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The Data Management Planning for ESRC Research Data-rich Investments project (DMP-ESRC) is funded under the JISC Managing Research Data programme. It aims to increase the data management and sharing capability within the social sciences community.

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The project is helping develop and implement effective data management planning in the research lifecycle and increase individual and institutional data managing and sharing capacity by providing best practice guidance, support and training.

The UK Data Archive is working closely with the following ESRC research centres and programmes:

Their existing data management practices are being assessed , and the team are helping to develop and implement effective data management planning, procedures and tools, and expand individual and institutional support and training.  Examples of existing effective data management practices and expertise from the UK Data Archive are being used to develop advice to enhance data quality and its potential for sharing.

The long-term aim of this project is to engage with challenging and sensitive aspects of archiving and sharing. This embraces: informed consent; confidentiality; the ethics of sharing; copyright; the implications of using secondary data; enhancing data; preservation formats; storage; security; and back-up.

Ultimately, not only will debate and co-ordinating strategies on these issues improve the quality of data, they will also improve research training in the UK.

The Data Management Planning for ESRC Research Data Rich Investments project is based at the UK Data Archive at the University of Essex

 

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1 of 10: We provide continuous access to the UK’s largest collection of digital research data in the social sciences
2 of 10: We hold thousands of data collections for social science research and teaching, quantitative and qualitative
3 of 10: Each of our data collections has a unique persistent identifier (DOI) that makes it easier to find and cite
4 of 10: We hold the only copy of many of the UK's large national surveys charting social research back decades
5 of 10: We are an established national archive at the forefront of managing, preserving, sharing and delivering data
6 of 10: We are certified to ISO 27001, the information security standard, and helped develop the Data Seal of Approval
7 of 10: We are a collaborative organisation supporting emerging and existing creators and users of data
8 of 10: We provide best practice guidance and training in managing and sharing research data
9 of 10: You won’t be able to find your family records on our site. You should visit a genealogical site instead
10 of 10: We don’t provide ready-made statistics, but using Nesstar you can view frequencies from popular surveys
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