Exploring Research Data Management

Andrew Cox, Eddy Verbaan

• Editorial: Facet Publishing
• Año: 2018
• ISBN:
  9781783302802
• Categoría: Languages & Linguistics
• Categoría: Library & Information Science

Research Data Management (RDM) has become a professional topic of great importance internationally following changes in scholarship and government policies about the sharing of research data. Exploring Research Data Management provides an accessible introduction and guide to RDM with engaging tasks for the reader to follow and develop their knowledge. Starting by exploring the world of research and the importance and complexity of data in the research process, the book considers how a multi-professional support service can be created then examines the decisions that need to be made in designing different types of research data service from local policy creation, training, through to creating a data repository. Coverage includes:

• A discussion of the drivers and barriers to RDM
• Institutional policy and making the case for Research Data Services
• Practical data management
• Data literacy and training researchers
• Ethics and research data services
• Case studies and practical advice from working in a Research Data Service.

This book will be useful reading for librarians and other support professionals who are interested in learning more about RDM and developing Research Data Services in their own institution. It will also be of value to students on librarianship, archives, and information management courses studying topics such as RDM, digital curation, data literacies and open science.

Índice

• Title page
• Contents
• List of tables and figures
• Chapter 1: Introducing research data management
• Chapter 2: The social worlds of research
• Chapter 3: What are research data?
• Chapter 4: Case study of RDM in an environmental engineering science project
• Chapter 5: RDM drivers and barriers
• Chapter 6: RDM as a wicked challenge
• Chapter 7: Research data services
• Chapter 8: Staffing a research data service
• Chapter 9: Requirements gathering for a research data service
• Chapter 10: Institutional policy and the business case for research data services
• Chapter 11: Support and advice for RDM
• Chapter 12: Practical data management
• Chapter 13: Data management planning
• Chapter 14: Advocacy for data management and sharing
• Chapter 15: Training researchers and data literacy
• Chapter 16: Infrastructure for research data storage and preservation
• Chapter 17: Evaluation of RDS
• Chapter 18: Ethics and research data services
• Chapter 19: A day in the life working in an RDS
• Chapter 20: Conclusion: the skills and mindset to succeed in RDM
• Index