UKOLN was asked to undertake a small-scale consultancy for JISC to investigate the relationships between data centres and institutions which may develop data repositories. The resulting direction-setting report will be used to advance the digital repository development agenda within the JISC Capital programme (2006 – 2009), to assist in the co-ordination of research data repositories and to inform an emerging Vision and Roadmap. The study includes a synthesis of some of the lessons learned from the projects within the Digital Repositories programme that were concerned with research data.

Direct to Full Text: Dealing with data: Roles, rights, responsibilities and relationships (Consultancy report)
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Source: UKOLN

See Also: Summary of Report in this article from Kable’s Government Computing

The report recommends that Jisc develop a data audit framework to enable all universities and colleges to carry out an audit of departmental data collections, awareness, policies and practice for data curation and preservation.

The paper also calls on research funding organisations to openly publish, implement and enforce a data management, preservation and sharing policy. In addition, says the report, each higher education institution should implement its own policy, which recommends data deposit in an appropriate open access data repository and/or data centre where these exist.

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