Public TDR Roadmap and Annual Activities

This document is a living document which outlines the TDR service development and enhancement priorities of the TDR Steering Committee and the TDL.

Outreach & Training

Outreach to Dataverse software adopters. Use the data provided to the TDR liaison in reports to reach out (thank you notes, etc) to researchers to strengthen relationships and to recruit.
Expand TDR engagement to include more than one staff person at each institution. Establish mechanism for TDR SC to assist each other with outreach projects and do collective outreach
Create targeted, discipline-specific guidance, metadata recommendations and DMPTool templates for researchers
Annual activities:
- Present on/promote the repository at a minimum 3 conferences (disciplinary and library)
  - add annual info about this to annual report template
- Webinar series or in-person event (Carpentries Project team in 2021)
  - continue Webinar series (relatively 2 per term)

Datasets >10TB

Define and document recommended data limits per institution
- TDR WG creating policy and procedures
Develop at least one Remote Storage Agent for larger datasets
- pilot at TACC/UTLibs
- goal of one complete and one in progress in FY2021
Consider payment system for more space

A * indicates work towards the goal in FY2017-18.

A # indicates work towards the goal in FY2018-19

FY 2019/20 completed:

Created Assessment and Training & Outreach Standing Committees
Establishing a Project Management System (and file naming convention) for our work
Confluence documentation tidy-up and re-org including DMPTool language and policy review
Designed a new TDR logo
Presented on/promoted the repository at several conferences (disciplinary and library)
Linked to Dataverse user guides in Confluence TDR user documentation where Harvard’s are more robust
Developing Onboarding Materials for new Steering Committee members
Improved assessment tools and reporting
Followed Dataverse development towards Making Data Count compliance - implementing Summer 2020 with upgrade to 4.20
Assessment - TCDL report on usage
Hosted 5 speakers for our Webinar Series

Develop training curriculum (data sharing generally and dataverse-specific)*
Share resources/slides/experiences*#
Create research guide for reuse by TDR institutional members#
Create discipline-specific guidance and templates
Create more in-depth user guides and link to Dataverse user guides where Harvard’s are more robust #

Dataverse training to develop expertise*#
Good data sharing practices and issues that may arise, e.g. rights issues, privacy and restricted data, proper citation.*#
Develop training curriculum

Collect links to member's existing resources*#
Put resources in an open and accessible location*#
Create mechanism for member feedback and submission#
Compile plans for early-adopter thank you/welcome messages
Strategies for intra-campus partnerships (e.g. with grant networks, sponsored projects)#
Connect funder requirements with the TDR service. Create language regarding the TDR services to use in data management plans (and for DMPTool templates)*

Generate/provide example use cases to foresee technical and training needs at different scales, individual researchers, labs, centers, institutes; and for different user abilities.#
Develop method for gathering/capturing use cases, when and why users chose not to participate*#

Account request for non-TDL users collaborating with researchers at TDL member institutions possibly with limited permissions to specific Sub-Dataverses*
Expand third-party authentication capabilities (OAuth2 Google log in)*
Work with IQSS at Harvard to refine access to specific Institutional and sub-dataverses#