2016 DAF Survey Results

Top 10 types of digital research data SOPs, genomic data, videos etc 05/09/2016 Jisc Shared Research Data Pilot Meeting

Research Data Management Do researchers have a research data management plan? TOP REASONS FOR YES (N=100) 72% Good research practice 53% Required by project funder TOP REASONS FOR NO (N=171) 47% Not required/appropriate to field of research 45% Not required by project funder 32% Lack of knowledge or experience on creating data management plan 25% Unaware of any tools or guidance that can help create data management plan 06/09/2016 Jisc Shared Research Data Pilot Meeting

Sensitive research data What types of sensitive data do researchers hold? 59% of 1167 respondents said none of the above. 06/09/2016 Jisc Shared Research Data Pilot Meeting

Sensitive research data “It would be helpful to clarify the rules for storing anonymised data on cloud services. My departmental rules say this is never OK, however this seems to contradict University rules.” 06/09/2016 Jisc Shared Research Data Pilot Meeting

Location of research data Professors vs. PGR Students Charts represent locations where at least SOME data is stored. All the same across career 06/09/2016 Jisc Shared Research Data Pilot Meeting

University services to support RDM “Support is woeful in the university currently, in particular long-term data archiving is critically required. Most of my non-current data is rotting on CD's and hard-drives.” 06/09/2016 Jisc Shared Research Data Pilot Meeting

Impacts of research data loss 17% of respondents had lost data, resulting in… Qualitative analysis from FREE TEXT responses: Hardware failure 43% Human error 33% Stolen hardware (e.g. laptop) 6% 06/09/2016 Jisc Shared Research Data Pilot Meeting

Preservation of research data How much data has long-term value? Do researchers expect to move their data when a project ends? 44% Yes 39% No 15% Unsure 2% Would delete 06/09/2016 Jisc Shared Research Data Pilot Meeting

Preservation of research data How would respondents expect to preserve their data? Most mentioned repositories: NCBI Sequence Read Archive (SRA) GenBank EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database (ENA) Open Science Framework GitHub Dryad Digital Repository OTHER – PLEASE SPECIFY (most common responses) external hard drive cloud storage lab drive university backup own backup solution 06/09/2016 Jisc Shared Research Data Pilot Meeting

Preservation of research data “I currently spend about £1,200 pa on data storage from my own salary. I have the highest data needs in my School, and there is no plan in place for storing my data.” 06/09/2016 Jisc Shared Research Data Pilot Meeting

Preservation of research data For how long do respondents expect their data to be preserved? 06/09/2016 Jisc Shared Research Data Pilot Meeting

Preservation of research data Do you follow guidelines for metadata? 06/09/2016 Jisc Shared Research Data Pilot Meeting

Sharing research data 68% of respondents either already share data or expect to do so in the future. What motivates them? 68% emailing data files 60% cloud storage 35% memory sticks 20% ASNs 06/09/2016 Jisc Shared Research Data Pilot Meeting

University services to support RDM Do researchers use university services to support data management and sharing? 06/09/2016 Jisc Shared Research Data Pilot Meeting

Training needs on Research Data Management 06/09/2016 Jisc Shared Research Data Pilot Meeting

University services to support RDM “Please, individualise the support. Workshop are useless, emails with information are useless, brochures are useless, posters are useless.” 06/09/2016 Jisc Shared Research Data Pilot Meeting

Lessons learned Dissemination Incentives direct emails weekly staff newsletter library blog library tweets research office/research staff blog staff portal PGR portal link on RDM guidance page/newsletter targeted reminders to “missing” departments Incentives voucher for first N respondents + draw for the rest of the respondents higher amount of smaller vouchers 06/09/2016 Jisc Shared Research Data Pilot Meeting

Full anonymised dataset is now online: Johnson, Rob; Chiarelli, Andrea; Parsons, Tom (2016): Data asset framework (DAF) survey results 2016. figshare. http://dx.doi.org//10.6084/m9.figshare.3796305 Or just google it! 06/09/2016 Jisc Shared Research Data Pilot Meeting