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Funder Requirements for Data Management and Sharing Plans

Sarah JonesDigital Curation Centre

sarah.jones@glasgow.ac.uk

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• Why curate data?

• What funders want

• Expected coverage of plans

• Help and support

Overview

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“the active management and appraisal of data over the lifecycle of scholarly and

scientific interest”

Curation is part of good research practice

What is data curation?

Manage

Share

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Why curate data: requirements

Funders’ data policies

www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/index.php

declarationdata are a public good and should be openly available

www.oecd.org/dataoecd/ 9/61/38500813.pdf

Journal open data policies

http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/ Journal_open-data_policies

Fort Lauderdale & Toronto Statements(pre-publication data sharing)

http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Declarations_in_support_of_OA

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Why curate data: rewards

More citations: 69% ↑ (Piwowar, 2007 in PLoS)

Prevent data loss

More opportunities and collaborations better research

Easier to do your research

Validation of results

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• Why curate data?

• What funders want

• Expected coverage of plans

• Help and support

Overview

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Common funder requirements

• timely release of data• once patents are filed or on (acceptance for) publication

• open data sharing - no or minimal restrictions• community databases (GenBank, PDB, ArrayExpress), data enclaves

• preservation of data • North America - 2-5+ years, UK - 5-10+ years

• data management and sharing plans…

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What is a data management and sharing plan?

• Statement in grant applications on suggested themes

• 1 paragraph (NIH) to 2 sides of A4 (NSF)

• An outline of what you will create/collect, methods, standards, data management and long-term plans

• How and why – justify your decisions and any limits

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Genome CanadaProvide a Data and Resource Sharing Plan, covering:

• Data and resource types to be generated;

• Timing and mechanism for sharing;

• Quality control/assurance mechanisms;

• Data standards;

• Ethical, privacy and confidentiality issues;

• Intellectual Property (IP) - any restrictions or delays;

• Terms and Conditions of access and use.

www.genomecanada.ca/medias/PDF/EN/DataReleaseandResourceSharingPolicy.pdf

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National Institutes of Health (NIH)Applicants seeking $500K + in one year are to include a plan for data sharing or state why sharing is not possible.

May wish to cover:• schedule for data sharing• format of the final dataset• documentation to be provided• analytic tools to be provided• data-sharing agreements• mode of data sharing  

Details under budget, background & human subjects sectionshttp://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/data_sharing/data_sharing_guidance.htm

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National Science Foundation (NSF)Include a supplementary document of no more than two pages labelled “Data Management Plan” which may include:• the types of data and materials to be produced;

• standards to be used for data and metadata format and content;

• policies for access and sharing including provisions for appropriate protection of privacy and rights;

• policies and provisions for re-use, re-distribution, and derivatives; and

• plans for archiving data, samples, and other research products, and for preservation of access to them.

www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/dmp.jsp

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Gordon and Betty Moore FoundationGBMF and prospective grantees will jointly develop a Data Management and Sharing Plan prior to the grant agreement

1. Data description – what will be created, how, metadata, ownership…

2. Data management – storage, access, permission, maintenance, quality control

3. Data sharing– users, timeframes, agreements, licensing, preservation

www.moore.org/docs/GBMF_Data%20Sharing%20Philosophy%20and%20Plan.pdf

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Data Management and Sharing PlansTypically want a short statement covering:• What data will be created (format, types) and how?

• How will the data be documented and described?

• How will you manage ethics and Intellectual Property?

• What are the plans for data sharing and access?

• What is the strategy for long-term preservation?

DMP guidance: www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/data-management-plansDMP online: http://dmponline.dcc.ac.uk/

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• Why curate data?

• What funders want

• Expected coverage of plans

• Help and support

Overview

Because good research needs good data

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Guidance

http://researchdata.wisc.edu http://libraries.mit.edu/guides/subjects/data-management

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Guidance

www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/ICPSR/dmp/framework.html

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Examples• NSF examples from PIs at UCSD

http://rci.ucsd.edu/dmp/examples.html

• Yale University exampleshttp://odai.research.yale.edu/data-management-plan-examples

• University of New Mexico exampleshttp://libguides.unm.edu/content.php?pid=137795&sid=1422879

• Examples from Rural Economy and Land Use programme http://relu.data-archive.ac.uk/DMPexample.asp

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http://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/data_sharing/data_sharing_guidance.htm#ex

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Who can help?

• Library support for data management• guidance• one-on-one consultations• ARL guide on NSF req. www.arl.org/rtl/eresearch/escien/nsf/index.shtml

• Work with the DCC• DMP Online - www.dcc.ac.uk/dmponline

• Guidance webpages – www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/data-management-plans

• Coming soon: How to develop a data management & sharing plan

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Thanks! Any questions?

sarah.jones@glasgow.ac.uk

www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/data-management-plans