access to research data: action is needed but what action
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access to research data: action is needed but what action
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my story
- Background information SURFfoundation- initiatives & activities
- Accessibility research data- Importance, urgency and questions
- coherence enhanced publications &
collaboratories
- Starting points & scenarios for the future- Possible answers- Conclusion
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some background information
- SURFfoundation- initiator of innovation in higher education and
research
- A focus area is scholarly communication- permanent access to research data, enhanced
publications & collaboratories
- Tried-and-tested SURF method for innovation: success through co-operation. - everything done with, for, & by staff
participating institutions on basis of calls
for tender
- involves carrying out studies, setting up
pilots, & organising small-scale grassroots
projects
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my work package
- Research data & access- Relatively small work package as part of
SURFshare program- Supporting other work packages - Deliverables are building blocks to be used
by universities as a starting point- Input for new SURF program 2012
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some initiatives
- Tangible building blocks
- 3 projects regarding guidelines for
preserving research data
- study legal status of raw data
- study organisational aspects of accessibility
of data
- Study about establishing a data centre- Research Data Forum
- Co-ordinating Group with representatives from
most important organisations in the field
- 3 working groups
- legal, technical, data stewardship
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accessibility data
- contradictory picture- few organisations and few initiatives- heterogeneous data infrastructure which
results in many different forms of data networking & management
- discipline orientated & based on existing organisations in research environment
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importance
- SURFfoundation stimulates creation of enhanced publication- precondition is availability of data
- SURFfoundation builds collaboratories with facilities for creating enhanced publications- precondition is accessibility of data
- Continuing changes scholarly communication- Changing role of libraries
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urgency
- Publishers work closely with & pamper researchers- researchers ask for possibilities for storage &
access but who is going to help them
- who wins the battle for the researchers
- Several publishers have adopted data policies- influence data policies of utmost importance
- ensure that data become & stay open data
- How to co-operate with publishers & which role will both stakeholders play - how to prevent universities only act as a
storage medium
- where is point of convergence
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my questions
- How to involve institutions & researchers to participate- time, manpower, money and perhaps interest is
lacking
- a few champions who share data is not enough
- why initiate writing data management plans
when the actual management is still unclear
- How to change existing attitude regarding ownership of data
- How to connect to the international environment
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possible scenarios
- do the absolutely necessary and nothing more
- researchers themselves take care for storage and access
- data repositories managed by libraries- national repositories for different
disciplines- 1 big national domain unspecific data
archive- cloud computing
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possible answers
starting point: researcher controls data
- explicit policies needed with allotting responsibilities
- allocation part funding for deposit data & data management
- accept several layered infrastructure- collaboratories
- clear arrangements for service providers- archiving & storage on (inter) national level
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conclusion
- data of growing importance in research environment
- many initiatives on (inter) national level- picture activities and roles of
stakeholders often incomplete- ambiguity which activities &
responsibilities belong where
quest which role SURF has to play, what initiatives to support, what role
universities are willing to play & how we can do this together
