Participant ID
Iteration
Date Started
Date Finished
Total Time Taken
School
Research Role
Area of Research
Hold/store research data
Who do you believe owns your research data
Observational
Experimental
Computer code
Reference
Derived
Other data characteristics
Data automatically generated from or by computer programs
Data collected from sensors or instruments (including questionnaires)
Computer software source code
Images scans photos or X-rays
Websites
MS Word or equivalent word processing software
Excel sheets or equivalent spreadsheet software
MS PowerPoint or equivalent presentation software
SPSS files or equivalent statistical software
MS Access or equivalent database software
Digital audio files
Digital video files
Fieldwork data
Laboratory notes
Video tapes
Audio tapes
Slides - physical media
Other (data types)
Do you currently have any data which is no longer compatible with existing software or on hardware media that are not now widely readable
Have you ever re used your own data from previous projects
Have you ever used data from external sources
Project manager
You
Research groups
Research Assistant
Nobody
National data centre or data archive
Other (person responsible of managing data)
Paper/file records
Local computer
CD/DVD
USB/Flash Drive/Memory stick
External Hard Disk
"My documents" on iSolutions PC
iSolutions provided file server
External/commercial/web data storage facility
Other provided file server e.g. by School/unit
Other (location to store research data)
How much electronic data - Current project
How much electronic data - In total
How long do you keep your data
Do you keep data for compliance reasons
Have you ever experienced storage problems due to the size of the files
Requested additional storage space from iSolutions
Purchased an external hard drive
Saved to portable media e.g. memory stick/USB/flashdrive/CD
Other (method to overcome storage issues)
How frequently do you backup your data
Paper/file records via photocopy of similar
Another computer
External hard disk
My own tape backup system
School/unit provided file server
To iSolutions provided file server
To iSolutions backup system
To external/commercial/web data storage facility
Other (location to backup research data)
Do you deposit your data with other services such as the UK Data Archive
In a paper logbook
In an electronic logbook
In a spreadsheet
In a local database (e.g. research group)
In a remote database (e.g. iSolutions national archive)
Other (keeping track of where data is stored)
During the lifetime of a project do you allow others access to data on which you are working
Confidentiality or data protection issues
Licence agreements prohibiting sharing
The data is not fully documented
The data is no longer is a format that is widely readable/accessible
Sharing not required
Other (issues in sharing data during lifetime of a project)
Do you allow others to access your data once the project is finished
Other (issues in sharing data after a project has ended)
Have you ever been asked by a funder to produce a Data Management Plan
Are there any data preservation policies in place within your School eg data preservation policy record management policy or data disposal policy
Would you find it useful to have university wide guidelines to manage and maintain your research data