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Research Data Management Training and Support
1. Research Data Management
Training and Support
Robin Rice, Data Librarian
EDINA and Data Library
University of Edinburgh
OpenAire / LIBER Workshop
Ghent: 28 May 2013
#elag2013
2. Overview
About the Data Library
University of Edinburgh RDM activity:
o Research Data Management Policy
o Roadmap to implement policy
Data Management Support in Roadmap
The DIY Research Data Management Training Kit
3. What is a data library?
“A data library refers to both the content and
the services that foster use of collections of
numeric, audio-visual, textual or geospatial
data sets for secondary use in research.”
Focus on re-use of data
4. Data Library service at Edinburgh:
since 1983
finding…
accessing …
using …
teaching …
4ChartsBin and mkandlez on flickr
7. U of Edinburgh’s RDM Policy
Passed Senate in May, 2011
Ten brief principles
Sets out roles and responsibilities
Aims to enable researchers to achieve good
practice
Wide consultation organised by Library-led
committee set up by the Vice Principal
11. The Data Lifecycle
Slide borrowed with permission from Anthony Beitz,
Monash University. Presented at OR 2012, Edinburgh
CollaborateConceive Design Experiment Publish ExposeAnalyseDesign
Data
Management
Planning
Expose
National Repository or
Institutional Repository or
Electronic Journal or
Community Portal
Research Data Management
Platform
CollaborateExperiment PublishAnalyse
12. Supporting and training
researchers
• Online guidance for academic staff
• Embedding RDM training into postgraduate
programmes (MANTRA); bespoke training
• Awareness-raising and service roll-out across
schools and research units
• Data management consultancy; grant-costed effort
such as in-depth planning or metadata support
• Training librarians & IT staff
16. Liaison librarian training (2012-13)
Information Services staff need training to build
confidence in engaging in RDM activity and
providing support
Data Library had already created MANTRA, an
online RDM training course for PhD students
Aimed to reuse MANTRA in a blended learning
approach for academic liaison librarians
Idea inspired by Data Intelligence 4 Librarians and
Monash University Library
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Sam Searle & Robin Rice at Monash University, January 2009
//jisc-datashare.blogspot.com/2009/02/data-walkabout-7-melbourne.html
18.
19. DIY RDM Training Kit for Librarians:
CC-BY
Image by David Shankbone, wikimedia commons
20. Approach: pilot librarian training
Librarians are professionals with own
experience and concerns to bring to training
Obtain buy-in from start, from participants as
well as their managers
Small group (4 plus facilitator), private
setting, plenty of time for discussion, sharing
stories
Emphasis on facilitation rather than teaching
21. Five topics / modules
Data management planning
Documenting & organising data
Data storage & security
Ethics & copyright
Data sharing
Topics of interest agreed with participating
librarians before start of training. Loose
correspondence to MANTRA units.
22. Course structure: five sessions
Each face to face session two hours duration
Facilitated by an ‘expert’ (data librarian)
Invited guest speakers to kick off each session
Short talks followed by long discussions
Interactive group exercises from UK Data
Archive Train the Trainers workbook
23. ‘Homework’ assignments
Allow 2 weeks to complete prior to session
MANTRA modules & recommended reading
Reflective questions to think as a researcher
Independent study:
Interview a researcher
Write up a Data Curation Profile
The first builds confidence; the second practices what we preach
(sharing)
24. Contents of the training kit
Overview for facilitators
Course schedule
Reflective questions for each session
Selected group exercises from UK Data Archive
Independent study assignment: Data Curation
Profile, from D2C2, Purdue University Libraries
Podcasts and presentations of short talks
Evaluation forms
All CC-BY licensed so please reuse!
25. Links
University of Edinburgh policy
http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/research-data-policy
Research data guidance
http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/data-management
MANTRA online training
http://datalib.edina.ac.uk/mantra/
Edinburgh University Data Library
http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/data-library
Notas del editor
A data library is normally part of a larger institution (academic, corporate, scientific, medical, governmental, etc.) established to serve the data users of that organisation.
IASSIST is the international organisation of data librarians and other data professionals, and it’s meeting ‘nearby’ (3 hours by train) in Cologne this week.
Wordle of Edinburgh RDM policy (2011) controlling for words research and data.
Planning: Support and services for planning activities that are typically performed before research data is collected or createdAD Infra: Facilities to store data that are actively used in current research activities, to provide access to that storage, and tools to assist in working with the dataStewardship:Tools and services to aid in the description, deposit, and on-going management of completed research data outputs…
Reminder slide to mention handouts and openly licensed MANTRA course
Wordle from one unit in MANTRA: Documentation and metadata
Sam Searle & Robin Rice at Monash University, January 2009http://jisc-datashare.blogspot.com/2009/02/data-walkabout-7-melbourne.htmlFeb, 2011: “The Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) Achievement Award recognises Sam’s work in leading activity in research data management across Monash University and her contribution to Australia’s research data management community to maximise the outcomes of researchers. … Ms Searle is the first person to be appointed to a library-based data management support role in Australia and one of very few research data librarians in the world. She hopes to use her award to attend a research data management workshop in the UK and to visit selected universities that are leaders in research data management, including the Universities of Edinburgh and Oxford.” http://www.monash.edu.au/news/show/national-award-for-data-management-coordinator
Slide from Sam Searle’s presentation at UoE: Library roles in research data management – visit from Sam Searle to UoE, 22 March 2011