Defining the field

This morning we met to narrow the centres and programmes we will work with. The plan was to select one programme and two or three centres with which to work closely and to work to a lesser degrees with the remainder that expressed an interest in cooperation. This may involve interviews with principal investigator and/or a retrospective look at their data management practice. We now have identified some centres and programmes that cover some of the diverse issues in data management such as complex, sensitive, confidential, and commercial data. The next stage is to contact them and begin to sort out a meeting.
Following from this I worked up a spreadsheet to track our progress working with these centres and programme.
Finally for today, I started putting together an interview schedule/questionnaire to discover existing data management practices. It's very much a work in progress, but is based on existing guidance from RELU, Timescapes, Teaching and Learning Resource Programme and our own data management guidance document.