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DCC Tools and Resources Overview
1. Other DCC tools and resources:
a quick overview
Marieke Guy
Digital Curation Centre
m.guy@ukoln.ac.uk
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2. Support from the DCC
Institutional
Assess data catalogues
Needs Workflow
assessment Pilot RDM
tools
DAF & CARDIO Develop
DCC support
assessments Guidance and
support
team training and
services
RDM policy
Advocacy with senior development
management
Customised Data
Make the case Management Plans
…and support policy implementation
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3. Data Management Strategy
Five components:
•Policy
•Advocacy
•Planning
•Tools
•Training
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5. DCC Web site
• Definitions of digital curation, glossary, reasons why to
curate, FAQs etc.
• History of DCC, staff etc.
• News, blog
• Events
• Resources
• Training
• Project work
• Institutional Engagements
• Tools catalogue and metadata schema registry
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8. DCC Events
• International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC)
• Research Data Management Forum (RDMF)
• Workshops and training
• Presentations at external events
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9. DCC Resources
• Briefing Papers, How-to Guides
• Curation Reference Manual, Curation Lifecycle Model
• Policy and legal
• Data Management Plans
• Case studies
• Repository audit and assessment
• Standards
• Publications and presentations
• Curation journals, Informatics research
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10. • Informatics: disciplinary metadata
schema, standards, formats,
identifiers, ontologies
• Storage: file-store, cloud, data
centres, funder policy
• Access: embargoes, FOI
• How to: appraise and select, cite
data sets, develop a data
management plan, licence research
data
New: How to set a RDM service –
coming soon!
How to cite data
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12. What is DAF?
• A methodology to investigate / assess research
data management practice.
• What are the characteristics of research data
assets?
• How do researchers work with data?
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13. How does DAF work?
• Set the focus and scope of your study
- Investigate data holdings, capacity growth, current
practice…
• Decide what approach(es) will work best
- Online survey, interviews, focus groups, desk research…
• Look at earlier examples that you can repurpose
www.data-audit.eu/docs/DAF_Implementation_Guide.pdf
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14. How has it been used?
Two-stage data collection
1. Multiple-choice, online questionnaire of all research-active staff
2. One-to-one interviews with selected researchers
Topics covered:
– types, sizes and formats of research data
– data ownership
– storage
– security
– sharing and access (short and long term)
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16. Examples
• 'Pre-interview questionnaire' from Queen Mary University of London,
downloadable from:
http://rdm.c4dm.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/blog/DAF-interviews
• The University of West of England's 'researcher questionnaire',
downloadable from:
http://www1.uwe.ac.uk/library/usingthelibrary/servicesforresearchers/datam
• ‘Interview protocol' from the University of Hertfordshire,
downloadable from:
http://research-data-toolkit.herts.ac.uk/2012/06/rdm-audit-and-project-bene
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17. Some results….
• University of Southampton
http
://eprints.soton.ac.uk/196243/1/IDMB_Survey_Report.pdf
• University of Lincoln survey:
http://orbital.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/2012/04/30/data-assets-
framework-survey-summary
• University of
Oxfordhttp://blogs.oucs.ox.ac.uk/damaro/2013/01/03/univer
sity-of-oxford-research-data-management-survey-2012-the-
results
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18. What is CARDIO?
Collaborative Assessment of Research Data Infrastructures & Objectives
An online tool for departments or research groups to identify and
communicate their current data management capabilities and
identify options for enhancement using a dedicated knowledge
base.
CARDIO emphasises a collaborative, consensus-driven approach,
and enables benchmarking with other groups and institutions.
http://cardio.dcc.ac.uk/
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20. Aims of CARDIO?
• A tool to agree RDM strengths and weaknesses
• Aims for consensus across multiple viewpoints
• Uses a 1-5 scale for maturity
• Based on the three-legged stool model
from Cornell & AIDA toolkit
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21. How is CARDIO used?
• Provides quantitative analysis of RDM support
• Highlights areas of best practice
• Used for gap analysis/strategy development
• Makes the case for future investment
• Demonstrates progress
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22. Practice has been adapted
• Mini-CARDIO
– http://www.cardio.dcc.ac.uk/quiz/
• Workshop templates (paper exercise)
• Benchmarking against EPSRC requirements
• Customised online versions also available
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24. Data Management Planning
• Data management planning is a growing
requirement from funders, publishers and
HEIs, in the UK and internationally
• Supportive of good research practice,
according to RCUK
• A cross-cutting activity involving multiple
stakeholder types (researchers, librarians, IT
managers, support staff)
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25. What is DMP Online?
A web-based tool to help researchers write plans
It features:
• Templates based on different requirements
• Tailored guidance (disciplinary, funder etc)
• Customised exports to a variety of formats
• Ability to share DMPs with others
https://dmponline.dcc.ac.uk/
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26. How does DMP Online work?
Select templates for your context...
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27. What is DRAMBORA?
• DRAMBORA is an audit methodology and tool for identifying
and planning for the management of risks
• These risks may threaten the availability and/or usability of
content in a digital repository or archive.
www.repositoryaudit.eu
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28. DRAMBORA
• A variety of risk factors, both internal and external, affect
the management of digital research data
• Risks can be tangible (fire/flood) or intangible (accidental
data loss leading to reputational impact)
• They may exist in isolation, or lead to other risks if not
adequately managed
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29. Other services...
CARDIO Used at research group or department level to assess activity and
data management infrastructure and contribute to an institution-wide
view
Data Asset Framework DAF is a structured mechanism used to identify what data exists and
understand how research data are being managed and shared
Customised DMP We can work with you to develop an institution-specific instance of
DMP Online for developing data management plans that fit funder
requirements before and after an award of grant
Policy development We can assist in the development of institutional policy
Workflow assessment Using tested methodologies we can analyse current research data
workflows
Training We can train people in the use of many of the above tools and in
generic skills such as data quality assessment
Costing We can assist with the development of costing and pricing for data
management services
Risk management Working with you to identify risks in current or planned research data
management practice, we will make recommendations on mitigation
and the elimination of those risks
Institutional data We can recommend options for exposing metadata about your
research data via CRIS systems, repositories, or a mix of these
catalogues
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30. DCC Institutional
Engagements
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31. Further Assistance
• Help desk: 0131 651 1239
• Email: info@dcc.ac.uk
• Web site: www.dcc.ac.uk
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Hinweis der Redaktion
DAF is a survey method that has primarily been used to investigate RDM practice. JISC ’s original hope was to identify and register data assets too, but the scale of holdings was found to be too great. Originally it was called the Data Audit Framework and this was changed to ‘Asset’ so you’ll see it under both names
There are various things you may want to investigate, so the first task is to set the scope and then decide the best way to collect that information Lots of people have already done similar studies so repurpose their work
Here ’s an example of how DAF was used at Northampton. They used a few interviews to set the scope, then did an online survey and used the results to identify researchers for in-depth interviews Coverage addressed the nature of the data and most activities / issues that may be encountered throughout the research lifecycle
Results can be quite similar across institutions - researchers often face the same issues. Differences in practice and requirements tend to be characterised more by the discipline.
CARDIO is a tool to gain consensus across researchers & services on current RDM capability – How well does an institution/school/department manage it ’s data? It ’s based on the three-legged stool model and uses a 1-5 scale for maturity modelling There ’s a mini quiz and full online tool
I’ll give a quick over view to DCC’s main tools DMP Online is a tool to help researchers write plans. It pulls together the various requirements and relevant support to make the process easier.
At the outset you ’re asked to select templates that are appropriate for your context e.g. funder templates if applying for funding, disciplinary or institutional ones etc