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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 5 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... 7 Researchers 8 …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. 10 http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2014/05/15/global-level-data-sets-highly-cited/ Funders 11 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 12 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 13 14 http://www.slideshare.net/MasahikoShoji/open-data-in-japan-14338746 Governments 15 Aus Government portals 16 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 19 https://www.rdsi.edu.au/nodes Research data as an institutional asset 20 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 22 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 25 http://researchdata.ands.org.au http://www.melbourneinstitute.com/hilda/ 26 27 http://researchdata.ands.org.au/household-income-labour-hilda-survey/186604 http://trove.nla.gov.au/ 29 Metrics products 30 Open data 31 32 Metadata Data Private Private Public Mediated Public Public ANDS Guide to Publishing and Sharing Sensitive Data http://ands.org.au/guides/sensitivedata.pdf 33 Tricky Questions? Provocative comments? [email protected] ands.org.au 34