Data and the webmanager

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

[email protected]

CC-BY


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•OPEN DATA•LINKED DATA

•RESEARCH DATA•ACTIVITY DATA

•SENSITIVE DATA



An explosion of data…


•PDB

•GenBank

•UniProt

•Pfam

Spreadsheets, Notebooks

Local, Lost

CATH, SCOP

(Protein Structure Classification)

ChemSpider

“small science” : the long tail

•Slide: Carole Goble



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

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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


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


Focus on creating capacity and capability within research institutions

National services, support, coordination from DCC



Without good RDM – BAD THINGS HAPPEN

With good RDM – GOOD STUFF HAPPENS



Funder pressures

Researcher demand

Legal issues

Value Realisation



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.



• 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



•NERC

•European Commission

•Wellcome

•MRC

•ESRC

•BBSRC

•NSF



TOOLS & SERVICES

ON-SITE SUPPORT

ADVICE





Understanding Data Requirements

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



Data management plans



How to cite data

What data to keep



Data Licensing

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


Institutional Engagement

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

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



•Institutional Policy

•…article in

•International Journal of Digital Curation www.ijdc.net



•Institutional Policy





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



Don’t put stuff in boxes


Publication Repository

Web CMS

Research Admin (CRIS)

Our data RepositoryTheir data

Repository

OER Repository



Data in, data out…

Andy Todd @ building-blocks.com


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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



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


Data drives impact• Making data:

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

• … increases reuse, citation & impact



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




•OVER TO YOU

•http://slideshare.net/kevinashley

•Or2012.ed.ac.uk 9-13 July 2012

IDCC13

14-16 January 2013

Amsterdam

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