(24 January 2017) Research data management is wide ranging and there are already many organizations active in this area. In December 2016, COAR conducted a survey in order to get a better understanding of the needs of our members in the area of research data management.
There were 43 responses to the survey from around the world. Just over half of respondents are already collecting research data, and about 80% of those who are not yet collecting data indicated that they intend to do so in the coming year.
Based on the results of this survey, COAR will organize a series of webinars on research data management, initially focusing on the topics of engaging researchers, repository case studies, and metadata schemas for research data management in repositories. These webinars will take place in the first six months of 2017.
In addition to the information above, survey respondents provided links to their favorite research data management resources. COAR will post these links on the research data management webpage to support capacity building in the area of research data management.
The full results of the survey are now available in a report posted on the COAR website.
This announcement is here.
