Meeting the Research Data Challenge

As the volume of research data increases, the need to find ways to manage and curate data for sharing and re-use also grows. Organisations have a stake in finding a variety of solutions: policies are needed at international, national and institutional levels that are rooted in actions researchers will need to take.

Data can come in many guises – the measurements recorded by environmental monitoring satellites, the products of collisions between fundamental particles, the sequences of entire genomes, the results of social science surveys and interviews, the annotated images of ancient Greek inscriptions, or the annotated videos of innovative dance routines. Devising policies and solutions is no simple matter: through the Managing Research Data programme, JISC is addressing some key questions. Are our assumptions about the value of research data right? What do researchers need to manage data effectively? What policies are required to support researchers’ requirements? Researchers, data managers, librarians, managers, funders, policy makers and government all have a stake in the answers

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Publication: HEFCE, Bristol, UK, 2010. On behalf of JISC.