{"id":966,"date":"2010-02-11T17:52:27","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T16:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/keepit\/?p=966"},"modified":"2010-02-11T17:52:27","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T16:52:27","slug":"data-report-challenges-ir-managers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/test-media\/2010\/02\/11\/data-report-challenges-ir-managers\/","title":{"rendered":"Data report challenges IR managers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/29198480@N03\/3668669646\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-972\" src=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/test-media\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/sites\/52\/2010\/02\/data-organisations-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Data organisations\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Nobody has asked the question &#8211; perhaps it doesn&#8217;t need asking after <a title=\"Diary, various entries\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/keepit\/tag\/keepit-course-1\/\" target=\"_self\">KeepIt course 1<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0but why did a <a title=\"Diary, various entries\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/keepit\/tag\/keepit-course\/\" target=\"_self\">course<\/a> on digital preservation start with organisational issues? Recently a new report was published by the Digital Curation Centre, and I will pick out one section that answers that question:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcc.ac.uk\/docs\/publications\/SCARP%20SYNTHESIS.pdf\" target=\"_self\">Data Dimensions: Disciplinary Differences in Research Data Sharing, Reuse and Long term Viability: A comparative review based on sixteen case studies<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the UK the majority of higher education institutions now have repositories in place, though their use for digital research data curation is very limited at present. The benefit of this route to data curation is that the risk of datasets disappearing over time through lack of care or resources is spread across a whole institution and is, therefore, diminished. Looking after the data outputs of their research community is a key strategic challenge for institutional managers and repository administrators, one that is likely to involve changes in organisational structure and culture. Whether the will, skills and resources necessary exist to meet this considerable challenge within individual institutions remains to be seen, but two initiatives are helping to light the path ahead: JISC\u2019s Digital Preservation and Records Management Programme is funding research projects in this field&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was noted in discussion during the module 1 that some repositories have scoped and defined coverage. So this is not about prescription, but about keeping an open mind about the relation between the repository and the institution, and how to understand, manage and anticipate that complex and changing axis.<\/p>\n<p>I should also point to Dorothea Salo&#8217;s <a title=\"Tidbits, The Book of Trogool, 22 January 2010\" href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/bookoftrogool\/2010\/01\/tidbits_22_january_2010.php\" target=\"_self\">blog<\/a> on this report, which noted: &#8220;It also contains throwaway gems like &#8220;It is worth noting that researchers expected their own institutions to be able to provide affordable managed storage, technical support and a preservation facility \u2013 but few institutions appear to be able to offer such services at this point.&#8221; (p. 10)<\/p>\n<p>We will be coming to those issues later in the course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody has asked the question &#8211; perhaps it doesn&#8217;t need asking after KeepIt course 1 &#8211;\u00a0but why did a course on digital preservation start with organisational issues? Recently a new report was published by the Digital Curation Centre, and I will pick out one section that answers that question: Data &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":869,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[266,268,290],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-data-curation","tag-data-repositories","tag-keepit-course-1"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/test-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/test-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/test-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/test-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/test-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/test-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/test-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/test-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/test-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}