SPEC Kit 334: Research Data Management Services · 93
Raise awareness of data governance, data citation training, use of identifiers for researchers (ORCID) and data
(DataCite).
Training opportunities
Within 2 years
Expansion of identifier assignment, assistance with sensitive/restricted data
Statistical reference services database creation
The development and offering of other RDM services will be informed by our current needs assessments.
Additional Comments
As an institution in Canada, we don’t have a lot of researchers applying for NSF grants, hence our answer to the first
question. The Canadian funding agencies don’t yet required DMPs.
Providing access to research data for use in further discovery, research, and scholarship.
If you plan to phase in services over time, please enter any additional details about your phase-in
plans and timeline. N=11
Staffing
At this time there are plans to hire a Research Data Coordinator. Currently there are no plans for any of the above until
the coordinator is hired and decisions are made on priorities.
Data services will start on July 1, 2013, with the arrival of our newly hired Data Librarian. The first three activities she
will work on are implementation of a website delineating our services, customization of the DMPTool, and a survey of
the data landscape at the university.
We are hoping to begin with a Business Analyst position who will lead the assessment of needs and the development
of an implementation plan for research data acquisition, management and curation at the Centre for Hip Health and
Mobility (CHHM), aligning business initiatives with information technology solutions. The Business Analyst will provide
expertise in the areas of requirements definition, business process analysis and design, functional design, configuration,
implementation, testing, training and documentation to deliver an enterprise level solution that will provide the
framework for implementing a data management and curation strategy for the larger university research community.
The majority of work will be performed working closely with researchers and staff at CHHM, with support from formal
project teams within Research IT Support and the library. This project has a high degree of complexity, influence, and
impact as the solution must provide the basis for a research data management and curation strategy that meets the
needs of the majority of constituents in the university research community.
We are hoping to hire a data management specialist this year to organize our services.
Assessment
Currently, the university libraries is planning on developing a data management day with the Department of High
Performance Computing in fall 2013. Once we have completed the data management day event, HPC and the libraries
(under the guidance of the E-Science Librarian) will submit a campus-wide data management survey, much like the
survey developed by GA Tech’s Susan Wells Parham. Once the survey data has been collected, it will be presented to the
OVPR in order to develop an approach to campus-wide data management services. This is where the campus is on data
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