Technical Infrastructure
Data Policy and Planning
What is the policy on funding development of technical infrastructure? E.g. facilities, sensors, instrumentation, tools, services
How often are technological requirements reviewed and by whom?
What policies exist on the use of data identifiers? Are any recommended schemes local, global, persistent? Are there discipline specific guidelines on levels of versioning and granularity of data?
What policies are there on the use of standard, open and curation friendly file formats?
What policies exist in relation to quality control, security, validation and integrity of research data and metadata?
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Capture and Collection (Primary Data)
What is the agency's policy on the management of primary data?
What facilities are supported for collecting and managing primary data? E.g. STFC Diamond/ISIS, instruments, sensors, telescopes, cloud storage, physical storage etc.
How is automated collection of metadata supported?
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Processing and Analysis (Intermediate Data)
What policies exist on the management of intermediate research data?
Does the agency provide any facilities for managing, processing and analysing data e.g. EPSRC NCS, storage, scientific instruments, statistical packages, visualisation software etc.
How does the agency encourage sharing of disciplinary workflows, tools and methods?
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Data Curation
What long-term storage facilities are provided or mandated use of? E.g. Data centre, Institutional repository, cloud infrastructure, filing cabinets for paper-based data or physical samples
If the agency funds a Data Centre or Archive, what documentation and metadata is required at the time of data deposit? How does the agency ensure that the repository is "trustworthy"?
What quality control, security, validation and integrity checks are required at the time of data deposit? Does the facility have a collection or acquisition policy? Is a deposit license necessary?
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Publication and Sharing
How does the agency support cross-searching of distributed research data?
How is interoperability between silos of research data promoted?
What facilities are funded for publication and sharing of research data? Are these facilities capable of making available other resources associated with research data? E.g. metadata, software, processing workflows, catalogs of physical samples
Which file formats are endorsed when sharing data? Are these accepted as disciplinary best practice? Are they standards? Are they open? Are they suitable for curation?
Are disciplinary guidelines available for sharing stable and documented APIs with published datasets?
What discipline specific guidelines are available for linking scholarly publications to underlying research data?
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Reuse and Impact
How are tools, facilities and support provided for reusing and/or repurposing existing data? E.g. tools for moving analysis to data rather than data to researchers
How are tools, facilities and support funded for integrating data?
How are tools provided for accessing and visualising existing data?
How are platforms supported for citizen science? e.g. zooinverse
How does the agency encourage take-up of new tools for DIR? E.g. hackathons, bootcamps etc.
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