Estimating Research Data Volumes in UK HEI

TitleEstimating Research Data Volumes in UK HEI
Publication TypeReport
Year of Publication2015
AuthorsAddis, M.
Date Published2015///
Keywordsgap_evidence, gap_relationships, sg_data_universe
URLhttp://figshare.com/articles/Estimating_Research_Data_Volumes_in_UK_HEI/1575831

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Purpose: 
Investigated amount of data in UK Higher Education Institutions (HEI)
Method: 
Used existing surveys about research data to estimate an average per researcher data size in terabytes, then used data on the number of researchers at each HEI institution to estimate an overall amount