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Data Management Support (DMS)
dms@slu.se | www.slu.se/dms
All SLU staff can, without cost, publish scientific data and data descriptions via the Swedish national data service.
SLU is part of a consortium governing the Swedish national data service (SND), a national infrastructure that supports accessibility, preservation, and reuse of research data. SND hosts a national research data catalogue where Swedish researchers can publish and describe data from their research projects.
The SND data catalogue facilitates making data open in a way that supports the FAIR principles – i.e. data and data descriptions being findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable. Among the advantages in publishing via the SND catalogue are:
Data are described and submitted through the SND system DORIS. Log in using your regular SLU AD-account.
Before data is published in the SND catalogue, SLU Data Management Support (DMS) will check the data description for completeness and accuracy, to help make the data findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (i.e. meet the FAIR principles).
Swedish National Data Service (SND) is a research data infrastructure that supports accessibility, preservation, and reuse of research data.
SND is governed by a consortium of nine universities, including SLU. The infrastructure is funded primarily by the Swedish research council (VR) and the consortium members.
DMS is also a member of the SND network – a national network of research data support functions within SND, so called Data Access Units. Approximately 40 higher learning institutions and public research institutes collaborate in the SND network, to create a distributed national infrastructure for open access to research data.
SND is a member of a range of international organisations, including EOSC Association, Research Data Alliance (RDA) and DataCite.
The consortium universities also contribute with expertise through so-called domain specialists, with experience and knowledge from different research fields and research data management. SLU contributes expertise in climate- and environmental data.
The SND domain specialists, together with the SND office research data advisors, can be consulted regarding discipline specific data management questions.
SLU currently has two domain specialists, Ida Taberman and Ylva Toljander, who monitor the research data development in the climate and environmental domain and partake in the development of SND´s services. The domain specialists provide advice on domain specific matters and are involved in information and education initiatives. They also participate in national and international collaborations, and work towards an increased understanding, use, and publication of open research data.
Works with data management and data quality. Background in environmental databases and coordination of terrestrial and limnological field research infrastructures.
Email: ida.taberman@slu.se
Biologist and information specialist. Works with research support, including research data management. Background in the fields of microbial ecology and biodiversity research, as well as in publication of meteorological and oceanographical monitoring data.
Email: ylva.toljander@slu.se
When someone from SLU submitts data to SND, the metadata will be reviewed by Data Management Support (DMS), SLU's support function for data management.
DMS can also assist before the data submission, e.g. by givining advice on how to prepare data prior to publishing.
Data Management Support (DMS)
dms@slu.se | www.slu.se/dms