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Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles

Received from Martie van Deventer:

Data citation principles:
Sound, reproducible scholarship rests upon a foundation of robust, accessible data. For this to be so in practice as well as theory, data must be accorded due importance in the practice of scholarship and in the enduring scholarly record. In other words, data should be considered legitimate, citable products of research. Data citation, like the citation of other evidence and sources, is good research practice and is part of the scholarly ecosystem supporting data reuse.

In support of this assertion, and to encourage good practice, we offer a set of guiding principles for data within scholarly literature, another dataset, or any other research object.

These principles are the synthesis of work by a number of groups. As we move into the next phase, we welcome your participation and endorsement of these principles.

Workshop 11 August 2015: presentations

Draft list of basic RDM infrastructure components – seeking your comments!

The DCC is seeking your comments and feedback on our draft list of basic RDM infrastructure components. This list has been developed through our participation in Jisc’s Research Data Spring pilot to extend the organisational profile document (OPD) to cover research data management.

The key objective for this pilot is to agree within the community a list of basic RDM infrastructure components in light of EPSRC’s Policy Framework on Research Data. This list is meant to represent the basic RDM components that need to be in put into place and maps infrastructure requirements to possible evidence of infrastructure. We’d be very grateful for any feedback from the UK HEI community and funding bodies in particular but also welcome views from other stakeholders. Is this list complete? Are there components that are missing? Please submit directly to the spreadsheet in Google Docs or email your feedback by July 10 2015.

Once the list is agreed, we will seek to make RDM infrastructure components more visible within HEIs by adapting the OPD. The OPD is a simple RDF file which was developed by Equipment.data at the University of Southampton to help HEIs comply with EPSRC’s mandate about exposing information about research equipment bought with public funds. The OPD is both human and machine readable and over 40 UK HEIs already have an OPD in place.

In the short term, this work will help HEIs to identify good practice among peer organisations. Over the longer term, we believe that  an agreed list of basic RDM components will help HEIs to better cooperate to identify metrics for successful implementation, the costs associated with delivering support services and systems, and approaches to sustaining our RDM operations.

Received from:
Joy Davidson
Associate Director
Digital Curation Centre (DCC)
HATII, University of Glasgow
Email: joy.davidson@glasgow.ac.uk
http://www.dcc.ac.uk
http://www.gla.ac.uk/hatii

NEDICC

A decision, to establish a network of data and information curation communities (NeDICC), was taken in principle at the 1st African Digital Management & Curation Conference & Workshop  held in Pretoria on 12 and 13 February 2008.  This decision had been ratified at several events and the network was then formally established, with its administrative base at the NRF in Pretoria, South Africa during 2010.