1. Bristol’s Research Data Service
Debra Hiom d.hiom@bristol.ac.uk
JISC Digifest
11th
March 2014
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2. Background
• data.bris JISC funded project from October 2011
to April 2013
• Business case for service created as part of the
project (sponsored by PVC for Research)
• Pilot service until 31st
July 2015, collaboration
with Library and IT Services
• Aim to make research data support “business as
usual” from August 2015 as cross service function
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3. Governance
• Reports to University’s Research Data Storage
and Management Board (RDSMB)
• Operational Planning Group overseeing day-to-
day management
• High level principles for Research Data
Management
• More formal policy to be developed over next 12
months
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4. Staffing until July 2015
• 0.5 Service Manager
• 1.5 Senior Research Data Librarians
• 1.0 Assistant Research Data Librarian
• 1.0 Technical Developer
• Additional technical support for Research Data
Storage Facility
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5. Services Offered
• Guidance and support materials
• DMP checking
• Data storage (through University’s Research
Data Storage Facility)
• Data sharing facilities for external collaboration
• Data publication (through data.bris repository)
• Training and advocacy
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6. Technical Infrastructure
• Each researcher offered 5TB for storage of data
(Research Data Storage Facility)
• Collaboration space for secure sharing of data
• Deposit system for published datasets also using
same underlying storage system (100GB)
• CKAN for public catalogue of datasets
• Nightly harvest of metadata from repository
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7. • Specifically for publishing non-
sensitive research data
• Data retained for 20 years
minimum
• DOI assigned to each dataset
for easy citation (via Datacite)
• Data visualisation and analysis
tools supported
• All data available under a non-
commercial license
Research Data Repository

8. Priorities for Next 12 Months
• Advocacy and promotion in faculties and schools
• Establishing levels of ongoing service from Aug 2015
• Developing formal institutional Open Data and RDM
policy
• Integrating data repository with the University’s RIS
(Pure)
• Investigating potential shared services
• Exploring curation and preservation requirements
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