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:
All universities in Australia are subject to state legislation (or for ANU, it’s federal legislation) that obliges us to retain data collected in relation to the conduct of research activities at state records. Best practice would have us classifying this data as or before it is captured and updating our understanding as projects progress and conclude. The introduction of research data management plans was supposed to help us achieve this change, but as many have already been highlighted, the plans are plans, capturing the earliest intentions, but nothing of what actually happened.
In this talk I will focus on the business of what happened – the tail end of the lifecycle. What are possible ways of distributing roles and responsibilities in ongoing governance of research data collection that is not ongoing. What bridges the project internal governance and the larger and more enduring responsibilities of the institution. How do we right-size the distribution of responsibilities when a research-intensive university will deliver thousands of projects in a single year. I’ll present some of the work we’ve been doing at UNSW to mature our processes and governance in this space.