Is your institution ready for managing research data? | LEARN Project

abernard102@gmail.com 2016-04-05

Summary:

"Managing research data has become one the contemporary challenges for research institutions. More and more funders and publishers are asking researchers to share the data they gather, compile or create during the course of their research. However it is not simply an issue of sharing or publishing as the matter goes further than that. Research institutions need to provide support for the complete research cycle, and therefore they also need to analyse what researchers require to manage their data from creation or compilation to archive and preservation. One of the aims of the LEARN Project  is to create a toolkit to help research institutions to develop their strategy on managing research data. However before making a start on the toolkit, it is worth taking a look at the current situation. To perform this initial analysis, the LEARN Project has compiled a survey as a self-assessment tool based on the issues posed to institutions by the LERU Roadmap for Research Data (published at the end of 2013). The survey has thirteen questions addressing the main elements to be taken into account when developing an institutional strategy for research data management. Each of those thirteen questions has three possible answers in accordance with three possible situations ..."

Link:

http://learn-rdm.eu/survey-rdm-readiness/

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oa.new oa.comment oa.studies oa.surveys oa.data oa.toolkits oa.surveys oa.studies oa.rdm oa.new oa.leru oa.guides oa.europe oa.data oa.comment oa.europe

Date tagged:

04/05/2016, 09:25

Date published:

04/05/2016, 05:25