Working in collaboration with data centres

Elizabeth Newbold, The British Library

Presented at: DataCite Annual Conference Nancy France

August 25, 2014

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The British Library

• National Library of the United Kingdom created in 1972 by the British Library Act

• Receives one copy of every publication published in the UK and Ireland under Legal Deposit

• Collections cover all formats; sound, images, video, newspapers, maps, manuscripts, databases, books and journals, much more

• 3 million items incorporated into the collections every year

• Over 16,000 people use its collections every day

• Grows at 12km of shelving per year• UK member of DataCite

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The British Library and DataCite

• The British Library is one of the original founding members of DataCite (2009)

• In 2010/11 we started pilot projects with a small number of data centres

• From 2012 we moved from a pilot phase in to offering a full service in the UK and increased the number of participating data centres to 11

• Slowly growing and as of today we have 22 organisations using the service (with more in the pipeline!)

• We provide the DataCite infrastructure in the UK, enabling data centres to ‘mint’ DOIs for data

• We work collaboratively with the research data community to provide advocacy and guidance on data citation

Who we are currently working with – a wide range of interest

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Workshops

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Workshops and meetings

• Client meetings

• Workshop series– Workshop 1: An introduction to Data Citation and DataCite – Workshop 2: Describe, disseminate, discover: metadata for effective citation – Working with DataCite, a technical introduction – Workshop 3: Managing and Citing Sensitive Data – Workshop 4: What to cite: versioning and granularity of research data for effective citation – Workshop 5: Making citation work: practical issues for institutions – Workshop 6: Research data metrics for impact and citation

• Ad-hoc small meetings and workshops– UK DataCite workshop: Glasgow – White Rose Consortium meeting

• Workshops in partnership– Preparde Project – peer review of data workshops– Research Data Alliance Data Citation working group – workshop on citing dynamic data

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#datacite

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Guidance, advice and dissemination

Working in collaboration to provide information to:

data centres and libraries

researchers

publishers

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Practical demonstrations

• How to manually create and update DOIs with the DataCite infrastructure

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3GCkVl2mcw and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN1WPnGdQZo

Blog posts

Blogging about DataCite activities in the UK on the British Library Science Blog and as guest posts on other institutions

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Collaborative projects

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Collaborative projects - Opportunities for Data Exchange (ODE)

• A European-funded FP7 project, looking at way to support data sharing

• Involved in work streams around best practice in data citation and the role of libraries

– http://bit.ly/1cmOy9N

• A set of guides for each community on how to better enable data sharing

– http://bit.ly/15VHzNQ

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Collabortive projects – ODIN (ORCID and DataCite Interoperability Network)

Image from National Survey for Health and Development.

From their website: “MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL (LHA) is the home of the MRC National Survey of Health and Development (NSHD).”

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Further information

• Presentations from British Library workshops:– www.bl.uk/datasets

• ESRC guidance– http://www.esrc.ac.uk/funding-and-guidance/grant-holders/data-citation.aspx

• Outputs from ODE project– http://www.alliancepermanentaccess.org/index.php/community/current-proje

cts/ode/outputs/

• ODIN project outputs– http://odin-project.eu/project-outputs/deliverables/

• Presentations from Preparde workshop– http://

www2.le.ac.uk/projects/preparde/events/what-does-peer-review-of-data-mean-part-2

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Thank you

email: datasets@bl.uktwitter: @sciencebl