Raising awareness of data issues within institutions and the
benefits of actively managing research data
• Assisting in developing policies about data management and
preservation
• Providing advice to researchers about data management early in
the research life cycle; influencing the way researchers will be
creating their data, the formats they will use and building a
commitment to use the repository to publish/preserve their data
• Working with IT service colleagues to develop appropriate local
data management capacity
• Training and introducing data management and curation concepts
to research students
• Exploring methods of moving data from work-in-progress storage
spaces to repositories in more seamless ways (Lewis, 2008).