Your Research Data Management

with support from 3TU.Datacentrum

Data Publication Pyramid

Ways to loose your data

• Bits get lost (file damage,

deleted, disappears, fire, bit

rot)

• Context or documentation

gets lost

• Required hardware or

software becomes out of data,

inoperable or unavailable

Ways to keep your data

• Good storage medium for data and documentation

• Backups

• Regular monitoring (storage media, file)

• Security

• Sustainable formats

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Why 3TU.Datacentrum? • Make valuable data (re)usable, discoverable and accessible on long

term. Open if possible, closed if neccesary !

• Experiences: Lot of data ‘lost’ and valuable data not used.

CREATING DATA

PROCESSING DATA

ANALYSING DATA

PRESERVING DATA

GIVING ACCESS TO

DATA

RE-USING DATA

During your research

Some GB > lots of TB

Share through

mail – DVD – FTP?

Just file management or more?

Multi-instutitional /

multi-disciplinary?

Firewalls?

www.data-archive.ac.uk/create-manage/life-cycle

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Data Labs

Collaboration platforms for research data

(management) to enable exchange of data

and other research material for collaboration

and e.g. early review.

improve standardization & documentation

and lower archiving threshold.

To share, reference, extract, analyze and

publish research data.

Data Lab: DVN

Dutch Dataverse Network (DVN),

used by most Dutch universities

• Organise (data)files in studies and collections

• Add metadata and documentation

• Allows versioning

• Determine access rights yourself

• Not limited to own institute

• Publish data with a persistant URL

• Allows you to delete files

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Data Lab: OpenEarth

Collaboration platforms for research data (management) to enable exchange

of data and other research material. “OpenEarth is a free and open source alternative to the project-by-project and institution-by-institution approaches to deal with data, models and tools” . Developed by researchers from marine & coastal engineering.

• Central platform for MICORE (EU FP7 & UN), Building with Nature (Dutch

topsector Water).

• Over 1.000 users

(120+ contributing).

Standardized numeric data,

SVN repository, wiki, OPeNDAP server,

Google Earth visualisation.

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Data Lab a la OpenEarth

Zandmotor | Sand Engine

During project: only accessibly to ± 300 users in ± 30 partners;

After project: transferred to data archive (3TU.Datacentrum) and

accessibly to the public for est. 50 years

Volkskrant, 31 March 2014

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• ‘Frozen’ dataset (version) for future use / long term storage

• ‘Published’ data, simple or

complex, varying metadata

• Open

• Max. 2 years embargo

• DataCite DOIs

• Data Seal of Approval (DSA)

• Meta data under CC0 harvestable

and as linked open data

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http://data.3tu.nl/repository/

Back to overview

Example: Event logs

Example: STP algorithms

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Direct use of the data

Visualisation and Analysis

(iPython, Matlab, etc.) Deposit in Archive Dissemination

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Indexing

Enhanced publication

• Do It Yourself: ‘simple’ sets Standard (self)upload form and descriptive information, single file per object (can be a ‘zipped’ collection), single DOI, … E.g.: Zandvliet, H.J.W. et al. (2010): Diffusion driven concerted motion of surface atoms: Ge on Ge(001). MESA+ Institute For Nanotechnology, University of Twente doi:10.4121/uuid:3f71549c-6097-4bb8-bc00-6db77deb161d

• Do It Together: special collections Negotiate: deposit procedure, description (xml, picture, preview), data model, level of DOI assignment, query online, … E.g.: Otto, T., Russchenberg, H.W.J. (2010): IDRA weather radar measurements - all data. TU Delft - Delft University of Technology doi:10.4121/uuid:5f3bcaa2-a456-4a66-a67b-1eec928cae6d

How to deposit your data

DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers)

http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.4121/uuid:c1ac7344-1...

http://data.3tu.nl/repository/uuid:c1ac7344-1...

Visibility

Data publication

First things first

Start of with a data management plan

The what, why and how of data management planning

Data management planning

• Funders require it

• Require RDM budget from funder

• Helps you structure agreements on how to manage your data

• Develop procedures early on for consistency

• Plan to share data, (determine embargo) and increase impact

Data management plan: support!

• Make use of the 3TU.DC template (compliant with H2020) – through Valorisation Center

• Get inspired by examples (per faculty)

• Contact a DMP expert for advice and support.

Example: RAINGAIN

• Pilot with

• Planning is more important than the plan, but the plan makes your planning explicit.

Events

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Contact for more information

• m.j.j.beerens@tudelft.nl: funders

• a.m.c.versteeg@tudelft.nl : open access publications

• a.vanderkuil@tudelft.nl: research data management

Credits for the drawings:

http://digitalbevaring.dk/