scholarly journals From Project to Strategic Vision: Taking the Lead in Research Data Management Support at the University of Sydney Library

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 253-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Belinda Norman ◽  
Kate Valentine Stanton
Keyword(s):  
Data Management ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Management Support ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
Strategic Vision ◽  
Research Data Management ◽  
The Commons ◽  
The University ◽  
Project Partner

This paper explores three stories, each occurring a year apart, illustrating an evolution toward a strategic vision for Library leadership in supporting research data management at the University of Sydney. The three stories describe activities undertaken throughout the Seeding the Commons project and beyond, as the establishment of ongoing roles and responsibilities transition the Library from project partner to strategic leader in the delivery of research data management support. Each story exposes key ingredients that characterise research data management support: researcher engagement; partnerships; and the complementary roles of policy and practice.

scholarly journals Archiving South African digital research data: How ready are we?

2016 ◽  
Vol Volume 112 (Number 7/8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret M. Koopman ◽  
Karin de Jager ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Data Management ◽  
South African ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
Data Archiving ◽  
Research Data Management ◽  
The University ◽  
Digital Research

Abstract Digital data archiving and research data management have become increasingly important for institutions in South Africa, particularly after the announcement by the National Research Foundation, one of the principal South African academic research funders, recommending these actions for the research that they fund. A case study undertaken during the latter half of 2014, among the biological sciences researchers at a South African university, explored the state of data management and archiving at this institution and the readiness of researchers to engage with sharing their digital research data through repositories. It was found that while some researchers were already engaged with digital data archiving in repositories, neither researchers nor the university had implemented systematic research data management.

scholarly journals bwFDM Communities – a Research Data Management Initiative in the County of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karlheinz Pappenberger
Keyword(s):  
Data Management ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Data Repository ◽  
Full Time ◽  
It Service ◽  
Research Data Management ◽  
Concrete Action ◽  
The University

>> See video of presentation (33 min.)On 29th July 2014 the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, has launched an e-science initiative to build up a powerful, efficient and innovative information infrastructure for all universities, research institutions and universities of applied science of the county of southwest Germany. With the overall budget of 3.7 million euro action plans within the five areas licensing, digitalization, research data management, open access and virtual research environments shall be worked out within the next years.Within this framework an 18-month project has been launched at the beginning of 2014 to evaluate the needs of services and support libraries and IT service centres should offer for researchers in the area of research data management. In this “bwFDM communities” named project full time key accounters have been established at all 9 universities of the county (Freiburg, Heidelberg, Hohenheim, Karlsruhe, Konstanz, Mannheim, Stuttgart, Tuebingen and Ulm; among them national and international highly ranked universities). The task of the key accounters is to identity concrete needs and requirements of all research groups working with research data (in a broad sense including all areas of science, social science and humanities) at each of the nine universities as well as possible solutions by conducting semi-structured personal interviews and documenting them in the form of user stories. As a result issues of importance and requirements will be identified, categorized and finalized to recommendations for concrete action plans.The presentation will give an overview of the first results of the project, thereby also highlighting the roles libraries and IT service centres are expected to play from the researcher´s point of view. Furthermore the presentation will point out the response of the University of Konstanz Library to the rising awareness of the importance of research data within the University Executive, showing the special efforts the University of Konstanz Library undertakes to support researchers in their research data management so far and to build up more and more expertise in the area of research data management. One step had been the set-up of a disciplinary data repository in the field of ornithology (Movebank data repository).

scholarly journals Kutatási adatkezelést támogató szolgáltatás a Szegedi Tudományegyetemen

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rozália Zeller ◽  
Szabolcs Hoczopán ◽  
Gyula Nagy
Keyword(s):  
Data Management ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Data Repository ◽  
Institutional Research ◽  
Research Data Management ◽  
International Trends ◽  
Professional Assistance ◽  
Management Recommendations ◽  
The University

Following the national and international trends in mid-2020 the Klebelsberg Kuno Library of the University of Szeged has also started to deal with the issue of research data management. After thorough self-training the library staff studied the Hungarian and international best practices of managing research data. We tried to assess the needs of the institutional research data management habits and the opinion of the researchers of SZTE with a comprehensive questionnaire. We compiled a comprehensive questionnaire to assess the needs of our researchers, learn what they’re thinking about RDM and what kind of practices regarding RDM already exist in the research community. By evaluating the questionnaire we have determined the areas in which the library could provide professional assistance where there was a real need among researchers. Keeping in mind the needs of the research community of University of Szeged we have decided to develop the following services: copyright consulting, RDM trainings for PhD students, theoretical and methodological assistance for RDM, write institutional FAIR data management recommendations. The last four services have been successfully implemented. We also wrote a feasibility study to assess the possibilities of developing our own institutional data repository.

scholarly journals Skilling Up to Do Data: Whose Role, Whose Responsibility, Whose Career?

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham Pryor ◽  
Martin Donnelly
Keyword(s):  
Data Management ◽  
Training Needs ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
Research Data Management ◽  
Management Forum ◽  
Career Opportunities ◽  
Informed Opinion

What are the roles necessary to effective data management and what kinds of expertise are needed by the researchers and data specialists who are filling those roles?  These questions were posed at a workshop of data creators and curators whose delegates challenged the DCC and RIN to identify the training needs and career opportunities for the broad cohort that finds itself working in data management – sometimes by design but more often by accident.  This paper revisits previous investigations into the roles and responsibilities required by a “data workforce”, presents a representative spectrum of informed opinion from the DCC Research Data Management Forum, and makes some recommendations for raising capability, capacity and status.

scholarly journals Student Research Data Management Practices at UC Data Day 2017

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy E Koshoffer ◽  
Keloni Parks
Keyword(s):  
Student Engagement ◽  
Data Management ◽  
Poster Session ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Student Research ◽  
Research Data Management ◽  
University Of Cincinnati ◽  
The University

This article discusses increasing student engagement surrounding data management and how the University of Cincinnati Libraries tried to engage students with a poster session for its Data Day event in 2017.

scholarly journals Teaching Open Science

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helene N. Andreassen ◽  
Erik Lieungh
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Data Management ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Learning Support ◽  
Research Data Management ◽  
The University

In this episode, we are discussing how to teach open science to PhD students. Helene N. Andreassen, head of Library Teaching and Learning Support at the University Library of UiT the Arctic University of Norway shares her experiences with the integration of open science in a special, tailor-made course for PhD's that have just started their project. An interdisciplinary, discussion-based course, "Take Control of Your PhD Journey: From (P)reflection to Publishing" consists of a series of seminars on research data management, open access publishing and other subject matters pertaining to open science. First published online February 26, 2020.

Generic concepts for organising data management in research projects

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivonne Anders ◽  
Swati Gehlot ◽  
Andrea Lammert ◽  
Karsten Peters-von Gehlen
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Data Management ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Data Organization ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
General Application ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
Research Data Management ◽  
Project Size

<p>Since few years Research Data Management is becoming an increasingly important part of scientific projects regardless of the number of topics or subjects, researchers or institutions involved. The bigger the project, the more are the data organization and data management requirements in order to assure the best outcome of the project. Despite this, projects rarely have clear structures or responsibilities for data management. The importance of clearly defining data management and also budgeting for it is often underestimated and/or neglected. A rather scarce number of reports and documentations explaining the research data management in certain projects and detailing best practice examples can be found in the current literature.  Additionally, these are often mixed up with topics of the general project management. Furthermore, these examples are very focused on the certain issues of the described projects and thus, a transferability (or general application) of provided methods is very difficult.</p><p>This contribution presents generic concepts of research data management with an effort to separate them from general project management tasks. Project size, details among the diversity of topics and the involved researcher, play an important role in shaping data management and determining which methods of data management can add value to the outcome of a project. We especially focus on different organisation types, including roles and responsibilities for data management in projects of different sizes. Additionally, we show how and when also education should be included, but also how important agreements in a project are.</p>

Knowledge management, research data management, and university scholarship

VINE ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 344-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joyline Makani
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Data Management ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Management Support ◽  
Data Discovery ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Research On Research ◽  
Research Data Management ◽  
Academic Scholarship ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to synthesize existing research on research data management (RDM), academic scholarship and knowledge management and provide a conceptual framework for an institutional research data management support-system (RDMSS) for systems development, managerial and academic use. Design/methodology/approach – Viewing RDMSS from multiple theoretical perspectives, including data management, knowledge management, academic scholarship and the practice-based perspectives of knowledge and knowing, this paper conceptually explores the systems’ elements needed in the development of an institutional RDM service by considering the underlying data discovery and application issues, as well as the nature of academic scholarship and knowledge creation, discovery, application and sharing motivations in a university environment. Findings – The paper provides general criteria for an institutional RDMSS framework. It suggests that RDM in universities is at the very heart of the knowledge life cycle and is a central ingredient to the academic scholarships of discovery, integration, teaching, engagement and application. Research limitations/implications – This is a conceptual exploration and as a result, the research findings may lack generalisability. Researchers are therefore encouraged to further empirically examine the proposed propositions. Originality/value – The broad RDMSS framework presented in this paper can be compared with the actual situation at universities and eventually guide recommendations for adaptations and (re)design of the institutional RDM infrastructure and knowledge discovery services environment. Moreover, this paper will help to address some of the identified underlying scholarship and RDM disciplinary divides and confusion constraining the effective functioning of the modern day university’s RDM and data discovery environment.

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