Track the Impact of Research Data with Metrics; Gauge Archive Capacity

How to Track the Impact of Research Data with Metrics. Alex Ball, Monica Duke.  Digital Curation Centre. 29 June 2015.
   This guide from the DCC provides help on how to track and measure the impact of research data. It provides:

• impact measurement concepts, services and tools for measuring impact
• tips on increasing the impact of your data 
• how institutions can benefit from data usage monitoring  
• help to gauge capacity requirements in storage, archival and network systems
• information on setting up promotional activities 

Institutions can benefit from data usage monitoring as they:

• monitor the success of the infrastructure providing access to the data
• gauge capacity requirements in storage, archival and network systems
• create promotional activities around the data, sharing and re-use
• create special collections around datasets;
• meet funder requirements to safeguard data for the established lifespan

Tips for raising research data impact

• deposit data in a trustworthy repository
• provide appropriate metadata
• enable open access
• apply a license to the data about what uses are permitted
• raise awareness to ensure it is visible (citations, publication, provide the dataset identifier, etc)

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