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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Open data = open GOVERNMENT data

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OPEN (linked) data at the OPEN university

Publications; podcasts; course information; library catalogue

Open Educational Content; location info; people

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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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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

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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