In November 2017, the Office of Scholarly Communication along with SPARC Europe and Jisc hosted the Engaging Researchers in Good Data Management conference at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. The conference brought together those working in scholarly communications, librarians and researchers to share fresh ideas and good practices for creating and promoting effective research data practices.
The conference was attended by around 100 delegates and watched live online by over 50 individuals. Full recordings of all the talks are available via the Cambridge University Library YouTube channel (see links below) and the slides are available on Apollo, the University of Cambridge repository. The conference was kindly supported by the Wellcome Trust, Datacite, Copernicus and Arcadia. As a result of this conference the first RDM Engagment Award was created.
As well as watching the recordings of the event you can find out more on Twitter via #EngageRDM, the Storify composed by @Kiminthelibrary or by reading blogs about the event:
- Engaging Researchers with Good Data Management: Perspectives from Engaged Individuals, Unlocking Research blog, written by Dr Laurent Gatto, Angela Talbot, Dr Stephen Eglen, Kirsten Elliott and Laura Jeffrey
- How do you know if you’re achieving cultural change?, Unlocking Research blog, written by Katie Hughes and Lucy Welch
- Engaging Researchers in Good Data Management, Laurent Gatto's blog
Conference programme
Part I: Case studies from academic institutions
- Data Conversations: Why Talk?, Hardy Schwamm & Jude Towers - Lancaster University
- A World of Activities by Cambridge Data Champions, Marta Busse-Wicher & Sergio Marinez Cuesta - University of Cambridge
- Data Stewardship: Addressing disciplinary data management needs, Marta teperek, Jasper van Dijk & Kees den Heijer - TU Delft
Lightning talks session 1
Tools for better data
- Encouraging code and data sharing in neuroscience, Stephen Eglen - University of Cambridge (unfortunately there is no recording of this talk)
- Engaging researchers with RDM through active data management plans, Tomasz Miksa - Vienna University of Technology
Data Management in life sciences (and beyond)
- Data Management in Digital Life Norway, Fatemeh Zamanzad - University of Bergen
- cBiT: The Compendium for Biomaterial Transcriptomics, Dennie Hebels - Maastricht University
Part II: Researchers' perspectives
Focus group sessions (no recordings made)
Lightning talks session 2
Incentivising good data management
- Incentivising open science practices with badges, Gustav Nilsonne - Karolinska Institutet
- Encouraging Research Data Management in institutions where research isn't the priority, Beth Montague-Hellen - University of Sheffield
- Towards Research Data Management Training at Kaunas University of Technology, Gintare Tautkeviciene & Ieva Ceseviciute - Kaunas University of Technology
- Dissent Allowed: Widening discussions about Open Research, Rosie Higman - University of Manchester
Disciplinary approaches to data management
- Where did I put my trowel? In this lightning talk, Claire Tsang, Historic England, discusses data management and efficiency in the Historic England Excavation and Analysis team.
- Empowering Target Identification at Glaxo Smith Kline In this lightning talk, Giovanni M Dall'Olio, Glaxo Smith Kline, discusses employing a data strategy to empower target identification at GSK)
- Online Expert Tour Guide on Data Management: How CESSDA engages with Researchers Lightning talk from Ellen Leenarts, Data Archiving and Network Services (DANS), reflecting on using online expert tour guides to engage with researchers.
- Collaborating to engage chemists in good data management In this lightning talk, Claire Castle, Chemistry Library, University of Cambridge, discusses collaboration when engaging chemists in good data management.
Part III: Working together to increase engagement
- Investing in the open leaders of tomorrow: How Mozilla is bringing an open source philosophy to academic research. (Kirstie Witaker - Alan Turing Institute)
- Showcasing Europe's Open Data Champions (Vanessa Proudman, Director of SPARC Europe)
- Engagement tools as part of an RDM toolkit (Paul Stokes - Jisc)
- Panel Discussion moderated by Dr Danny Kingsley and a panel of experts: Claire Tsang, Al Downie, Bev Jones, Jasper van Dijk, Laurent Gatto and Luc Henry, goes through questions on engaging researchers in good data management
RDM Engagement Award
Cambridge University together with SPARC Europe and Jisc are pleased to announce the winners of the first ever Data Management Engagement Award, a competition formed to spark new ideas for how to engage researchers in good data management. The winning entry, submitted by Nick Sheppard of Leeds University Library, is titled Manage it locally to share it globally: RDM and Wikimedia Commons; it involves linking Research Data with the Wikimedia suite of tools via editathons involving several universities.
Full detail of the competition, including all the applications and the reviewers assessments are available to read online at www.rdmengagementaward.org.