Martin Lewis and Stephen Pinfield: Research Data Management - where should collaboration happen

1. RDM: where should
collaboration happen?
Martin Lewis
Director of Library Services & University Librarian, University
of Sheffield
Stephen Pinfield
Senior Lecturer, iSchool, University of Sheffield
Directions in Research Data Management Cambridge 2014‐11‐07

2. RDM collaboration spaces

3. RDM collaboration spaces
• Interplanetary
– NASA Planetary Data System
– ESA Planetary Science Archive
Image: NASA

4. RDM collaboration spaces
• International
– Standards, professional development, funder
requirements (eg DataCite, CODATA, IDCCs,
RDA, ICSU-WDS, Horizon 2020)
• National
– Policy development, funder requirements,
infrastructure & capacity, RDM funding
• Regional
– Shared services? 3TU, N8
• Institutional
– Researcher/professional
– Inter-professional

5. Institutional Collaborations:
Research Data Management
Components, Drivers,
Stakeholders and Influences
Pinfield, S., Cox, AM., & Smith, J. (2015). Research
data management and libraries: Relationships,
activities, drivers and influences. Forthcoming

6. Drivers: Why?
Storage
Security
Preservation
Compliance
Quality
Sharing
Jurisdiction
Influencing Factors: How?
Acceptance
Demand
Incentives
Roles
Cultures
Governance
Politics
Resources
Projects
Skills
Communications
Setting
RDM Programme Components:
Library IT Services Academic
What?
Departments
Guidelines
Senior
University
Managers
Research
Support
Services
Other Support
Services
Stakeholders: Who?
Researchers:
Arts and
Humanities
Disciplines
Researchers:
Social Sciences
Disciplines
Researchers:
Science
Disciplines
Researchers:
Engineering
Disciplines
Researchers:
Medicine and
Health
Disciplines
Researchers:
Multi-
Disciplinary
Collaborations
Strategies
Policies
Processes Technologies
Services

7. Drivers: Why?
Storage
Security
Preservation
Compliance
Quality
Sharing
Jurisdiction
RDM Programme Components:
What?
Strategies
Policies
Guidelines
Processes Technologies
Services
Influencing Factors: How?
Acceptance
Demand
Incentives
Roles
Cultures
Governance
Politics
Resources
Projects
Skills
Communications
Setting
Library IT Services Academic
Departments
Senior
University
Managers
Research
Support
Services
Other Support
Services
Stakeholders: Who?
Researchers:
Arts and
Humanities
Disciplines
Researchers:
Social Sciences
Disciplines
Researchers:
Science
Disciplines
Researchers:
Engineering
Disciplines
Researchers:
Medicine and
Health
Disciplines
Researchers:
Multi-
Disciplinary
Collaborations
Drivers:
Why?
RDM Programme
Components:
What?
Influencing
Factors:
How?
Stakeholders:
Who?

8. RDM Programme Components:
What?
Strategies
Policies
Guidelines
Processes Technologies
Services

9. Drivers: Why?
Storage
Security
Preservation
Compliance
Quality
Sharing
Jurisdiction
RDM Programme Components:
What?
Strategies
Policies
Guidelines
Processes Technologies
Services

10. Drivers: Why?
Storage
Security
Preservation
Compliance
Quality
Sharing
Jurisdiction
RDM Programme Components:
Library IT Services Academic
What?
Departments
Guidelines
Senior
University
Managers
Research
Support
Services
Other Support
Services
Stakeholders: Who?
Researchers:
Arts and
Humanities
Disciplines
Researchers:
Social Sciences
Disciplines
Researchers:
Science
Disciplines
Researchers:
Engineering
Disciplines
Researchers:
Medicine and
Health
Disciplines
Researchers:
Multi-
Disciplinary
Collaborations
Strategies
Policies
Processes Technologies
Services

11. Drivers: Why?
Storage
Security
Preservation
Compliance
Quality
Sharing
Jurisdiction
RDM Programme Components:
Library IT Services Academic
What?
Departments
Guidelines
Senior
University
Managers
Research
Support
Services
Influencing Factors: How?
Acceptance
Demand
Incentives
Roles
Cultures
Governance
Politics
Resources
Projects
Other Support
Services
Stakeholders: Who?
Researchers:
Arts and
Humanities
Disciplines
Researchers:
Social Sciences
Disciplines
Researchers:
Science
Disciplines
Researchers:
Engineering
Disciplines
Researchers:
Medicine and
Health
Disciplines
Researchers:
Multi-
Disciplinary
Collaborations
Skills
Communications
Setting
Strategies
Policies
Processes Technologies
Services

12. Identity “dispositions” of professional staff
(adapted from a slide by Dr Celia Whitchurch, Institute of Education)
Identity ‘dispositions’ Characteristics
‘Bounded professionals’
(voluntary or involuntary)
Work within clear structural boundaries (eg
specialist function , job description)
‘Cross-boundary
professionals’
Actively use boundaries and cross-boundary
knowledge for strategic advantage and
institutional capacity building
‘Unbounded professionals’ Lack of consciousness of boundaries; focus
on broadly-based projects across the
university, and contribute to institutional
development
‘Blended professionals’ Dedicated appointments spanning
professional and academic domains

13. Identity “dispositions” of professional staff
(adapted from a slide by Dr Celia Whitchurch, Institute of Education)
Identity ‘dispositions’ Characteristics
‘Bounded professionals’
(voluntary or involuntary)
Work within clear structural boundaries (eg
specialist function , job description)
‘Cross-boundary
professionals’
RDM workforce
development
Actively use boundaries and cross-boundary
knowledge for strategic advantage and
institutional capacity building
‘Unbounded professionals’ Lack of consciousness of boundaries; focus
on broadly-based projects across the
university, and contribute to institutional
development
‘Blended professionals’ Dedicated appointments spanning
professional and academic domains

14. Collaborative challenges
• National shared vision and coordination
– Don’t let the dual support system be a divided
support system

15. Collaborative challenges
• National shared vision and coordination
– Don’t let the dual support system be a divided
support system
• Institutional collaboration
– Fill the third space
– Overcome territorial, identity, and ownership
issues

16. Collaborative challenges
• National shared vision and coordination
– Don’t let the dual support system be a divided
support system
• Institutional collaboration
– Fill the third space
– Overcome territorial, identity, and ownership
issues