Presentation given by Anne Spalding, KAPTUR Project Officer for University for the Creative Arts as part of the UCA RDM training workshop given on 16th January 2013.

1. RDM training
part one: basic principles
Anne Spalding
16.01.2013

2. Session outline
• Overview of the first hour
• Learning outcomes
• Kaptur project at UCA

3. Learning outcomes
• Understand the nature of research data in the visual arts.
• Appreciate the importance of research data and funder
requirements.
• Recognise the basic principles of appropriate curation and
preservation of research data.

4. Kaptur project at UCA
• Interviews
• Environmental Assessment Report
• RDM policy at UCA

5. What is research data?
• Introduction
• Discussion in pairs/groups
• Feedback

6. Why?
The importance of research data
• Drivers
• AHRC
• Good research practice

7. Definitions of research data
• "Anything which is used or created to generate new knowledge and
interpretations. ‘Anything’ may be objective or subjective; physical or
emotional; persistent or ephemeral; personal or public; explicit or
tacit; and is consciously or unconsciously referenced by the
researcher at some point during the course of their research.
Research data may or may not lead to a research output, which
regardless of method of presentation, is a planned public statement
of new knowledge or interpretation.“
Leigh Garrett

8. Principles of data curation
and preservation, 1 – overview
Why curate
What is it?
Preservation

9. Principles of data curation
and preservation, 2 – data lifecycle
• DCC curation lifecycle model

10. Principles of data curation
and preservation, 3 - curation
FOI
IPR
ethical
Funder, requirements
internal policy/research select -what
-why
-who
present curate
showcase organise
formats
metadata
look after/ preserve

11. Principles of data curation
and preservation, 4 - preservation
• Longevity
• Integrity
• Accessibility

12. Assessment
• One thing you know now that you didn’t know before today
– Pink post it note
• What more would you like to know
– Yellow post it note
• What are you expecting from session two
– Green post it note

13. Learning outcomes met?
• Understand the nature of research data in the visual arts.
• Appreciate the importance of research data and funder
requirements.
• Recognise the basic principles of appropriate curation and
preservation of research data.

14. Selected further sources
• Pryor, Graham ed. (2012). Managing Research Data. London: Facet
Publishing
• http://datalib.edina.ac.uk/mantra/
• http://www.dcc.ac.uk/
• http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/curation-lifecycle-model
• http://kapturmrd01.eventbrite.co.uk/
• http://www.projectcairo.org/
• http://www.research.ucreative.ac.uk/1054/
• http://www.vads.ac.uk/kaptur/
• http://vocab.bris.ac.uk/data/glossary
• Online sources accessed January 2013

15. Questions?