Research Data Services Consulting Working Group

Research Data Services Working Group
https://cds.library.nd.edu/expertise/research-data-services/
https://libguides.library.nd.edu/research-data-services
hl-research-data-services-list@nd.edu

Purpose
The Research Data Services Working Group collaboratively responds to the research data needs of members of the Notre Dame community by conducting research consultations, providing instruction, and making referrals on a variety of topics, including, but not limited to:
--Data management plans
--Data documentation/metadata guidance
--Data management tools (e.g., DMPTool, OSF, ORCID, ScienCV CurateND)
--Funder mandates and regulatory compliance

The RDS Working Group works with referral partners such as the Center for Research Computing, Center for Social Science Research, the Office of Information Technologies, ND Research, and with platform providers as appropriate related to best practices, authentication, upgrades, support, and training for new application features, tools, etc.
The RDS Working Group collaboratively maintains and supports campus institutional memberships related to select research data management (RDM) platforms. Members of the RDS Working Group, Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship, and the Library Information Technology Program collaboratively provide administrative and technical points of contact for the ND campus use use of cloud-based RDM systems such as DataCite (DOI minting for CurateND), DMPTool (data management plans), ORCID (researcher IDs), and the Open Science Framework (OSF).

The RDS Working Group serves as the Hesburgh Libraries’ conduit for RDM partner liaison communications with ND Research.

Working Group Leader: Monica Moore
Decision making scope:
The RDS working group makes recommendations regarding essential memberships for the provision of RDM services.
Currently, the working group recommends subscription/membership-based RDM services(DOI, ORCID, etc.), and ND’s RDS memberships are then managed as part of the NFCDS budget process.
The RDS Working Group decides what RDM platform personalization /localizations are implemented.
The RDS Working Group collaboratively decides through our consult contact escalation flow who on the working group handles which RDM consult inquiries and which are referred out of the library.

Time Frame: RDS has been a Standing Working Group since 2011, previously known as the E-Research Working Group and then later evolved into the Research Data Management Working Group, then later the current RDS working group