What next?
“I was particularly impressed with the diverse audience; we had senior and junior clinical researchers, statisticians and data managers alongside research nurses and student midwives. Many people in our clinical australia rcs data community want to share their data but don’t know quite the best way to do so, and the Data Service provided practical examples, and importantly, contact details for experts like Louise who are willing to share their knowledge.”
Following the workshop Nancy and colleagues sent out a link to a brief survey. When asked about how they would share their own data, 7 of the 11 respondents stated that they would use the UK Data Service. Other respondents cited Dryad or Figshare or sharing the data themselves or via safe data transfer platforms.
8 of the 11 respondents thought a webinar on setting up data access committees and managing applications to share data would be valuable. An open-ended final question about unanswered problems brought up two additional issues:
whether or not data can be uploaded to multiple platforms,
methods for ensuring data are anonymous.
Full results of the survey are available.