The Research360 project is pleased to announce the public release of its guidance document Research Data Management and REF2014, prepared by staff at the University of Bath and Charles Beagrie Ltd. It is being disseminated and shared with the research community in Bath and other universities.
Many universities are still in the process of enhancing and formalising strategies for research data management at this time, so this paper may contribute to planning for future assessment exercises beyond REF2014, as well as business cases for further development of strategies and procedures for research data in research-intensive universities.
With the results from the REF determining institutional quality-related (QR) funding allocations (just over £1.3 billion in 2012/13), the research element of QR funding is one of the key funding streams for research in UK universities. Support for future assessment exercises is therefore a potential element in any business case for research data management.
The Research Data Management and REF2014 document can be downloaded in Word or PDF formats from: http://opus.bath.ac.uk/35518/.
The REF guidance document follows on from the previous release of the summary stakeholder benefits analysis (based on the KRDS Benefits Framework) from the Research Data Management business case for the University of Bath. The stakeholder benefits analysis is also still available separately to download in PDF format from http://opus.bath.ac.uk/32509.
The Research360 project is funded by Jisc and is developing the technical and human infrastructure for research data management at the University of Bath, as an exemplar research-intensive university.
Posted in General.
By Catherine Pink
– 10 June 2013
From Monday 14 to Wednesday 16 January 2013, Cathy and I attended the 8th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC13) in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
On Monday morning, we ran a workshop, jointly with Hannah Lloyd-Jones from Open Exeter, entitled “Designing Data Management Training Resources: Tools for the provision of interactive research data management workshops“. This offered participants the opportunity to learn more about the way we run our face-to-face data management training with staff and students, and to experience first-hand some of the interactive exercises we use.
These included Open Exeter’s “Research Data Dating” exercise, in which two concentric circles of participants have 3 minutes to describe their research data to each other before moving on to the next person. I demonstrated how we use “clickers” (audience response systems) to survey our students during face-to-face workshops, and we also had a discussion of the pros and cons of the data management plan (DMP) templates that we’ve used with students.
For more info, take a look at Marieke Guy’s blog post, IDCC13: Exemplar RDM Training Exercises and Jill Evans’s summary of tweets from the workshop. For those who are interested, we used PollEverywhere, a website which permits voting on questions via SMS or the web on a smartphone or laptop.
Update: You can now download Hannah’s slides: Designing Data Management Training Resources: IDCC 2013 Workshop
Cathy Pink presented a practice paper entitled “Meeting the Data Management Compliance Challenge: Funder Expectations and Institutional Reality“. The paper drew together lessons learnt by the Research360 project, based on its experience in meeting the varied data management needs of both an institution and its external stakeholders. The text of Cathy’s paper will be available online soon.
Liz Lyon facilitated the “What is a data scientist?” symposium, an interactive panel discussion around roles and skills required to cope with the growing importance of data in scholarship. See Marieke’s blog post, “IDCC13: What’s in a name? The ‘data scientist’ symposium” for more details.
Finally, we also presented a poster, “Creating an Online Training Module on RDM“, about the process of developing our research data management e-learning module for postgraduate students. The poster was designed and written by our colleague Marieke Guy from UKOLN, and I gave a “minute madness” presentation summarising it as well.
There is also a searchable archive of tweets with the #idcc13 hashtag.
Posted in Outreach.
Tagged with Amsterdam, Conference, Dissemination, IDCC13, Policy, Roadmap, Training.
By Jez Cope
– 22 January 2013
The Research360 project has just has released the summary stakeholder benefits analysis from the Research Data Management (RDM) business case for the University of Bath. The 4 page document is available to download in PDF format from opus.bath.ac.uk/32509.
The benefits summary covers key stakeholder groups both within the university community (academic staff and researchers, students, professional services and the institution) and for external partners (industry and commerce, public and voluntary sectors, government and society).
The stakeholder benefits were developed by Neil Beagrie at Charles Beagrie Ltd, in collaboration with members of the Research360 and REDm-MED project teams. Helpful insight and feedback were also gathered from researchers working in industry.
You can read more about the stakeholder benefits analysis, how they can be used and how they were developed in the accompanying UKOLN news feature.
Posted in General.
Tagged with Benefits, Business Case, Industry, Opus.
By Catherine Pink
– 27 November 2012
On Monday 29 October, Cathy Pink gave an invited presentation on research data management with commercial partners at the latest DataCite workshop. The workshop was jointly run by JISC and the British Library, and focused on issues around citing sensitive data.
Cathy’s slides are now available for download from our institutional repository:
Posted in Events.
Tagged with British Library, Datacite, Dissemination, Industry, Workshop.
By Jez Cope
– 8 November 2012
On Wednesday 24 and Thursday 25 October 2012, Cathy and I attended the JISC MRD programme progress workshop in Nottingham. The workshop was an excellent opportunity to share the lessons we’re learning on the Research360 project and learn from colleagues working on research data management elsewhere, including a number outside the JISC-funded MRD programme.
Our slides and poster from the progress workshop are now available through our institutional repository:
Posted in Events.
Tagged with Dissemination, JISC, Roadmap, Training, Workshop.
By Jez Cope
– 8 November 2012
I’m pleased to announce that our redeveloped Research Data web pages have now been published.
We hope that this resource will be useful for researchers and support staff both within and beyond the University.
They will continue to be added to and updated as time goes on, particularly over the next 6 months or so as we finalise the University’s policy on research data.
For those who are interested in such things, we’ve taken a conscious decision to keep the content as brief as possible and signpost visitors to good advice held elsewhere, by organisations such as the Digital Curation Centre.
There are two ways into the content:
- The left-hand navigation bar, which appears on each page, is organised logically into categories. In addition, the navigation bar also includes an email link to our main point of contact for research data, to encourage a) people to seek personalised advice; and b) feedback to improve the site further.
- The home page is intended to signpost useful resources to help with particular activities and situations, broadly divided into stages of the research lifecycle.
Many of the pages have boxouts with crosslinks pointing to other areas of the site with related content.
Any feedback would be most welcome: contact me at j.cope@bath.ac.uk.
Posted in Progress updates.
Tagged with Advocacy, Guidance, Training, University of Bath, Website.
By Jez Cope
– 18 October 2012
In which I reach a staging point in my Sakai journey: not the end, but the beginning of the end, at least.
The full post is on my personal blog here.
Posted in Technology.
Tagged with java, Sakai, source code.
By sjm62
– 10 October 2012
In which I have some more adventures in editing the source code reaching line 6300 of the Resources Action class, and end up on the brink of actually adding something useful to it.
The full post is on my personal blog here.
Posted in Technology.
Tagged with java, Sakai, source code.
By sjm62
– 3 October 2012
In which I outline the development task in more detail and start working through the code. After going round in circles trying to figure out exactly what does what, I am finally able to make my first edits.
The full post is on my personal blog here.
Posted in General.
Tagged with java, Sakai, source code.
By sjm62
– 24 September 2012
In which I finally am able to import Sakai into the eclipse IDE, the designated development environment. And at the end I am left wondering whether all the work has been worth it – I might have been better off developing with a text editor, old school style.
The full post is on my personal blog here.
Posted in General.
Tagged with eclipse, Sakai, SWORD2.
By sjm62
– 5 September 2012
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