://www.flickr.com/photos/articnomad/16153058/sizes/z/in/photostream/

Researchers vs Everyone else

• Painters

• Sculptors

• Video artists

• Art historians

• 3d model designers

• Furniture designers

• Installation artists

• Research office

• Library

• IT

• Senior management

• Funders

Moonie Wedding Crowe, Nick and Rawlinson, Ian. http://eprints.gold.ac.uk/6751/

EA: Terminology

materials, things, information, stuff, data

EA: Process “anything’s part of it”

EA: Roles

Dean, Mark. 2010. Christian Disco http://eprints.gold.ac.uk/7093/

EA: Collaboration

Otto (2012) Crowe, Nick and Rawlinson, Ian. http://eprints.gold.ac.uk/6756/

EA: Access

Bad Chair Day"2003 Annie Whiles http://eprints.gold.ac.uk/4681/

Library and Research Office

• Goldsmiths Research Online

• Roadshows

• RAE/REF

• Access to researchers

• Regular meetings

• Training

Two East German Drinking Glasses, 2009 Crowe, Nick and Rawlinson, Ian. http://eprints.gold.ac.uk/6752/

IT/Faculty/Senior Management

• Key individuals

• Policy landscape

• Record management

• Data storage

• Training provisions

Born out of pleasure – Harrell Fletcher http://eprints.gold.ac.uk/7655/

RDM Policy Working Group

• Reviewed existing policies and regulations

• Data storage

• Training provisions

• Funder requirements

• Draft policy

• Group set up

• DCC

• Ratification and approval

Not yet Whiles, Annie 2008 http://eprints.gold.ac.uk/2890

The policy!

• Agreed standards/Funding body requirements

• Throughout research data lifecycle

• PI responsibility • Capture, management,

integrity, confidentiality, retention, sharing, reuse, publication

• College will preserve access (up to 10 years)

• Deposit elsewhere should be registered

• FOI needs to be considered • Data repository

Unrealised Project – Mabb, David http://eprints.gold.ac.uk/7360/

Data Repository

• http://eprints-data.gold.ac.uk/

• Eprints Services

• Library Research Support Team

• Storage under review

• Record of the data

Untitled - Kelly, Susan. 2012. JURISDICTIONS. http://eprints.gold.ac.uk/7263/

Key Recommendations

• Meet with individuals on a semi-informal basis first

• Identify key people

• Be practical

• Specific recommendations

• Tie-in RDM actions with wider improvements to research support

• Tie-in RDM plans with university’s strategic aims

• Ratifying a policy about research data management is just one step towards better research data management

Harper, Andy. 2011. Towards a New Architecture. http://eprints.gold.ac.uk/7088/

Thanks and Questions

Andrew gray a.gray@gold.ac.uk

http://www.gold.ac.uk/research-data/

Whiles, Annie. 2011. Beggars Belief. http://eprints.gold.ac.uk/6916/