The Australian National Data Service (ANDS) has just released a Guide to Publishing and Sharing Sensitive Data which includes a decision tree to help researchers decide whether they can publish such data. The guide is written for the Australian context; however it provides generic information on the issues associated with handling sensitive data.
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PGR workshops – Research Data Management
Date Information
| Date | Time |
|---|---|
| Wed, 19th November 2014 | 9:30am – 12:30pm |
Who Should Attend?
This session is aimed at early career researchers, although mid-career researchers would also benefit from the principles discussed.
Course Overview
Whilst the management of research data has always been important to the individual researcher, effective research data management is increasingly important within the whole research lifecycle for all disciplines. This session based around the structure of a data management plan, explores what research data management is, why it is important and introduces participants to the key concepts involved to enable them to incorporate best practice within their projects.
Intended Learning Outcomes
Participants will have the opportunity to:
- Explore research data management (RDM) within the research lifecycle
- Recognise the key terms and concepts involved in RDM
- Identify the benefits and drivers for good data management
- Reflect on best practice for managing digital data effectively
- Discuss common elements of an effective data management plan
- Identify the support offered by IT Services and other Professional Services within the University
- Discuss the benefits and challenges of sharing data
- Meet and network with PGRs from across campus
This session maps to Research Development Framework – Domain C: Research governance and organisation. Sub-domain 1- Professional conduct; Sub-domain 2 – Research management
Booking
Click here to log into Learn to book on this workshop http://learn.lboro.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=9874
New release of Research Data MANTRA (Management Training) free online course
The Research Data MANTRA course is an open, online training course that provides instruction in good practice in research data management. There are eight interactive learning units on key topics such as data management planning, organising and formatting data, using shared data and licensing your own data, as well as four data handling tutorials with open datasets for use in R, SPSS, NVivo and ArcGIS.
This fourth release of MANTRA has been revised and systematically updated with new content, videos, reading lists, and interactive quizzes. Three of the data handling tutorials have been rewritten and tested for newer software versions too.
New content in the online learning modules with the September, 2014 release:
- New video footage from previous interviewees and introducing Richard Rodger, Professor of Economic and Social History and Stephen Lawrie, Professor of Psychiatry & Neuro-Imaging
- Big Data now in Research Data Explained
- Data citation and ‘reproducible research’ added to Documentation and Metadata
- Safe password practice and more on encryption in Storage and Security
- Refined information about the DPA and IPR in Data Protection, Rights and Access Linked Open Data and CC 4.0 and CC0 now covered in Sharing, Preservation & Licensing
MANTRA was originally created with funding from Jisc and is maintained by EDINA and Data Library, a division of Information Services, University of Edinburgh. It is an integral part of the University’s Research Data Management Programme and is designed to be modular and self-paced for maximum convenience; it is a non-assessed training course targeted at postgraduate research students and early career researchers. Data management skills enable researchers to better organise, document, store and share data, making research more reproducible and preserving it for future use. Researchers in 144 countries used MANTRA last year, which is available without registration from the website. Postgraduate training organisations in the UK, Canada, and Australia have used the Creative Commons licensed material in the Jorum repository to create their own training.
RDM leaflet
A colleague has produced a very helpful RDM leaflet which highlights some of the key activities involved in preparing, undertaking and sharing research data.
Data management plans – DMPonline
Many research funding bodies require submission of a data management plan (DMP) (or similar document) with a funding bid. They are also a valuable document for any project as they set the scent for the collection and management of research data throughout the full life cycle of the project.
The Digital Curation Centre’s DMPonline is an online tool researchers can use to create and maintain a DMP. The University has developed guidance embedded in DMPonline to aid researchers in drafting a DMP. You will also find the instruction offered by the Digital Curation Centre very useful when completing a DMP.
You can Sign up with your university email address and a password of your choice. IT Services have advice on creating a secure password (http://www.lboro.ac.uk/services/it/reg/guidance/). When your DMPonline accout has been created you can link this to your university credentials. DCC have produced a DMPonline screencast to show how the tool works, this is also featured on DMPonline’s homepage.
A previous post highlights some useful resources to assist in the creation of a data management plan (Research data management planning).
The University Library’s Research Support web pages provide advice on research data management.
Resource for projects creating survey data
The UK Data Service has produced a very useful guide to ‘Depositing shareable survey data’ (http://ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/newsitem/?id=3836). The guide covers all aspects of thinking and planning for data collection, consent, preparing data for deposit, and depositing with the UK Data Service. Although the latter section in the guide highlights the requirements when depositing with the UK Data Service, the concepts and some of the activities are transferable.
Research data management – Staff Workshop
The University Library is running a series of workshops for staff this July with the aim of helping you get the best results for your research. One of their sessions covers Research Data Management, details are provide below.
Tuesday 15th July, 2-4pm
Whilst efficient data management has always been part of good research practice, research data management is growing in importance in higher education. An increasing number of funding bodies require a data management plan to be submitted in a funding bid and the data produced to be shared, where possible. This session examines the importance of managing your data effectively and how to express this in a data management plan. It will also consider the issues of sharing and archiving data and how you can do this to meet funder requirements, as well as your own research needs.
Research Data Managament for academic and research staff
Explore Research Data Management in more depth at this workshop:
Research Data Managament for academic and research staff
Friday 4th April 10-12, Library Seminar Room 1:
Whilst efficient data management has always been part of good research practice, research data management is growing in importance in higher education. An increasing number of funding bodies require a data management plan to be submitted in a funding bid and the data produced to be shared, where possible. This session examines the importance of managing your data effectively and how to express this in a data management plan. It will also consider the issues of sharing and archiving data and how you can do this to meet funder requirements, as well as your own research needs.
Please book via Learn: http://learn.lboro.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=9758§ion=5 (You will need to accept an enrollment key when you first access this module). Please note that this session is designed for staff; workshops for PGRs will take place in May and can be booked via the Gradauate School’s booking page on Learn.
Research Committee approve draft Research Data Policy
Loughborough University’s Research Committee have approved a draft Research Data Management Policy. The policy is likely to be amended as services are developed and as it is considered at other committees. However, Research Committee approval is a good first step for this developing policy.
We would like to acknowledge the support we received from colleagues at the Digital Curation Centre, University of Edinburgh and University of Oxford in creating our draft policy.
IDCC14 poster
We had a poster summarising the results of our UK HEI RDM survey accepted for the 9th International Digital Curation Conference. Check out number 206: UK Higher Education Research Data Management Survey from the full list of posters.