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Research Data: the Big Picture
Natasha Simons
QUT, 24 September 2014
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.
What do we mean by Research Data?
Diagram sources:
1. http://www.lib.sfu.ca/research-commons/research/research-lifecycle
2. http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/campaigns/res3/jischelp.aspx
Policy
Metrics
Publishing
Why should “WE” CARE about data?
Collaborations
Funding
Global
Future...
International initiatives
OECD principles and guidelines for access to research
data from public funding 2007
“Access to research data increases the returns from
public investment in this area; reinforces open
scientific inquiry; encourages diversity of studies
and opinion; promotes new areas of work and
enables the exploration of topics not envisioned by
the initial investigators”.
http://www.oecd.org/sti/scitech/oecdprinciplesandguidelinesforaccesstoresearchdatafrompublicfunding.htm
International
context– Digital Agenda
European Commission
“... taxpayers who are paying for that research will
want to see something back. ... That's why we will
require open access to all publications stemming
from EU-funded research. That's why we will
progressively open access to the research data, too.
And why we're asking national funding bodies to do
the same.”
Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European
Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda
Opening Up Scientific Data , speech by Nellie Kroes given at the Launch of the Research Data Alliance/Stockholm, 18 March
2013 http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_SPEECH-13-236_en.htm
International initiatives
Research Councils UK Common Principles on Data Policy
Principles #1
Publicly funded research data are a public good,
produced in the public interest, which should be
made openly available with as few restrictions as
possible in a timely and responsible manner that does
not harm intellectual property.
http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/datapolicy/
UK – Digital Curation Centre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JBQS0qKOBU
Govt
open
data
portals
G8 Open
Data
Charter
“Open data can increase transparency about what government
and business are doing. Open data also increase awareness
about how countries’ natural resources are used, how extractives
revenues are spent, and how land is transacted and managed. All
of which promotes accountability and good governance,
enhances public debate, and helps to combat corruption”.
European Union open data portal http://open-data.europa.eu/en/data/
UK open data portal http://data.gov.uk
US open data portal https://www.data.gov
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-data-charter/g8-open-data-charter-and-technical-annex
USA - Obama Administration
In February 2013, the Obama Administration took an important step to increase public
access to the results of research funded by the Federal Government, focusing on two
key products of funded research: peer-reviewed scholarly publications and scientific
data. The memorandum to the heads of all executive departments and agencies
recommends that:
“...digitally formatted scientific data resulting from unclassified research supported
wholly or in part by Federal funding should be stored and publicly accessible to search,
retrieve, and analyze.”
This memo extends policies already in place of the National Science Foundation and
National Institutes of Health and broadens such policies out to all federally funded
research (e.g. Department of Energy, National Laboratories, etc).
On the Clock: Open Data Executive Order
The White House
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n603rEnEGXA
USA - National Science Foundation
The NSF requires that, in an application for funding, Senior
personnel should include: A list of: (i) up to five products
most closely related to the proposed project; and (ii) up to
five other significant products, whether or not related to
the proposed project. Acceptable products must be citable
and accessible including but not limited to publications,
data sets, software, patents, and copyrights.
See
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/policydocs/pappguide/nsf13001/gpg_2.jsp#IIC2fic
International initiatives
National Institutes of Health USA Data Sharing policy
“Data sharing is essential for expedited translation
of research results into knowledge, products and
procedures to improve human health”.
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/data_sharing/
Whose data is it anyway? Yale School of Medicine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzfWxI5Ap2I
Government
- federal
Australia - data.gov.au
“…provides an easy way to find, access and
reuse public datasets from Government. The
main purpose of the site is to encourage public
access to and reuse of government data by
providing it in useful formats under open
licences. It was created following the
Government’s Declaration of Open
Government and response to the Government
2.0 Taskforce Report. ”
https://data.gov.au/about
Australia – Chief Scientistcontext
Chief
Scientist
“The collaborative response to global challenges isn’t
possible unless we get [research infrastructure]
fundamentals right first, and one of those fundamentals
is sharing high quality research data.”
Professor Ian Chubb AC, Chief Scientist
http://www.ands.org.au/newsletters/newsletter-2014-07.pdf
Government - state
data.qld.gov.au
National policy
Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of
Research (NHMRC, 2007)
Section 2: Management of Research Data & Primary Materials
“The responsible conduct of research includes the proper
management and retention of the research data. …The central
aim is that sufficient materials and data are retained to justify
the outcomes of the research and to defend them if they are
challenged. The potential value of the material for further
research should also be considered, particularly where the
research would be difficult or impossible to repeat.”
https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/guidelines/publications/r39
Code awareness ANDS Guide: http://www.ands.org.au/guides/code-awareness.html
Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of
National policy
Research (NHMRC, 2007)
Section 2: Management of Research Data & Primary Materials
“Each institution must have a policy on the retention of materials
and research data. It is important that institutions acknowledge
their continuing role in the management of research material and
data .”
“The Research Data Management policy sets out the
responsibilities of the University, Faculty representatives and
individual researchers with regard to the management,
storage, retention and ownership of and access to research
data. The new policy also assists researchers and the
University in meeting new ARC funding requirements, the
requirements of the Australian Code for the Responsible
Conduct of Research and the University's Research Code of
Conduct(PDF)”. University of Sydney
http://sydney.edu.au/news/research_support/2379.html?newsstoryid=12945
Australian
context
ARC
Australian Research
Council
ARC Discovery Grant requirements, February 2014
A11.5.2 Researchers and institutions have an obligation to care
for and maintain research data in accordance with the Australian
Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research (2007). The ARC
considers data management planning an important part of the
responsible conduct of research and strongly encourages the
depositing of data arising from a Project in an appropriate
publically accessible subject and/or institutional repository.
ARC Discovery Program Funding Rules 2015
Funding bodies
Australian Research Council
ARC Discovery Grant requirements, February 2014
Researchers are now required as part of the application process for National
Competitive Grants Program funding to outline how they plan to manage
research data arising from ARC-funded research.
Outline plans for the management of data produced as a result of the
proposed research, including but not limited to storage, access and re-use
arrangements*.
“The Final Report must outline how data arising from the Project have been
made publicly accessible where appropriate.”**
* ARC Discovery Program Application Form
** ARC Discovery Program Funding Agreement
ANDS guide: http://ands.org.au/datamanagement/guide-to-filing-in-the-data-management-section-for-the-arc-march2014.pdf
Publishers
Publishers - Public Library of Science (PLOS)
New data policy, December 2013
“PLOS journals require authors to make all data
underlying the findings described in their
manuscript fully available without restriction, with
rare exception”.
http://www.plosone.org/static/policies#sharing
Publishers – Data repositories
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Publishers
Publishers - Nature
“An inherent principle of publication is that others
should be able to replicate and build upon the
authors' published claims.
Therefore, a condition of publication in a Nature
journal is that authors are required to make
materials, data and associated protocols promptly
available to readers without undue qualifications”.
http://www.nature.com/authors/policies/availability.html
Publishers – Data journals
http://www.nature.com/sdata/
Launched May 2014
Researchers – data management and sharing
Researchers – new collaborations
“The Open Source
Malaria project is trying a
different approach to
curing malaria. Guided
by open source
principles, everything is
open and anyone can
contribute”.
http://opensourcemalaria.org/
Sponsors: Google, PLoS, Wellcome Trust
Awards presented by: Bill Gates, Barak Obama
Data Sharing: good for science, good for you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJbo-OAaJ1I
Researchers
Data reuse and the Open Data Citation Advantage
Heather Piwowar and Todd Vision
The citation benefit intensified over time...
 ...with publications from 2004 and 2005 cited 30
per cent more often if their data was freely
available.
 Every 100 papers with open data prompted 150
"data reuse papers" within five years
 Original authors tended to use their data for only
two years, but others re-used it for up to six
years.
Piwowar HA, Vision TJ. (2013) Data reuse and the open data citation advantage. PeerJ 1:e175
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.175
Data management - DataCite
Why cite data?
“We believe that you should cite data in just the same way that you can
cite other sources of information, such as articles and books. Data citation
can help by:
•enabling easy reuse and verification of data
•allowing the impact of data to be tracked
•creating a scholarly structure that recognises and rewards data
producers”.
http://www.datacite.org/whycitedata
Data management – Research Data Alliance
https://rd-alliance.org/
Data management – ANDS
Research Data & Librarians
Resources:
•ANDS Research Data and Librarians pamphlet
•Research Data Librarians playlist on YouTube channel:
•www.youtube.com/user/andsdata (includes “Becoming a (research) data
librarian…the adventures of Philippa Broadley”)
•Data reuse stories: http://www.ands.org.au/discovery/reuse.html
•Sensitive data guide – published this month on ANDS website
ANDS CAUL joint activities:
•ANDS CAUL ORCID Roundtable (July)
•ANDS CAUL Research Data Workshop for University Librarians (Sept)
•ANDS CAUL webinar series:
• Connecting the dots (July)
• ORCID: Aus & NZ (August)
• Developing library research data services
(tomorrow!)
ANDS webinars and events:
www.ands.org.au/events/index.html