The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has released a new publication titled "Research Data Management: Principles, Practices and Prospects". This publication covers a project called DataRes at the University of North Texas (UNT) , and includes several papers that were presented at a symposium sponsored by DataRes at  in late 2012. The report can be found here:

http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub160

Martin Halbert, the Dean of the University of North Texas, has recently posted some helpful framing comments on the report on his blog at:

http://dean.library.unt.edu/CLIR_Research_Data_Management_Report

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI