JISC data sharing_final report.pdf (329.41 kB)
Identifying benefits arising from the curation and open sharing of research data produced by UK Higher Education and research institutes
report
posted on 2009-05-06, 13:35 authored by Jenny FryJenny Fry, Suzanne Lockyer, Charles Oppenheim, John Houghton, Bruce RasmussenIt is becoming increasingly clear that effective and efficient management and reuse of research
data will be a key component in the UK knowledge economy in years to come, essential for the
efficient conduct of research and its dissemination and use. In recognition of this, there have
been many calls for access to science data at national and international levels. JISC and other
UK funding bodies have developed a number of initiatives concerned with the management and
curation of research data. The report by Lyon (2007) was pivotal in delineating the issues that
need to be addressed and this project aims to take forward Recommendation 30: JISC should
work in partnership with the research funding bodies and jointly commission a cost-benefit study
of data curation and preservation infrastructure. The project’s objectives are to:
• Identify the benefits of curating and sharing research data;
• Identify a methodology by which to estimate the benefits to UK Higher Education and the UK
more generally of curating and openly sharing research data produced by researchers in UK
HE;
• Use the methodology, as far as possible, to derive an estimate, expressed in financial terms
where possible, for the identified benefits;
• Document case studies and examples of data re-use, where that re-use led to tangible
benefits.
Potential benefits of the open sharing and re-use of research data include: maximised
investment in data collection; broader access where costs would be prohibitive for individual
researchers/institutions; potential for new discoveries from existing data, especially where data
are aggregated and integrated; reduced duplication of data collection costs and increased
transparency of the scientific record; increased research impact and reduced time-lag in
realising those impacts; new collaborations and new knowledge-based industries ...
Funding
Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)
History
School
- Science
Department
- Information Science
Publisher
Loughborough University / Centre for Centre for Strategic Economic Studies (© The authors)Version
- NA (Not Applicable or Unknown)
Publication date
2008Notes
This is a report from a JISC commissioned project. It is also available at: http://ie-repository.jisc.ac.uk/279/Language
- en