Project and Professional Data
Data Management on
Post-Doctoral Research Projects and Beyond
Project and Professional Data
Data Management on
Post-Doctoral Research Projects and Beyond
15-20 mins
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Different levels of archaeological research
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Data management for on-going research
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Professional Archaeology in the UK
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Archaeology Data Service (UK)
– ArchSearch
– Grey Literature online
– Project Archives re-visiting
15-30 mins
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Digital Antiquity (USA)
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Data management on larger research projects
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AHRC Technical Appendices to grant applications
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Case study discussions
Archaeological Research Data
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PhD Projects 3 years
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Post-Doctoral Fellowships 1 to 3 years
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Individual or limited collaborators
Pilot projects
Spin off projects from previous projects
Larger Research Projects 3-5 years
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Individual fellowships
Research Associates on larger projects
Small Research Projects 1-2 years
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Individual research: fully-funded / part-funded / self-funded
Part of larger research projects
Collaborative
Multi-institutional
Inter-disciplinary
On-going long term research - never ending
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Personal research carried out in spare time between other work
Piecemeal funding
Non-funded
“…I’ll deal with sorting out my data
when I retire…”
PhD Post-Doc
Lecturer /
Independent Researcher
Non-funded or piecemeal research grants over many years.
On-going and never-ending research projects.
No provision to deposit data along the way.
Retire
Balinese Temples
are conceived of as never finished and ongoing ritual and architectural projects.
However beautiful they are,
they are not a good model for
academic research data management!
Temple in Ubud’s Monkey Forest
(Photographs: Kalyan3 on Flickr)
And doing nothing about digital data is not an option either...
Rolling Data Management Plans
for on-going research
PhD Post-Doc
Lecturer /
Independent Researcher
Non-funded or piecemeal research grants over many years.
On-going research projects broken up into discrete blocks.
Data Management as part of a publication strategy
Retire
Research Data and Codes of Conduct
Institute for Archaeologists (UK)
Standards and Archives Guidance
The Standard
All archaeological projects that include the recovery or generation of data
and/or archaeological materials (finds) will result in a stable, ordered,
accessible archive. All archaeologists are responsible for ensuring that the
archive is created and compiled to recognised standards, using consistent
methods, and is not subject to unnecessary risk of damage or loss.
Codes of Conduct
The archaeologist has responsibility for making available the results of
archaeological work with reasonable dispatch
www.archaeologists.net/codes/ifa
Research Data and Codes of Conduct
Archaeological Institute of America
Code of Professional Standards
Responsibilities to the Archaeological Record
4. Archaeologists should make public the results of their research in a timely fashion, making evidence
available to others if publication is not accomplished within a reasonable time.
Responsibilities to Colleagues
5. Archaeologists should honour reasonable requests from colleagues for access to materials and
records, preserving existing rights to publication, but sharing information useful for the research of
others. Scholars seeking access to unpublished information should not expect to receive interpretive
information if that is also unpublished and in progress.
6. Before studying and/or publishing any unpublished material archaeologists should secure proper
permission, normally in writing, from the appropriate project director or the appointed representative
of the sponsoring institution and/or the antiquities authorities in the country of origin.
Responsibilities to the Discipline
3. Archaeologists should be explicit and accurate in acknowledging their use of words, ideas, data,
and research findings of other scholars, and they should respect the property rights of copyright
holders. Intellectual integrity requires the accurate and truthful reporting of the results of excavation
and scholarship.
www.archaeological.org/news/advocacy/132
Professional Archaeological Data
Rescue Archaeology
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Discrete time-limited projects
– Pre-planning surveys
– Trial excavations
– Full excavation
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Massive quantity of data to look after
– Artefacts
– Field data (physical and digital)
– Derived digital data
Planning Policy Guidance 16: Archaeology and Planning
Nov. 1990 – March 2010
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Vast majority of UK archaeological work undertaken as part
of the planning process, administered by local authority
archaeologists.
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4,500 fieldwork events each year in England alone.
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Use of different recording standards for events recording.
Planning Policy Statement 5 – Development management
23rd March 2010
www.tdar.org
The Changing Landscape of British Archaeology:
The Role of Data Management
Academic Archaeology
Discrete 3-5 year projects and long-term research.
Open access to publically funded project data.
Rolling Data Management Plans for long-term research.
Changing ethos in data sharing.
Archaeology Data Service
The meeting of research and rescue archaeology
Increased research focus for rescue excavations.
Grey-literature excavation reports online.
Rescue Archaeology
Often discrete nature of rescue excavation data.
Increased open access to raw excavation data.
Larger Research Projects
Data Management Issues
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Data quantity
Collaborative nature
– What are individual researchers’ data vs project data?
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Multi-institutional
– Data sharing
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International
– Who owns the data?
– What can / cannot be done with it?
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Multi-disciplinary
– Different types of data with different requirements:
• standards, sensitive data, intellectual property rights, etc.
Digital Data Curation Centre
Lifecycle Model
www.dcc.ac.uk
because good research needs good data
Data Lifecycles
5.
Preservation
& Re-Use
&
1.
Create
4.
Publish &
Deposit Data
Management Plans
1.
What data will the project produce?
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How will the data be organised?
(file structure/naming, formats, software)
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Evaluate data management.
4.
What data will be deposited and where?
5.
Who will be interested in re-using the data?
2.
Active Use
3.
Selection &
Evaluation
Data Management Plans for Larger Research Projects
Key Elements
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Define data output – Digital Dissemination and Project’s Digital Archive.
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Define data types (physical and digital)
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Check ethical and moral responsibilities for creation, use, and
potential future re-use of data.
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Define roles and responsibilities for data management
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Are some of the data sensitive?
Who does what, when?
Define timing of data management tasks
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Data input, evaluation, selection, publication, archive.
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How long will all of this take and how much will it cost?
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How much will it cost to deposit the project’s digital archive?
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Talk to the ADS early in project planning.
AHRC
Technical Appendix
1.
Project Management
2.
Data Development
DCC
Data Management Plan
1.
Introduction and Context
2.
Legal and Ethical
3.
Access, Sharing and Re-use
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Standards and Capture Methods
3.
Infrastructural Support
4.
Preservation
5.
Storage and Management
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Access
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Deposit and Preservation
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Resource [= Project Management]
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Adherence [= Project Management]
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Agreement & Ratification
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Annex [= Contact Details]
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Copyright
Archaeology Data Service
Advice For AHRC Grant Applicants
Digital Curation Centre
Data Management Plans
www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/data-management-plans
Open Access Post-Graduate Teaching Materials for
Research Data Management in Archaeology
Created by Lindsay Lloyd-Smith (2011)
Module 8
Project and Professional Data in Archaeology
Acknowledgements
This material was created by the JISC-funded DataTrain Project based at the Cambridge University Library.
Project manager: Elin Stangeland (Cambridge University Library)
Project advisors: Stuart Jeffrey (Archaeology Data Service), Sian Lazar (Department of Anthropology, Cambridge University), Irene
Peano (DataTrain Project Officer - Social Anthropology), Cameron Petrie (Department of Archaeology, Cambridge University), Grant
Young (Cambridge University Library), and Anna Collins (DSpace@Cambridge Research Data and Digital Curation Officer).
Image credits
Slide 5: Temple in Ubud’s Monkey Forest. Photographs: www.flickr.com/photos/kalyan3/with/2789271311/
Slides 10, 11: Original slides courtesy of Stuart Jeffrey, Archaeology Data Service.
Slides 12, 13: Screenshots courtesy of the Archaeology Data Service
Slide 14: Screenshots: Norwich, Castle Mall courtesy of Norfolk Archaeology Unit; The Urban Landscapes of Ancient Merv, Turkmenistan
courtesy of Tim Williams, Institute of Archaeology, UCL.
Slide 15: Screenshots courtesy of Digital Antiquity and The Digital Archaeology Record (USA).
Slide 16: DCC Data Lifecycle and image of Checklist for a Data Management Plan courtesy of the Digital Curation Centre.
Slide 22: Screenshots courtesy of the Archaeology Data Service. Screenshot and image of Checklist for a Data Management Plan
courtesy of the Digital Curation Centre.
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