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scientific information
policies and e-infrastructures
APA conference 2012
Frascati, 6 November 2012
Carlos Morais Pires
European Commission
DG CONNECT, unit C1
carlos.morais-pires[@]ec.europa.eu
Author’s views do not commit the European Commission
European Commission
• Policy maker
Funding research
Research performer (JRC)
• Research Infrastructures & funding capacity
ODE
• How policy makers and funders can target their
limited resources at so many points of the data sharing
ecosystem for maximum social and economic benefit is an
enormous question to which there are no simple answers.
• But two things are clear: that investment at all these
points is necessary to create a fully realised data sharing
system; and that gaps and redundancies in investment can
best be avoided by a co-ordinated approach on the part
of all agencies – governmental and non-governmental –
that make research policy and fund research activities.
preservation, volumes, costs, etc
(*) Peter Buneman, Univ . Edinburgh,
Linz April 2006,
Neelie Kroes
Digital Agenda
Digital (information) single market
Open Science means optimal sharing of research results and
tools such as publications, research data, software, educational
resources and infrastructures across institutional, disciplinary
and national boundaries.
reports and studies: european
reports and studies: global
Open Infrastructures for Open Science
Open Scientific Content
data, computational resources and
software resulting from public funded
research
Open Culture
career systems should support and
reward those who participate in the
culture of sharing
Open Infrastructures
reliable, high-performance and
economically efficient infrastructures
Open Infrastructures for Open Science
COM and REC on Scientific Information, July 2012
Open Access,
Long term preservation,
Capacity building with data infrastructures
ALLEA Declaration, April 2012
Open Scientific Content,
Open Culture,
Open Infrastructures
recommendation:
[…] hereby recommends that member states
recommendation
• THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
• Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European
Union, and in particular Article 292 thereof,
(1)
The Communication from the Commission Europe 2020 puts
forward the development of an economy based on knowledge and
innovation as a priority.
(2)
The targets set by the Europe 2020 strategy are given in
more detail in particular in the Flagship Initiatives ‘Digital Agenda
for Europe’ and ‘Innovation Union’ .
recommendation
•
HEREBY RECOMMENDS THAT MEMBER STATES:
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1.
Open access to scientific publications
Define clear policies for the dissemination of and open access to
scientific publications resulting from publicly funded research. These
policies should provide for:
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concrete objectives and indicators to measure progress;
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implementation plans, including the allocation of responsibilities;
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associated financial planning.
recommendation
2.
Ensure that research funding institutions responsible for managing
public research funding and academic institutions receiving public funding
implement the policies by:
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defining institutional policies for the dissemination of and open
access to scientific publications; establishing implementation plans at the
level of those funding institutions;
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making the necessary funding available for dissemination and open
access, allowing for different dissemination channels, including digital e-
infrastructures where appropriate and new and experimental ways of
scholarly communication;
recommendation
Open access to research data
3.
Define clear policies for the dissemination of and open access to
research data resulting from publicly funded research. These policies
should provide for:
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concrete objectives and indicators to measure progress;
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implementation plans, including the allocation of responsibilities
(including appropriate licensing);
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associated financial planning.
recommendation
Preservation and re-use of scientific information
4.
Reinforce the preservation of scientific information, by:
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defining and implementing policies, including an allocation of
responsibilities for the preservation of scientific information, together with
associated financial planning, to ensure curation and long-term
preservation of research results (primary research data and all other
results, including publications);
recommendation
Preservation and re-use of scientific information
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ensuring that an effective system of deposit for electronic scientific
information is in place, covering born-digital publications and, where
relevant, the related datasets;
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preserving the hardware and software needed to read the
information in future, or by migrating the information to new software and
hardware environments on a regular basis;
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fostering the conditions for stakeholders to offer value-added
services based on the re-use of scientific information.
recommendation
E-infrastructures
5.
Further develop e-infrastructures underpinning the system for
disseminating scientific information by:
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Supporting scientific data infrastructures for dissemination of
knowledge, research institutions and funding entities to address all stages
of the data life cycle. These stages should include acquisition, curation,
metadata, provenance, persistent identifiers, authorisation, authentication
and data integrity. Approaches need to be developed to provide a common
look and feel to data discovery across disciplines, thus reducing the
learning curve required to achieve productivity;
recommendation
E-infrastructures
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supporting the development and training of new cohorts of data-
intensive computational science experts, including data specialists,
technicians and data managers;
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leveraging and building on existing resources to be economically
efficient and to innovate in the areas of analysis tools, visualisations,
decision-making support, models and modelling tools, simulations, new
algorithms and scientific software;
recommendation
E-infrastructures
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reinforcing the infrastructure for access to and preservation of
scientific information at national level, and earmarking the necessary
funds;
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ensuring the quality and reliability of the infrastructure, including
through the use of certification mechanisms for repositories;
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ensuring interoperability among e-infrastructures at national and
global level.
recommendation
E-infrastructures
6.
Ensure synergies among national e-infrastructures at European and
global level by:
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contributing to the interoperability of e-infrastructures, in particular
addressing scientific data exchange, taking into account experiences with
existing projects, infrastructures and software developed at European and
global level;
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supporting transnational cooperative efforts that promote the use
and development of information and communication technologies
infrastructure for higher education and research.
recommendation
Multi-stakeholder dialogue at national, European and international level
7.
Participate in multi-stakeholder dialogues at national, European and/or
international level on how to foster open access to and preservation of scientific
information.
recommendation
Structured coordination of Member States at EU level and follow-up to
the Recommendation
8.
Designate by the end of the year a national point of reference whose tasks
would be:
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coordinating the measures listed in this Recommendation;
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acting as an interlocutor with the EC on questions pertaining to access to
and preservation of scientific information, in particular better definitions of
common principles and standards, implementation measures and new ways of
disseminating and sharing research in the European Research Area;
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reporting on the follow-up to this Recommendation.
recommendation
Reviewing and reporting
9.
Inform the Commission 24 months from the publication of this
Recommendation in the Official Journal of the European Union, and every two
years thereafter, of action taken in response to this Recommendation, in
accordance with formalities to be defined and agreed by the working group. The
Commission will review on this basis the progress made across the EU to assess
whether further action is needed to achieve the objectives laid down in this
Recommendation.
e-Infrastructures for Data
(adapted from Prof. Sulston Presentation in the European Parliament on October 2011)
Distributed and participatory architectures; robust networks of people and institutions
Discoverability, Access and Interoperability of Data
Access to Storage and Computing Resources
High-speed Connectivity to enable international collaborations
Node:
“Domain Specific hub”
“National hub”
General
Hub
Funders Perspective on
Research Data Alliance
initial group of funders
Alan Blatecky (NSF), Carlos Morais Pires (EC)
EUDAT conference
Barcelona, October 24, 2012
IGoF and the RDA
• Why/ Funders Motivation
• How/ How do we see the process
• What/ What do we expect
Four Threats to Establishing a Global Data
Research Infrastructure
Not understanding the critical importance and the need to
share data for next century science and education
Not understanding the urgency to address and create a global
data infrastructure now
Relying on additional workshops, conferences, committees
and so forth to study and provide more recommendations
Waiting for standards to be approved that will enable data
sharing, interoperability, and support the entire data life cycle
IGoF Motivation
• G8+O5 and Data
infrastructures
• South Africa (Nov 2011) and
Hamburg (April 2012)
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Technical/Cultural
Creation of data
Curation & Preservation of data
Access to data
Computing infrastructures
International governance
vision that research data will
Unmanaged
Disconnected
Invisible
Single-use
→
→
→
→
Managed
Connected
Findable
Reusable
Transform research and usher in a
new era of discovery and innovation
Expectations of Research Data Alliance
A strategy of let’s start and do instead of more talk and discussion
RDA to be a layer of coordination helping science agencies achieve
"Global Data Interoperability;
Real actors (scientists, producers of data, service providers, research
and education organisations) to be in the driving seat;
RDA to be a simple and effective mechanism so that anyone with
good ideas can contribute;
RDA documents become a source of trust that can enable rapid
adoption of methods, standards, technologies, and so forth, without
replacing the role of formal adoption of standards;
Reminder of RDA Principles
• Openness – membership is open to all interested organizations,
meetings are public, processes are transparent, products are
openly available;
• Balance – organized on the principle of balanced representation
for individual organizations and stakeholder communities;
• Consensus – achieving consensus and resolves disagreements
through appropriate voting mechanisms;
• Harmonization – harmonization across standards, policies,
technologies, tools, and other data infrastructure elements;
• Voluntary – not a government organization or regulatory body
and, instead, is a public mission body responsive to its members;
• Non-profit –not a commercial organization and will not design,
promote, endorse, or sell commercial products, technologies, or
services, and that there will be different policies/rules/legal bases
in the different countries or regions.
iGoF expectations
RDA output reach out to the wider community in particular higher
education through innovative teaching/learning contexts be based on
the virtualization of science;
RDA results reach out to the industrial sector and promote
innovation;
Governmental institutions informed by funders will look into policy
aspects of international cooperation like, for instance, the reciprocity
in data exchange, degree of openness, licensing regimes etc;
Non Government Structures (NGS)
Funded to support RDA
US:
Fran Berman – RPI
Bill Michener – DataOne
Beth Plale – Indiana
Sayeed Choudhury – Johns Hopkins
Australia:
Ross Wilkinson – ANDS
Andrew Treolar - ANDS
Europe:
Leif Laaksonen (iCORDI/CSC)
Peter Wittenburg (iCORDI/Max Planck Institute)
Juan Bicarregui (iCORDI/STFC)
Initial Council
US:
Fran Berman – RPI
Australia:
Ross Wilkinson – ANDS
Europe:
John Wood, (iCORDI/ Commonwealth Universities)
4 more At-Large members to be appointed by March meeting
and will represent other sector stakeholders
Opening up RDA
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Involve other science agencies ion global research data infrastructures;
Leverage the G8+05 working group on data infrastructures;
First international meeting of RDA will be held in March 2013
1-3 October
(Washington)
Oct
21-22 November
(Gottingen)
23-24 October
(Barcelona)
Nov
Dec
18 - 20 March
(Gothenburg)
…
3-4 December
(Amsterdam)
March
…
2nd RDA Meeting
( Washington DC ?)
Sep
Additional RDA Outcomes
• Act as a Clearinghouse for data sharing products and processes
• Develop repositories of re-usable codes, best practices, discovery
tools, “chunk-able” components, usable documentation
• Provide an international focus for users, researchers and working
communities who share research data
• Support community building including multidisciplinary
collaborations and promote participation and user engagement
• Develop digital exchange expertise and operations
• Help create a vibrant international data research economy
• Reuse
• Data as a Service
• “Digital Rolodex”
Thank You!
Carlos Morais Pires
carlos.morais-pires(at)ec.europa.eu