Transcript Curating the Scientific Record: The Challenges Ahead Dr Liz Lyon, Director, UKOLN Associate Director, UK Digital Curation Centre NERC Data Management Workshop, October 2007. UKOLN.

Curating the Scientific Record:
The Challenges Ahead
Dr Liz Lyon, Director, UKOLN
Associate Director, UK Digital Curation Centre
NERC Data Management Workshop, October 2007.
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Overview
1. Open science: trends and drivers.
2. Preservation and curation choices for
the scientist.
3. Implications & challenges for NERC?
Open science: trends and drivers
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Open data: in the
public domain….
?
Data usability: presentation and visualisation
Sharing data: Uploads and Ratings….
?
Social networks
for scientists
“Big
science”:
data
services
beyond the
discipline:
multidisciplinary
and public
At the
coalface:
tagging &
sharing
workflows
Astronomy,
Bioinformatics,
Chemistry, Social
Science pilots.
Universities of
Manchester &
Southampton
“Small
science”:
chemistry
exemplar
Dr Cameron Neylon,
STFC / Univ. Soton
“Open Notebook Science” - Jean-Claude Bradley, Drexel Univ.
New cohorts of
postgraduates: millennials
/ Google generation
Social networks
mediating datasharing
User feeds or
scraping data from
your hard disk….
How far can this go?
Preservation & curation choices
for the scientist
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8 Preservation / Curation choices?
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Disciplinary data centre
Institutional / departmental / lab repository
Repository federation or network
Public repository
Web archiving service
Commercial data store - Amazon S3 service
Ecosystem of hosted lifebits services (Jon Udell)
None of these?
Disciplinary model?
Institutional
model?
Crystallography
repositories at
the University
of Southampton
Funder
Data centres /
aggregator
services
Scientist
Scientist
Create
Deposit
Advisory
IR Federation
Curate
Policy
Preserve
Advocacy
Standards Training
Collaborate
Share
Harvest
Link
Discover
Re-use
Link
Publishers
eCrystals Federation
Data Deposit Model
User
Link
Web
archiving
services
Commercial data store?
Microsoft
Research
SenseCam :
lifelogging
Hosted lifebits service
for datacasts?
Gordon Bell,
Microsoft Research,
MyLifeBits Project
Implications & Challenges
for NERC?
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Strategic approaches & policy
UKOLN Liz Lyon June 2007
35 Recs for JISC
Roles, Rights, Responsibilities,
Relationships: scientist,
institution, data centre, user,
funder, publisher
RIN April 2007
5 Principles: Roles &
responsibilities, standards &
QA, access, usage & credit,
benefits & cost-effectiveness,
preservation & sustainability
What does
this mean
for NERC?
Data Strategy, Policy & Practice
• “Strategic co-ordination with other research funding
organisations: joint strategy development”
• What is the NERC position on open science?
• Is NERC-funded data published on scientific social
networks?
• What is NERC policy on data sharing using social
networks?
• Do data centres link to open data sources
elsewhere?
• How are science social networks embedded in the
end-to-end workflow and data capture?
• Barriers? Resistance to change? NERC Culture?
Data re-use
“Evaluate re-purposing of
datasets”: how much NERC
data is re-used?
“Identify the significant
properties which facilitate reuse?”
ROI implications
Sustainability and planning
• “Commission a cost-benefit study of data curation
& preservation infrastructure”
• JISC Study on Research data preservation costs
(by Feb 2008)
• RIN study on Economics in the life-cycle of
scholarly communications (Aug07-Jan08)
• NSF / Mellon Blue Ribbon Task Force on economic
sustainability of digital preservation Co-chairs, Fran
Berman (SDSC) & Brian Lavoie (OCLC) over 2
years
• NERC investment in data infrastructure should be
linked to programme planning ? 5 year horizon ?
Advocacy, Training and Skills
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“Messages need to be clear and consistent”
NERC advocacy programmes?
The researcher has some curatorial responsibility
“A study is needed to examine the role & career
development of data scientists”
NERC responsibility for training, skills and
professional development
Community proxy role of the data curator?
Enhance data handling skills within the undergraduate curriculum
Millennials as native data scientists?
Digital Curation Centre
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/
• NERC partnerships: working with the DCC
• SCARP project addressing disciplinary requirements
• Data Centres Forum: exchange of experience
• Advocacy programmes targeted at disciplines
• Co-ordinating training to build workforce capacity
• New science, new knowledge: data is the key
Questions?
Slides will be available at :
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