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  • 5 - The range and components of RDM infrastructure and services

    • By Sarah Jones, Senior Information Support Officer with the Digital Curation Centre (DCC)
  • Edited by Graham Pryor, Sarah Jones, Angus Whyte
  • Book:
    Delivering Research Data Management Services
    Published by:
    Facet
    Published online:
    08 June 2018
    Print publication:
    31 December 2013, pp 89-114

  • Summary

    Introduction

    This chapter describes the range of infrastructure and services that institutions may wish to develop to support research data management (RDM). It draws primarily on work from the Jisc Managing Research Data programmes and the Digital Curation Centre's institutional engagements with UK universities. Some examples from Australia, Europe and the USA are also included. As a series of practical steps, this chapter amplifies the introduction to roles and responsibilities given in Chapter 3 and the process of developing services covered by Chapter 4, while at the same time setting the context for the case studies to follow.

    An outline of potential infrastructure and support

    A range of services are needed to support the creation, management and sharing of research data. Figure 5.1 visualizes the different aspects to be addressed. These fall broadly into three categories:

  • An overarching governance framework to shape the delivery of services.

  • Specific infrastructure and services provided at key points in the data lifecycle.

  • Assistance from support staff to aid the uptake and use of services.

    • Overarching elements of policy, strategy and business case are needed to set the framework in which RDM services will be delivered. These elements will help in defining an institution's approach, in planning the programme of work and ensuring that the proposed infrastructure and support services will be sustainable.

    A range of infrastructure and support services is needed at key points in the data lifecycle. Many institutions and research funders require data management plans (DMPs), so guidance, templates, tools and consultancy services may be offered to support this initial activity in the lifecycle. Infrastructure and services are also needed to manage data during the active phase of research, namely data storage and the appropriate tools to facilitate access and collaboration. Not all data will need to be preserved and shared. Processes for data selection and handover will help to identify which data has longterm value and pass this on to appropriate services for longterm curation. Data catalogues and repository services are also needed to preserve data and promote reuse. It is unlikely that an institution will provide all of these components by itself, as there is a wealth of existing infrastructure and services at disciplinary, national and international level.

  • 10 - Case study 5: development of institutional RDM services by projects in the Jisc Managing Research Data programmes

    • By Simon Hodson, Executive Director of CODATA, an organization whose mission is to strengthen international science for the benefit of society by promoting improved scientific and technical data management and use, Laura Molloy, researcher at the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII) at the University of Glasgow
  • Edited by Graham Pryor, Sarah Jones, Angus Whyte
  • Book:
    Delivering Research Data Management Services
    Published by:
    Facet
    Published online:
    08 June 2018
    Print publication:
    31 December 2013, pp 205-238

  • Summary

    Introduction

    This chapter offers a preliminary overview of the development of research data management (RDM) services by projects in the second Jisc Managing Research Data (MRD) programme, which ran between 2011 and 2013. Reference is also made to the first MRD programme and projects within this, where appropriate. The second MRD programme encouraged projects to adopt a coherent approach, to share ideas and resources at an early stage and to look to the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) for guidance. Therefore, it is hoped that details of how the programme was designed and managed, and the approaches emerging from the projects, will be of interest. It should be stressed, however, that only a few of the projects have been completed at the time of writing, and so the detail of RDM services developed and conclusions about effective approaches can only be partial.

    The data management impetus

    The good management of research data is not, of course, an end in itself but is commonly perceived as an essential component of good research practice. An increasingly vocal community of researchers considers making research data easily available for verification and reuse to be an essential component of good scientific practice. Indeed, Geoffrey Boulton argued in his keynote at the MRD workshop in March 2013 that publishing research findings without simultaneously making the underlying data (in other words, evidence) available amounts to malpractice. Where data are the product or record of unrepeatable observations, sound data management, curation and longterm preservation strategies become imperative.

    Meanwhile, certain research disciplines are becoming increasingly ‘datacentric’ and the creation, sharing and reuse of data are a core focus of activity. Some disciplines have been revolutionized by the community adoption of open data principles. The innovative and transforming potential of data reuse, recombinations or ‘mashups’ – for example those combining data with geospatial location components – is a growing source of interest and is generating palpable excitement both within and beyond the academy.

  • 6 - Services to facilitate research

  • Jo Webb, Pat Gannon-Leary, Bent Moira
  • Book:
    Providing Effective Library Services for Research
    Published by:
    Facet
    Published online:
    10 September 2022
    Print publication:
    31 December 2013, pp 123-152

  • Summary

    Introduction

    In this further practical chapter our attention shifts away from providing appropriate resources to ways of creating distinctive, targeted services.

    The chapter aims to:

    • ■ identify ways that librarians can act as facilitators rather than supporters of research

    • ■ discuss a range of services which the library could offer to researchers.

    Researchers will always need information, but will they always need libraries? Traditionally, research libraries have been sure of their position within the research environment but in the digital age such complacency is dangerous. We face challenges to the ways that we develop and deliver our services, as researchers are much less dependent on their own organization's library and information service than in the past. We must evolve and enhance our work to continue to provide vital, essential services.

    In Chapter 4 we discussed the challenges of managing and developing collections across media in complex organizations during times of financial constraints. We now turn our attention away from resources to the ways that libraries should develop their role and relationship with the research community. In Chapter 3 we discussed the diversity of the modern research community, a diversity that brings with it a much more complex pattern of library and information use. Many researchers use a wide range of different libraries and other sources to gather information. Access to catalogues, databases and physical spaces is much easier. Some researchers claim never to use libraries at all: ‘The importance of physical libraries is minimal: books are less important due to the fast moving pace of my subject’ (Professor of Housing, UK).

    In our interviews we discovered how many libraries our researchers used: ‘I use [my university] library, and New York Public Library Dance Collection (virtual use almost daily, regular visits) … the Dansmuseet in Stockholm … the Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal.’

    Do these changing patterns of use mean that research libraries are now in competition (or collaboration) with each other? What is it about your library which will make researchers choose it over another? Do you have specialist resources, is it the most convenient or cheapest option, do you offer a well known specialist service, or does it simply provide a supportive and pleasant environment?

  • 2 - Options and approaches to RDM service provision

    • By Graham Pryor, Information Management Consultant with the Amor Group, following six years as Associate Director with the Digital Curation Centre (DCC)
  • Edited by Graham Pryor, Sarah Jones, Angus Whyte
  • Book:
    Delivering Research Data Management Services
    Published by:
    Facet
    Published online:
    08 June 2018
    Print publication:
    31 December 2013, pp 21-40

  • Summary

    Carrots, sticks and the prospect of marginalization

    Chapter 1 concluded with the assertion that, as a consequence of pressure from government and the major funders, institutions need quickly to identify measures that will deliver a sustainable approach to research data management (RDM) service provision. That said, it would be wrong for the selection of any such measures to proceed simply on the basis of an arbitrary tickbox response to the various carrots and sticks being proffered or waved by the agents of authority. There are other sound and persuasive reasons why researchintensive universities need to give serious thought to the development of RDM support, not least the benefits we shall outline in this chapter, during which process precedence over all other considerations must be given to the understanding that any measures adopted will be deemed fit for the specific needs and purposes of the individual institution. To ignore that caveat would be to guarantee wasted resource and an unpopular service.

    Yet, faced with the potential loss of funding that is implicit in the EPSRC gambit, many institutions have felt compelled to develop roadmaps that will secure their compliance with this particular funder's expectations for data management. In some quarters of the sector this action has been taken in spite of an evident reluctance to accept that traditionally selfregulating organizations are being obligated in such an abnormally direct manner. Attitudes towards this obligation, and by association towards the perceived merits of research data management, were revealed in a survey of EPSRC grant holders conducted by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) during August and September 2012. Whilst all responding institutions claimed either to have completed or to be in the throes of developing a roadmap, only 34% indicated that their roadmap would feature as a core component of a broader research data management strategy. Whilst a number of individual and generally positive comments suggested that the EPSRC's action had galvanized institutions into addressing a topic that until now had been widely neglected – even, it was said, offering a firm foundation for the development of good practice – there was also considerable resentment towards the imposition of yet another apparent administrative hurdle that research institutions would have to negotiate.

  • 8 - Facing the future: key challenges

  • Jo Webb, Pat Gannon-Leary, Bent Moira
  • Book:
    Providing Effective Library Services for Research
    Published by:
    Facet
    Published online:
    10 September 2022
    Print publication:
    31 December 2013, pp 185-206

  • Summary

    Introduction

    This more speculative and reflective chapter explores issues and key challenges for the future. We should not fix our gaze only on what is to come, but nor should we exist only in the present nor again nostalgically yearn for the past. By developing some sense of what may happen in the future, and what we would like that future to be, we can shape both the present and our direction in the years to come.

    At the time of writing this chapter, the Research Information Network and the Consortium of Research Libraries (CURL) were conducting a survey designed to provide a clearer understanding of UK researchers’ current use of library services and their thoughts on the future of research libraries. In parallel, they developed a similar survey to ascertain the views of library and information professionals and the differences between those two groups. Unfortunately, we do not have the benefits of these research findings for our discussion of key issues for the future, so the contents of this chapter are based principally on themes already discussed within the literature, interviews with researchers and our own opinions.

    Some theories of strategic management suggest that the key to effective planning is for organizations to draw together their internal resources to meet the challenges of the external environment. Through maximizing internal capabilities to meet the challenges of the external environment, such organizations thrive. This is the rationale behind the structuring of this chapter. We will consider three key areas where the research environment is changing:

    • ■ the research information environment (from e-science to physical spaces)

    • ■ competition and collaboration in universities

    • ■ future trends in scholarly communication.

    This discussion will then move on to our analysis of what the research library of the near future should comprise, and therefore what the key capabilities should be. This will include the need to develop a distinctive identity within our institutions, what skills we need, who among our staff should work with the researchers and some key issues ranging from Library 2.0 to research spaces.

    We need always to be conscious of our past when thinking about the present and the future.

  • Introduction

  • Carolynn Rankin, Avril Brock
  • Book:
    Delivering the Best Start
    Published by:
    Facet
    Published online:
    08 June 2018
    Print publication:
    31 December 2013, pp xi-xiv

  • Summary

    This is a user-friendly professional book with a structure and format intended to make its content accessible to the reader. It is aimed at a professional market of practitioners working in early years librarianship. According to the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA), ‘Museums, libraries and archives are uniquely placed to support families and early years children. They are based in the community and offer accessible learning opportunities that particularly support inter-generational groups’ (MLA website). The generic message is that reading with young children is important and this book introduces the context in which early years language and literacy development occurs, looking at various UK government initiatives that underpin literacy. The book includes practical guidance on setting up library services for pre-school children and their parents and carers. The key role of the early years professional and the importance of effective interdisciplinary teamwork are examined, with a focus on involving parents and carers and valuing their culture, language, heritage and community. Library planning and design for pre-school children is covered, and practical advice to the librarian on how to negotiate with architects is provided. Collection development for both children and their parents and carers is considered, with practical guidance on selecting and using resources.

    Case studies and scenarios are included throughout to tell the stories of a number of pre-school library initiatives, drawn from UK and international sources. They provide examples of good practice and show that the key issues have an international dimension. Examples are provided from Wakefield Local Authority in West Yorkshire and Blackburn with Darwen Borough, where embedding libraries for young children and their families in Sure Start children's centres has been pioneered. These have proved to be extremely successful in promoting family involvement in early reading. We are aware of many other successful ventures, and although some early years librarians do publish details of their programmes and activities the information is not always easy to find. Other local authority programmes are presented, as are a range of national and international initiatives.

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