Table 5 Summary of STARDIT Beta Version data fields
From: Standardised data on initiatives—STARDIT: Beta version
Section | Data category | Data field | |
|---|---|---|---|
Core: Initiative context—This information locates the initiative within a clear context | Identifying information | Initiative name* | |
Geographic location(s)* | |||
Purpose of the initiative (aims, objectives, goals)* | |||
Organisations or other initiatives involved (list all if multi-centre)* | |||
Relevant publicly accessible URLs/URIs | |||
Other identifiers (e.g. RAiD [166], clinical trial ID [167, 168]) | |||
Keywords or metatags—including relevant search headings (e.g. MeSH [169]) | |||
Other relevant information (free text) | |||
Status of initiative | What is the current state of the initiative?* Select from: 1. Prospective—this report is prospective or describes planned activity 2. Ongoing—the initiative is still taking place 3. Completed—the initiative has finished (evaluation and impact assessment may be ongoing) | ||
Date range (start and end dates of initiative) | |||
Methods and paradigms | Methods of the initiative (what is planned to be done, or is being reported as done). Include information about any populations or eco-systems being studied, any ‘interventions’, comparators and outcome measures (qualitative or quantitative)* If appropriate, include a link to a publicly accessible document (such as a research protocol or project plan) | ||
Include any information about theoretical or conceptual models or relevant ‘values’ of people involved with this initiative, including any rationale for why certain methods were chosen | |||
Report authorship—Information about who completed the report and how Please note this section can be completed multiple times if there are multiple authors | Identifying information for each author (authors can be anonymised in the public report but at least one verified identity will need to be sent to STARDIT Editors to attempt to prevent falsified reports) | Name* | |
Publicly accessible profiles, institutional pages* | |||
Open Researcher and Contributor ID (orcid.org)* | |||
Tasks in report completion | |||
Other information | |||
Accountability | Key contact at initiative for confirming report content (include institutional email address)* | ||
Date | Date of report submission (automatically generated) | ||
Input: Ethics assessment | Ethics approval information (if applicable) | Assessing organisation or group* | |
Approval date and approval ID—include any relevant URL | |||
Input: Human involvement in initiative Who is involved in this initiative and how? Editors assessing involvement may need to use the STARDIT ‘Indicators of involvement’ tool | Details about how each group or individual was involved in the initiative | Who was involved or how would you label those involved (select from group labels or submit new group label name in free-text)* You can name individuals or use ‘labels’ to describe groups of people such as ‘professional researchers’, ‘service users’ or ‘research participants’. Additional ‘labels’ or ‘meta-tags’ to describe people may be added if appropriate | |
How many people were in each grouping label? | |||
Tasks of this person or group (list as many as possible)*—including any information about why certain people were included or excluded in certain tasks (such as data analysis) | |||
Method of doing task? How did these people complete these tasks? (what methods were used)—for example ‘group discussion’ or ‘reviewing documents’ | |||
Communication modes? What modes of communication were used—for example, ‘group video calls’, ‘telephone interviews’ or ‘postal survey’ | |||
How were people recruited, contacted or informed about these tasks? | |||
Involvement appraisal | Methods of appraising and analysing involvement (assessing rigour, deciding outcome measures, data collection and analysis) | ||
Enablers of involvement (what do you expect will help these people get involved—or what helped them get involved) Examples of enablers | |||
Barriers of involvement (what do you expect will inhibit these people from getting involved—or what inhibited them from getting involved). Are there any known equity issues which may contribute? Examples of barriers, and any attempts to overcome them | |||
How did the initiative change as a result of involving people? For example, did the initiative design or evaluation plan change? Note: this can be answered separately for different individuals or groupings of people | |||
Involvement outcomes, impacts or outputs | Were there any outcomes, impacts or outputs from people being involved?* When describing these, attempt to label which groupings were affected and how. These can include impacts on people, organisations, processes or other kinds of impacts | ||
Learning points from involving people | What worked well, what could have been improved? Was anything learned from the process of involving these people? | ||
Stage | Which stage of the initiative were these people involved? (please provide information about any distinct stages of this initiative, noting some may overlap) | ||
Financial or other interests (including personal or professional interests) | Describe any interests (financial or otherwise), conflicting or competing interests, or how anyone involved may be personally, financially or professionally affected by the outcome of the initiative* Including any relevant information about authors of this report | ||
Input: Material involvement in initiative Mapping financial or other ‘interests’ | Financial | What was the estimated financial cost for the initiative | |
Funding information (link to publicly accessible URL if possible)—this may include the project funder, funding agreements, grants, donations, public ledgers, transaction data or relevant block(s) in a blockchain | |||
Time | How much time was spent on this project Note: this can be answered separately for different individuals or groupings of people | ||
Other | Describe any costs or resources that cannot be measured financially or quantitatively—this may include expertise, traditional or Indigenous knowledge, volunteer time or donated resources | ||
Outputs: Data including code, hardware designs or other relevant information | Sensitive data | Secure criteria | Data adheres to relevant industry/discipline data security requirements |
Repository | How is data entered, changed or removed within a repository? | ||
Usage | Who is the data from this initiative shared with? | ||
Who has access to sensitive data and how is this decided? | |||
Safety | Is data encrypted? Is it anonymised or de-identified? What methods are used for re-identification? What is the risk of unauthorised re-identification? | ||
Open data | FAIR criteria | Data adheres to FAIR criteria [170] | |
Findable | Describe relevant metadata, how the data is machine readable and other relevant information | ||
Accessible | How can data be accessed—include any information about authentication and authorisation | ||
Interoperable | How is data interoperable or integrated with other data? Include information about applications or workflows for analysis, storage, and processing, and resulting file formats or other outputs | ||
Reusable | How can data be replicated and/or combined? | ||
Indigenous data | CARE principles | ||
Collective Benefit | How will Indigenous Peoples derive benefit from the data | ||
Authority to Control | How will Indigenous Peoples and their governing bodies determine how relevant data are represented and identified | ||
Responsibility | How will those using the data provide evidence of these efforts and the benefits accruing to Indigenous Peoples | ||
Ethics | How have Indigenous Peoples’ rights and wellbeing been centred during the data life cycle | ||
All data | Hosting | Where is it data stored and hosted -share any location data if appropriate | |
Owner | Who ‘owns’ the data or claims any kind of copyright, patent(s), or other specific types of intellectual property—include relevant open licensing information | ||
Analysis methods | Describe methods used to analyse the data (including a link to any relevant code and information about validity) | ||
Usage | How can data be used? Include information about license and attribution | ||
Dissemination | How is information about this data disseminated? For example, how are results from analysis shared? | ||
Impact | impact/effect of the output | ||
Data control | Who controls access to the data? How are decisions about data access made? Is data anonymised or de-identified? What methods are used for re-identification? What is the risk of unauthorised re-identification? How is this risk managed? | ||
Management and quality | Which person (or organisation) is responsible for managing (or ‘curating’) the data? | ||
Who is accountable for ensuring the quality and integrity of the data? (this may be an individual or organisation) | |||
Impacts and outputs: Publications, events, changes, learning items etc | What was learned | What new knowledge has been generated? (if appropriate, include effect size, relevant statistics and level or evidence)* | |
Knowledge translation | Describe how the learning or knowledge generated from this initiative has or will be used | ||
Impacts | Have there been any outcomes, or has anything changed or happened as a result of this initiative that isn’t captured in previous answers?* | ||
Measurement and evaluation | How has or how will this be measured or evaluated? | ||
Who is involved in measuring or evaluating this? | |||
Who was or is involved in deciding on the outcomes used to evaluate any impacts or outcomes? How were they involved? | |||
Information completed by Editors | |||
STARDIT report version number (assigned) | Report number assigned to distinguish it from any future updated reports | ||
Indicators completed by Editors and/or peer reviewers Editors and peer reviewers assessing the report will need to look for indicators in the following categories on publicly accessible URLs* | Indicators of involvement | Use the STARDIT ‘Indicators of involvement’ tool | |
Indicators of data practice compliance | Use the relevant criteria | ||
Indicators of translation and impact | |||
Other indicators | |||