The RoaDMaP Project by Rachel Proudfoot, (University of Leeds). Presentation at Demystifying Research Data: don’t be scared be prepared: A joint JIBS/RLUK event, Tuesday 17th July 17th July 2012, Brunei Gallery at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), London.

1. RoaDMaP: Leeds Research Data
Management Pilot
Rachel Proudfoot
Project Manager

2. About Leeds
• Large, research-intensive
university
• Russell Group
• 33,223 students, 8,240 PG
• 7,543 staff
• 9 Faculties
• Research income 2010/11 “..world-class research,
£124m scholarship and
education”

3. RoaDMaP Project
• JISC Funded Project in the Research Data Management
Programme
• Jan 2012-June 2013
• DCC, F5, National Instruments (lab experiment data
capture)
• RDM policy, case studies, training requirements, repository
and storage options
• Project Director, Brian Clifford (Deputy Librarian)
• Collaborative project

4. Why / how is the Library involved
• UKRDS (2008), JISC Building Capacity – stakeholders
• Repository work (White Rose)
• EPSRC requirements – RD Working and Steering Groups
• RoaDMaP – collaborative
• Project – repositories, metadata, training
• Understanding roles

5. Repositories / data catalogue / metadata
• Build on what‟s there? Create new systems?
• RoaDMaP trialling DataFlow from Oxford but keeping an
eye on Eprints.
• What is a trusted repository?
• CRIS – linking systems together- facilitation
• Metadata – split opinions
• White Rose – data catalogue
• (White Rose RDM event write up)

6. White Rose event feedback
• “why did I have to come to York to meet my Leeds/Sheffield
colleague?”
• “we have relevant skills for research data management”
• “we don‟t have relevant skills for research data
management”
• “research support should be a dedicated role”
• “research support should be built in to our role – JDs”
• “doing this is risky”
• “not doing this is risky”

7. • “Are we trying to fill a gap in the market that doesn‟t exist?”
• “Why compromise our credible, hard won relationships with
academics around teaching and learning”

8. What roles?
• To signpost, you need understand the landscape
• Local..
• Networking and communications
• Picture of who is involved - RoaDMaP
• Understand and build on what‟s there
• systems / expertise e.g. data survey
• External..
• Funder requirements
• Data repository landscape

9. Training
• Working group
• Evaluating training resources
• PhD – e.g. electronic theses
• Gather evidence – examples of good and bad practice,
issues highlighted by researchers, data reuse, collate
• Where data meets scholarly communications
– data citation
– journals and data
– “a statement on how the underlying research materials – such as
data, samples or models – can be accessed” RCUK

10. Aspirational
RDM Policy

11. Be prepared
• DCC
• Share experience
• Help others share experience
• Look at different routes / scenarios
• „Incremental‟
• Identify and play to strengths first
• Reuse
• Watch out for RDMRose

12. RoaDMaP
• http://library.leeds.ac.uk/roadmap-project
• http://researchdata.leeds.ac.uk
Picture credits
• Rear view mirror andrewpaulcarr -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewpaulcarr/260994811/
• Old MFD2 JMC photos -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jmcphotos/2131206015/
• Sign post – Kay Gardens St Evan. Cavanagh -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevencavanagh/3424640946/