Overview of results from Digital Curation Centre 2014 survey of UK Higher Education Institutions. Senior managers in university libraries, IT services and research offices were asked about their views and expectations of progress on developing support for Research Data Management.
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Research Data Management -From Strategy to Action
1. RDM From Strategy to
Action?
Results from Digital Curation Centre’s
2014 Survey of UK Higher Education
Institutions
Angus Whyte
2. What, Why & How
• National picture of institutional progress
• Understand barriers, gaps in support needs
• 20 questions – online survey link emailed *
• To Pro-VC’s for Research & Service Heads
• Library, IT, Research Support & Commercialisation
• Institutions at least 10% income from research
* Thank you to ARMA, UCISA, SCONUL!
5. Institutional drivers
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
UK Research Council data policies
Government policy on open data
Governance of research integrity /
academic conduct
Strategy to expand support for
research
EU Horizon2020 policy on data
management
92
57
54
54
53
% Agreeing
6. Where is there most progress?
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70
Policy development
Data Management & Sharing Plans
RDM skills training & consultancy
% indicating piloting or live
7. Getting there?
32 34 36 38 40 42
Access & storage systems
Data cataloguing & publishing
Managing implementation as a
whole
% indicating piloting or live
8. Where is there least progress?
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
Business planning &
sustainability
Digital preservation & continuity
planning
Governance of data access &
reuse
% indicating piloting or live
9. Obstacles
Lack of appropriate staff resources
and infrastructure
Availability of funding
Low priority for researchers
71
64
59
% citing
10. External Support?
Defining what to retain and for how long
Specifying tools/ infrastructure
Supporting metadata creation for research data discovery
Identifying which costs may be recovered from grants
Advocacy to senior management
Developing data catalogues and registers
11. Expected timeline for enabling long-
term access to research data
18
3
9
44
40
38
31
43
38
8
14
14
Russell Group
Others 10%+
Others
Currently provide
Within the next 12 months
After 12 months
Don't know
12. ‘Progress has little to do with speed, but much
to do with direction’ (anon.)
• What is your bottom line?
• 70% want to collaborate or already are
• Where can funders & DCC help more?
13. Questions?
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