Much of the burden of Research data Management is laid upon the individual researcher.\u00a0 They are the people who know and understand their data better than anyone and they know best what and how it can be shared.\u00a0 However, there are many sources of support and guidance for researchers who want to meet this responsibility.\u00a0 Much of this comes from the same bodies who are seeking to promote a culture of research data Mangement and sharing.<\/p>\n
The need for Research Data Management (RDM) and accessible data is recognised by scholars across the world.\u00a0 Alongside the development of the internet itself, the enterprises supporting the free and safe sharing of knowledge (from the Creative Commons<\/a> initiative to FAIRsharing.org <\/a>) have their origins in scholars collaborating seeking to ensure best practice in the preservation and management of information on the internet.\u00a0 This means that the Open Data movement’s ideals are compatible with the needs of scholars.\u00a0 \u00a0Research Data Management and sharing sits\u00a0within a mature context of Open Data across the internet.\u00a0 For more information about Open Data in general, see The Open Data Initiative<\/a> and\u00a0Open Knowledge International’s\u00a0Open Data Handbook<\/a><\/p>\n Adam Tickell’s independent\u00a0Report to the UK government<\/a> in 2016 recommended that the shift toward a culture of Open Research Data should continue to be supported.\u00a0 Tickell cited the G8 “principles that open data\u00a0should be discoverable, accessible, assessable, intelligible, useable and, where possible, interoperable.”\u00a0 as an important precedent. This positive approach to RDM and open data has been carried over to policies adopted by RCUK funders and HEFCE.\u00a0 Both of these bodies have adopted the\u00a0 Open Data Concordat<\/a>\u00a0and have built their policies around the concordat’s key principles:<\/p>\n These principles in themselves support a balanced approach to openness – ensuring research data are ‘as open as possible and as restricted as necessary’.<\/p>\n Alongside the adoption of the Open Data\u00a0Concordat into their policy<\/a>, the RCUK has also allowed that the expense involved in preparing data for access and preservation can be included in any grants applications.\u00a0 The RCUK also provides extensive guidance documentation<\/a>, which is supplemented by policy and information from each of the funders.\u00a0 Each RCUK funding body presents these principles in a way most suitable to the research discipline it supports.\u00a0 The DCC provides an overview of funder policies<\/a> covering RCUK and major charitable funding bodies.<\/p>\n The ESRC funds the UK Data Service<\/a>.\u00a0 This service provides a secure archive available to any researcher – not just those supported by ESRC. It also has pages of guidance, case studies and practical support.<\/p>\n The main publishers offer support for their research data policies:<\/p>\n Higher Education Institutions in the UK contribute to a community of\u00a0support through JISC. JISC’s role is to provide policy direction, economies of scale in developing systems and services and coordinating standards.\u00a0 Through JiSC the UK institutions support services like SHERPA<\/a> enabling consistent practice and policy across the sector.<\/p>\n DataCite<\/a>, was established by a group of European research libraries and institutions, including The British Library.\u00a0 It was set up to provide accurate, consistent and standardised referencing for data, leading to:<\/p>\n DataCite manages the allocation of DOIs for datasets and other research outputs created by member institutions, like the University of Kent.\u00a0 Re3data.org<\/a> – a register of research archives and repositories, is another of the services established by DataCite to help researchers manage and disseminate their data.<\/p>\n Kent Data Repository (KDR)<\/a> is the centrepiece of the University of Kent’s support for Research Data management.\u00a0 It is an archive for researchers for whom there is no suitable subject or general archive. It is also a registry for all the data created at Kent even where that is archived elsewhere.\u00a0 Links can be made between data on KDR and publication records on KAR.\u00a0 We can also coin DOIs for datasets and provide permanent URLs for your work, validated by DataCite. Research Support, a part of the Academic Liason Service in the Library, provides a suite of support for Research Data Management<\/a>\u00a0for University of Kent researchers.\u00a0 if you need guidance, archive services or just help finding the right resource for you get in touch…<\/p>\n See\u00a0https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/library\/research\/data-management\/index.html\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nYour government<\/h2>\n
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