MRD Programme Progress Workshop : JISC

MRD Programme Progress Workshop

Venue Manchester Conference Centre
Date 17-18 May 2010

Aims

The purpose of the workshop was to consider how best to meet the challenge of managing research data in UK Universities. Participants were informed of progress made under the JISCMRD Programme to examine researchers’ data management requirements and improve planning in a number of academic and institutional contexts. The objective was to discuss the detail of the projects’ discoveries and to consider the more general landscape and initiatives required.

Audience

The workshop was attended by nearly 70 participants, representing the funded projects and various stakeholders interested in improving the management of digital research data in UK Universities. This included researchers, libraries, research liaison officers, computing services, funders, managers of research data centres etc.

Programme

Monday 17 May 2010
12.00 – 13.15	Registration & Lunch
13.15 – 13.30	Introduction - Institutional Projects (Simon Hodson)
13.30 – 13.45	ADMIRAL - A Data Management Infrastructure for Research Activities in the Life Sciences, University of Oxford
13.45 – 14.00	FISHNet - Freshwater Information SHaring Network, Kings College London
14.00 – 14.15	I2S2 - Infrastructure for integration in structural sciences, University of Bath
14.15 – 14.30	IDMB - Institutional Data Management Blueprint, University of Southampton
14.30 – 14.45	MaDAM - A Pilot Data Management Infrastructure for Biomedical Researchers at University of Manchester
14.45 – 15.00	Incremental - a step by step approach to improving and increasing research data curation practice, University of Cambridge
15.00 – 15.15	PEG-BOARD - Palæoclimate & Environment data Generation - Building Open Access to Research Data, University of Bristol
15.15 – 15.30	Sudamih - Supporting Data Management Infrastructure for the Humanities, University of Oxford
15.30 – 16.00	Tea / Coffee
16.00 – 16.15	DCC / Costings Support (working with the Projects)
16.15 – 16.30	UKRDS Scoping Project (using the DCC lifecycle/ANDS actions; costing institutional support; need for national coordination.
16.30 – 17.30	Discussion – 4 Breakout Groups Supporting researchers' data management needs: What research data management support to researchers want from their institutions? How may institutions best respond to these needs? What are the training requirements for researchers and support staff? Structuring research data management in universities: How do we best structure institutional support for researchers and research data management? What is the role of the library, computing services, research liaison? Institutional responsibilities: What are institutional responsibilities towards research data? What do institutions need to meet their responsibilities? National coordination: How may we best coordinate the various stakeholders nationally? How may institutions, research data centres and other stakeholders best coordinate action to improve research data management?
17.30 – 18.00	Panel – Discussion: How may we best ‘ramp up’ research data management in Universities? What level of national coordination is required and how may we best get stakeholders and experts working together?
18.00 – 18.30	Keynote Kevin Ashley, DCC
18.30	Plenary Discussion
19.30	Dinner
Tuesday 18 May 2010
09.00 – 09.15	Introduction – Research Funder Projects Data Management Planning (Simon Hodson + IDMP Support Project)
09.15 – 09.30	DMP Online – a demo of the DCC’s data management planning tool
09.30 – 09.45	ERIM Engineering Research Information Management – EPSRC, Innovative design and Manufacturing Research Centre (IdMRC), University of Bath
09.45 – 10.00	Data Management Planning for ESRC Research Data-rich Investments – ESRC, UKDA, University of Essex
10.00 – 10.15	Data Management Planning for Gravitational Wave Astronomy – STFC, University of Glasgow
10.15 – 10.30	HALOGEN History Archaeology Linguistics Onomastics and Genetics: Pilot Project – Welcome, University of Leicester
10.30 – 10.45	Data Management in Bio-Imaging – BBSRC, John Innes Centre
10.45 – 11.00	Data Management Plans for MRC Projects – MRC, STFC.
11.00 – 11.30	Tea / Coffee
11.30 – 12.30	Discussion – 4 Breakout Groups Data management plans:Embedding data management plans in action? How may we best move from aspirational plans to executed plans? What training is required? Data management plans and researchers:Are they effective and useful? How may data management plans be better integrated into researchers' processes? Data management plans and funders:To what extent are funders ensuring that research data policies are acted upon? To what extent are data management plans considered in the quality of applications and followed through to execution? Support for management plans:How may various stakeholders (funders, data centres, institutions) work together to improve the practice of data management planning?
12.30 – 13.30	Lunch
14.00 – 14:30	Keynote – Kevin Schürer, Director, UKDA
13.30 – 14.00	Panel – Discussion: perspectives on data management planning.
14:45 – 15:15	Coffee / Departures

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