{"id":158,"date":"2015-10-05T10:37:51","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T10:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/researcharchiving\/?p=158"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:18:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:18:20","slug":"rdm-principles-scope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/researcharchiving\/2015\/10\/05\/rdm-principles-scope\/","title":{"rendered":"RDM Principles: Scope"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m working on adding more practical advice the underpin the University of Leicester Research Data Management Principles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

These start:<\/p>\n

The University regards research data as a valuable asset. The management of research data is an integral part of good research practice that allows reliable verification of results, protects the intellectual and financial investment made in its creation, enables it to be shared and prompts new and innovative research.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’d like these words to be written &\u00a0read, spoken &\u00a0heard so they become\u00a0meaningful to everyone involved with discovery.<\/p>\n

The first principle defines\u00a0Scope:<\/p>\n

1. These principles apply to all research conducted at the University, regardless of funding source. They do not imply additional compliance where good practice and relevant research funders\u2019 requirements are already being followed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In all of my Open Access work I think it is vital to take a researcher centred approach<\/strong>\u00a0rather than my colleagues feeling imposed upon in some faceless way which could feel like unnecessary bureaucracy or unsympathetic to their specialist workflows.\u00a0I think in this fledgling state of open scholarship\u00a0I would do well\u00a0to identify and lower any barriers perceived by our users. At the same time, we are taking a shared approach as an institution.<\/strong><\/p>\n

My job is about supporting researchers, streamlining professional tasks, selling the benefits of open scholarship<\/strong> and making sure we deliver tangible benefits, not just hype<\/strong>. We are building for the future and some aspirations won’t be delivered immediately and may be changed. Also, some researchers are already doing Open Scholarship and we can highlight their work and learn from them.<\/p>\n

I expect we will support people at different levels of abstraction – from overviews for strategic management through project level approaches to working with researchers looking to usefully describe a particular dataset. We will be working with researchers in many fields and many interdisciplinary groups. We will be working with people a different stages of projects. Our task is to get useful information for each researcher – not too much nor too little.<\/p>\n

In this first principle I think we are:<\/p>\n