'So, you're leaving : Navigating Research Data Offboarding

In this session, we will focus on a crucial but often overlooked part of the research data management lifecycle: research data offboarding practices. Representatives from UNSW, USYD, MQ, UTS, and UoW will provide an update on the current state of affairs at these institutions, and outline efforts made thus far to collaboratively develop minimum offboarding requirements and resources. This will be followed by an open, interactive discussion with BoF participants on: challenges faced, core contents of an RDM offboarding checklist, processes across the data lifecycle that enable and streamline effective offboarding, and additional offboarding support materials. Some primary objectives include understanding the significance of proper offboarding for research data, exploring institutional perspectives and existing processes, delving into the various implementation challenges and potential solutions, and ways to enact change. We hope to collaboratively create and share useful guidelines, checklists and other support material to establish a common baseline for research data offboarding procedures at Australian research institutions. This discussion is open to and would benefit from input from everyone involved in research data management, from researchers and data stewards, to other research support staff, research IT providers, librarians, and administrators. Join us to discuss and explore processes, best practices, real-world scenarios, and learn how different institutions handle data offboarding.