Advocating Good Data Practices: From Research Data Repository to Research Data Management

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This poster is for RDA P19 poster exhibition

Description

Although there is yet a holistic national level support in Taiwan on the pursue of excellence in research data management, however, a culture of research data management is starting to take shape. As a research data repository operating in Taiwan, we report in this poster our work in helping the advance of good research data practices in Taiwan.

The depositar is a general-purpose data repository open to all for the deposit, discovery, and reuse of research data. It has been in service since early 2018. Its development has been supported by Academia Sinica and, in part, by a grant from Taiwan’s Ministry of Science and Technology. In addition to developing and operating the repository, since early 2019 the depositar team has been active in advocating good research data practices in Taiwan. From the perspective of depositar, researchers in Taiwan will be more likely to share data—hence to deposit data to depositar or to any other data repositories—when their data is well managed and in a state ready to be reused and shared. The funding we receive from the Ministry of Science and Technology also has a focus on facilitating better research data management in Taiwan (though initially only applied to grants awarded in the area of sustainable development research).

For the last few years, the depositar team has been working to cultivate a culture of research data management in Taiwan. We hold co-learning workshops where domain experts share their practices in managing research data. We work closely with several research projects about implementing data management plans. Above all, we strive to produce and make available guidelines and toolkits on research data management and on using research data repositories. At the same time we constantly improve the functionalities of depositar in response to the feedback we received from our users and from the above activities.

This poster will report on these activities and the lessons we have learned. We will also reflect on the strategy aspects of advocating for good research data practices, especially in the settings of limited resources and/or missing policies.

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Language English (eng)

Management Information

Creator Ming-Syuan Ho, Cheng-Jen Lee, Chia-Hsun Ally Wang, Tyng-Ruey Chuang
Created Time 2022-05-28
Process Step

The poster for RDA Plenary 19

Contact Person Ming-Syuan Ho
Contact Person Email hmsyuan@citi.sinica.edu.tw