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Advancing the fourth paradigm of research:

Assimilating repositories into active

research phases

Tyler Walters

Dean, University Libraries, Virginia Tech

SPARC Conference, Kansas City, March 12, 2012

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The Rise of

Virtual Environments

Repositories are being woven into “virtual ecosystems,”

they are holistic and support communities of practice

• Early stages / deposit: raw/early phase data, notes, etc.

• Annotating, sharing within research groups, commenting, etc.

• Research proposal writing, project planning, etc.

• Tools:

• Discovery, analysis, visualization, and text/data/image mining

are being used in concert with repositories

• Virtual communities and their communication tools

• e.g., social media and community networking capabilities

Which projects are highlighted?

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TARDIS

Purdue University Research Repository | PURR

e-Research

Metaman MyTardis MyTardis

AustralianResearch Data

Commons

ORCA

MyTardis

RM4

Synchrotron

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Institutional Research

Data Registry

MX1 / MX2 Beamline

Researcher's Computer

Protein Crystallography

Research Data Management Platform

(for raw, processed, refined, and published data)

Metadata

Extraction

Monash Raw Data

Data & Metadata

Metadata

LEGEND

Protein Crystallography Research Data and Metadata Workflow Version 0.93/6/2011

Computer

Cluster

Research Admin

Repository

InstitutionalResearch

Data Registry

MyTardis

InstitutionalResearch

Data Registry

Proposed

MyTardis

The Australian Repositories

for Diffraction ImageS

MetadataHarvester

Future?:

Virtual lab

system

From Capture

to Publication

Early Stage/Deposit

• Move curation upstream in the data/information life cycle

• Automatically capture metadata, defined by the data producers

• Provide facilities for annotation and mark-up of data

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Early Stage:

The Active Curation Model

Active Curation

Social Media

Data

Metadata

Workflows

Review

Rating

Commenting

Tools and Toolkits

• A Critical Intersection in the ‘Virtual Ecosystem’ is:

• Developing toolkits for discovery, analysis, visualization,

and text/data/image mining… all are being used with

repositories

• Leveraging existing tools (open source and proprietary)

• Incorporating custom, discipline-specific tools

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Tools + Repositories

Tools & Toolkits

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Functionality:

• By data type

• Search

• Visualization

• Subsetting

• Analysis

• Services

Kepler

DMP-Tool

Investigator Toolkit Activities (from DataONE)

Plan

Collect

Assure

Describe

Preserve

Discover

Integrate

Analyze

Communities and

Communication

• Co-authorship

• Co-funding

• Micro-citation

• Shared project

repositories

• Shared tags

• Threaded discussions

• Quoting, forwarding, …

• (reviewing, commenting)

(slide from SEAD)

Working Group Support

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• File share

• Wikis

• To do lists

• Blogs

• Calendars

• Forums

• Project notes

• Commenting

• Tagging

• Proposal

writing

How do IRs and “papers” fit in? IRs are being leveraged in these new developments

• Services over an

active content layer that is backed by/harvested into a federated archive infrastructure based on institutional resources

(slide from SEAD)

Institutional Repositories

Network of Data Producers

Web User Interface

Active Content Repository

Services Provided

Virtual Archives

User Network

Data Conservancy

IU ICPSR

Content Mining

Curation Decisions

Archival data

generation

Other services

RPI UIUC UM

Linked Data and Repositories

• Tag and annotate data

• Overlay it with reference data

• Organize it in domain terminology

• Link it to people, papers, projects,

conversations…

(slide from SEAD)

Thank you…

Tyler Walters

tyler.walters@vt.edu

tywalters1 = Skype / Twitter

Acknowledgements for slides and conversations:

• Robert McDonald (Indiana), SEAD

• William Michener (New Mexico), DataONE

• Antohny Bietz and Steve Androulakis (Monash), TARDIS

• Michael Witt (Purdue), PURR

• Suzie Allard (Tennessee), ORNL DAAC

• Sayeed Chourdhury (Johns Hopkins), Data Conservancy

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