Policy Needs to Go Hand in Hand with Practice: The Learning and Listening Approach to Data Management
| Autor: | Nicolas Dintzner, Annemiek van der Kuil, Maria Cruz, Alastair Dunning, Yasemin Turkyilmaz-van der Velden, Marta Teperek, Esther Plomp, Anke Versteeg |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Data management data champions Information repository 01 natural sciences law.invention RDM law open science Computer Science (miscellaneous) data stewardship Active listening lcsh:Science (General) 0105 earth and related environmental sciences business.industry 05 social sciences policy development Public relations TU Delft data repository policy implementation Computer Science Applications Framing (social sciences) code CLARITY data archive Mandate research data management 0509 other social sciences 050904 information & library sciences business Discipline policy lcsh:Q1-390 |
| Zdroj: | Data Science Journal; Vol 18 (2019); 45 Data Science Journal, Vol 18, Iss 1 (2019) Data Science Journal, 18(1) |
| ISSN: | 1683-1470 |
| Popis: | In this paper, we explain our strategy for developing research data management policies at TU Delft. Policies can be important drivers for research institutions in the implementation of good data management practices. As Rans and Jones note (Rans and Jones 2013), " Policies provide clarity of purpose and may help in the framing of roles, responsibilities and requisite actions. They also legitimise making the case for investment”. However, policy development often tends to place the researchers in a passive position, while they are the ones managing research data on a daily basis. Therefore, at TU Delft, we have taken an alternative approach: a policy needs to go hand in hand with practice. The policy development was initiated by the Research Data Services at TU Delft Library, but as the process continued, other stakeholders, such as legal and IT departments, got involved. Finally, the faculty-based Data Stewards have played a key role in leading the consultations with the research community that led to the development of the faculty-specific policies. This allows for disciplinary differences to be reflected in the policies and to create a closer connection between policies and day-to-day research practice. Our primary intention was to keep researchers and research practices at the centre of our strategy for data management. We did not want to introduce and mandate requirements before adequate infrastructure and professional support were available to our research community and before our researchers were themselves willing to discuss formalisation of data management practices. This paper describes the key steps taken and the most important decisions made during the development of RDM policies at TU Delft. |
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