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Research data: the big picture
Natasha Simons
Central Queensland University Workshop, Rockhampton
11 February 2015
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My research data story
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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/oecdprinciplesandguidelinesforaccesstoresearchdatafrompublicfundin
g.htm
International initiatives
European Commission – Digital Agenda
“... 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/pressrelease_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
Why Open Data?
• Transparency – of research, of government
• Confirm results – allows for verification and replication
• Facilitates creation of new tools – analysis, visualisation, knowledge
expansion
• Fuels new discoveries – engages researchers, engages public
“Open data are the building blocks of open
knowledge. Open knowledge is what open data
becomes when it’s useful, usable and used”
- Open Data Handbook, Open Knowledge Foundation, November 14, 2012
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
NIH USA
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
Australian government
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
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
National policy
Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of 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 .”
Funding bodies
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 ARCfunded 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
Discipline
repository for the
biosciences
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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
Data reuse and the Open Data Citation
Advantage
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
Researchers – sharing data enables 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
http://opensourcemalaria.org/
contribute”.
Sponsors: Google, PLoS, Wellcome Trust
Awards presented by: Bill Gates, Barak Obama
Future trends?
• Data deposited with article as a matter of
course?
• Increase in data citation, data reuse?
• Trend toward open data?
• Better linkages between data, articles,
researchers, grants?
• Library data services as standard offering?
• Research managers increasingly able to offer
support for data?
• ….?
Acknowledgement
Australian National Data Service is funded by
the Commonwealth under the NCRIS Program
18 July, 2015
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