This document summarizes a presentation about data management and curation. It discusses different types of data repositories like data libraries, data warehouses, and data archives. It also discusses open data practices and tools to help with data management planning. The presentation outlines the UK Research Data Service plan to provide cloud infrastructure and services to support research data curation and sharing. The overall messages are around institutions knowing what data they have, where it is located, who can access it, and having plans for long-term data management and curation.

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Dataplaces: what and where?
Martin Donnelly (in for Kevin Ashley)
Curation Research Officer, DCC

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DATA LIBRARY
DATA
WAREHOUSE
DATA ARCHIVE
DATA
REPOSITORY
DATABANK
DATA LiDL?
Dataplaces

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Manage
Store
Curate
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Open data = open GOVERNMENT data

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OPEN (linked) data at the OPEN university
Publications; podcasts; course information; library catalogue
Open Educational Content; location info; people

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Tools to aid planning
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/dmponline

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“In preparing for
battle I have
always found that
plans are useless,
but planning is
indispensable.”

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UK Research Data Service – final report June 2010

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UKRDS plan
• Collaborative strategy – data centres, libraries,
archives, shared services
• National coordination
• Dataset registries – supporting discovery
• Growing skills
• Focus of expertise
• Working with funders on costing

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IF VOTING CHANGED
ANYTHING THEY’D
MAKE IT ILLEGAL

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New government – new plan
• Cloud infrastructure for research
• Services & data in cloud:
• Database as a service
• Dataset archiving
• Data transfer & collaboration
• Demand management
• Resource sharing
• Many aspects of UKRDS to continue

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• Know what’s yours
• Know where it is
• Know what the rules are
• Who gets to see it?
• Who decides to discard it?
• When do any of these things change?
• Consider it as part of your institution’s public
image
• Shout about it – even (especially!) when it lives
somewhere else
General messages?

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Let your data grow up
• Some data wants to grow up and leave home
• Some will stay with you
and
• Some should never be allowed in your house

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Take home message?
• Be prepared to support your researchers in their
planning
• We want to help you to help them
• In doing so you’ll help your institution
THANKS