ro advisory kickoff slides

Sean BechhoferUniversity of Manchester

sean.bechhofer@manchester.ac.uk@seanbechhofer

RO Advisory Kick Off

Research Objects

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Why? Publication• Publications are about argumentation: Convince

the reader of the validity of a position [Mesirov]– Reproducible Results System: facilitates

enactment and publication of reproducible research.

• Results are reinforced by reproducability [De Roure]– Explicit representation of method.

• Verifiability as a key factor in scientific discovery.

J. Mesirov Accessible Reproducible Research Science 327(5964), p.415-416, 2010 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1179653J. Mesirov Accessible Reproducible Research Science 327(5964), p.415-416, 2010 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1179653

D. De Roure and C. Goble Anchors in Shifting Sand: the Primacy of Method in the Web of Data Web Science Conference 2010, Raleigh NC, 2010 http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/20817/

D. De Roure and C. Goble Anchors in Shifting Sand: the Primacy of Method in the Web of Data Web Science Conference 2010, Raleigh NC, 2010 http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/20817/

Stodden et. al. Reproducible Research: Addressing the Need for Data and Code Sharing in Computational Science Computing in Science and Engineering 12(5), p.8-13, 2010 http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MCSE.2010.113

Stodden et. al. Reproducible Research: Addressing the Need for Data and Code Sharing in Computational Science Computing in Science and Engineering 12(5), p.8-13, 2010 http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MCSE.2010.113

Why? Reproducible Science

3Goble: SSI Collaborations Workshop 2014Goble: SSI Collaborations Workshop 2014

Why? Preservation

4Wf4Ever Final Review PresentationsWf4Ever Final Review Presentations

Experimental Lifecycle

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ROs as a Currency

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CreatorContributorCollaborator

CuratorReader FinderTrainer

ComparatorRe-User

EvaluatorReviewerTraineeTrainerReader

Publisher

Curator

Librarian

RepositoryManager

• An aggregation object that bundles together experimental resources that are essential to a computational scientific study or investigation. – An identity– A suite of annotations (which can be about this

bundle and/or the resources of the bundle)– Aggregated Resources:

data used results produced in an experiment study; (computational) methods employed to

produce and analyse that data; people involved in the investigation.

Research Objects

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Annotations• Essential to the understanding and interpretation of

the scientific outcomes captured by a Research Object as well as the reuse of the resources within it. – Provenance information about the experiments, the

study or any other experimental resources– Evolution information about the Research Object

and its resources, – Descriptions of computational methods– Dependency information or settings

about the experiment executions

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RO Core

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identification

aggregation

annotation

dependencies

provenance

checklists

versioning

MinimInformationModel Ontology

W3C PROVPAV, VoID

Git

OAI-ORE

W3C OAM

DOI, ORCID, PURL

Vocabularies and Domains• Thinking to date has been focused on “workflow-

centric” ROs (cf. Wf4Ever presentation to come)– Vocabularies covering, e.g. workflow abstractions

and provenance information• Need focus on other use cases, domains and problems

– RO Advisory Board!

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