New Report From JISC: “Open Data About Research Management: A Landscape Review”

From JISC:

Jisc has today published open data about research management: a landscape review, outlining the current status of open data about research management in the UK. The report emphasises the potential of open data to increase efficiency, reduce administrative burdens and improve the potential for innovation across UK research.

The bureaucracy review digital working group identified the need for identifying more common approaches to help integration of the research information ecosystem. The open data about research management report highlights the huge opportunity in giving data about research management an open licence and making it available through publication schemes, particularly in the case of public sector organisation data. This simple change alone could unlock significant amounts of publicly available data relevant to research management by making it universally findable and accessible through existing policy approaches and as part of the administrative process of its collection and management.

Key Findings Include:

• Establishing a foundational step towards shared efficiencies and simplified approaches to managing research in the UK – reducing bureaucracy, removing unnecessary complexity and technical debt, lowering costs
• Collaborative efforts coordinated by Jisc, BRRIN includes representation from all UK nations and aims to enhance the research management ecosystem with efficient, sustainable, low-bureaucracy solutions
• The importance of an audit of open data which could reveal further value, highlighting significant opportunities to leverage open data for research management
• The suggestion to adopt common data standards to support APIs that can lead to a more integrated and streamlined system
• The opportunity to use existing open data infrastructure and policies from across the public sector offers immediate opportunities for improvement

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