Research Data Management 101
The Lifecycle of a Dataset
Funder requirements
- Funding agencies increasingly requiring people to share outputs of research, including data (and publications)
- Their motivation: extend the impact of their research farther
- What funders require data sharing?
- Most federal agencies and many private funders as well
- What do funders require?
- Data management plan (DMP) submitted with grant application
- Can request funds for data management in the grant
- Sharing of final data produced
- See: http://libraries.mit.edu/oarequirements
- In our case study, my research is funded by NSF; I have to:
- Share all of the data generated in my project
- Include a DMP in my grant application