Identifying benefits arising from the curation and open sharing of research data produced within UK Higher Education and research institutes: exploring costs and benefits
| Title | Identifying benefits arising from the curation and open sharing of research data produced within UK Higher Education and research institutes: exploring costs and benefits |
| Publication Type | Report |
| Year of Publication | 2008 |
| Authors | Fry, J., Lockyer S.., Oppenheim C.., Houghton J.W.., & Rasmussen B.. |
| Date Published | 2008/// |
| Institution | Loughborough University, Victoria University |
| Keywords | sg_data_costs, sg_data_economics |
| URL | http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20140615075522/http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/digitalrepositories/jiscdataproposal-public.pdf |
Gap Area Study Type:
High-level Gap Areas:
Measurement Gap Areas:
- Context: Research area
- Culture: Sharing attitudes and practices
- Culture: Evaluation of quality
- Knowledge: Costs of stewardship
- Knowledge: Other: Benefits of Stewardship
- Knowledge: Other: Data types and formats
- Knowledge: Other: Data Value and Impact
- Knowledge: Other: Costs of Creation (time and money)
- LP: Incentives that support stewardship, access, and use
- HR: Lack of people
- HR: Lack of skills
- CMP: Insufficient data curation or management
- Reuse: Reuse
Metrics Gap Areas:
Purpose:
Investigated the benefits of the curation and open sharing of research data and the development of a methodology and model for estimating the benefits of data curation and sharing in UK higher education
Method:
Performed a literature review to provide illustrative examples of reuse and the views of stakeholders in various disciplines towards data curation and sharing; conducted two case studies to identify and illustrate benefits and costs in these areas
