Records professionals and Research Data - a new role?
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The document discusses the evolving role of records professionals in research data management, emphasizing the importance of open access and the proper handling of research data. It highlights the responsibilities of researchers in managing data through secure storage, metadata creation, and compliance with various policies. Additionally, it introduces initiatives by Springer Nature and the Research Data Alliance aimed at enhancing collaboration and accessibility in research data management.
Records professionals and Research Data - a new role?
- 1. Records Professionals and Research Data – a new role? Rebecca Grant, Research Data Manager, Springer Nature 1 September 2017
- 2. 1 Records Professionals and Research Data – a new role? 1.0 What is research data management?
- 3. 2 Records professionals and research data – a new role? 2 • Open Access is a global initiative which has gained traction since the 2000s and rise of the Internet • Promoting the concept that the outputs of publicly funded research should be accessible publicly for consultation and reuse • Influences policy for higher education institutions, journal publishers, and funding agencies Becoming more and more important for the data underpinning research, as well as the articles which describe research Why research data management? Open Access driving research data publication
- 4. 3 Records professionals and research data – a new role? But what is research data? Credit: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI) Credit: Queridian Solutions queridian.com
- 5. 4 Records professionals and research data – a new role? Research data is data which is the subject or product of research Physical sciences Earth sciences Social sciences Biology Humanities
- 6. 5 Records professionals and research data – a new role? Store data securely over the lifetime of their research Create metadata and provide adequate description and context so that it can be understood by others Select which data are relevant for publication or long-term storage Identify any rights issues associated with the data Select a suitable repository to store or publish their data Ensure that their data will be preserved for as long as it is needed How do researchers prepare to make their data available? Credit: Nestle Institute of Health Sciences
- 7. 6 Records professionals and research data – a new role? Conceptualising research data management Credit: The Digital Curation Centre, http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/cu ration-lifecycle-model
- 8. 7 Records professionals and research data – a new role? The records continuum Organise Capture Create •Archive •Memory •Record •Evidence •Document •Trace
- 9. 8 Records professionals and research data – a new role? The Archival Advantage (Jackie Dooley for OCLC Research) Clarifying legal ownership of digital property/legal ownership of IP Appraising the significance or value of data Capturing context of creation or use Facilitating preservation of materials for the future Efficiently creating collection-level metadata How can records managers and archivists contribute to research data management? https://tinyurl.com/y9zpe9u6
- 10. 9 Records professionals and research data – a new role? 2.0 Research Data Management at Springer Nature
- 11. 10 Records professionals and research data – a new role? Springer Nature is a leading research, educational and professional publisher, providing quality content to our communities through a range of innovative platforms, products and services. Home to brands including Springer, Nature Research, BioMed Central, Palgrave Macmillan and Scientific American. As the leading open access publisher, we see the rise of open research in all its manifestations as one of the major forces reshaping the way that researchers communicate and collaborate to advance the pace and quality of discovery. Our focus is on investing in and creating tools, services or training that help the research community to understand and utilise new ideas and concepts.
- 12. 11 Records professionals and research data – a new role? “making research more transparent, more collaborative and more efficient”* What do we mean by open research? *Source: Wikipedia, adapted • Beyond open access • Not just journals, books too! • Broader than “open science” • Inclusive of HSS • Open data • Collaboration tools • Open peer review … and more that we haven’t imagined yet
- 13. 12 Records professionals and research data – a new role? Advice on: • Complying with the research data policy of their target journal(s) • Finding community data repositories for their research • Using generalist repositories • Funder and institution data policies • Data reporting standards • Good practice for data-literature linking and data citation Research Data Support Helpdesk – free advice and support
- 14. 13 Records professionals and research data – a new role? http://www.springernature.com/gp/group/data-policy
- 15. 14 Records professionals and research data – a new role? Data Discovery Service Actions Discovery Service Permit upload of files up to 50GB via secure figshare portal Yes Check for sensitive data/human identifiers Yes Check to ensure files can be previewed in figshare Yes Check to ensure all files described in metadata are present Yes Generate DOI for the dataset Yes Link the dataset to related article Yes Apply relevant keywords Yes Apply relevant categories Yes Add funding information Yes Copy-edit/improve title Yes Check author list and order Yes Enhance description Yes Split or group files into meaningful collections Yes Embargoed according to journal or funder policy Yes (where necessary) Published in dedicated Springer Nature figshare repository Yes (when paper is accepted)
- 16. 15 Records professionals and research data – a new role? Splitting or regrouping of data files – impact on original order Suggested renaming of datasets Administrative or biographical history is not included Collection level relates to the journal which has published the associated manuscript Context of the data – can be linked to the creator’s datasets across the repository Two levels of description are available Data curation and archival approaches Credit: Carolina Prysyazhnyuk
- 17. 16 Records professionals and research data – a new role? Figshare platform for deposition
- 18. 17 Records professionals and research data – a new role? 3.0 The Research Data Alliance
- 19. 18 Records professionals and research data – a new role? A global, grassroots organisation focused on the development of infrastructure and community activities aimed to reduce barriers to data sharing and exchange Nearly 6000 members from 129 countries Members form working groups and interest groups based on challenges identified by the community Meet at 6-monthly plenary sessions (Montreal September 2017, Berlin March 2018) What is the Research Data Alliance?
- 20. 19 Records professionals and research data – a new role? An Interest Group for archivists and records managers
- 21. 20 Records professionals and research data – a new role? Three current projects • Preservation guidelines – drafting guidance on a tiered approach to digital preservation for researchers. • Appraisal literature review – collating existing information on data appraisal. • Records management for the Research Data Alliance – helping to make consistent policies to achieve better records management for RDA groups. Mailing list to allow discussion between records professionals engaged in research data management, and to allow other RDA members to request our assistance and feedback. Aiming to support records professionals working in research data management and raise the profile of records professionals and their expertise within the RDA community. Join us! http://tinyurl.com/nyc24v6
- 22. 21 Records professionals and research data – a new role? Thank you! Email: [email protected] [email protected] Website: http://go.nature.com/ResearchDataServices Twitter: @beck_grant @springernature These slides are licensed under a CC-BY-ND Creative Commons licence
Editor's Notes
- #13: We’re not the OA group of Springer Nature, we’re the Open Research group. So what do we mean by open research? We’ll talk a bit more about why this broader approach matters later