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Deakin University Workshop
Why do we care? Why do we share?
What is Research Data?
Karen Visser
What do we mean
by Research
Data?
Diagram sources:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/campaigns/res3/jischelp.aspx
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Policy,
Copyright, IP
compliance
Reputation
Institutional
Income &
Asset
Citation
Metrics &
altmetrics
Why is research data such a HOT TOPIC?
“Client” (et al) needs –
as publishers, resource
seekers, researchers,
learners ++
Publishing,
Collections
Global
networks collaborations
Data is the
Future...
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Researchers
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…the World Ocean Atlas and World Ocean Database, has been
cited or referenced in over 8,500 journal articles
since it was first released in 1982. To put that into perspective,
this data set has a citation count over six times higher
than any single journal article in oceanography
from 1982 to the present.
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http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2014/05/15/global-level-data-sets-highly-cited/
Funders
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Funders & Policy
Australian Research Council
Australia – Declaration of
Open Government 2010
ARC Discovery Grant requirements
February 2014
Australian Code for the Responsible
Conduct of Research (NHMRC, 2007)
Section 2: Management of Research Data &
Primary Materials
Australia’s 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.” Aug 2014
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Funders & Policy
Antarctic Treaty 1959
National Institutes of
Health USA Data
Sharing policy +
Obama Feb 2013
OECD principles and
guidelines for access to
research data from public
funding 2007
Research Councils UK
Common Principles
on Data Policy 2014
European Commission – Digital Agenda 2013
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http://www.slideshare.net/MasahikoShoji/open-data-in-japan-14338746
Governments
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Aus Government portals
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Government - state
https://www.data.vic.gov.au/
G8 Open Data Charter
US open data portal https://www.data.gov
http://open-data.europa.eu/en/data/
UK open data portal http://data.gov.uk
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-data-charter/g8-open-data-charter-and-technical-annex
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https://www.rdsi.edu.au/nodes
Research data as an
institutional asset
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Publishers
Research Institutions
The University understands that doing so [managing research
data] will contribute to
increased research impact,
enhanced research practice (including collaboration) and
improved educational outcomes,
all of which add value to the institution’s education and
research agenda.
- Prof Ian Smith, Vice-Provost (Research & Research Infrastructure, Monash University)
http://ands.org.au/newsletters/newsletter-2014-20.pdf
Publishing data
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Publishers
Nature
“…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
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
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http://researchdata.ands.org.au
http://www.melbourneinstitute.com/hilda/
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http://researchdata.ands.org.au/household-income-labour-hilda-survey/186604
http://trove.nla.gov.au/
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Metrics products
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Open data
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Metadata
Data
Private
Private
Public
Mediated
Public
Public
ANDS Guide to Publishing and Sharing Sensitive Data
http://ands.org.au/guides/sensitivedata.pdf
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Tricky Questions?
Provocative comments?
[email protected]
ands.org.au
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