The 3TU.Datacentrum offers researchers support with their data management and data storage. This presentation is given to researchers of Delft University of Technology.

1. Your Research Data Management
with support from 3TU.Datacentrum

2. Data Publication Pyramid

4. Ways to loose your data
• Bits get lost (file damage,
deleted, disappears, fire, bit
rot)
• Context or documentation
gets lost
• Required hardware or
software becomes out of data,
inoperable or unavailable

5. Ways to keep your data
• Good storage medium for data and documentation
• Backups
• Regular monitoring (storage media, file)
• Security
• Sustainable formats

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Why 3TU.Datacentrum?
• Make valuable data (re)usable, discoverable and accessible on long
term. Open if possible, closed if neccesary !
• Experiences: Lot of data ‘lost’ and valuable data not used.

7. CREATING
DATA
PROCESSING
DATA
ANALYSING
DATA
PRESERVING
DATA
GIVING
ACCESS TO
DATA
RE-USING
DATA
During your research
Some GB > lots of TB
Share through
mail – DVD – FTP?
Just file management or more?
Multi-instutitional /
multi-disciplinary?
Firewalls?
www.data-archive.ac.uk/create-manage/life-cycle

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Data Labs
Collaboration platforms for research data
(management) to enable exchange of data
and other research material for collaboration
and e.g. early review.
improve standardization & documentation
and lower archiving threshold.
To share, reference, extract, analyze and
publish research data.

9. Data Lab: DVN
Dutch Dataverse Network (DVN),
used by most Dutch universities
• Organise (data)files in studies and collections
• Add metadata and documentation
• Allows versioning
• Determine access rights yourself
• Not limited to own institute
• Publish data with a persistant URL
• Allows you to delete files
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Data Lab: OpenEarth
Collaboration platforms for research data (management) to enable exchange
of data and other research material.
“OpenEarth is a free and open source alternative to the project-by-project and
institution-by-institution approaches to deal with data, models and tools” .
Developed by researchers from marine & coastal engineering.
• Central platform for MICORE (EU FP7 & UN), Building with Nature (Dutch
topsector Water).
• Over 1.000 users
(120+ contributing).
Standardized numeric data,
SVN repository, wiki, OPeNDAP server,
Google Earth visualisation.

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Data Lab a la OpenEarth

12. Zandmotor | Sand Engine
During project: only accessibly to ± 300 users in ± 30 partners;
After project: transferred to data archive (3TU.Datacentrum) and
accessibly to the public for est. 50 years
Volkskrant, 31 March 2014

13. Consider long term storage
3TU.Datacentrum 13
Source:WURtemplatedmp

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• ‘Frozen’ dataset (version) for future use / long term storage
• ‘Published’ data, simple or
complex, varying metadata
• Open
• Max. 2 years embargo
• DataCite DOIs
• Data Seal of Approval (DSA)
• Meta data under CC0 harvestable
and as linked open data
Data Archive
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Technical
sciences

15. http://data.3tu.nl/repository/
Back to overview

16. Example: Event logs

17. Example: STP algorithms

18. Example: virtual machine

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Direct use of the data
Visualisation and Analysis
(iPython, Matlab, etc.)Deposit in Archive Dissemination

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Indexing

21. Enhanced publication

22. • Do It Yourself: ‘simple’ sets
Standard (self)upload form and descriptive information, single file per
object (can be a ‘zipped’ collection), single DOI, …
E.g.: Zandvliet, H.J.W. et al. (2010): Diffusion driven concerted motion of surface
atoms: Ge on Ge(001). MESA+ Institute For Nanotechnology, University of
Twente doi:10.4121/uuid:3f71549c-6097-4bb8-bc00-6db77deb161d
• Do It Together: special collections
Negotiate: deposit procedure, description (xml, picture, preview), data
model, level of DOI assignment, query online, …
E.g.: Otto, T., Russchenberg, H.W.J. (2010): IDRA weather radar measurements -
all data. TU Delft - Delft University of Technology
doi:10.4121/uuid:5f3bcaa2-a456-4a66-a67b-1eec928cae6d
How to deposit your data

23. DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers)
http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.4121/uuid:c1ac7344-1...
http://data.3tu.nl/repository/uuid:c1ac7344-1...
Visibility

24. Data publication

25. First things first
Start of with a data management plan
The what, why and how of data management planning

26. Data management planning
• Funders require it
• Require RDM budget from
funder
• Helps you structure agreements
on how to manage your data
• Develop procedures early on
for consistency
• Plan to share data, (determine
embargo) and increase impact

27. Data management plan: support!
• Make use of the 3TU.DC template
(compliant with H2020) – through
Valorisation Center
• Get inspired by examples (per faculty)
• Contact a DMP expert for advice and
support.

28. Example: RAINGAIN
• Pilot with
• Planning is more
important than the plan,
but the plan makes your
planning explicit.

29. Events

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Contact for more information
• m.j.j.beerens@tudelft.nl: funders
• a.m.c.versteeg@tudelft.nl : open access publications
• a.vanderkuil@tudelft.nl: research data management
Credits for the drawings:
http://digitalbevaring.dk/