Because good research needs good data

Funded by:

© Digital Curation Centre, 2009. Licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 2.5 Scotland:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/scotland/

Data and the web manager

Kevin Ashley

Director, DCC

director@dcc.ac.uk

CC-BY

Because good research needs good data

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Because good research needs good data

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Because good research needs good data

2012-06-18 Kevin Ashley, DCC; IWMW12; CC-BY 4

Because good research needs good data

2012-06-18 Kevin Ashley, DCC; IWMW12; CC-BY 5

Because good research needs good data

2012-06-18 Kevin Ashley, DCC; IWMW12; CC-BY 6

Because good research needs good data

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Because good research needs good data

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•OPEN DATA•LINKED DATA

•RESEARCH DATA•ACTIVITY DATA

•SENSITIVE DATA

Because good research needs good data

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An explosion of data…

Because good research needs good data

•PDB

•GenBank

•UniProt

•Pfam

Spreadsheets, Notebooks

Local, Lost

CATH, SCOP

(Protein Structure Classification)

ChemSpider

“small science” : the long tail

•Slide: Carole Goble

Because good research needs good data

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22.0 3540304 232. -12 0.90000343 1e20 -0.000232323 234E15 7656 27627 27e7 2 2 3838 47264 1737 4737 1 2 3 4 4 1 1666 233 2737 173727 1737 2727 36564 522 22 1 283 2384756519957635 272 3727 273 1727 3727 1 3764 3636 4 2626 1636 45766162 737 27 5 2 273 47475899746 37647 76377 4747 3737

Because good research needs good data

Enough of anything becomes data…• Tag galaxy: http://taggalaxy.de/• Amsterdam: http://vimeo.com/2312662

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Because good research needs good data

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Why care?

• Data is expensive – an investment• Reuse:

• More research• Teaching & Learning• Planning

• Impact – with or without publication• Accountability• Legal & regulatory requirements

Because good research needs good data

5-year programme to realise maximum value and benefit from research data

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Focus on creating capacity and capability within research institutions

National services, support, coordination from DCC

Because good research needs good data

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Without good RDM – BAD THINGS HAPPEN

With good RDM – GOOD STUFF HAPPENS

Because good research needs good data

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Funder pressures

Researcher demand

Legal issues

Value Realisation

Because good research needs good data

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http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/about/standards/researchdata/Pages/expectations.aspx

EPSRC expects all those institutions it funds

•to develop a roadmap that aligns … with EPSRC’s expectations by 1st May 2012;

•to be fully compliant … by 1st May 2015.

Because good research needs good data

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• Awareness of regulatory environment

• Data access statement

• Policies and processes

• Data storage

• Structured metadata descriptions

• DOIs for data

• Securely preserved for a minimum of 10 years from last use

Because good research needs good data

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•NERC

•European Commission

•Wellcome

•MRC

•ESRC

•BBSRC

•NSF

Because good research needs good data

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TOOLS & SERVICES

ON-SITE SUPPORT

ADVICE

Because good research needs good data

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Because good research needs good data

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Understanding Data Requirements

http://www.dcc.ac.uk/

Because good research needs good data

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Data management plans

Because good research needs good data

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How to cite data

What data to keep

Because good research needs good data

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Data Licensing

• Bespoke licences• Standard licences• Multiple licensing• Licence mechanisms

Because good research needs good data

Institutional Engagement

• In-depth support from team of DCC staff• Helping with:

• Re-skilling• Policy development• Costing• Use of tools• Professional liaison

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Because good research needs good data

•Institutional Policy

•…article in

•International Journal of Digital Curation www.ijdc.net

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Because good research needs good data

•Institutional Policy

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Because good research needs good data

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Because good research needs good data

What’s it to you ?• Discovery is key• Integration of data with institutional web

presence• Highlighting, visualising the gems• Linking what you have & what you claim

credit for• Customising our tools

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Because good research needs good data

Don’t put stuff in boxes

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Publication Repository

Web CMS

Research Admin (CRIS)

Our data RepositoryTheir data

Repository

OER Repository

Because good research needs good data

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Data in, data out…

Andy Todd @ building-blocks.com

Because good research needs good data

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Because good research needs good data

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Because good research needs good data

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Why care?

• Data is expensive – an investment• Reuse:

• More research• Teaching & Learning• Planning

• Impact – with or without publication• Accountability• Legal & regulatory requirements

Because good research needs good data

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Early results: public data archiving increases scientific contribution by one third

Because good research needs good data

Data drives impact• Making data:

• Findable• Reusable• Visible• Shared• Linked to publications

• … increases reuse, citation & impact

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Because good research needs good data

Letting data out to play• http://www.globe4d.com/

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Because good research needs good data

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•OVER TO YOU

•http://slideshare.net/kevinashley

•Or2012.ed.ac.uk 9-13 July 2012

IDCC13

14-16 January 2013

Amsterdam

Call for papers now open