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| Titel |
The Implementation of Policies Regulating Institutional Data Management |
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Petra Gebauer, Ingo Kirchner, Mirjam Hirt |
| Konferenz |
EGU General Assembly 2013
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Artikel
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Englisch
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PDF |
| Erschienen |
In: GRA - Volume 15 (2013) |
| Datensatznummer |
250079317
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| Zusammenfassung |
| Data management in geosciences, especially at university and other research institutes
commonly isn’t very well coordinated. Due to changing staff and limited funding this topic
has no priority in general.
The process to implement policies regulating data management in an university institute
is complex. First of all existing structures and workflows had to be reviewed. That means an
inventory of different data sets, reviewing quality tests, but also data requirements of
scientists as well as their willingness to follow rules simplifying their work. Awareness of
complying with regulations is essential for the acceptance of policies. A leading team, formed
by several scientists, will bring together different points of view to control the development of
institutional policies.
Determining the actual state of personal data management using a questionary was one of
the activities in the project EWIG (Developing workflow components for long-term archiving
of research data in geosciences). The intention of the project is to support geoscientists in
transferring their data in a standardized way for storage in digital long-term archives
and in using documented data from these archives. Project partners are Deutsches
GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam and Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik
Berlin.
Other activities were to discuss existing problems and approved solutions with many
institutions and tried to find out, where are the gaps in already realized workflows and which
structures could be an ideal model to be generalized. Policies for the workflow independent
from the working area will be defined.
University lectures were started to teach future scientific generations from the beginning
on how to deal with all sorts of different data in a transparent way. Their feedback will be
used to improve data documentations and data curation, so that the re-use of archived
research data will be encouraged.
The whole process of different approaches in the project EWIG, funded by Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft, is open to be discussed on the web: ewig.gfz-potsdam.de. |
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