Engineering Research Data Management, Part 1:

1. Managing Engineering Research Data
at the University of Lincoln
Part 1 of 2
Mansur Darlington
20 January 2012
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2. Purpose of Visit
• To provide an overview of Research Data
Management and what it will mean to
members of the School of Engineering at
Lincoln.
• To provide some ideas which might help the
School meet the broad demands of ERDM.
• Provide some guidance to the Orbital Team
to help them meet their goals and satisfy the
particular needs of the School.
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3. Summary
• Introduction
• Managing Research Data:
– Background, rationale, motivation,benefits
• Research Data Management Support
• The Nature of Engineering Research Data:
– The Engineering Research Information Management (ERIM)
Project
• Engineering RDM Planning & Execution
• Data Management Planning Tasks
• Key Building Blocks for Research Data Management.
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4. REDm-MED (Research Data Management for Mechanical Engineering Departments)
• JISCMRD Phase 2.
• 1st Nov 2011 – 31 May 2012
• To scope, specify, design and implement a
research data management approach suited
especially to the needs of the Department of
Mechanical Engineering.
• Will build upon the ERIM Project work,
• and on other recent work by the MRD
community.
• Complements Research360 Project.
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5. The Aim of the REDm-MED Project
• To implement effective and practical
research data management where there is
little or none,
• through the provision of:
– Procedures & Documentation,
– A Tool Set,
– Infrastructure,
• including development of the prototype
RAIDmap tool.
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/projects/redm-med/
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6. University of Bath
Department of Mechanical Engineering
• 64 Academics
• 12 Professors
• 8 Emeritus Professors
• 14 Research Officers
• 161 Research Postgrads
• 104 Taught Postgrads
• 845 Undergraduates
2008 RAE rated most of our research as being
'world-leading or internationally excellent'
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7. Research Centres
• Aerospace Engineering Research Centre
• Biomimetics Group
• Composites Research Unit
• Innovative Design Manufacturing Research Centre
(IdMRC)
• Institute for Sustainable Energy & the Environment (I-
SEE)
• Laboratory for Integrated Metrology Applications
(LIMA)
• Centre for Nonlinear Mechanics
• Centre for Orthopaedic Biomechanics
• Centre for Power Transmission and Motion Control
• Powertrain and Vehicle Research Centre
• Robotics and Autonomous Systems
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8. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Degree themes Academic groups Research Centres
Manufacture Innovative Design &
Manufacturing Research
Centre
Design &
Power train & Vehicle
I in AED Manufacture
Research Unit
Aerospace Centre Research Partners
Automotive Aerospace &
Automotive Airbus
International Centre for
the Environment Ford
Aerospace
Centre for Nonlinear
Renishaw
Structures & Mechanics Rolls-Royce
Bio Engineering
Centre for BAESystems, MBDA
Mechanical
Biomechanics ABB and Converteam
Machine Centre for Biomimetics
Materials Systems & Natural Technologies
Centre for Power
Transmission & Motion
Control
Medical Materials,
Medical & Sport Materials & Composites
Research Centre
Sports
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9. Innovative Design & Manufacturing Research Centre
• Established in 2001 (EPSRC) (1 of 16 UK CoE)
• Research portfolio ~£10M
(£7.5 million EPSRC IMRC to October 2011)
• 12 Academic Staff (18)
• 20 Research Staff (55)
• 32 Research Students (58)
• >250 Industry collaborators
• Facilities include a research lab, metrology lab, virtual-
reality suite, video conferencing and rapid prototyping
systems
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10. IdMRC Research Themes
IdMRC
THEME
Design Information & Knowledge
IdMRC
THEME Constraint-Based Design & Optimisation
IdMRC
THEME
Advanced Machining Processes & Systems
IdMRC
THEME
Metrology & Assembly Systems & Technologies
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11. MJD Background
• Automating hydraulic power systems design.
• Improving the understanding of EDRS
development.
• Assessing the potential of the Semantic Web.
• Developments of advanced techniques for
information delivery.
• Information Evaluation and Value.
Management:
£5m KIM Grand Challenge Project in Through-
Life Information and Knowledge Management.
IdMRC Centre Manager.
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12. MANAGING RESEARCH DATA
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13. Why Manage Research Data?
• Because you will HAVE TO
• Because you might WANT TO
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14. Needing to Manage Research Data
• Funders’ Data Management Policies
• Institutional Requirements
• FOI responses
• REF
• Publisher demands
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15. UK Funders’ Project Data Management Requirements
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16. Needing to Manage Research Data
• Funders’ Data Management Policies
• Institutional Requirements
• FOI responses
• Audit
• REF
• Publisher demands
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17. Wanting to Manage Research Data
• Reduction in duplicated work.
• Inspiration for new/continuation research &
funding.
• Basis for knowledge extraction from
aggregated data.
• Greater transparency of research.
• Improved basis for validation.
• Obviating the need for re-collection and
generation.
• Providing basis for reliable data citation.
• Increasing scholarly output.
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18. Supporting Collaboration – reciprocal benefits
• Greater confidence in sharing data through
better, more case-appropriate and more
transparent security measures.
• Better access to new data or data hitherto
undiscoverable.
• Reduction in data loss as a result of
improvements in management throughout the
data life cycle.
• Support of application for and
defence of patents.
• Better understanding of good
RDM practice.
• Greater clarity in IP issues.
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19. Examples of Data Sharing Benefits I
• ‘Big Science’ data sharing is routine:
space science, genomic epidemiology,
biosciences, etc.
• Alzheimer’s Disease Neuro-imaging
Data:160 papers published using data:
80 more are in the pipeline (Feb 2011).
• @70% increase in citations for clinical
trial publications associated with making
their datasets publicly available.
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20. Examples of Data Sharing Benefits II
• Incremental Sheet Metal Forming Cross-EU
sharing supported multi-university collaboration.
• Email Repository @ 20,000 items: supported 2
studentships and collaboration with University of Sydney.
• Anthropometric Constraint-Modelling Data
(ADAPS, Delft) shared with and augmented by Bath,UK
and Christchurch, NZ.
• Machinery Packaging Data incrementally
generated and shared between prime industry
collaborator, researchers and students.
• KIM Grand Challenge Project. Data sharing
agreement between 20 key industry collaborators and
research teams.
• Life-cycle Analysis for energy and the environment.
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21. LCA for Sustainable/Renewal Energy Data Sets
• 13 PhD students (3 completed), 1 RO.
• 4-5 MEng projects per year.
• About 8 users each ChemEng and ACE.
• 6 big research projects supported:
Supergen HDPS
Supergen HiDef
BSBEC
Transition Pathways
DEFRA Link SEIBI
EPSRC Grand Challenge Carbon Capture
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22. RESEARCH DATA MANAGEMENT
SUPPORT ACTIVITY
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23. Centres of Support
• Data Archives and Centres:
Biomedical Informatics Research Network Data Repository
Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre
Economic and Social Data Service
Environmental Information Data Centre
Geospatial Repository for Academic Deposit andExtraction
Infrared Space Observatory
National Biodiversity Network
National Geoscience Data Centre
NERC Earth Observation Data Centre
Petrological Database of the Ocean Floor
UK Data Archive
• The Digital Curation Centre
• JISC
• UKOLN (UK On-Line Network)
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24. JISC MRD Programme Phase I
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/mrd.aspx
• Research Data Management Infrastructure.
• Research Data Management Planning.
• Support and Tools Projects.
• Citing, Linking, Integrating and Publishing
Research Data.
• Research Data Management Training Materials.
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25. JISC MRD Programme Phase II
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/di_researchmanagement/man
agingresearchdata.aspx
• 17 large institutional piloting or further extending
RDM infrastructures as part of an institutional
mission.
• 8 projects helping research groups, projects or
departments fulfill disciplinary best practice and
research funder requirements.
• 2 projects customising the DCC’s DMP Online
tool for institutional use.
Complemented by work:
• to improve the practice of data citation and explore
innovative ways of publishing research data;
• to develop disciplinary focused training materials as well
as training for other stakeholders.
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