Goals for the Questions (A reminder)
- Do researchers/institutions recognize they have the problem we are trying to solve?
- If there was a solution, would they use it?
- Would they use a solution from us (at least in part)?
- Can we build a solution for that problem?
Questions
- Briefly, what is your field of research?
- Is your research primarily performed? (one)
- By yourself
- In a small groups possibly including research assistants
- Within a small group or center
- As part of a large research group
- As part of a collaboration with persons or teams that a remotely located
- Where is your data kept? (all)
- Personal computer?
- Research group data center?
- Institutional data center?
- Do you collect data in the field (no network connection)? (Y/N)
- Are you ever concerned that you will lose data important to your research? (Y/N)
- Have you ever lost data? (Y/N)
- Do you back up your data? (one)
- Personally
- As Needed
- Scheduled
- Done for you by your research group
- Done for you by your institution
- Do you have students performing research under your direction? (all)
- Where do they keep data for your research? (Description)
- How do you get a copy? (Count)
- How often are copies transferred? (Rate)
- Do you share data with colleagues or research partners? (Y/N)
- If so using ahared file storage (Y/N)
- For how long (one)
- Just long enough so everyone can get a copy
- We leave the copies, but its not all of the data
- We have a shared area, and the copies stay there through the end of the project
- Do you keep your own copies?
- Where do you consider the master copies kept?
- Do you share data using other methods? (all)
- As needed only
- Via services like Google Groups
- Sent as an email attachment
- Are you concerned that someone can view your data without permission? (Y/N)
- If so are you most concerned about this more before publication? (Y/N)
- If so do you think control by you is? (one)
- Essential
- Important
- Some control needed
- Not needed
- Do you think anyone would want to see your data? (all)
- Post-publication
- Some colleagues
- Very few people would get much use from it
- Do you ever want to access other researcher's published data, or reference data? (one)
- Regularly
- Some times
- Never, the publications are good enough
- If you use other researcher's or reference data:
- I would more often but its often hard to? (all)
- Find the items I want
- Access the data easily
- Understand the items one I have found them
- Don't have the algorithms, software and a description of the measurements/methodologies used to produce them
- Do you have trouble finding your own data? (Y/N)
- If so? (all)
- It takes a lot of time to keep organized
- Finding items within a file is often tough
- A lot if times its on a research assistants or collaborators computer when I want it
- Have you ever had a student or collaborator leave a project with the only copy of a some data? (Y/N)
- Do you receive system administration support to help you with your data? (one)
- None is available
- Its available but I don't use it
- I use support at a workgroup level
- I use institutional support
- It is required for researchers in my institution or project
- My research funders: (one)
- Do not require data management plans?
- Require data management plans but do not audit?
- Require data management plans and audit compliance?
- What do you do with the data once the project is over? (one)
- I keep my data forever
- I keep until I am sure it is not useful for my future work
- I make backups
- And store them personally
- Let my data center store them
- I don't worry about them since the research is done
- I try to get it archived
- Do you consider some of your data more important than other part and should be treated with more care? (Y/N)
- Do you consider the long term storage solved? (Y/N)
- Do I use my data for online publication of my work? (Y/N)
- Would you like it if your data storage also made it easier to find things (Y/N) (all)
- If it could just find things using generic methods?
- If it could find things specifically of interest to my research?
- If, with little effort, it could find things using techniques of my choosing but implemented by other people?
- If, with little effort, I could plug in my own approach to finding things?
- Is there data that I need to get from other research projects that is important to my research project? (Y/N)
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