Research Data ManagementPartnering with research

Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law

Nick Sheppard19th September 2016

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jannekestaaks/14391226325© Janneke Staaks (CC-BY-NC)

Overview

• What is research data?• Research Data Management (RDM)• During project (active)• Post-project (archive)

• Benefits and drivers• Funder requirements• Data Management Planning• Support

Image source: https://www.jisc.ac.uk/guides/research-data-management ©Jisc and Bonner McHardyCC BY-NC-ND

What is research data?

• Text• Numerical• Multimedia• Models• Software• Discipline specific• Instrument specific

Activities involved in RDM

Type, format volume of data, chosen software for long-term access, secondary data, file naming, structure, versioning, quality assurance processes.

Information needed for the data to be understood in future, metadata standards, methodology, definition of variables, format & file type of data.

Access restrictions, risks to data security, appropriate methods to transfer / share data, encryption, legal, ethical issues.

Secure & sufficient storage for active data, regular backups, disaster recovery

Make data publicly available (where possible) at the end of a project, license data, any restrictions on sharing, access controls?

Select retention period, repository choice, costs involved in long-term storage? Data Management Planning

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Benefits of RDM

• Avoid data loss• Increase efficiency• Validation – research integrity• Visibility and impact• Citable data – credit for your work• Enable collaboration

© Marco Verch (CC-BY) Image source

RDM requirements

• Funders• RCUK (ESRC)• Concordat on Open Research Data

• Wellcome• Horizon 2020

• University of Leeds Research Data Management Policy• Data Management Plan (DMP)• Institutional templates• DMPOnline

© Carole Raddato (CC-BY-SA)Image source

Support

https://library.leeds.ac.uk/research-data

Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC)“Data are the main assets of economic and social research. We recognise publicly-funded research data as valuable, long-term resources that, where practical, must be made available for secondary scientific research.”

ESRC Research Data Policy

This plan looks at managing quantitative and qualitative data, including audio interviews. The plan discusses ethical issues around a very sensitive dataset, including using consent and anonymisation to generate data which can be shared and reused.

DMPOnline

https://library.leeds.ac.uk/info/461/research_data_management/358/examples_templates_and_resources/4

https://library.leeds.ac.uk/info/461/research_data_management/358/examples_templates_and_resources/3

Choose a repository• Research Data Leeds Repository• Research Data Leeds Registry• ESRC – UK Data Service

• ReShare repository• Wellcome Trust

• Deposit data in any recognised data repository

• re3data.org• Deposit with recommended

service• Email DOI or URL to

researchdataenquiries@leeds.ac.uk

ReShare is where ESRC grant holders submit the data from their research grants, as a contractual requirement under the ESRC research data policy.

Deposit in Research Data Leeds

https://library.leeds.ac.uk/research-data-deposit

http://archive.researchdata.leeds.ac.uk/

Secondary analysis

• Timescapes • Qualitative Longitudinal data