Abstract | Inspired by the Digital Humanities Climate Coalition's 'Researcher Guide to Writing a Climate-Justice Oriented [UKRI] Data Management Plan', this presentation proposes the creation of a Social-Justice Oriented Data Management Plan and seeks to recruit interested information professionals and researchers to the project. Despite the crucial role of research data management planning in anticipating and preventing downstream ethical issues, guidance published to date around ethics and research data curation has focused predominantly on the ethics of data publication: ensuring that consent procedures have been followed, for example, or for retrospective remedial action in the case of reported ethical breaches. The CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance and the ongoing advocacy of the Global Indigenous Data Alliance, however, remind us that ‘ethics’ in digital curation goes far beyond the narrow issue of consent. In this lightning talk, I advocate for the adoption of the CARE Principles by UK HEIs in appropriate contexts, and argue that, given the cultural specificity of the CARE Principles, this must be supplemented with practical, UK-relevant guidance on ethical considerations in data curation across the research data lifecycle. My proposal is to create a social-justice oriented annotated data management plan that translates research data ethics frameworks into practical guidance, and I present the results of a preliminary literature search. This work-in-progress was presented at the International Digital Curation Conference 2024, 21 February 2024. |
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