projects: scoping digital repository services for research data management
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A growing number of funding agencies are now implementing policies requiring researchers to submit data management and data sharing plans with their funding applications. Researchers will need to provide information about the sets of data they will produce, the standards that will adhere to or who will be responsible for the long-term preservation. At the same time, Universities are increasingly taking responsibility for the provision of services to store, curate, disseminate and preserve research outputs through digital repositories. The management of research data presents special challenges. Data are complex and heterogeneous and there is little agreement on standards to describe data across disciplines. The current digital repository infrastructure in Oxford requires extra services and expertise to provide the research data management support needed by researchers in Oxford
Aims and Objectives
The project's overall aim is to scope the requirements, including underlying infrastructure and interoperability, for digital repositories services to store, disseminate and preserve research data generated at Oxford.Objectives:
- Capture and document researcher's requirements for digital repositories services to handle research data
- Participate actively in the development of an interoperability framework for the federated digital repository at Oxford
- Make recommendations to improve and coordinate the provision of digital repository services for research data
- Initiate and develop collaborations with the different repository activities already occurring to ensure that communication takes place in between them
- Raise awareness at Oxford of the importance and advantages of the active management of research data.
- Communicate significant national and international developments in repositories to relevant Oxford stakeholders, in order to stimulate the adoption of best practices
Project Methodology
Luis Martinez-Uribe , based in the Oxford e-Research Centre, is acting as the Digital Repositories Research Co-ordinator, and is responsible for undertaken the research described above.This post is line managed by Mike Fraser (OUCS), Richard Ovenden (OULS), Anne Trefethen (OeRC) and Paul Jeffreys (ODIT) and reports to the Digital Repositories Steering Group. Luis will work closely with the relevant digital repository constituencies and research groups.
Deliverables
Digital Repositories Workshop: Tools and Infrastructure - Held on 23 April to provide an overall overview of best practice in the deployment and use of digital repositories to manage digital content in Oxford.
Findings of the Consultation with Service Units in Oxford - Reporting on data management services available to researchers in Oxford.
Institutional and National Services for Research Data Management Workshop - Held on 20th of October to hear about examples of data management services currently available.
Findings of the Scoping Study Interviews and Workshop - Reporting on Oxford researchers data management practices and their requirements for services.
Research Data Management Workshop - Held on 13th June 2008 to hear about data management experiences from researchers as well as relevant national initiatives.