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ERIM

The ERIM Project

About the Project

The Engineering Research Information Management (ERIM) Project was part of the 'Data Management Planning in Research Council Funded Projects' strand of the JISC's Managing Research Data Programme. It represented EPSRC-funded projects within that strand. ERIM was a collaboration between the Innovative design and Manufacturing Research Centre (IdMRC) and UKOLN (working on behalf of the Digital Curation Centre [DCC]), both at the University of Bath, and ran between October 2009 and March 2011.

The Project had several broad aims:

  • To specify in practical terms how effective data management may best be performed within the IdMRC's research projects and, by extension, similar projects undertaken elsewhere. ERIM looked primarily at the outputs of the KIM Project, alongside exemplar engineering studies in fields such as engineering metrology and constraint management. Both technical and social/legal issues were considered.
  • To explore the opportunities for and barriers to the re-use of engineering information, including the results of research conducted using highly sensitive industrial data and information.
  • To explore the opportunities and requirements for the re-use of research data sets. Of particular interest was the extent to which future re-users of the data would need to manipulate them. Metrics for determining the suitability of data for re-use were investigated.

Other key deliverables from the ERIM Project were a Terminology for Research Data Management and the Research Activity Information Development (RAID) modelling technique for mapping out the contextual relationships between data files in a data case.

Project partners

IdMRC: University of Bath Innovative Design and Manufacturing Research Centre Innovative Design and Manufacturing Research Centre (IdMRC), University of Bath
DCC: Digital Curation Centre UKOLN/DCC

Peer-Reviewed Journal Paper

Visualizing Research Data Records for their Better Management.
Alexander Ball, Mansur Darlington, Thomas Howard, Chris McMahon, Steve Culley.
May 2012.
Journal of Digital Information [ISSN 1368-7506] 13:1.
OPuS record: http://opus.bath.ac.uk/30234
Published version: https://journals.tdl.org/jodi/article/view/5917/5892

Reports

ERIM Project Final Report
Mansur Darlington
April 2011
Project Data Record Manifest Template for IdMRC Projects
Mansur Darlington
April 2011
ERIM Project Document erim0too110330mjd10
OPuS record: http://opus.bath.ac.uk/23282
Project Data Management Plan Template for IdMRC Projects
Mansur Darlington
April 2011
ERIM Project Document erim0too110329mjd10
OPuS record: http://opus.bath.ac.uk/23279
Understanding the CRYMAN Project Data Case
Mansur Darlington
April 2011
ERIM Project Document erim7rep110314mjd10
OPuS record: http://opus.bath.ac.uk/23372
RAID Associative Tool Requirements Specification
Mansur Darlington, Alex Ball, Tom Howard, Steve Culley and Chris McMahon
February 2011
ERIM Project Document erim6rep101111mjd10
OPuS record: http://opus.bath.ac.uk/22811
RAID Associative Tool Use Cases
Mansur Darlington
February 2011
ERIM Project Document erim6rep101125mjd10
OPuS record: http://opus.bath.ac.uk/22810
The Draft IdMRC Projects Data Management Plan
Mansur Darlington, Alex Ball, Tom Howard, Steve Culley and Chris McMahon
December 2010
ERIM Project Document erim6rep101015mjd10
OPuS record: http://opus.bath.ac.uk/22200
Engineering Research Data Management Plan Requirement Specification
Alex Ball, Mansur Darlington, Tom Howard, Chris McMahon and Steve Culley
January 2011
ERIM Project Document erim6rep100901ab11
OPuS record: http://opus.bath.ac.uk/21280
Thematic Analysis of Data Management Plan Tools and Exemplars
Alex Ball
September 2010
ERIM Project Document erim6rep100701ab10
OPuS record: http://opus.bath.ac.uk/21278
Principles for Engineering Research Data Management
Mansur Darlington, Alex Ball, Tom Howard, Steve Culley and Chris McMahon
December 2010
ERIM Project Document erim6rep101028mjd10
OPuS record: http://opus.bath.ac.uk/22201
Opportunities for and Barriers to Engineering Research Data Re-use
Tom Howard, Mansur Darlington, Alex Ball, Chris McMahon and Steve Culley
October 2010
ERIM Project Document erim3res100805tjh10
OPuS record: http://opus.bath.ac.uk/21166
Understanding and Characterizing Engineering Research Data for its Better Management
Tom Howard, Mansur Darlington, Alex Ball, Chris McMahon and Steve Culley
September 2010
ERIM Project Document erim2rep100420mjd10
OPuS record: http://opus.bath.ac.uk/20896
Review of the State of the Art of the Digital Curation of Research Data
Alex Ball
May 2010
ERIM Project Document erim1rep091103ab11
OPuS record: http://opus.bath.ac.uk/18774

Peer-Reviewed Conference Paper

Data Management Planning in Engineering Design and Manufacturing Research
Mansur Darlington, Tom Howard, Alex Ball, Steve Culley, Chris McMahon.
15–18 August 2011.
18th International Conference on Engineering Design: "Impacting Society Through Engineering Design", Technical University of Denmark.

Poster

Modelling the Development of Research Data
Alexander Ball, Mansur Darlington, Tom Howard.
6–8 December 2010.
6th International Digital Curation Conference: "Participation and Practice: Growing the Curation Community through the Data Decade", Chicago Mart Plaza.
OPuS record: http://opus.bath.ac.uk/22534
Published version: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/webfm_send/313

UKOLN staff working on the ERIM Project

Alex Ball
Research Officer
E-mail: a.ball@ukoln.ac.uk