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Archaeology Data Service
This exercise is based on the 'Keeping Research Data Safe' series of reports.
- For more information about Keeping Research Data Safe see here: http://www.beagrie.com/krds.php
- For a guide to using the benefits tool, see here: http://www.beagrie.com/KRDS_BenefitsFramework_Guidev3_July%202011.pdf
Pick List of Popular Generic Examples of Benefits for you to use/ delete/add to/ modify and expand as needed to help populate your Benefits Framework
The ADS Mission Statement:
"The Archaeology Data Service supports research, learning and teaching with freely available, high quality and dependable digital resources. It does this by preserving digital data in the long term, and by promoting and disseminating a broad range of data in archaeology. The ADS promotes good practice in the use of digital data in archaeology, it provides technical advice to the research community, and supports the deployment of digital technologies."
In some ways we don't need to communicate the benefits of digital curation because it is our reason for being from the very start. We regularly push the benefits of preserving digital material to our designated community and our potential depositors though ...I am more used to looking at benefits from this point of view. Looking at external benefits of preserving things rather than internal benefits for us as an organisation.
Here is one we prepared earlier....!
http://www.beagrie.com/ADS-KRDS_BenefitsWorksheet.pdf
| New research opportunities Input for future research Motivating new research New research funding Increasing research productivity Stimulating new networks/collaborations Knowledge transfer to other sectors Knowledge transfer to industry Commercialising research Increasing skills base of researchers/ students/staff Increasing economic growth Catalysing new companies and high skills employment Verification of research/research integrity Fulfilling organisational mandate(s) Fulfil research grant obligations Value to current researcher & students No data lost from Post Doc turnover Secure storage for data intensive research Availability of data underpinning published findings |
No re-creation of data No loss of future research opportunities Secures value to future researchers & students Protecting returns on earlier investments Lower future preservation costs Planned management from an early stage in the research life-cycle is ultimately more cost-effective than late intervention (providing proper selection of what to keep is done) Re-purposing data for new audiences Use by new audiences Re-purposing methodologies Enhancement of research tools and software by testing on a range of well-curated datasets Scholarly communication/access to data Long-term re-use of well curated data Short-term re-use of well curated data Adds value over time as collection grows and develops critical mass Increased visibility/citation |
Person and institution
| Benefits owner | [Jenny Mitcham] |
| Institution | Archaeology Data Service |
Dimension 1: What are the outcomes?
| Direct Benefits | Indirect benefits (eg. costs avoided) |
|---|---|
| New research opportunities - providing data for teaching, learning and research is a key part of our remit. | No re-creation of data - data doesn't have to be recreated at great cost if the original version is preserved. Also, within archaeology |
| Increasing research productivity - our researchers should be able to carry out their research more effectively if data is preserved and freely available on-line |
Lower future preservation costs - if ingest and accessioning are the most expensive parts of digital preservation, it is better if we do this just once and then store the data for the long-term |
| Fulfilling organisational mandate(s) - if we didn't do digital preservation we would not be fulfilling our mission statement or reason for being |
No loss of future research opportunities - funders won't want to fund further research if they can not see that the results of previous research is still available for re-use |
| Availability of data underpinning published findings - often we archive data that goes alongside a publication or journal |
Planned management from an early stage in the research life-cycle is ultimately more cost-effective than late intervention (providing proper selection of what to keep is done) - important to work with the data creator from the start with digital preservation and the lifecycle of the data in mind. |
| Fulfil research grant obligations - we have obligations to AHRC and others who fund us to archive research data that they fund - this funding only ran until April 20 13 |
Re-purposing data for new audiences - data can potentially be used by others in other disciplines - eg MEDIN and NERC data discovery portal, also members of the public |
| Value to current researcher & students - we know the data that we preserve and make available has value to those who use it and rely on us to continue the service | Enhancement of research tools and software by testing on a range of well-curated datasets - benefits to the wider digital preservation community - we can act as a good case study to show how things could be effectively preserved |
| Fulfilling organisational mandate(s) - This is probably the most obvious direct benefit. Digital archiving is a key part of our remit as an organisation. If we didn't do it we would not be fulfulling our mandate. | Increased visibility/citation - once data archived and available on-line, we allocate DOI to the collection and that is of benefit to both the data creator (to cite their own work) and future users of the data (to cite within their research) |
Dimension 2: When are the benefits received?
Most benefits are long term but some are also short term - when we archive data and make it available, it is there to be re-used straight away so the benefits are immediate to our users (provided they want to use this particular data!) ...but benefits of this also long term because the data will be there for the long term.
| Near term benefits (up to 5 years) | Long term benefits (5+ years) |
|---|---|
Dimension 3: Who benefits?
| Most benefits are external - to both the funders, the people who give us their data (depositors) and the people who are re-using our data. The internal benefits really are very straightforward. Preserving digital data and letting people re-use it is our remit and in our mission statement (see above). If we do not carry this out we look bad. If we do carry it out we get a good reputation and people continue to use our services. |
| Internal benefits | External benefits |
|---|---|
| Fulfilling organisational mandate(s) | Increased visibility/citation |
| Long-term re-use of well curated data |
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| Planned management from an early stage in the research life-cycle is ultimately more cost-effective than late intervention (providing proper selection of what to keep is done) |
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| Short-term re-use of well curated data | |
| Use by new audiences | |
| Scholarly communication/access to data | |
| Enhancement of research tools and software by testing on a range of well-curated datasets | |
| No re-creation of data | |
| Re-purposing data for new audiences Secures value to future researchers & students Availability of data underpinning published findings |