Institutional Data Management Blueprint

Building on the developed policy and service-oriented computing framework, the project scoped and evaluated a pilot implementation plan for an institution-wide data model, which can be integrated into existing research workflows and extended the potential of existing data storage systems, including those linked to discipline and national shared service initiatives.

The project built upon a decade of previous open access repository initiatives at Southampton to create a coherent set of next actions for an institutional, cross-discipline 10-year roadmap, which will be flexible in accommodating future moves to shared services, and provide a seamless transition of data management from the desktop to national/international repositories. The outcomes from this project, which drew together technical, organisational and professional expertise from across the institution, are being widely disseminated within the sector as a form of HEI Data Management “Business Plan How-To”.