A brief overview of where the JISC-funded data.bris project is in terms of business development.

1. Towards ongoing
Research Data Management
Stephen Gray
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IT Services R&D / ILRT
University of Bristol
Using emerging learning and research technologies to enable excellence

2. Discussed ~
• Existing research data storage
• The data.bris ‘research data service’ pilot
• The current phase: a plan for a permanent service by Jan
25th 2013
• What's decided
• What's nearly decided
• What's not even nearly decided
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3. Research Data Storage
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4. Research Data Storage Facility (RDSF)
• £2m petascale research data storage facility launched in 2011
• Has ongoing investment
• Overseen by Research Data Storage (and now Management) Board
(RDSMB)
• representatives from all faculty and support services
• reports to HPC Board which is chaired by PVC for Research
• Each ‘Data Steward’ (researcher) has 5TB for free, additional storage
available at a cost…
• …now moving to ‘Pay Once, Store Forever’ model
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5. What Bristol hadn’t got
• Historically, no mechanism for collaborative research
• No means to publish data
• No easy way to transfer data to anyone who might
publish it
• No requirement for research data to be retained, have
metadata, be curated (or even sorted)
• No way for ROSE (Institutional Repository) to accept data
deposits
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6. Research Data Management
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7. RDM: The Plan
#1 eighteen-month data.bris pilot in Faculty of Arts &
Humanities
#2 three-year roll out across the University, starting Aug 2013
#3 data.bris as a permanent research data service
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8. Some data.bris pilot deliverables
• UoB Institutional Research Data Management Principles
• Research data deposit web interface: Temple Cloud
• Web interface/s for publication of deposited datasets
• Integration of datasets with Research Information System (Pure)
• Guidance and training materials for research staff
• Business Plan
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9. IT Services R&D / ILRT

10. The next 3 years: Decided
• Managing what? (Primarily) datasets which underpin outputs
• Nature of work to be done?
• Providing training, advice on DMPs and promoting good RDM
• Doing hands-on curating, checking metadata, gathering usage stats
• A Manager, some Developer time & trainee posts
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11. The next 3 years: Nearly decided
• Do we want a ‘basic’ or ‘full’ service?
• What’s the difference?...
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12. The next 3 years: Nearly decided
Minimal service
• Compliance
• Little subject-specific knowledge
• Generic training & guidance
• Little/no individual DMP checking
• No institutional policing of external mandates
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13. The next 3 years: Nearly decided
Full-service, over 3 years
• Discipline-specific knowledge (esp. metadata & training)
• ‘Policing’ of funder/publisher mandates esp. EPSRC & mandatory
deposit to data services
• Checking individual DMPs
• Some hands-on curation…
• …the flexibility to dedicate effort /staff at project level
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14. The next 3 years: Not nearly decided
• What does RDM really cost and what does it generate?
• In addition to the storage policy, can you have a ‘Pay Once,
Manage Forever’ model?
• Are funders willing to contribute directly, towards RDM?
• And how will other HEIs react..?
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15. A reminder
or
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