1. 2016 DAF Survey Results

2. Top 10 types of digital research data
SOPs, genomic data, videos etc
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3. 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
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4. Sensitive research data
What types of sensitive data do researchers hold?
59% of 1167 respondents said none of the above.
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5. 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.”
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6. Location of research data
Professors vs. PGR Students
Charts represent locations where at least SOME data is stored.
All the same across career
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7. 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.”
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8. 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%
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9. 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
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10. 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
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11. 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.”
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12. Preservation of research data
For how long do respondents expect their data to be preserved?
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13. Preservation of research data
Do you follow guidelines for metadata?
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14. Sharing research data
68% of respondents either already share data or expect to do so in the future. What motivates them?
68% ing data files
60% cloud storage
35% memory sticks
20% ASNs
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15. University services to support RDM
Do researchers use university services to support data management and sharing?
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16. Training needs on Research Data Management
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17. University services to support RDM
“Please, individualise the support. Workshop are useless, s with information are useless, brochures are useless, posters are useless.”
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18. 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
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19. Full anonymised dataset is now online:
Johnson, Rob; Chiarelli, Andrea; Parsons, Tom (2016): Data asset framework (DAF) survey results figshare.
Or just google it!
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