Hi Isabel,

 

There was a discussion on bad RDM practice on the JiscMRD listserv back in December 2011, see: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A1=ind1112&L=JISCMRD

 

The SoDoMaT project at Queen Mary University of London also collated a number of examples: https://code.soundsoftware.ac.uk/projects/sodamat/wiki/Evidence_Promoting_Good_Data_Management

 

For some of the benefits, it may be worth looking at the ODE report: “Ten tales of Drivers and Barriers in Data Sharing” http://www.alliancepermanentaccess.org/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2011/10/7782_ODE_Brochure_v5.pdf and the forthcoming Knowledge Exchange case studies on incentives http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/about/projects/incentive

 

There was some discussion in a recent Jisc stakeholder forum about the need to collate practical examples of benefits, so hopefully this is something that could be co-ordinated and managed as a community resource

 

All best

 

Sarah

 

 

Hi all,

 

I’ve got a small (growing) collection of examples of good and bad Research Data Management to use as examples when I speak to researchers about the importance of RDM. These are generally news stories, but I also have a few posters drawn by silly PHD students who’ve lost their laptop/USB/data etc.

 

I was just wondering if anyone else had any good examples they could share? Ideally I’d like to have examples from a range of academic disciplines to engage researchers in all our faculties. Most of the examples I have so far are of disasters/successes for scientists.

 

I’m particularly looking for good news stories about data sharing in education at the moment, but anything is useful.

 

Happy to share what I’ve got with anyone who’s interested!

 

Isabel

 

Isabel Chadwick

Research Data Management Librarian

Library Services, The Open University

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