Research Data Management Infrastructure Projects
Higher education institutions are under increasing pressure to provide services and infrastructure for research data management. These pressures come from a variety of sources: the opportunities of more data intensive and more open, collaborative research; the requirements of research funders; the increasing concern for research transparency and integrity; institutions concern to avoid repetitional damage caused by poor responses to FoI requests or by data loss.
To help higher education institutions address these challenges, as part of their mission to provide high quality support for research, JISC's Managing Research Data Programme 2011-13 has funded seventeen large projects to develop research data management infrastructure and supporting services and policies.
Building on the work of the first Managing Research Data Programme, these projects will: - formulate appropriate research data management policies for the institutions involved, and involve high level leadership in designing a strategy to address the challenges;
- put in place pilot support services, engaging stakeholders and providing guidance materials;
- develop and pilot technical systems to support research data management early in the lifecycle;
- develop and pilot an infrastructure for preserving and making available research data where this is required.
- formulate business cases to sustain the support service and infrastructure;
- provide evidence of the benefits to various stakeholders of supporting research data management in this way.
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Nine of these projects are developing pilots systems and support services in institutions which are relatively new to these issues. Four others are building on previous pilots to extend and embed services more widely in the institution. Another three are looking at disciplinary issues across a consortium of HEIs. A further project, also working across a consortium, is focussing on metadata issues.
These projects will complete between March and July 2013.