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The data stewards at TU Delft have been considering how to track their progress. In the end, the data stewards decided to gather, measure and share their own data on two factors: First, how many researchers were helped with data management plans and second, the number of data sets shared by TU Delft researchers in the public domain.
To this end, the stewards have set up a simple survey investigating researchers’ attitudes towards research data management to provide a starting point. The survey will be sent out regularly in an effort to gather long term information measuring change in attitude and behaviour over time.
Find out more on the Open Working blog post.
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Love Data Week 2018 took place 12-16 February and the University of Cambridge decided to celebrate by spotlighting five different people who each use, interact, generate and think about data on a daily basis. The Office of Scholarly Communication put the same 10 questions to each person and published the answers in a ‘Me, Myself and Data’ series on the Open Research: Adventures from the front line blog.
The series featured stories about data from a lecturer at the Department of Genetics, a departmental Deputy Librarian and the Founder and CEO of the Scientific Literacy Tool to name but a few. A wide variety of data is featured, from qualitative data gathered via in-depth interviews to mutation datasets. Check the posts out below, beginning with Dr Sudhakaran Prabakaran, Lecturer, Dept of Genetics.
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Writing on their Best Practices page, Harvard Medical School (HMS) have provided a good breakdown of the benefits of Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELNs).
An ELN is a software tool that in numerous ways serves the function of a page in a paper lab notebook. At HMS, the Electronic Lab Notebook Matrix has been created to help researchers find the right ELN for their particular situation. The Matrix allows researchers to compare and contrast various solutions available today in sometimes great depth.
View the Matrix and find out more on the HMS Data Management website.
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A new post on the British Library’s Digital Scholarship Blog continues to explore a PhD placement project. This project seeks to make data about appeals heard by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) more easily discoverable. The project has a focus on considering the potential for new historical and socio-legal research questions. Given the complexity of the data, and the relationships between the data, the team have structured the data in a more representative way, based on a Linked Data model.
Find out more about Linked Data and the project itself on the Digital Scholarship Blog.
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The Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) are changing their requirements with relation to Data Management Plans (DMPs). Where previously the AHRC have required a Technical Plan as part of the Technical College, the Technical College has now been disbanded and in place of a Technical Plan a DMP will be required.
There are several reasons for this move, not least of which is that a move to using DMPs is expected to speed up the grant assessment process, as well as bringing AHRC in line with other Research Councils who already use DMPs.
Find out more one the AHRC updates and guidance page.
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New research published in Science investigates who really benefits in the growing climate of open data sharing. There are particular concerns among researchers in the Global South, low- and middle- income countries in Africa, Latin America, and parts of Asia and the Middle East.
Serwadda, Ndebele, Grabowski, Bajunirwe and Wanyenze explore opportunities to improve community engagement, raise awareness and move towards improving research and data sharing amongst researchers in the Global South. Firstly, North-South research collaborators are generally funded by Northern donors, and open data effectively makes data usually collected in the South freely available to researchers from other countries (who may use this data for their own career advancement). Additionally, the spectre of colonialism hangs over interactions between Northern and Southern researchers.
Find out about Serwadda et al’s suggestions for meeting these challenges on the Science website.
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Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) is awarding £30 million in funding to six sites across the UK. The new health and biomedical data science research institute intends this funding to help address challenging healthcare issues through the use of data science.
The six institutions, which include the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Swansea University and University of Edinburgh, will work collaboratively to make improvements in people’s health. The rigorous application process included interviews and the final scientific foci of the sites will follow four strategic themes: Actionable Health Data Analytics, Precision Medicine, 21st Century Trial Design, Modernising Public Health.
Find out more on the Medical Research Council website.
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Writing on the TU Delft Library blog, Marta Teperek reports on attending the Research Data Alliance EU Data Innovation Forum. The meeting focused on innovation but the theme of trust, and the struggle to engender trust, recurred throughout the day.
Teperek found the theme was explored in different ways. A lack of trust as a barrier to innovation, innovation inadvertently leading to loss of trust, and finally, the question of whether lack of trust can itself become a driver for innovation.
Find out more by reading the Open Working blog post.
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On the Library Insights blog of the Taylor & Francis website, Laura Montgomery has shared an entertaining comic-ified retelling of the background of the University of Cambridge’s Research Support Ambassadors programme.
See the comic and find out more about the programme on the Library Insights blog.
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The Office of Scholarly Communication at the University of Cambridge carried out a survey gauging views around the University on research data management (RDM), practices and data needs. The team were delighted to receive over 300 responses to the survey, all of which were entered into a prize draw for the £50 Blackwell’s vouchers.
Stay tuned to find out more details about the results of this survey!
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ScienceOpen has taken the bold step of integrating more open access data from Impactstory, a non-profit working to create and support free services including Unpaywall and Depsy.
In particular, ScienceOpen is working with Unpaywall data to provide more information about open access licenses and access options. New features include highlighting the publisher’s version article page.
Find out more on the ScienceOpen announcement.
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Open Data Day 2018 has announced this year’s Open Data Day mini-grant winners. The grants were introduced in 2015 to support the efforts of different groups and organisations hoping to take part across the world and interest has only increased, leading to 214 applications this year.
Successful applicants include the YouthMappers Chapter at INES Ruhengeri who are creating Open Data for the Kangondo slum in Rwanda, as well as Datalat, working to bring the open data community together in Ecuador.
Find out more via the Open Data Day 2018 announcement.
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Thursday 8 March, online
The UK Data Service are offering a free webinar, introducing best practices surrounding licensing and governance models for providing research access to data assets. Run by experienced data practitioners, the focus will be on practical and efficient ways to get data assets for research through the pipeline from data creator to user.
A variety of data sources will be addressed, from data from academic, public and civil society bodies. The webinar will also consider the challenges of providing access to bigger data sources, such as social media data and data from commercial organisations.
Find out more about book via the UK Data Service website.
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Thursday 15 March, Delft
This full day event at the TU Delft Library in the Netherlands is aimed at researchers, PhD students and research support staff. The day will feature practical talks and hands-on experience with Electronic Lab Notebooks. Attendees will learn what to look for when searching for an Electronic Lab Notebook solutions and will have the opportunity to try out some solutions.
Find out more and book your place via the TU Delft event page.
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Friday 16 March, Delft
Join the TU Delft Library for a half-day event featuring case study talks and a discussion forum investigating Electronic Lab Notebooks. This event is aimed at research support staff and infrastructure providers, who are welcomed to share their own experiences prior to the event. The intention is to explore whether there is room for establishing strategic collaboration for, for example, joint (inter)national licensing and tender requirements.
Find out more and book your place via the TU Delft event page.
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30 June - 3 July, Amsterdam
Early Bird bookings are currently open for the 25th Biennial Congress of the European Association for Cancer Research 2018, which will take place between 30 June and 3 July in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
This event is one of the most inventive meetings within the Medical, Health Care, Oncology, Cancer and Cancer Research communities and is organized by European Association for Cancer Research.
Find out more about the event timetable and speakers, and register by 15 March for an Early Bird rate via the EACR25 website.
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There is an exciting job opening for a Data Steward at TU Delft at the Faculty of Architecture and the Faculty of Industrial Design (joint appointment).
This is a great chance to join the dynamically growing team of Data Stewards at TU Delft and to contribute to a cultural change in research data management in a disciplinary manner. TU Delft are looking for enthusiastic individuals with a PhD degree in the relevant subject area (or with equivalent experience).
Find out more and apply by Thursday 15 March via the TU Delft website.
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Jisc are seeking a determined individual who will be focused on supporting the UK Data Service in engaging with data users, data owners and other stakeholders in the UK and internationally, to support the development the impact of the service as well as developing opportunities for enhancing the role through projects and innovations that supplement the service.
An additional key responsibility is to identify, develop and communicate the service’s impact. The post holder will support and identify opportunities focused on raising the visibility of the UK Data Service holdings and to find, increase and promote the use and impact of the data and resources in policy-relevant research, especially to new audiences such as policymakers, government sectors, charities, the private sector and the media.
Find out more and apply by Sunday 18 March via the Jisc website.
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The Harrington School of Communication and Media at the University of Rhode Island is seeking a tenure-track Assistant Professor with a record of research in data science to enhance the University’s new data and technology focus. The position is part of a Big Data Collaborative, which includes nearly 100 faculty members and 9 recent faculty hires in departments, schools, and colleges across the university.
Find out more and apply by Thursday 22 March via the Alan Turing Institute website.
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The MyData 2018 conference (taking place in Helsinki from 29-31 August) have put out a call for proposals. Submissions must fit in to one of seven thematic tracks: Case Studies & the Industry Landscape, Our Data, Interoperability – Universal & Open, Data Portability: New Rights, MyData Academy, Global, and MyData Futures.
As a community-driven movement, the MyData conference programme development follows a community-curated model where the content is up to you. Proposals can take the form of a variety of models, including talks, workshops, lightning speech, show and tell demos and much more.
Find out more and send your proposals in by Thursday 5 April via the MyData 2018 website.
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Open Access publisher PLOS ONE are seeking an Associate Editor to be part of a group of editors responsible for overseeing the editorial process for submissions within the Physical sciences & Engineering division under the PLOS ONE scope. PLOS ONE are looking for candidates with a background in the physical sciences or engineering and would particularly welcome candidates with expertise in applied physics, computer science, nanomaterials, materials science or chemistry.
The Associate Editor (Physical Sciences) oversees handling submissions through the review process and editorial decisions for manuscripts within the subject areas covered by their team and reports to the Division Editor.
Find out more and apply (deadline unknown) via the PLOS ONE website.
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The University of Cincinnati Libraries is advertising for Data Visualization Specialist to develop a distinctive program of support in data visualization that enables innovations in both teaching and research. The Specialist will manage the Libraries’ new Visualization Laboratory, a groundbreaking collaborative space with a large multi-screen visualization wall.
The Specialist joins the Researcher Services team, a cross-disciplinary group engaging faculty and students in the areas of data management and analysis, scholarly communications, GIS, and bio/informatics.
Find out more and apply (no deadline) via the University of Cincinnati website.
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R is a programming language mainly popular amongst programmers working in the data science, quant, statistics, big data, data visualisation, bioinformatics and other areas. R is free to use and its popularity has increased substantially in recent years.
R-Ladies Cambridge is part of R-Ladies Global a worldwide organization to promote gender diversity in the R community. The group aspires to inspire, encourage and support women interested in learning or sharing their experience in R programming by hosting a variety of events including talks, workshops.
R-Ladies Cambridge welcomes members of all R proficiency levels, whether you're a new or aspiring R user, or an experienced R programmer interested in mentoring or networking.
You can find out more and sign up via the R-Ladies website.
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