Preparing To Support Research Data Sharing

When national funding agencies introduced data management requirements for grant proposals, details were scant and researchers turned to research-supporting staff for assistance with compliance. Support staff has experienced a sudden demand for e-Science and data sharing knowledge and expertise, often before institutional infrastructures and strategic plans have been developed. As a part of the research-supporting system, we share our learning paths, resources, and strategies here. We also describe and analyze emerging needs in the Chemistry domain to demonstrate discipline-specific data sharing issues and approaches used to customize services for local research communities.