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Research Support Team, IT Services
Research data
management planning
An introduction
Today’s session
 Overview of data management plans
 What they are
 What goes in them
 Tools, resources and
sources of further information
 A chance for you to start
building your own plan
What is research data management?
Storage
Organizing
Preservation
Documenting
Sharing
Choosing
technology
Versioning
Structuring
Backing up
Curation
Security
What is a data management plan?
 A document which outlines how data will be
managed over the course of a project
 Details plans and expectations
 Nature of data and its creation or acquisition
 How it will be documented
 Storage and security
 Legal and ethical issues
 Preservation and sharing
Why make a data management plan?
 Some funding bodies require them
 Anticipate possible problems – and look for
solutions
 Save time and reduce stress later
 Much data management is straightforward if
planned from the beginning
 But much harder to do retrospectively
 Particularly preparing data for sharing
‘In preparing for
battle, I have always
found that plans are
useless but planning
is indispensable.’
Dwight D. Eisenhower
When should a DMP be created?
 As early as possible – but it’s never too late
 Often created when applying for funding or
setting up a project
 An initial outline plan may be expanded later
 Planning is a process, not a one off task
 Good practice to revisit and revise plans regularly
 A schedule for doing this can be
included in the initial version
DATA MANAGEMENT PLAN
CONTENT
What goes into a data management plan?
1. Description of the project and the data
2. Plans for handling the data during the project
3. Plans for documentation and metadata
4. Long-term plans for the data
5. Consideration of requirements that need to be
met (legal, ethical, institutional, funder)
6. Practical planning to ensure the plan can be
implemented
1. Describing the project and data
 What is the project setting out to do?
 Who will be working on it?
 What sort of data will the project work with?
 Type (text, numerical, images, videos…)
 Quantity (number and size of files)
 File formats
 Where will it come from?
 Collected during the project? (If so, how?)
 Third party data? (Where from?)
2. Handling the data during the project
 Where will the data be stored?
 What software will be used?
 How will the data be backed up?
 Does data need to be shared
within the project team?
 How will this be achieved?
 How will data be kept secure?
 How will versioning be handled?
Oxford provision and services
 You may be entitled to storage space on a
departmental server
 Ask your department’s IT officer
 Nexus SharePoint can be used for sharing files
 See http://help.it.ox.ac.uk/nexus/sharepoint/
 IT Services’ NSMS can provide server
space (chargeable service)
 See http://www.it.ox.ac.uk/nsms/
Oxford provision and services
 ORDS (Online Research Database Service)
allows creation of online relational databases
 See http://ords.ox.ac.uk/
 InfoSec can advise on security
 See https://www.infosec.ox.ac.uk/
 HFS back-up service is free to staff
and postgraduate students
 See http://help.it.ox.ac.uk/hfs/
3. Documentation and metadata
 How will data be documented and described?
 What contextual information needs to be recorded?
 Can practice be standardized?
 File naming
 Recording methods
 Are there disciplinary metadata
standards you should be aware of?
 See the DCC’s http://www.dcc.ac.uk
/resources/metadata-standards
4. Long-term planning
 What will happen to the data at
the end of the project?
 Can the data be preserved by
depositing it in an archive?
 Can the data be made available
for use by other researchers?
 How will it need to be prepared for sharing?
 What needs to be done during the rest of the
project to facilitate long-term plans?
Repositories and archives
 A secure long-term home for research data
 Many national disciplinary archives exist
 Re3Data.org offers a
searchable catalogue
of repositories
 ORA-Data is Oxford’s
institutional archive for data
without an obvious home
5. Meeting requirements – legal and
ethical
 Who owns the data?
 Are there restrictions on what can be done with it?
 If so, how will you ensure these are met?
 Is any of the data confidential or otherwise
sensitive?
 How will you keep data secure during the project?
 Can data be shared? Do you need to ask
for consent, and/or to anonymize it?
 Will any data need to be destroyed? How?
5. Meeting requirements – funder and
institutional
 Does your funding body impose requirements?
 Are you asked to publish your data?
 What does the University of Oxford Policy on
the Management of Research Data and
Records require you to do?
 Data should be accurate, retrievable, and secure
 Data should be retained for at least three years,
and shared if possible
 View the policy at http://researchdata.ox.ac.uk/
6. Practical planning
 Who has responsibility for implementing each
element of the plan?
 Will any additional resources be needed?
 How will adherence to the plan be evaluated?
 When will the plan be revisited and
(if necessary) revised?
RESOURCES AND GUIDANCE
Research Data Oxford website
 Oxford’s central
advisory website
 Details of funder
requirements
 Questions?
Email
researchdata@ox.ac.uk
http://researchdata.ox.ac.uk/
Digital Curation Centre
 A national service providing advice and
resources
 ‘How to develop a data management and sharing
plan’ – online guide
 Checklist for DMPs
 Example plans
 Summary of funders’
requirements
 DMP Online tool
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/
UK Data Archive
 UK's largest collection of digital social sciences
and humanities research data
 Website offers advice on:
 Planning for sharing
 Consent and ethics
 Documentation
 Storage
 Etc. http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/
University of Bristol resources
 Online guides to writing a data management
plan for each of the RCUK funding bodies, plus
some others
 Also more general advice about sharing,
storage, anonymization, etc.
 But remember it’s aimed
at Bristol researchers
http://data.bris.ac.uk/research/dmp/
 Help with technical aspects of research
projects – including data management
 Can provide help writing a plan, or feedback on
a draft
http://research.it.ox.ac.uk
researchsupport@it.ox.ac.uk
Research Support team, IT Services
DATA MANAGEMENT
PLANNING TOOLS
DMP Online
 A free online data
management
planning tool
 Offers a variety of
templates
 Guidance from DCC,
funders, and
University of Oxford
https://dmponline.dcc.ac.uk/
Instructions available from
http://researchdata.ox.ac.uk/portfolio/dmp-online/
DMP Online live demo
Twenty Questions for Research Data
Management
 A document created by David Shotton
 Twenty questions with sample answers
 Answering the questions creates a basic data
management plan
 Download this and another template for a
basic DMP from
http://researchdata.ox.ac.uk/
portfolio/dmp-templates/
Over to you!
 Have a go at drafting a data management plan
for your own research
 Use whichever template you find most useful
 If there are questions you can’t answer at this
stage, make a note of
 What you need to find out
 Decisions you need to make

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Data Management Planning for Researchers - 2016-02-08 - University of Oxford

  • 1. Research Support Team, IT Services Research data management planning An introduction
  • 2. Today’s session  Overview of data management plans  What they are  What goes in them  Tools, resources and sources of further information  A chance for you to start building your own plan
  • 3. What is research data management? Storage Organizing Preservation Documenting Sharing Choosing technology Versioning Structuring Backing up Curation Security
  • 4. What is a data management plan?  A document which outlines how data will be managed over the course of a project  Details plans and expectations  Nature of data and its creation or acquisition  How it will be documented  Storage and security  Legal and ethical issues  Preservation and sharing
  • 5. Why make a data management plan?  Some funding bodies require them  Anticipate possible problems – and look for solutions  Save time and reduce stress later  Much data management is straightforward if planned from the beginning  But much harder to do retrospectively  Particularly preparing data for sharing
  • 6. ‘In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless but planning is indispensable.’ Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • 7. When should a DMP be created?  As early as possible – but it’s never too late  Often created when applying for funding or setting up a project  An initial outline plan may be expanded later  Planning is a process, not a one off task  Good practice to revisit and revise plans regularly  A schedule for doing this can be included in the initial version
  • 9. What goes into a data management plan? 1. Description of the project and the data 2. Plans for handling the data during the project 3. Plans for documentation and metadata 4. Long-term plans for the data 5. Consideration of requirements that need to be met (legal, ethical, institutional, funder) 6. Practical planning to ensure the plan can be implemented
  • 10. 1. Describing the project and data  What is the project setting out to do?  Who will be working on it?  What sort of data will the project work with?  Type (text, numerical, images, videos…)  Quantity (number and size of files)  File formats  Where will it come from?  Collected during the project? (If so, how?)  Third party data? (Where from?)
  • 11. 2. Handling the data during the project  Where will the data be stored?  What software will be used?  How will the data be backed up?  Does data need to be shared within the project team?  How will this be achieved?  How will data be kept secure?  How will versioning be handled?
  • 12. Oxford provision and services  You may be entitled to storage space on a departmental server  Ask your department’s IT officer  Nexus SharePoint can be used for sharing files  See http://help.it.ox.ac.uk/nexus/sharepoint/  IT Services’ NSMS can provide server space (chargeable service)  See http://www.it.ox.ac.uk/nsms/
  • 13. Oxford provision and services  ORDS (Online Research Database Service) allows creation of online relational databases  See http://ords.ox.ac.uk/  InfoSec can advise on security  See https://www.infosec.ox.ac.uk/  HFS back-up service is free to staff and postgraduate students  See http://help.it.ox.ac.uk/hfs/
  • 14. 3. Documentation and metadata  How will data be documented and described?  What contextual information needs to be recorded?  Can practice be standardized?  File naming  Recording methods  Are there disciplinary metadata standards you should be aware of?  See the DCC’s http://www.dcc.ac.uk /resources/metadata-standards
  • 15. 4. Long-term planning  What will happen to the data at the end of the project?  Can the data be preserved by depositing it in an archive?  Can the data be made available for use by other researchers?  How will it need to be prepared for sharing?  What needs to be done during the rest of the project to facilitate long-term plans?
  • 16. Repositories and archives  A secure long-term home for research data  Many national disciplinary archives exist  Re3Data.org offers a searchable catalogue of repositories  ORA-Data is Oxford’s institutional archive for data without an obvious home
  • 17. 5. Meeting requirements – legal and ethical  Who owns the data?  Are there restrictions on what can be done with it?  If so, how will you ensure these are met?  Is any of the data confidential or otherwise sensitive?  How will you keep data secure during the project?  Can data be shared? Do you need to ask for consent, and/or to anonymize it?  Will any data need to be destroyed? How?
  • 18. 5. Meeting requirements – funder and institutional  Does your funding body impose requirements?  Are you asked to publish your data?  What does the University of Oxford Policy on the Management of Research Data and Records require you to do?  Data should be accurate, retrievable, and secure  Data should be retained for at least three years, and shared if possible  View the policy at http://researchdata.ox.ac.uk/
  • 19. 6. Practical planning  Who has responsibility for implementing each element of the plan?  Will any additional resources be needed?  How will adherence to the plan be evaluated?  When will the plan be revisited and (if necessary) revised?
  • 21. Research Data Oxford website  Oxford’s central advisory website  Details of funder requirements  Questions? Email researchdata@ox.ac.uk http://researchdata.ox.ac.uk/
  • 22. Digital Curation Centre  A national service providing advice and resources  ‘How to develop a data management and sharing plan’ – online guide  Checklist for DMPs  Example plans  Summary of funders’ requirements  DMP Online tool http://www.dcc.ac.uk/
  • 23. UK Data Archive  UK's largest collection of digital social sciences and humanities research data  Website offers advice on:  Planning for sharing  Consent and ethics  Documentation  Storage  Etc. http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/
  • 24. University of Bristol resources  Online guides to writing a data management plan for each of the RCUK funding bodies, plus some others  Also more general advice about sharing, storage, anonymization, etc.  But remember it’s aimed at Bristol researchers http://data.bris.ac.uk/research/dmp/
  • 25.  Help with technical aspects of research projects – including data management  Can provide help writing a plan, or feedback on a draft http://research.it.ox.ac.uk researchsupport@it.ox.ac.uk Research Support team, IT Services
  • 27. DMP Online  A free online data management planning tool  Offers a variety of templates  Guidance from DCC, funders, and University of Oxford https://dmponline.dcc.ac.uk/
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  • 32. Twenty Questions for Research Data Management  A document created by David Shotton  Twenty questions with sample answers  Answering the questions creates a basic data management plan  Download this and another template for a basic DMP from http://researchdata.ox.ac.uk/ portfolio/dmp-templates/
  • 33. Over to you!  Have a go at drafting a data management plan for your own research  Use whichever template you find most useful  If there are questions you can’t answer at this stage, make a note of  What you need to find out  Decisions you need to make

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  1. Also mention what I won’t be covering – detailed information about particular ways of handling data. But the tools and resources section should point you in the right direction. Image credit: Microsoft clip art. Used with permission from Microsoft.
  2. Research data management is an umbrella term – it covers both dealing with data on a day-to-day basis during the lifetime of a research project (organizing it, structuring it, choosing appropriate software or other technologies to manage it with, storing it, backing it up, and so forth) and longer term issues (sharing and preservation, for example). Image credit: Microsoft clip art.
  3. A data management plan is, as the name suggests, a document which outlines how data will be managed over the course of a project. The plan gives details of what sort of data the project expects to be dealing with, and what will be done with it. This might include: A description of the type of data that will be used and where it will come from – how it will be created, or where it will be obtained from if pre-existing datasets are being used How the data will be documented or described to ensure it remains intelligible How the data will be stored and kept safe during the project Any legal or ethical issues that need to be considered What plans there are for preserving the data after the end of the project, and for sharing it with other researchers Image credit: Microsoft clip art.
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  5. A research project isn’t – or shouldn’t be – a battle, but President Eisenhower’s words nevertheless have some relevance in this context. It is almost inevitable that unexpected events will arise – it’s very rare that everything goes exactly as anticipated. But although this means you may often have to adapt your plan on the fly, this makes having created a plan in the first place more essential, not less. If you’ve thought through all the relevant issues, you’re less likely to be taken by surprise – and you’ll be better placed to respond when the unexpected does crop up. Public domain image, from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dwight_D._Eisenhower,_official_Presidential_portrait.jpg
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  13. The University of Oxford has a central Research Data Management website, which provides a central information source on this subject. A copy of the University Policy on the Management of Research Data and Records can be downloaded from here. The site was relaunched (with a new URL) in February 2014.
  14. The Digital Curation Centre is a national service providing advice and resources to researchers and their institutions. Although their primary focus is (as their name suggests) on longer-term curation and preservation of research data, they offer information relating to the whole data lifecycle. One particularly helpful resource is their online data management planning tool. When building a plan, you can select a template which reflects the requirements of your particular funding body.
  15. One particularly helpful resource is the DCC’s online data management planning tool, DMP Online. When building a plan, you can select a template which reflects the requirements of your particular funding body.
  16. When you first visit DMP Online, you’ll need to sign up. Click the plus sign in the ‘Sign up’ pane.
  17. Complete the form, and click ‘Sign up’. You’ll then need to visit your email account to confirm the registration, and then – rather annoyingly – log in again using the password you’ve just created.
  18. You’ll be given the option of linking your DMP Online account to your institutional credentials. If you do this, you can log in with your Oxford SSO username and password. For step-by-step instructions (and a one-minute video walkthrough) on how to register with DMP Online and link your account, see http://researchdata.ox.ac.uk/portfolio/dmp-online/ You can add your name and, if you have one, your ORCID number. (If you don’t have one, you can visit http://ox.libguides.com/orcid to get one.) You’re now ready to create your first plan.
  19. A webcast of a presentation including a demo of DMP Online can be accessed via https://oxforduniversity.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=ea5e688e-b472-48af-8a69-4e81583af76f Alternatively, see DMP Online’s own demonstration screencast, available from the DMP Online home page: https://dmponline.dcc.ac.uk/. (The screencast is only visible if you are not signed in to DMP Online.)
  20. Practical exercise which can last a flexible amount of time. Paper templates available will include David Shotton’s ‘Twenty Questions for Research Data Management’, and a very basic data management plan template based on one developed by DataTrain. Participants can make use of whichever tool or template they find most helpful. If it seems appropriate (and if time permits), this may be followed by a brief discussion session, in which participants are invited to give feedback on their experience of trying to draft a data management plan. Image credit: Microsoft clip art.