eRA 2018 TURNING BIG SHIPS (DATA) ON A DIME CHANGE MANAGEMENT AND DATA SENTENCING

Achieving data management goals involves change management. For a University a growing challenge relates to the shift from ‘data storage is cheap – use as much as you need’ to ‘some cold data storage options are cheap, but high end data storage not so much and it’s not unlimited. Therefore we need to assign some Terms and Conditions – especially instigating sentencing regimes’. These are not easy conversations and often a require a deep cultural change across the board. Aim would be for the convenor to open the session with a few key questions (5 mins) including: What is sentencing and why is it needed at all? What incentives and techniques can be used to help researchers become more aware of sentencing requirements for data and how this can assist them? What are the most effective strategies to assist researchers in capturing metadata at the start of the process? Before technical tools are implemented, what are some of the main issues in gaining traction for data to be effectively sentenced and managed over time?