Sustainable Management of Digital Music Research Data is a six-month pilot data-management project run at the Centre for Digital Music (C4DM) at Queen Mary University of London from 1 October 2011 to 31 March 2012.

The project is funded by the JISC Programme - Research management: Managing Research Data 2011-13.

Objectives

The immediate objectives of this project are:

1. to develop an ongoing management plan for data produced during research at C4DM;
2. to implement a system for storing and managing such data;
3. to audit, catalogue, and manage existing data from C4DM using this system.

In addition to producing a working data management system and plan, a wider objective is to perform a pilot project toward producing a set of data management methods and recommendations which may be applicable to other research groups within the audio and music research fields in the UK. To this end, any lessons learned and systems developed during this work will be disseminated through the SoundSoftware.ac.uk sustainability project also managed at C4DM.