Admittedly this is more at the REF level, but staff should be credited with creating and publishing good data, if they support others writing ...more »
Admittedly this is more at the REF level, but staff should be credited with creating and publishing good data, if they support others writing good papers.
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I would like more file quota on my iSolutions central data store. This includes My Documents, and/or separate filestore for research data. ...more »
I would like more file quota on my iSolutions central data store. This includes My Documents, and/or separate filestore for research data.
We will be investigating more detailed requirements in questionnaires, interviews and workshops.
Dr Kenji Takeda
School of Engineering Sciences
Data Management Project Leader
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It would be very helpful to those in the Health area and probably elsewhere if we had some comprehensive instutitional policies to support Data ...more »
It would be very helpful to those in the Health area and probably elsewhere if we had some comprehensive instutitional policies to support Data Management infrastructure.
As part of Research Governance, all applications to the (health) Integrated Research Application System (IRAS) must provide details and copies of policies in the National Information Governance Board (NIGB) section of the application. These include:
• Compliance with information security standards
• Details of Data Protection Registration
• A copy of the Information Security Policy
• A copy of the Network Security Policy
• A reference copy of any System Level Security Policies
Try finding these within our Institution and then look at: http://www.reading.ac.uk/internal/its/help/its-help-pcsecurity/its-Information-Security.aspx
Trevor Bryant
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Rather than have lots of little sites, keep all the research data in one big tool. Make it easy to get the data out so we can build subject specific ...more »
Rather than have lots of little sites, keep all the research data in one big tool. Make it easy to get the data out so we can build subject specific overlays and tools, but manage curation centrally.
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I would like to be able to right click on a file in windows explorer and have a standard mechanism for entry of file-type specific metadata that ...more »
I would like to be able to right click on a file in windows explorer and have a standard mechanism for entry of file-type specific metadata that is stored in the file if possible but also in an external network metadata store.
Graeme
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I would like a stable target location for my unix backup, to be accessible via ssh, scp, sftp, sshfs. Stability in this case means multiple ...more »
I would like a stable target location for my unix backup, to be accessible via ssh, scp, sftp, sshfs. Stability in this case means multiple years/decades long term. I would like to point to the backup target once when I arrive and then forget about the backup.
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The university should recommend best practice for collecting publishing data. Ideally it should be published with an open license and at stable ...more »
The university should recommend best practice for collecting publishing data. Ideally it should be published with an open license and at stable URLs. Staff should be told it's OK to use these licenses.
Incremental data may be handled differently from complete datasets.
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When a standard format dataset is produced, it should be as painless as possible to store and publish it.
PDF and other "rendered" formats are not very useful for reuse.
Excel, CSV & RDF are much more useful for the long term.
If bespoke software was used to produce data or results (graphs etc) then the software should be archived to allow the work to be repeated. If ...more »
If bespoke software was used to produce data or results (graphs etc) then the software should be archived to allow the work to be repeated. If it requires anything beyond a known baseline linux/windows then perhaps the entire stack (OS/libs/app) should be stored. If the software is compiled, then the method of compilation should be preserved.
The same also goes for software required to interpret or view some data then that should be preserved too. There's the oft told story of the NASA data carefully preserved, but nobody thought to keep a copy of the data structure or software used to view it!
JISC have an interest in this area; http://www.software.ac.uk/
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