A new OCLC Research report, 'A Tour of the Research Data Management (RDM) Service Space,' provides an overview of the RDM service space and sets the stage for further exploration of RDM at four universities around the world.
This report is the first in a four-part series, The Realities of Research Data Management, which focuses on decision-making at four institutions that have made different choices in confronting the realities of planning, developing and deploying institutional RDM services in research universities.
Rebecca Bryant, Senior Program Officer, Brian Lavoie, Research Scientist, and Constance Malpas, Strategic Intelligence Manager & Research Scientist, conducted case studies of the University of Edinburgh (UK), the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (US), Monash University (Australia) and Wageningen University & Research (the Netherlands), examining how these institutions have acquired RDM capacity.
In addition to the four in-depth case studies, the authors reviewed RDM services at more than a dozen research universities in North America, Europe and Australia—in a variety of national settings. They found that RDM services align into three categories: Education—aimed at educating researchers and other stakeholders on the importance, and in some cases, the necessity, of responsibly managing their data and making arrangements for its long-term curation; Expertise—these services provide decision support and customized solutions for researchers working through specific research data management problems; and Curation—services to supply technical infrastructure and related services that support data management throughout the research cycle.
'A Tour of the Research Data Management (RDM) Service Space' delves into these three categories, provides a frame for the four-part series, and gives a preview of the next report in the series.
The report is available for download from the OCLC Research website.
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