Research Data Management Call, Briefing Day

1. Research Data Management Call, Briefing Day Simon Hodson, s.hodson@jisc.ac.uk

2. Context • Digital research data has become increasingly important in most research areas. • Good management, curation and preservation is important for the integrity of science. • Research data has value for verification, reuse and repurposing; reuse of research data can be particularly important in interdisciplinary studies. • Research funders are increasingly asking researchers to make the underlying research available. • Scholarly publications are beginning to insist that underlying datasets should be made publicly available.

3. Data Management and Data Sharing • Research Councils: majority now mandate or encourage DMPs and deposit of data • http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resource/curation-policies/ • BBSRC: ‘expects research data generated as a result of BBSRC support to be made available with as few restrictions as possible in a timely and responsible manner to the scientific community for subsequent research.’ • RIN Framework of principles and guidelines for the stewardship of digital research data • http://www.rin.ac.uk/data-principles • Scholarly journals in increasing numbers are requiring that access be provided to underlying data sets • http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v458/

4. Institutional Statements • The University of Somewhere believes that the effective management of its research data is a critical success factor. It judges itself significantly exposed to the risk that vital research data might be irretrievably lost or corrupted, and that long term reputational damage could occur as a result. Equally, it recognises the huge opportunity that would result from more effective sharing and dissemination of data across its multiple disciplines and between institutions. • The University of Somewhere-Else [has] for some time recognised the growing problem of a serious lack of provision for proper management and curation of research data across many discipline areas. As a leading research institution, we approach the resolution of this challenge as both an opportunity and an obligation.

5. JISC Managing Research Data Programme (JISCMRD) • JISC Research Data Programme seeks to expand effective data management and data sharing to benefit research and the HE sector more generally. • Working towards developing a national strategy with key stakeholders (RCs, FCs, Institutions etc). • Establish the foundations for an effective UK research data infrastructure.

6. Programme Overview • DEFINING STRATEGY, POLICY • MoU (co-ordination with RCs etc) • Impact and benefits of data centres study • BUILDING INFRASTRUCTURE AND IMPROVING PROCESSES • Research data management planning (DMP-RCs) • Research data management infrastructure (07/09, RDMI) • PLANNING TOOLS AND METHODOLOGIES • Integrated (research) Data Management Planning Tools/Support (IDMP); • DEMONSTRATING THE BENEFITS • Citing, linking and integrating research data (revised 14/09) • Research data publications (revised 14/09) • BUILDING CAPACITY AND SKILLS • PG Data Management Training Materials (new call 04/10)

7. 07/09 RDMI

8. DMP-RCs

9. Role of the DCC • Digital Curation Centre has an important role to play in the JISC Managing Research Data Programme. • General support, advice for the JISCMRD Programme and projects. • Important task of building capacity and skills in the sector. • Sector capacity to be raised by the dissemination of relevant resources, awareness-raising measures, and the provision of training. • Helpdesk: info@dcc.ac.uk

10. 14/09 JISCMRD Programme Call: Objectives Demonstrating the benefits… Strand A • To explore and/or develop techniques for citing, linking and integrating research data. • To demonstrate the benefits to research and scholarly communications of applying such techniques to publicly available research data. Strand B • To explore and/or develop innovative technical and organisational models for data publications. • To demonstrate the potential benefits to research and scholarly communications of publishing the data which underpins research articles.

11. Strand A • Funding is available for projects to demonstrate the innovative potential for research and scholarly communications of improving methods for citing, linking and integrating research data. • Projects to encourage the adoption of innovative techniques which promote the reuse of research data and demonstrate the benefits which may thereby follow.

12. Strand A • Examples of existing work, paras 18-22. • Examples of approaches, para 32. • Examples of issues, technologies to be explored, para 35.

13. Strand A: Citing Research Data • Agreed conventions for describing and citing research data are necessary to promote sharing, finding and reusing. • May contribute towards clearer statement of provenance, quality. • May contribute towards better perception of the value of research data, the scholarly kudos attached to publishing research data. • Challenges include appropriate vocabularies, descriptions; versioning; granularity. • OECD Paper; DataCite.

14. Strand A: Linking Research Data • The reuse potential of research data can be enhanced by bi-directional linking with other data, resources, publications, people. • Explore and demonstrate ways in which research data can be linked in useful and automated ways. • Includes exploring and demonstrating the application of ‘linked data’ approaches to research data.

15. Strand A: Integrating Research Data • One benefit of making research data available is that it potentially allows the integration of disparate, heterogeneous data thereby allowing new perspectives and knowledge to emerge. • Challenges include resolution of syntactic and semantic heterogeneity. • Various approaches: e.g. remapping to RDF, ontology-based data integration. • Data integration for interdisciplinary research? • Important to demonstrate that the approach taken can have as broad as possible an application.

16. Strand A • Bids must present a clear rationale for the approach proposed. • Bids must demonstrate clearly how the solution proposed is likely to benefits research that produces and consumes data. • What precise benefits, in terms of research or research management processes, will result from the solution developed? To whom will these benefits accrue, and how will they be exploited? • Bids should demonstrate that the proposed work will have as broad as possible an impact. Bids must make a strong case for the broad applicability of the proposed solution to a specific technical challenge.

17. Strand A: Deliverables • Outputs demonstrating the innovative potential for research and scholarly communications of improving methods for citing, linking and integrating research data.

18. Strand A: links with #jiscEXPO • Some shared objectives between Strand A and #jiscEXPO Call. • It is likely that there will be some shared Programme Activities.

19. Strand B • Funding is available for projects to explore and pilot innovative technical and organisational models for enhanced research data publications. • Intended outcomes are models of scholarly publication that encourage the open publication of research data, and thereby stimulate the better management, more open sharing and easier reuse of research data.

20. Strand B • Examples of existing work, paras 28-9. • Examples of models, approaches, para 38. • Examples of relevant issues to be addressed, para 40.

21. Strand B: Enhanced research data publications • Data journal, enhanced publication or overlay journals… • Scholarly, peer-reviewed, online publications that champion the sharing of data as an output of research activity, by exposing or linking to data held in an associated repository or archive. • OJIMS: project to establish an open access, subject based repository for the meteorological sciences and scoped an overlay journal that would link into those data and documents. • DRYAD: a repository for published research data in the field of evolutionary biology, with ‘tight linkages to major evolutionary biology journals and domain-specific community databases.’

22. Strand B • Projects may consider technical issues. • Projects mustconsider organisational matters. • The development of appropriate partnerships is essential to this strand as is a consideration of sustainability. • Bids must demonstrate clearly how the proposed pilot will involve an appropriate partnerships that is likely to ensure the pilot data publication model will gain support from the research community and stakeholders targeted. • By involving key stakeholders, bids should demonstrate that the proposed work will have as broad as possible an impact.

23. Strand B: Deliverables • A pilot model for an innovative research data publication, journal. • Report considerations of technical, organisational and partnership issues. • A business model addressing take-up and sustainability.

24. JISCMRD Programme Expectations • Participation in strand/programme activities: • Strands Workshop, October 2010. • JISCMRD Conference, March 2011. • Final Programme Workshop, July 2011. • Programme Manager visit and meeting(s) with DCC / Programme Support. • Six-monthly reports as indicated in the JISC project management guidelines.

25. JISCMRD Programme Expectations • Project website and blog. Active contribution to programme and community discussions. • Community discussion list: RESEARCH-DATAMAN@JISCMAIL.AC.UK • List for programme management information: JISCMRD@JISCMAIL.AC.UK • Programme Netvibes at: http://www.netvibes.com/jiscmrd#General • Closed programme wiki for funded projects. • Tag: #jiscmrd

26. Key Information: Strand A • Up to £120,000 per project. • 5-10 Projects. • Roughly £600K available. • Deadline for submission by e-mail: 12 noon, Tuesday 25 May. • Submissions to RESEARCHDATA@jisc.ac.uk • Evaluation panel, early July. • Projects to start in August 2010. • Projects to complete by 31 July 2011.

27. Key Information: Strand B • Up to £200,000 per project. • 2-4 Projects. • Roughly £400K available. • Deadline for submission by e-mail: 12 noon, Tuesday 25 May. • Submissions to RESEARCHDATA@jisc.ac.uk • Evaluation panel, early July. • Projects to start in August 2010. • Projects to complete by 31 July 2011.

28. Eligibility • Funding from HEFCE Capital Funds. • Open to Higher Education (HE) Institutions funded by HEFCE or HEFCW. • HE and FE institutions in Northern Ireland and Scotland and FE institutions in England and Wales are not eligible to bid. • Such institutions may be involved as partners in proposals led by HE institutions funded by HEFCE or HEFCW.