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Because good research needs good data
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Dataplaces: what and where?
Martin Donnelly (in for Kevin Ashley)
Curation Research Officer, DCC
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DATA LIBRARY
DATA
WAREHOUSE
DATA ARCHIVE
DATA
REPOSITORY
DATABANK
DATA LiDL?
Dataplaces�
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Manage
StoreCurate
Own
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RLUK conference, Edinburgh – 20101111 Kevin Ashley, DCC CC-BY-SA
Open data = open GOVERNMENT data
RLUK conference, Edinburgh – 20101111 Kevin Ashley, DCC CC-BY-SA
OPEN (linked) data at the OPEN university
Publications; podcasts; course information; library catalogue
Open Educational Content; location info; people
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RLUK conference, Edinburgh – 20101111 Kevin Ashley, DCC CC-BY-SA
RLUK conference, Edinburgh – 20101111 Kevin Ashley, DCC CC-BY-SA
RLUK conference, Edinburgh – 20101111 Kevin Ashley, DCC CC-BY-SA
RLUK conference, Edinburgh – 20101111 Kevin Ashley, DCC CC-BY-SA
Tools to aid planning
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/dmponline
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“In preparing for
battle I have
always found that
plans are useless,
but planning is
indispensable.”
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UK Research Data Service – final report June 2010
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RLUK conference, Edinburgh – 20101111 Kevin Ashley, DCC CC-BY-SA
UKRDS plan
• Collaborative strategy – data centres, libraries,
archives, shared services
• National coordination
• Dataset registries – supporting discovery
• Growing skills
• Focus of expertise
• Working with funders on costing
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IF VOTING CHANGED
ANYTHING THEY’D
MAKE IT IL
LEGAL
RLUK conference, Edinburgh – 20101111 Kevin Ashley, DCC CC-BY-SA
New government – new plan
• Cloud infrastructure for research
• Services & data in cloud:
• Database as a service
• Dataset archiving
• Data transfer & collaboration
• Demand management
• Resource sharing
• Many aspects of UKRDS to continue
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• Know what’s yours
• Know where it is
• Know what the rules are
• Who gets to see it?
• Who decides to discard it?
• When do any of these things change?
• Consider it as part of your institution’s public
image
• Shout about it – even (especially!) when it lives
somewhere else
General messages?
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Let your data grow up
• Some data wants to grow up and leave home
• Some will stay with you
and@
• Some should never be allowed in your house
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Take home message?
• Be prepared to support your researchers in their
planning
• We want to help you to help them
• In doing so you’ll help your institution
THANKS