By Julien Colomb | July 3, 2018
We report here abstract form the text present on the origina blog
Jennifer Harris and Tim Fulton
(https://openadventures-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=90)
The task [asked by data manageers] is sometimes only a small one such as uploading a paper to an institutional repository post-publication. But these small tasks can sometimes be the final straw when it comes to managing your workload.
We have begun the process of preparing data for publication at the time of collection rather than as a subsequent publication step. The hope is that these small changes to daily working practice should make the general research community more efficient and fruitful going forwards which is good for researchers, funders and the general public.
example of what data management is, from Katie Hughes and Dr Danny Kingsley
https://unlockingresearch-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=2085
It is about Organising and storing the data, Assessing our data (increase interoperability), Cleaning up data for analysis.
Engaging Researchers in Good Data Management conference from Dr Laurent Gatto, Angela Talbot, Dr Stephen Eglen, Kirsten Elliott and Laura Jeffrey.
https://unlockingresearch-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=1833
There needs to be an enthusiastic researcher, or somebody that has some experience in research, to engage with the research community about open data, reproducibility, transparency, security; a blunt top-down approach lead to limited engagement.
Good data management can meet with resistance as while it’s viewed as an altruistic and noble thing to do many researchers worry that to make their research open and reproducible opens them to criticism and the theft of ideas and future plans. What I wanted to know are ways to overcome this.
Angela Talbot: I was involved in Laurent Gatto’s group discussing how to encourage more good data management by highlighting what was in to for researchers who participate but I really wish I could have been in them all as the feedback indicated they had given useful insights and tips.
This clarified for me the relationship between RDM and open data, and transparency in research.
Common ground across all of them included the necessity of utilising engaged researchers themselves to spread messages to other researchers, the importance of understanding discipline specific issues with data, and an expansive conception of what counts as “data”.
*Communication – * Significant evidence was presented by Nicole Janz, Stephen Eglen and others, that persuading researchers of the benefits of open data leads to higher levels of engagement than compulsion on the grounds of funder requirements. This will have a direct impact on the tone and content of our support. A complimentary approach was proposed: targeted campaigns to coincide with international events in conjunction with frequent, small-scale messages. We’ll be tapping into Love Data Week in 2018 with more regular exposure in email communication and @WolfsonLibrary.
Championing RDM training from Rosie Higman and Dr Marta Teperek
https://unlockingresearch-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=877
The feedback from our workshops was overwhelmingly positive. As a result, many departments identified research data management skills as core competencies needed by every PhD student and asked us to deliver our workshops as part of their compulsory training for PhD students. This is fantastic news for both our team and the awareness of RDM at Cambridge, and we have therefore accepted all these individual requests.
Open Research experiment has begun! from Dr Marta Teperek
https://openadventures-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=96 We did not offer any incentive other than encouraging researchers to contribute to the greater good. Thankfully, we received several fantastic applications from individual researchers and research groups who demonstrated great interest in and motivation for Open Research.