Presentation given by Laura Molloy at The Glasgow School of Art's RDM workshop on 31st January 2013.

1. Research data management:
what, why and help with
supporting it
Laura Molloy,
HATII, University of Glasgow
JISC Managing Research Data programme
and Digital Curation Centre (DCC)

2. RDM in UK HE: drivers
• RCUK Common Principles on Data Policy
• Royal Society ‘Science as an Open Enterprise’
– Recommends JISCMRD expansion
• EPSRC’s expectations by 1st May 2012, and to be
fully compliant with these expectations by 1st May
2015
• AHRC refreshed technical summary and plan
• Etc.
For individual funder policies, check the DCC guide:
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/policy-and-
legal/overview-funders-data-policies

3. Jisc MRD programme (phase 2)
http://bit.ly/jiscmrd2011-13

4. CAiRO project (Jisc MRD 01)
http://www.projectcairo.org/

5. CAiRO project (Jisc MRD 01)
1.Introducing
2.Creating
3.Managing
4.Delivering
…creative arts
research data

6. KAPTUR project (Jisc MRD 02)

7. Digital Curation Centre (DCC)
www.dcc.ac.uk

8. Digital Curation Centre (DCC)
www.dcc.ac.uk
• ‘How-to’ guides: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/how-guides
• Briefing papers: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/briefing-papers
• Data management planning tool: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/dmponline
• Training: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/training
Want more? Contact: info@dcc.ac.uk

9. DCC curation lifecycle model
PLAN
A model to show the activities CREATE DATA
and people involved in managing
data. ADD DOCUMENTATION
RESEARCHERS
IT
DATA CENTRE /
INSTITUTIONAL
REPOSITORY Slide by Sarah Jones, DCC
for the Jisc ‘Incremental’ project

10. Research data: definitions
What is research data anyway?

11. What is research data?
Jisc CAiRO definition
“Within the creative arts research data is
evidence of an identified research activity…
Research data includes preparatory,
unfinished and supportive work in digital form
in addition to data relating to completed
works.”

12. What is research data?
Working definition from KAPTUR
‘Anything which is used or created to generate
new knowledge and interpretations ... and is
... referenced by the researcher at some point
during their research. [It] may or may not
lead to a research output, which regardless of
method of presentation is a planned public
statement of new knowledge or
interpretation.’

13. Jisc MRD: some relevant themes
• Policy landscape: international, national
and institutional
• Research data becoming an asset: what
serves your discipline(s)?
• Your institution’s data repository: could you
advise researchers on its use (both
depositing and accessing)?

14. Thanks for your attention!
E: laura.molloy@glasgow.ac.uk
Twitter: LM_HATII
Jisc MRD twitter: #jiscmrd
DCC twitter: #UKDCC