Research Data Management

Research data has grown explosively over the past couple of decades, and the research community is at a critical point for developing broad standards for managing data from the research project ideation phase through post project long-term archiving. Funding agencies have introduced requirements for data management plans, data accessibility, and data retention, but those requirements often come with no associated funding or a tradeoff between funding research activities or data management activities.

This Research Data Management Position Paper represents a first step in enumerating the challenges these emerging requirements represent and presenting a series of recommendations directed at CASC, federal sponsors and the RDM community itself to support and advance the
principles of open, accessible science.