Research Data Management - From Strategy to Action
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RDM From Strategy to Action? Results from Digital Curation Centre’s 2014 Survey of UK Higher Education Institutions Angus Whyte
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Overview of results from Digital Curation Centre 2014 survey of UK Higher Education Institutions. Senior managers in university libraries, IT services and research offices were asked about their views and expectations of progress on developing support for Research Data Management.
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RDM From Strategy to Action?
Results from Digital Curation Centre’s 2014 Survey of UK Higher Education
Institutions
Angus Whyte
What, Why & How
• National picture of institutional progress• Understand barriers, gaps in support needs• 20 questions – online survey link emailed *• To Pro-VC’s for Research & Service Heads• Library, IT, Research Support & Commercialisation• Institutions at least 10% income from research
* Thank you to ARMA, UCISA, SCONUL!
Who took part?Respondents
Russell Group (39)
Others 10%+ (35)
Others (13)
From 61 institutions
Who took part
31%
38%
14%
17%Research Support & Commercialisation
Library or Informa-tion Service
IT/ Research comput-ing
Others
Institutional drivers
UK Research Council data policies
Government policy on open data
Governance of research integrity / academic conduct
Strategy to expand support for research
EU Horizon2020 policy on data management
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
92
57
54
54
53
% Agreeing
Where is there most progress?
Policy development
Data Management & Sharing Plans
RDM skills training & consultancy
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70
% indicating piloting or live
Getting there?
Access & storage systems
Data cataloguing & publishing
Managing implementation as a whole
33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42
% indicating piloting or live
Where is there least progress?
Business planning & sustainability
Digital preservation & continuity planning
Governance of data access & reuse
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
% indicating piloting or live
Obstacles
Lack of appropriate staff resources and in-frastructure
Availability of funding
Low priority for researchers
71
64
59
% citing
External Support?
Expected timeline for enabling long-term access to research data
Russell Group
Others 10%+
Others
18
3
9
44
40
38
31
43
38
8
14
14
Currently provide
Within the next 12 months
After 12 months
Don't know
‘Progress has little to do with speed, but much to do with direction’ (anon.)
• What is your bottom line?• 70% want to collaborate or already are • Where can funders & DCC help more?
Questions?
• Slide 1: See, J.2009. Works in Progress https://flic.kr/p/6BjnWy CC-BY• Slide 2-4: Wessex Archeaology. 2005. Survey Equipment https://flic.kr/p/7xzxG5 CC-BY-NC-SA• Slide 5: Taylor, T. 2005. Sunset Ripple https://flic.kr/p/2igqj CC-BY• Slide 6-8 Pei, B.2010 Work in progress https://flic.kr/p/8XTp8v CC-BY-NC-SA• Slide 9: US Army. 2012. Overcoming Obstacles https://flic.kr/p/bExfoR CC-BY• Slide 10: Stowe, R. 2009. Photograph of a Meerkat Family https://flic.kr/p/6S7fwu CC-BY
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