Collaborating to develop research data management services and collections

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Collaborating to develop research data management
services and collections

• Martin Borchert
• Associate Director, Library Services (Information
  Resources and Research Support)
• Queensland University of Technology Library
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• Stephanie Bradbury
• eResearch Access Coordinator
• Philippa Broadley Thanks also to the Australian
• Research Data Librarian National Data Service
  (ANDS)
• for project funding and support

CRICOS No. 00213J
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Agenda

• Facilitating open access to institutional
  research data data out
• Policy, skills, infrastructure, identification,
  description and discovery, storage, services

• Facilitating institutional access to external
  research data data in
• Collections
• Library as data broker

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Researcher Support Strategy

• Welcome
• Research skills
• Consultations
• Scholarly publishing
• ePrints
• Data management
• Collaboration
• Research impact
• Computation
• Data processing
• Analysis
• Visualisation

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Broader policy and funding environment

• Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of
  Research
• National Collaborative Research Infrastructure
  Strategy (NCRIS)
• Australian National Data Services (ANDS)
• National Health and Medical Research Council
  (NHMRC) OA policy
• Australian Research Council (ARC) OA policy

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Managing dataand Data out
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Advocacy

• Executives
• University Research and Innovation Committee
• Research Support Committee

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QUT policy

• D/2.8 Management of Research Data
• Compliance to The Australian code for the
  responsible conduct of research or The Code
• Good practice
• Centralised data registry
• Decentralised data storage

http//www.mopp.qut.edu.au/D/D_02_08.jsp
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Library roles

• Research Support Coordinator
• Scholarly Communications Librarian
• Repository Resource Librarian
• Data Librarian
• Applications and Development Team Leader
• Programmer
• Liaison Librarians with a lead role in research
  support x 8
• Research Data Team
• Associate Director

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Staff development

• Research support seminars
• Data Team community of practice
• Train the trainer
• Repository training
• RIF-CS metadata training
• Co-trainer
• Peer assessment
• Resources wiki

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Promotion, training, information and support

• Supporting web sites
• Good practice guidelines
• Data management plan checklist
• Data management workshops (monthly)
• Managing your research data seminars

http//www.tils.qut.edu.au/initiatives/researchsup
port/datamanage/planning.jsp
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Leveraging QUT ePrints

• Open access institutional repository
• Self-deposit
• OA policy
• Mature culture

http//eprints.qut.edu.au/
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Infrastructure
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Data storage

• E-Store
• R-Store
• Portable drives
• Sharepoint
• Wikis
• Dropbox
• Research Data Storage Infrastructure (RDSI)
• National eResearch Collaboration Tools and
  Resources (NeCTAR)
• Australian Research Collaboration Services (ARCS)
  Data Fabric

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Identification, description and discovery
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QUT Research Data Finder

http//researchdatafinder.qut.edu.au/vivo/
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ANDS Research Data Australia

• Australian National Data Service (ANDS)
• National data registry service.

http//researchdata.ands.org.au/
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High Performance Computing and Research (ITS)
Services

• Compute facilities
• Optimisation
• Data management
• Data storage
• Software code optimisation
• Data visualisation
• Quantitative and qualitative analysis
• http//www.itservices.qut.edu.au/researchteaching/
  hpc/

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Data in
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Incorporating open data into the online
collections
Support for data intensive Research http//libgui
des.library.qut.edu.au/subjectguides
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Incorporating commercially available data into
the online collections

• Integrate with other resources
• Use library resources budget
• Often subscriptions
• May host locally
• Require intensive liaison with academics
• Attract research students

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Library as research data broker

• Library as data broker
• Licensing
• Purchasing
• Record keeping
• Efficient

http//www.library.qut.edu.au/services/datasets/
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