Infrastructure, Standards, and Policies for Research Data Management

Author(s)/Creator(s)

Jian Qin, Syracuse UniversityFollow

Document Type

Conference Document

Date

2013

Keywords

Data infrastructure, Research data management, Data services, Metadata standards, Data policies

Language

English

Disciplines

Library and Information Science

Description/Abstract

This paper discusses the needs and importance of research data management and introduces the concept of research data management as an infrastructure service. Although many resources have been made available for research data management, most of them are developed as “islands” and lack linking mechanisms. The lack of integrated and interconnected resources has contributed to high cost and duplicated efforts in data management operations. The vision of research data management as an infrastructure service is not only to improve the efficiency of research data management but also the productivity of the research enterprise. Each of the three dimensions—infrastructure, standards, and policies— addresses a critical aspect of research data managementto make the data infrastructure services work.

Recommended Citation

Qin, J. (2013). Infrastructure, Standards, and Policies for Research Data Management. In: Sharing of Scientific and Technical Resources in the Era of Big Data: The Proceedings of COINFO 2013, pp. 214-219. Beijing: Science Press.

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