1. Towards a research data
management policy at
Goldsmiths

2. Goldsmiths
• Top 20 in UK for Arts • ‘major investments are
and Humanities difficult to find in this
turbulent and uncertain
• Top 30 in UK for Social
funding environment.
Sciences and Consequently our future
Management planning…places a clear
• 5313 undergraduates emphasis on identifying
• 2845 postgraduates new academic ventures
and new ways of working
• 1500 staff that would not just
• Range of disciplines bolster our reputation but
also bring financial
benefit’

3. Case Study
• Environmental
Assessment
• Key teams
• RDM working policy
group
• The policy
• Data Repository
• Key
Recommendations http://www.flickr.com/photos/articnomad/1615305
8/sizes/z/in/photostream/

4. Researchers vs Everyone else
• Painters • Research office
• Sculptors • Library
• Video artists • IT
• Art historians • Senior management
• 3d model designers • Funders
• Furniture designers
• Installation artists
Moonie Wedding Crowe, Nick and Rawlinson,
Ian. http://eprints.gold.ac.uk/6751/

5. EA: Terminology
materials, things, information, stuff, data

6. EA: Process
“anything’s part of it”

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

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

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

10. 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/

11. 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/

12. 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

13. 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/

14. 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/

15. 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/

16. 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/