Passed by Senate in May, 2011

Passed by Senate in May, 2011

• Passed by Senate in May, 2011

• Library-led: developed by committee led by Library & Collections Director

• Involved academic champions

• Written by ex-DCC consultant

• Deemed ‘aspirational’

• Complimentary to

• funders’ policies

Research data will be managed to the highest standards throughout the lifecycle

• Research data will be managed to the highest standards throughout the lifecycle

• Responsibility for RDM during any research project lies primarily with PIs

• All new research proposals must include DMPs

• The University will provide training, support and advice for RDM and DMPs

• The University will provide mechanisms and services for storage, backup, registration, deposit and retention of research data assets

• Any data which is retained elsewhere should be registered with the University

• DMPs must ensure that research data are available for access and re-use where appropriate and under appropriate safeguards

• The legitimate interests of the subjects of research data must be protected

• Research data of value will be offered for deposit in an appropriate repository

• Rights should not be handed over to commercial publishers or agents without retaining the rights to make the data openly available for re-use

University

• University

Good RDM  comprehensive support services

• Good RDM  comprehensive support services

• Data storage and backup
• Tools for managing & sharing data
• Data repository services
• Advice and training
• …

• DMPs  guidelines, templates, tools

• Register data  research data discovery service

• Preserving data  repository and vault

Notes objectives, outcomes, deliverables and actions across four strategic areas.

• Notes objectives, outcomes, deliverables and actions across four strategic areas.

• The Roadmap is a living document, available online

INVOLVES:

• INVOLVES:

• Research office

• Research administrators

• RDM Coordinator

• Digital Curation Centre

• Central IT consultants

• Local IT / web support

• Data Library

• Academic Service Librarians

INVOLVES:

• INVOLVES:

• Central IT

• Local IT & data mgrs

• Info Services Helpdesk

• IT Consultants

• RDM & IT Committees

• (policy oversight)

INVOLVES:

• INVOLVES:

• (Data) librarians

• Repository administrators

• Archivists

• Records managers

• Local data managers

• Disciplinary repositories

• Standards bodies

INVOLVES:

• INVOLVES:

• Academic Service Librarians

• Data Librarians

• IT Consultants

• Local IT & Data Managers

• PhD Supervisors & trainers

Many thanks to Robin Rice for slides and to the rest of the RDM team at Edinburgh

• Many thanks to Robin Rice for slides and to the rest of the RDM team at Edinburgh

• Stuart Lewis

• Stuart Macdonald

• Kerry Miller

• Cuna Ekmekcioglu

• Tony Weir

• Orlando Richards

University of Edinburgh policy (with link to roadmap)

• University of Edinburgh policy (with link to roadmap)

• www.ed.ac.uk/is/research-data-policy

• Research data guidance

• www.ed.ac.uk/is/data-management

• MANTRA online training

• http://datalib.edina.ac.uk/mantra

• Edinburgh DataShare

• http://datashare.is.ed.ac.uk

• Research data blog

• http://datablog.is.ed.ac.uk