JISC

REWARD is a six-month collaboration between the UCL Institute of Archaeology, UCL Library Services and Ubiquity Press, funded by the JISC. The project is examining ways to use familiar workflows to encourage the archiving of research data using the UCL Discovery institutional repository. Researchers are being asked to manage their data using the Digital Curation Centre’s DMP Online tool, and then to make the data openly available in the institutional repository via publishing a data paper in the Journal of Open Archaeological Data (JOAD). This will make the data citable and reuse trackable, important factors for the 2014 REF. Case studies will be followed during the course of the project in order to assess the effectiveness of the systems involved.  

Objectives

• Modification of the UCL Discovery repository to enable data deposition by 15/11/11.
• Integration of the Journal of Open Archaeological Data with UCL Discovery by 15/12/11.
• Internal data management workshops including DMP Online training to be held at the Institute of Archaeology in November 2011, January 2012, and March 2012 (if sufficient demand).
• Tracking of 5 case studies at the Institute of Archaeology involving data management and the use of DMP Online, data publication with JOAD, and data deposition in UCL Discovery, from November 2011 to March 2012.
• Running an open workshop and possible hackathon looking at ways of using data in UCL Discovery, in March 2012. 

Anticipated Outputs and Outcomes

• Modification of the UCL Discovery repository to enable data deposition
• A series of 2-3 internal workshops on data management planning for researchers
• Production of data management plans at the Institute of Archaeology, using the DCC DMP Online tool
• Modification of the Journal of Open Archaeological Data to direct users to UCL Discovery
• Five case studies tracking data from creation to deposit
• Recommendations for the UCL Data Management, Preservation and Sharing Policy
• Recommendations for the Institute of Archaeology on Research Data Management
• One open workshop at the end of the project, with possible hackathon.
• One report on the final, open workshop
• One final project report
• One research paper
• Two conference presentations