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Research Administrator

Support research data management and sharing compliance

Enhances◐ 1–3 years

What You Do Today

Help researchers comply with data management plan requirements, federal data sharing mandates, and institutional data governance policies. Navigate the increasingly complex landscape of research data regulations.

AI That Applies

AI generates data management plan templates aligned to specific sponsor requirements, monitors data sharing compliance deadlines, and identifies appropriate data repositories for different data types.

Technologies

How It Works

The system ingests data sharing compliance deadlines as its primary data source. The processing layer applies the appropriate analytical models to the structured data, generating scored outputs that surface the most actionable insights. The output — data management plan templates aligned to specific sponsor requirements — surfaces in the existing workflow where the practitioner can review and act on it.

What Changes

DMP creation becomes template-driven and sponsor-specific. Compliance with new data sharing mandates becomes more manageable.

What Stays

Helping researchers navigate the tension between data sharing mandates and intellectual property protection requires understanding both the regulations and the research context.

What To Do Next

This section won't tell you what your numbers should be. It will show you how to find them yourself. Every instruction below produces a real, verifiable result in your organization. No benchmarks, no projections — just the steps to build your own evidence.

1

Establish Your Baseline

Know where you are before you move

Before adopting AI tools for support research data management and sharing compliance, understand your current state.

Map your current process: Document how support research data management and sharing compliance works today — who does what, how long it takes, where the bottlenecks are. You need this baseline to measure improvement.
Identify the judgment points: Helping researchers navigate the tension between data sharing mandates and intellectual property protection requires understanding both the regulations and the research context. These are the boundaries AI won't cross.
Assess your data readiness: AI tools for this area need data to work. Check whether your organization has the historical data, integrations, and data quality to support DMP tools tools.

Without a baseline, you can't measure whether AI actually improved anything. You'll adopt tools without knowing if they're working.

2

Define Your Measures

What to track and how to calculate it

Time per cycle

How to calculate

Measure how long support research data management and sharing compliance takes end-to-end today, then after AI adoption.

Why it matters

The most visible improvement is speed. If AI doesn't save time, question whether it's adding value.

Quality of output

How to calculate

Track error rates, rework frequency, or stakeholder satisfaction scores before and after.

Why it matters

Speed without quality is just faster mistakes. Measure both.

When to check: Check after 30 days of consistent use, then quarterly.
The commitment: Give new tools at least 30 days before judging. The first week is always awkward.
What NOT to measure: Don't measure AI adoption rate as a KPI. Adoption follows value — if the tool helps, people use it.
3

Start These Conversations

Who to talk to and what to ask

your VP Operations or COO

How much of support research data management and sharing compliance follows repeatable rules vs. requires genuine judgment — and can we quantify that?

They're prioritizing which operational processes to automate

your process improvement or lean lead

If support research data management and sharing compliance were fully AI-assisted, which exceptions would still need a human — and are those the high-value parts?

They understand the workflow dependencies that AI tools need to respect

4

Check Your Prerequisites

Confirm readiness before you invest

Check items as you confirm them.