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Joint Information Systems Committee WIS Workshop on Information Access Enablers Matthew J. Dovey JISC Programme Director (e- Research)
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WIS Workshop on Information Access Enablers
Matthew J. Dovey
JISC Programme Director (e-Research)
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JISC in the UK Higher Education Context
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JISC Support for Research Programmes
JISC Strategic Theme Programme Activities
People Research Communities Engagement • e-Research Roadshows• e-Research Events/Conferences• Institutional ICT Support Models• Requirements and “Evidence Base”
Collaboration Virtual Research Environments • VRE Status Review• VRE Community Support• VRE Innovation Projects• e-Lab Notebook Review• Research Project Resource Modelling
Research Data Research Data Management
• Defining Strategy and Policy• Building Infrastructure and Improving Processes• Planning Tools and Methodologies• Demonstrating Benefits• Building Capacity and Skills
Infrastructure Research Infrastructures • National Grid Service• ESFRI Workshops• Cloud Computing and Virtualisation• NaCTeM• e-InfraNet
Access Access and Identity Management • Identity Management Toolkit• Identity Management Landscape Studies• Future look Innovation Projects
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Data Digitization
Virtual Environments for Research in Archaeologyhttp://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/vre2/vera.aspx
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Data Digitization
VRE for Study of Ancient Documents and Manuscripts: http://bvreh.humanities.ox.ac.uk/VRE-SDM
e-Science and Ancient Documents: http://www.ahessc.ac.uk/image-text-interpretation
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Opening up systems - JISC/RLUK Resource Discovery Task Vision
UK students and researchers will have easy, flexible access to content and services through a collaborative, aggregated and integrated resource discovery and delivery framework which is comprehensive, open and sustainable
Graphics courtesy of the JISC web2practice project: http://www.netskills.ac.uk/content/projects/2008/JISC-web2practice/index.html
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Opening Up Systems – Mash-Ups
Deconstruct process into task focused modules
Simple interfaces “just do enough”
Documented interfaces and formats
Allow access points rather than force user interface
– Allow users to do stuff with your data/metadata
(Open Data; Linked Data)
Persistence of reference (Smart URLs)– Bad: http://search.gov/sru2xml.php?
– Good: http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79737
Example mashups:
– JISC Rapid Innovation Projects: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/inf11/jiscri.aspx
– VRERI: http://code.google.com/p/vreri/
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Opening Participation
Social Networking for Researchers
– MyExperiment and NeISS allow researchers to shared data, workflow, processes, simulations, visualisations, etc. ala MySpace/Facebook/ManyEyes/NetVibes etc.
• www.myexperiment.org/
• www.neiss.org.uk
– Open Science/Citizen Science allow public participation in the process e.g. Galaxy Zoo
• www.galaxyzoo.org
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Trust – Document, Document, Document!
What the data is
How to interpret the data
Provenance of data
How the data collected/created
Why the data collected/created
Analysis and process
– What analysis applied, how data was selected, when data selected, what software, what software version, what platform
Access restrictions
– CLARIAN project – Embargo Manager - http://clarionproject.wordpress.com/
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Changing Behaviour – JISC Research Data Management Programme
Building support capacity within Universities
– PegBoard (http://www.paleo.bris.ac.uk/projects/peg-board/blog/)
Building support capacity within Research Groups
Incentives
– Data Publication and accreditation
• Overlay Journal Infrastructure for Meteorological Sciences (OJIMS) -http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/reppres/sue/ojims.aspx
• DataCite - www.datacite.org
• CODATA - www.codata.org
• Current funding call
– Strand A: Citing, Linking and Integrating Research Data
– Strand B: Innovative Publications for Research Datahttp://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2009/12/1409researchdata.aspx
Digital Curation Centre – promoting good practice between Universities and Research Communities
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Some Key Messages
Linking data and publication – data as publication
Enable end users and intermediaries by providing simple documented task-focused persistent interfaces/access points to data and process
Deliver “just enough” quickly rather than “perfection never”
Document all points (interfaces, data formats, provenance, assumptions, etc) in the data supply chain
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Questions?
