Mapping Research Data at the University of Bologna

This dataset was developed within an analysis of research data generated and managed within the University of Bologna, with respect to the differences and commonalities between disciplines and potential challenges for institutional data support services and infrastructures. We are primarily mapping the type (e.g., image), content (e.g., scan of a manuscript) and format (e.g., .tiff) of managed data, thus sustaining the value of FAIR data as granular resources.

The analysis is based on data management plans (DMPs) produced by grantees of Horizon Europe and Horizon 2020 funding who are affiliated to the University of Bologna and are either project coordinators or partners in charge of the DMP. We are including in the study only the DMPs shared with us between May 2022 (when the data stewards team was created) and October 2023.

In short, we have selected variables of interest to be headers of a table that is progressively filled with information garnered through a close reading of the DMPs.

Computational analysis (R version 4.2.2) on the collected data produce graphs showing composition, relationship (bar graphs, pie charts and alluvial/sankey charts) and incidences (waterfall graph) of the different variables. Code for computational analysis on this data is "Mapping Reseach Data at the University of Bologna: Code" and it is also deposited on Zenodo (see Related Works).