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8 Fostering the Data Management Environment
8 Fostering the Data Management Environment
Pages 119-126
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Understanding personnel needs is at least as important as understanding infrastructure costs because personnel costs associated with data and data platform management are likely to dominate total costs. It is not part of common practice to think about data management budgets beyond the current funding period; however, creating a research and data environment that allows long-term, efficient, and cost-effective data discovery and data reuse requires long-term planning.
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The institution managing an information resource is not absolved from information technology responsibilities if commercial vendors are chosen to provide services. ACTIONS Individuals and select institutions within specific biomedical sectors may collaborate to increase the efficiency of data management efforts, but there is little guidance available from funding agencies and the institutions that support biomedical data resources on practices for long-term management and cost forecasting for the biomedical research community.
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State 2 platform costs generally do not track data from an individual researcher or research project, and the present study committee is not able to identify a good analysis of fixed versus incremental costs associated with individual streams of data contributed to active repositories. The committee was unable to find good examples of how State 2 data management costs -- such as those incurred to bring data into compliance with communitydeveloped standards -- might be allocated back to the individual researchers who contributed the data.
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r Data management capacity might be increased by incorporating greater detail in, for example, training offered through the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) Program's Responsible Conduct for Research modules.1 Requiring independent proof of training as a requirement of receiving awards might improve capacity, as might encouraging multidisciplinary training much like that offered through the Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT)
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ADVANCES FOR PRACTICE Successful cost forecasting and sustainable management depend largely on an environment that supports decision makers, whether they are researchers, data scientists, data resource managers, or funding agencies. Methodologies for forecasting the life-cycle costs for preserving, archiving, and accessing biomedical data are immature and few tools and resources are available for those to quantify long-term costs with confidence and aid better understanding of uncertainties that can be tracked.
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Those agencies treat cost estimation as a profession and invest in training, recognizing success, critiquing failures, and encouraging assembly of cost-related data. The biomedical research data-preservation enterprise has become an undertaking that warrants a similar cadre to augment domain expertise and expertise in data science.
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2017. Machine-actionable data management plans (maDMPs)
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