... production (57 per cent); much less data curation, including metadata (9 per cent). How good are they doing their job? Overall, 75 per cent of senior managers evaluate the RDM skills of their staff as basic (37 per cent), good (30 per cent) or excellent (8 per cent). In four domains (curation, referencing...

... valued and supported within universities. Research support Research data management Sustainability Service development Data curation Data publication Open data and good research data management practice are currently high on the government’s agenda. Many of the UK’s top research funders...

... limitations/implications This test was only conducted among a relatively small sample, making it difficult to generalise the results obtained and determine how effectively the OAIS functional model conformance test measured conformance. It remains a challenge to quantify data curation practices with regard...