Slides from my talk with Rachel Bruce on challenges and opportunities for research data management at the EPSRC / Digital Curation Centre event "Assessing institutional awareness & readiness for compliance with EPSRC Policy Framework" in Glasgow on 8th May 2014. For more information see http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/other-dcc-events/assessing-institutional-readiness

1. Rachel Bruce, Director ofTechnology Innovation Digital Futures, Jisc
Martin Hamilton, Futurist
Research Data Management:
Gaps and Opportunities

2. 1. Jisc support for Research
Data Management
2. Your priorities – survey
feedback, delegate poll
3. Recent interventions
4. Gaps and opportunities
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Research Data Management:
Gaps and Opportunities
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3. 1. Jisc support for Research
Data Management
2. Your priorities – survey
feedback, delegate poll
3. Recent interventions
4. Gaps and opportunities
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Research Data Management:
Gaps and Opportunities
Image CC BY-NC Flickr user giladlotan

4. 1. Jisc Support for Research Data Management
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Advice & Guidance
Training
Networks of expertise &
stakeholders
Standards &
protocols
Experiments &
prototypes
Shared services &
infrastructure
Tools to support RDM
Brokered access to
services &
infrastructure
Arkivum; Cloud
Research Data Discovery ;
Journal data policy db;
Medical data management
software
Deposit & re-use e.g.
e-lab note books
SWORD; DMP
vocabulary; metadataData citation; legal;
DCC how to guides
Jorum materials; DCC
101; workshops etc
University practitioners;
curation experts
DMP On-Line;
Cardio;Sherpa Juliet

5. Data
Clouod
Librarians, research managers & IT
have three interlocking suites of
services, to support researcher
needs and institutional policies
Researchers have a cohesive and
interlocking suite of research data
management, publication and
discovery services
Research Data
Management and
Planning Services
Research Data Storage and Archival Services
Research Data
Discovery Services
UKDS,
BADC
Research Data Management Applications
ICSU /WDSEBI / GenBank
Research Data Management Applications
Journal Policies Registry
Research Data Registry / Cross
Repository Discovery Service
Key
Established service
Project
Other supported
JISC supported
DMPonline
DMP Registry
Research Data Management and Discovery
Services for the Research Data Lifecycle
SWORD +
Disciplinary Data Repositories
(National and International)
Institutional Data CataloguesInstitutional Data Catalogues
Disciplinary Research Data
DiscoveryServices
Metadata Exchange Between Journals, Archives,
Repositories
There is a set of
infrastructure
components that
underpin all three
suitesResearcher identifiers Organisation identifiers RegistriesData Identifiers
Data Identifiers and
MetadataSchema
Support for Research Data Lifecycle
Cloud/Storage

6. 1. Jisc Support for Research Data Management
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60%
40%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%
Jisc funded
UK HEI
Research Data Management Policy
Results from Autumn 2013 UK HE RDM Survey:
60% (9 out of 15) of the institutions engaging with Jisc have a RDM
policy compared with 40% (15 out of 38) of the whole sample.
(analysis by Stephane Goldstein, RIN)

7. 1. Jisc Support for Research Data Management
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33%
16%
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35%
Jisc funded
UK HEI
Research Data service
Results from Autumn 2013 UK HE RDM Survey:
33% (5 out of 15) of those engaging with Jisc have a research data
service in place. This falls to 16% for the sample as a whole.
(analysis by Stephane Goldstein, RIN)

8. 1. Jisc support for Research
Data Management
2. Your priorities – survey
feedback, delegate poll
3. Recent interventions
4. Gaps and opportunities
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Research Data Management:
Gaps and Opportunities
Image CC BY-NC Flickr user giladlotan

9. 2.Your Priorities – Challenges from Jisc Digifest
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- Active storage is not compliance, evidence of
HEIs repeating the same patterns &
interpreting compliance differently.
- Creating compelling services that will appeal
to researchers.
- Getting researchers to engage ; researchers /PI
think of it as their data.
- Building trust across the parts of the HEI that
are involved.
- Political issues.
- Disciplinary differences.
- Misconceptions – not all data is open – need
to be clear and ensure this is understood.
- Tools that take you through the whole journey.
- 150 HEIs coming up with own solutions!

10. 2.Your Priorities – Delegate Poll
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2.Your Priorities – Delegate Poll

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2.Your Priorities – Delegate Poll

13. 1. Jisc support for Research
Data Management
2. Your priorities – survey
feedback, delegate poll
3. Recent interventions
4. Gaps and opportunities
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Research Data Management:
Gaps and Opportunities
Image CC BY-NC Flickr user giladlotan

14. 3. Recent interventions
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15. 3. Recent interventions
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16. 1. Jisc support for Research
Data Management
2. Your priorities – survey
feedback, delegate poll
3. Recent interventions
4. Gaps and opportunities
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Research Data Management:
Gaps and Opportunities
Image CC BY-NC Flickr user giladlotan

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18. 4. Gaps and opportunities – liaison activities
Liaison :UK HEIs and research
institutes – e.g.
DBIS, HEFCE, libraries, IT
directors, RCUK , publishers etc
Research SectorTransparency
Board, RCUK National E-
Infrastructure Group & E-
Infrastructure Leadership Council
Work with international initiatives:
»Research Data
Alliance,CODATA, EuroCRIS,ANDS
»Knowledge Exchange – at the
moment through the KE we are
exploring incentives to sharing &
funding models for research data
infrastructure
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European projects: SIM4RDM & 4Cs
Jisc CASRAI - UK pilot :development
of related vocabularies and standards,
for example data management plans
vocabularies

19. 4. Gaps and opportunities – Co-Design process
Co-design – Research at Risk !
There is currently an inefficient and
fragmented approach to research
data management throughout the
UK.This leads to underperformance
and cost inefficiencies across
universities.There is a real risk to
universities in failing to comply with
government and funder
requirements and be prepared for
REF 2020.
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20. 4. Gaps and opportunities – potential futures
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- What is compliance, Jisc can help clarify this, RCUK
compliance for each of the components?We need a
national understanding of compliance.
- Breaking down the silos that exist –
format, standards, visualisations – currently there
needs to be more effort on this area.
- Shared services, both central solutions and
coordinated solutions. Can we have a national
solution?
- Case studies,Toolkits, Standards.
- An approach to help change academic practice;
hearts & minds.

21. Rachel Bruce, Director ofTechnology Innovation Digital Futures, Jisc
Martin Hamilton, Futurist
Research Data Management:
Gaps and Opportunities