Collaborating to develop research data management services and collections

1. Collaborating to develop research data management services and collections Martin Borchert Associate Director, Library Services (Information Resources and Research Support) Queensland University of Technology Library Stephanie Bradbury eResearch Access Coordinator Philippa Broadley Thanks also to the Australian Research Data Librarian National Data Service (ANDS) for project funding and support CRICOS No. 00213J

2. Agenda • Facilitating open access to institutional research data “data out” • Policy, skills, infrastructure, identification, description and discovery, storage, services • Facilitating institutional access to external research data “data in” • Collections • Library as data broker

3. Researcher Support Strategy • Welcome • Research skills • Consultations • Scholarly publishing • ePrints • Data management • Collaboration • Research impact • Computation • Data processing • Analysis • Visualisation

4. Broader policy and funding environment • Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research • National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) • Australian National Data Services (ANDS) • National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) OA policy • Australian Research Council (ARC) OA policy

5. “Managing data”and “Data out”

6. Advocacy • Executives • University Research and Innovation Committee • Research Support Committee

7. QUT policy • D/2.8 Management of Research Data • Compliance to “The Australian code for the responsible conduct of research” or “The Code” • Good practice • Centralised data registry • Decentralised data storage http://www.mopp.qut.edu.au/D/D_02_08.jsp

8. Library roles • Research Support Coordinator • Scholarly Communications Librarian • Repository Resource Librarian • Data Librarian • Applications and Development Team Leader • Programmer • Liaison Librarians with a lead role in research support x 8 • Research Data Team • Associate Director

9. Staff development • Research support seminars • Data Team community of practice • Train the trainer • Repository training • RIF-CS metadata training • Co-trainer • Peer assessment • Resources wiki

10. Promotion, training, information and support • Supporting web sites • Good practice guidelines • Data management plan “checklist” • Data management workshops (monthly) • Managing your research data seminars http://www.tils.qut.edu.au/initiatives/researchsupport/datamanage/planning.jsp

12. Leveraging QUT ePrints • Open access institutional repository • Self-deposit • OA policy • Mature culture http://eprints.qut.edu.au/

13. Infrastructure

14. Data storage • E-Store • R-Store • Portable drives • Sharepoint • Wikis • Dropbox • Research Data Storage Infrastructure (RDSI) • National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources (NeCTAR) • Australian Research Collaboration Services (ARCS) Data Fabric

15. Identification, description and discovery

16. QUT Research Data Finder + http://researchdatafinder.qut.edu.au/vivo/

19. ANDS Research Data Australia Australian National Data Service (ANDS) National data registry service. http://researchdata.ands.org.au/

20. High Performance Computing and Research (ITS) Services Compute facilities Optimisation Data management Data storage Software code optimisation Data visualisation Quantitative and qualitative analysis http://www.itservices.qut.edu.au/researchteaching/hpc/

21. “Data in”

22. Incorporating open data into the online collections Support for data intensive Research http://libguides.library.qut.edu.au/subjectguides

23. Incorporating commercially available data into the online collections • Integrate with other resources • Use library resources budget • Often subscriptions • May host locally • Require intensive liaison with academics • Attract research students

24. Library as research data broker • Library as data broker • Licensing • Purchasing • Record keeping • Efficient http://www.library.qut.edu.au/services/datasets/

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