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INDIANA UNIVERSITY
Indiana University Guidance on NSF Data Management Plans
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/secure/defiles/NSF_DMP_Boilerplate_IUB-IUPUI_Fall_2012.doc
IUB IUPUI
Stacy Konkiel, E-Science Librarian Heather Coates, Digital Scholarship &Data
Management Librarian
Email: iuswdata@indiana.edu Email: dataserv@iupui.edu
Phone: 812-856-5295 Phone: 317-278-7125
Meryl W. Bertenthal, Proposal Development Ann Kratz, Proposal Development
Specialist Manager
Email: mbertent@indiana.edu Email: akratz@iupui.edu
Phone: 812-856-5245 Phone: 317-274-6732
4. IU Storage Systems and Institutional Repository
University Information Technology Services (UITS) maintains a large suite of storage systems. These are
described in an extensive document that can be used (in whole or in part) in the Facilities section of an
NSF proposal. This document is available online in a link accessible from: http://kb.iu.edu/data/anwu.html.
It describes the storage systems operated by UITS and the backup facilities and plans for those storage
systems. It also describes data security.
Indiana University has institutional repositories for archiving scholarly and scientific works called
IUScholarWorks [8] at Bloomington and IUPUIScholarWorks [9] at Indianapolis. These repositories will
accept digital data generated by IU researchers and from National Science Foundation funded efforts with
PIs outside IU when there is a formal collaboration with an IU researcher (documented via a
Memorandum of Understanding or via a Statement of Work associated with funding to an IU researcher
as part of said project). IU, through IUScholarWorks and IUPUIDataWorks, will provide replicated storage
of all data sets (as described in detail in the cyberinfrastructure facilities statement).
Both IUScholarWorks and IUPUIDataWorks accept data in all formats. Classified or confidential data
requiring formal, contractual, or legal restrictions to access, such as HIPAA-designated Protected Health
Information, will not be accepted for deposit, but may be stored on the SDA. In this case, the searching
and metadata management facilities that help make these repositories so valuable in disseminating data
are not available for use. However, de-identified datasets are eligible for deposit into the repositories. The
PI is responsible for ensuring that datasets are appropriately and fully de-identified.
If you intend to use one of the institutional repositories, you should consider budgeting funds for data
management:
1. Funding for a person to manage data and metadata. This may be funded within your own research
group, or you may consider a consulting arrangement with the IU Bloomington Libraries (contact
iuswdata@indiana.edu) or the IUPUI University Library (contact dataserv@iupui.edu).
2. Funding for storage services for exceptionally large data storage needs (more than 50 TB). In this
case, please contact researchtechnologies@iu.edu for more information. UITS may be able to offer
storage above the default 50 TB limit as part of matching support for grant proposals.
NSF allows for adding data management costs to your proposal (typically Line G2).
5. References
[1] National Science Foundation. NSF Award and Administration Guide, Chapter VI.D.4.
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/policydocs/pappguide/nsf11001/aag_6.jsp#VID4 [cited 4 May 2012]
[2] National Science Foundation. Discipline specific advice on data management plans from NSF
directorates. http://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/dmp.jsp [cited 4 May 2012]
[3] NanoParticle Ontology. http://www.nano-ontology.org/ [cited 27 April 2012]
[4] Ecological Metadata Language (EML). http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/software/eml/ [cited 27 April
2012]
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