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A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
UKOLN is supported by:
Curating the Scientific Record: The Challenges Ahead
Dr Liz Lyon, Director, UKOLN
Associate Director, UK Digital Curation Centre
NERC Data Management Workshop, October 2007.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons LicenceAttribution-ShareAlike 2.0
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Overview
1. Open science: trends and drivers.
2. Preservation and curation choices for the scientist.
3. Implications & challenges for NERC?
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A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
Open science: trends and drivers
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Open data: in the public domain….
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Data usability: presentation and visualisation
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Sharing data: Uploads and Ratings….
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Social networks for scientists
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“Big science”: data services beyond the discipline:multi-disciplinaryand public
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At the coalface: tagging & sharing workflows Astronomy, Bioinformatics, Chemistry, Social Science pilots.
Universities of Manchester & Southampton
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“Small science”: chemistry exemplar
Dr Cameron Neylon, STFC / Univ. Soton
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“Open Notebook Science” - Jean-Claude Bradley, Drexel Univ.
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New cohorts of postgraduates: millennials / Google generation
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Social networks mediating data-sharing
User feeds or scraping data from your hard disk….
How far can this go?
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A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
Preservation & curation choices for the scientist
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8 Preservation / Curation choices?
1. Disciplinary data centre2. Institutional / departmental / lab repository 3. Repository federation or network4. Public repository5. Web archiving service6. Commercial data store - Amazon S3 service7. Ecosystem of hosted lifebits services (Jon Udell) 8. None of these?
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Disciplinary model?
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Institutional model?
Crystallography repositories at the University of Southampton
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CreateDeposit
Link
Curate Preserve Standards
Scientist
Funder
Collaborate Share
User
Discover Re-use
eCrystals Federation Data Deposit Model
Link
Link
Scientist
Policy AdvocacyTraining
HarvestIR Federation
Publishers
Data centres / aggregator
servicesAdvisory
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Web archiving services
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Commercial data store?
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Microsoft Research SenseCam :
life-logging
Gordon Bell, Microsoft Research, MyLifeBits ProjectHosted lifebits service
for datacasts?
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A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
Implications & Challenges for NERC?
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UKOLN Liz Lyon June 2007 35 Recs for JISC
Roles, Rights, Responsibilities,
Relationships: scientist, institution, data centre, user, funder, publisher
RIN April 2007
5 Principles: Roles & responsibilities, standards & QA, access, usage & credit, benefits & cost-effectiveness, preservation & sustainability
Strategic approaches & policy
What does this mean for NERC?
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Data Strategy, Policy & Practice• “Strategic co-ordination with other research funding
organisations: joint strategy development”• What is the NERC position on open science?• Is NERC-funded data published on scientific social
networks?• What is NERC policy on data sharing using social networks?• Do data centres link to open data sources elsewhere? • How are science social networks embedded in the end-to-
end workflow and data capture?• Barriers? Resistance to change? NERC Culture?
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“Evaluate re-purposing of datasets”: how much NERC data is re-used?
“Identify the significant properties which facilitate re-use?”
ROI implications
Data re-use
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Sustainability and planning• “Commission a cost-benefit study of data curation &
preservation infrastructure”• JISC Study on Research data preservation costs (by Feb
2008)• RIN study on Economics in the life-cycle of scholarly
communications (Aug07-Jan08)• NSF / Mellon Blue Ribbon Task Force on economic
sustainability of digital preservation Co-chairs, Fran Berman (SDSC) & Brian Lavoie (OCLC) over 2 years
• NERC investment in data infrastructure should be linked to programme planning ? 5 year horizon ?
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Advocacy, Training and Skills
• “Messages need to be clear and consistent” • NERC advocacy programmes?• The researcher has some curatorial responsibility• “A study is needed to examine the role & career
development of data scientists”• NERC responsibility for training, skills and professional
development• Community proxy role of the data curator?• Enhance data handling skills within the under-graduate
curriculum• Millennials as native data scientists?
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• NERC partnerships: working with the DCC
• SCARP project addressing disciplinary requirements
• Data Centres Forum: exchange of experience
• Advocacy programmes targeted at disciplines
• Co-ordinating training to build workforce capacity
• New science, new knowledge: data is the key
Digital Curation Centre http://www.dcc.ac.uk/
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A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
Questions?
Slides will be available at :
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/e.j.lyon/presentations.html