ERIM
The Engineering Research Information Management (ERIM) Project was part of the 'Data Management Planning in Research Council Funded Projects' strand of the JISC's Managing Research Data Programme. It represented EPSRC-funded projects within that strand. ERIM was a collaboration between the Innovative design and Manufacturing Research Centre (IdMRC) and UKOLN (working on behalf of the Digital Curation Centre), both at the University of Bath, and ran between October 2009 and March 2011.
The Project had several broad aims:
- To specify in practical terms how effective data management may best be performed within the IdMRC's research projects and, by extension, similar projects undertaken elsewhere. ERIM looked primarily at the outputs of the KIM Project, alongside exemplar engineering studies in fields such as engineering metrology and constraint management. Both technical and social/legal issues were considered.
- To explore the opportunities for and barriers to the re-use of engineering information, including the results of research conducted using highly sensitive industrial data and information.
- To explore the opportunities and requirements for the re-use of research data sets. Of particular interest was the extent to which future re-users of the data would need to manipulate them. Metrics for determining the suitability of data for re-use were investigated.
Other key deliverables from the ERIM Project were a Terminology for Research Data Management and the Research Activity Information Development (RAID) modelling technique for mapping out the contextual relationships between data files in a data case.
Project reports
- Review of the State of the Art of the Digital Curation of Research Data
- Understanding and Characterizing Engineering Research Data for its Better Management
- Opportunities for and Barriers to Engineering Research Data Re-use
- Principles for Engineering Research Data Management
- Thematic Analysis of Data Management Plan Tools and Exemplars
- Engineering Research Data Management Plan Requirement Specification
- The Draft IdMRC Projects Data Management Plan
- RAID Associative Tool Use Cases
- RAID Associative Tool Requirements Specification
- Understanding the CRYMAN Project Data Case
- Project Data Management Plan Template for IdMRC Projects
- Project Data Record Manifest Template for IdMRC Projects
Peer-reviewed conference paper
- Darlington, M., Howard, T., Ball, A., Culley, S., & McMahon, C. (2011, August). Data Management Planning in Engineering Design and Manufacturing Research. Paper presented at the 18th International Conference on Engineering Design, Technical University of Denmark.
Poster
- Ball, A., Darlington, M., & Howard, T. (2010, December). Modelling the Development of Research Data. Poster presented at the 6th International Digital Curation Conference, Chicago, IL.
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ERIM project
ERIM project
The Engineering Research Information Management (ERIM) project brought together the Innovative design and Manufacturing Research Centre (IdMRC) and UKOLN to explore effective data management, opportunities for and barriers to the re-use of engineering information, and requirements for the re-use of research data sets.