Delivering Research Data Management Services

Fundamentals of Good Practice
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78330-307-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Step-by-step guidance to setting up and running effective institutional research data management services to support researchers and networks.

The research landscape is changing, with key global research funders now requiring institutions to demonstrate how they will preserve and share research data. However, the practice of structured research data management is very new, and the construction of services remains experimental and in need of models and standards of approach. This groundbreaking guide will lead researchers, institutions and policy makers through the processes needed to set up and run effective institutional research data management services.

This ‘how to' guide provides a step-by-step explanation of the components for an institutional service. Case studies from the newly emerging service infrastructures in the UK, USA and Australia draw out the lessons learnt. Different approaches are highlighted and compared; for example, a researcher-focused strategy from Australia is contrasted with a national, top-down approach, and a national research data management service is discussed as an alternative to institutional services.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pryor, Graham

Jones, Sarah

Whyte, Angus

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften, Archivwesen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. A patchwork of change - Graham Pryor 2. Options and approaches to RDM service provision - Graham Pryor 3. Who’s doing data? A spectrum of roles, responsibilities and competences - Graham Pryor 4. A pathway to sustainable research data services: from scoping to sustainability - Angus Whyte 5. The range and components of RDM infrastructure and services - Sarah Jones 6. Case study 1: Johns Hopkins University Data Management Services - G Sayeed Choudhury 7. Case study 2: University of Southampton – a partnership approach to research data management - Mark L Brown and Wendy White 8. Case study 3: Monash University, a strategic approach - Anthony Beitz, David Groenewegen, Cathrine Harboe-Ree, Wilna Macmillan and Sam Searle 9. Case study 4: a national solution – the UK Data Service - Matthew Woollard and Louise Corti 10. Case study 5: development of institutional RDM services by projects in the Jisc Managing Research Data programmes - Simon Hodson and Laura Molloy.

Über Autor(innen)

Graham Pryor is Information Management Consultant with the Amor Group, following six years as Associate Director with the Digital Curation Centre (DCC), where he designed and managed the e-Science liaison and institutional engagement programmes. Until his departure from the DCC in mid-2013 he also developed the highly inclusive Research Data Management Forum, a medium for the bi-annual exchange of knowledge and experience in the more urgent topics surfacing from the broader data community.

Sarah Jones is a Senior Information Support Officer with the Digital Curation Centre (DCC), a UK national service providing support to the higher education sector in all aspects of research data management.

Angus Whyte is a Senior Institutional Support Officer in the Digital Curation Centre (DCC). He works alongside partners in UK universities to improve services that support researchers and other stakeholders in data management, and has authored guidelines and articles on a range of data issues. Angus has a PhD in Social Informatics from the University of Strathclyde.