SPEC Kit 334: Research Data Management Services · 201
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
Data Interview Protocol
http://dmconsult.library.virginia.edu/SciDaC/files/2013/04/Data-Interview-Protocol.docx
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Data Interview Protocol
What Is Your Data All About?
To start the interview we’d like to get some background information on your research. If you’d like, you
can discuss your lab’s work as a whole, or focus on a specific project.
1.1 What question are you trying to answer?
1.2 What is the process/method to answer the questions?
What Kind of Data Do You Have?
Now that we’ve heard about your research, let’s talk specifically about what kind of data you
produce.i.e. what they create and use, and their attitude towards digital material. Here we are looking
for the data characteristics, types, sizes and transformations.
2.1 Describe the data you create in your research.
Here we are looking for the data characteristics, types, sizes and transformations.
General Category (experimental, simulation/computational, observational, derived/compiled)
Creation (sensors, instruments, software)
Data Type (docs, emails, databases, images, videos, etc.)
Data Format (MS Word, Excel, spss, html, jpg, etc.)
Amount (#files, files sizes, growing?)
2.2 Another issue related to data is that of intellectual property. Who owns the Intellectual Property
rights of the data you create? Are you familiar with the following UVa policies?
Lab Notebook Policy
UVa’s Ownership Rights Policy
How Do You Work With Your Data?
Now we’d like to talk about the practices you have in place to organize your data.
3.1 Who is responsible for managing the data? Are you using any filing or naming conventions for
the files? How are the files organized? Is there any documentation on the files and/or data
fields?
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
Data Interview Protocol
http://dmconsult.library.virginia.edu/SciDaC/files/2013/04/Data-Interview-Protocol.docx
S c i e n t i f i c D a t a C o n s u l t i n g G r o u p (S c i D a C )/F e b r u a r y 2 0 1 2
Copyright (c) 2012 by UVa Library. This work is made available under the terms of the Creative Commons
Attribution-‐ShareAlike 3.0 license, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-‐sa/3.0/.
© 2012 by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia
Page 2
Data Interview Protocol
What Is Your Data All About?
To start the interview we’d like to get some background information on your research. If you’d like, you
can discuss your lab’s work as a whole, or focus on a specific project.
1.1 What question are you trying to answer?
1.2 What is the process/method to answer the questions?
What Kind of Data Do You Have?
Now that we’ve heard about your research, let’s talk specifically about what kind of data you
produce.i.e. what they create and use, and their attitude towards digital material. Here we are looking
for the data characteristics, types, sizes and transformations.
2.1 Describe the data you create in your research.
Here we are looking for the data characteristics, types, sizes and transformations.
General Category (experimental, simulation/computational, observational, derived/compiled)
Creation (sensors, instruments, software)
Data Type (docs, emails, databases, images, videos, etc.)
Data Format (MS Word, Excel, spss, html, jpg, etc.)
Amount (#files, files sizes, growing?)
2.2 Another issue related to data is that of intellectual property. Who owns the Intellectual Property
rights of the data you create? Are you familiar with the following UVa policies?
Lab Notebook Policy
UVa’s Ownership Rights Policy
How Do You Work With Your Data?
Now we’d like to talk about the practices you have in place to organize your data.
3.1 Who is responsible for managing the data? Are you using any filing or naming conventions for
the files? How are the files organized? Is there any documentation on the files and/or data
fields?
