07_data-management.md

# DATA MANAGEMENT PLAN

1. *Roles and Responsibilities in the Management and Retention of Research Data*

The pending University of Connecticut Data Ownership Policy, modeled on the
UConn Health Center policy
[http://policies.uchc.edu/policies/policy_2003_42.pdf](http://policies.uchc.edu/policies/policy_2003_42.pdf)
states in part that research data are the property of the investigators and –
for grants with disclosure requirements – jointly owned with UConn, although
data custody and its transfer fall squarely on the PI. At closeout, the project
data will be transferred from active workspace to the UConn Libraries’
preservation-oriented digital repository which will meet all federal data
management requirements, notably the National Science Foundation’s Public Access
Plan [1]. The UConn library repository manages static data, respecting
intellectual property and privacy rights, as well as security needs. The storage
option most available for the data generated during this project will be the
Research Network Attached Storage (RNAS) device, which provides 15GB of secure,
global shareable (beyond UConn) storage at no charge to the investigators.

2. *Expected Data*

Data is defined here as recorded factual material commonly accepted in the
scientific community as necessary to validate research findings. Most relevant
to this project, formative assessments and results of participant surveys will
be collected through the UCLA Center X and will be archived in PDF format.  The
data will be compiled into a summative evaluation at project completion which
will be used to increase the adoption of the methods in the academic community.

3. *Period of Data Retention*

The PI will make the data discussed in section 2 available to the public for a
minimum of ten years after completion of this award. The UConn library
repository stands prepared to retain deposited data in perpetuity with recurring
appraisal cycles. Additionally, the UConn library repository will honor embargo
and de-accessioning parameters if this becomes applicable.

4. *Data Formats and Dissemination*

The investigators will disseminate results to the scientific community as peer
reviewed archival publications. Publications will be made available to the
public through the UConn library no later than 12 months after initial
publication. The UConn library repository is a public access compliant
repository in accordance with [1]. The UConn library repository follows
community best practices to enable discovery and access. The UConn library
repository features a descriptive metadata management tool related to discovery
of the research and educational data produced during this project. At the
repository-wide level, indexing and discovery tools will be utilized, including
external harvesting via the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata
Harvesting (OAI-PMH). This will enable regular search engine crawling and
indexing, with privacy and security issues identified pre-ingest into the
repository and managed as required. This meets the discovery, search, and access
requirements outlined in [1].

5. *Data Storage and Preservation of Access*

The UConn library repository features (i) storage, including replication to
comply with the strictest of research data storage models, (ii) permanent,
citable links, and (iii) access in perpetuity (or shorter length if
de-accessioning is required), with recurring appraisal cycles.

[1] Public Access Plan: Today's Data, Tomorrow's Discoveries: Increasing Access
to the Results of Research Funded by the National Science Foundation (United
States National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia, 2015).
[http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf15052](http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf15052)