Transcript Open the Data Doors to Perception Stuart Macdonald (EDINA

Open the Data Doors to Perception
Stuart Macdonald (EDINA / Edinburgh University Data Library)
Luis Martinez (LSE Data Library)
8-9 October 2007
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Chronology of ‘Openness’
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Open Standards
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Open Source
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(1998) Open Source Initiative, SourceForge software repository
Open Access
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WWW, HTML, XML, ODF, OAIPMH – interoperability
(2002) Budapest OA Initiative; (2003) Berlin Declaration – research outputs
Open Data
(2004) OECD Principles and Guidelines for Access to Research Data from Public
Funding – multi-disciplinary research data
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Open Sesame
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(2007) negative or dark data, open methodology, Google Palimpsest project
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Keeping informed:
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Digital Curation Blog - http://digitalcuration.blogspot.com/
Open Access News (Peter Suber) - http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html
RIN Team Blog - http://www.rin.ac.uk/team-blog
Open Knowledge Foundation Weblog - http://blog.okfn.org/
Peter Murray Rust’s Blog - http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/
OA Librarian - http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/
Free Our Data – the blog - http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/
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Moving Past Push Pins - http://blog.fortiusone.com/
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Collaborative software (web 2.0) - mashups / bricolage
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Numeric data visualisation
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Data360 – http://www.data360.org
Many Eyes – http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manayeyes/home
- aim is to “….democratize visualisation and to enable a new social kind of data analysis…”
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Swivel – http://www.swivel.com/
 Spatial data visualisation
GeoCommons – http://geocommons.com/
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Programmableweb - http://www.programmableweb.com/tag/mapping
- map or spatial mash-up ‘resource discovery tool’
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New Forms of Research: e-Research
 ICT is transforming the way research is
conducted
 Data-intensive research activities
 Infrastructure is currently being developed
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Libraries and e-Research
 Academic Libraries supporting research
 Groups exploring this area
 Suggested that Libraries can take up the role of
data curation
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DISC-UK DataShare
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THANK YOU
Luis Martinez – [email protected]
Stuart Macdonald – [email protected]
DISC-UK DataShare - http://www.disc-uk.org/datashare.html
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