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Assessing Research Data Management Practices Of Faculty At Carnegie Mellon University, Steve Van Tuyl, Gabrielle Michalek
Assessing Research Data Management Practices Of Faculty At Carnegie Mellon University, Steve Van Tuyl, Gabrielle Michalek
Gabrielle Michalek
INTRODUCTION Recent changes to requirements for research data management by federal granting agencies
and by other funding institutions have resulted in the emergence of institutional support for these requirements.
At CMU, we sought to formalize assessment of research data management practices of researchers at the
institution by launching a faculty survey and conducting a number of interviews with researchers. METHODS
We submitted a survey on research data management practices to a sample of faculty including questions
about data production, documentation, management, and sharing practices. The survey was coupled with
in-depth interviews with a subset of faculty. We also make estimates …