Dr Tom Honeyman1
1Unsw, Sydney, Australia
Biography:
Tom is a Project Manager, helping to deliver the Research Data Experience program. Previously, he worked as the Solution Architect for the HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons at the ARDC, and before that was program manager for the ARDC’s Research Software program.
Abstract:
As part of the work UNSW’s Research Data Experience program, we sought to understand what constitutes best practice in research data storage and management by undertaking a series of case studies to profile universities in the global top 50, as well as domain research institutes and national science bodies.
What emerged was a patchwork of best practice features, spread across all case studies.
In this presentation we will show some of the patterns that emerged consistently in the profiles, but also how some local settings had led to different storage and management patterns emerging across the globe. This is especially the case with differences in policy, and relative access to alternative national level infrastructures, which we will profile as part of this talk. Overall, gathering these cases has given us a greater sense at UNSW what in aggregate might constitute apparent best practice.