Transcript Towards Open Data by Default: Global Directives for Local Impact? Dr Liz Lyon, Associate Director, UK Digital Curation Centre, Director, UKOLN Informatics, University of.

Towards Open Data by Default:
Global Directives for Local Impact?
Dr Liz Lyon,
Associate Director, UK Digital Curation Centre,
Director, UKOLN Informatics, University of Bath, UK
UCL Open Access Forum, October 2013
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UKOLN Informatics is supported by:
www.ukoln.ac.uk
A centre of expertise in digital information management
Endorses OA
Open Data Charter
Policy Paper
18 June 2013
G8
Global: Research Data Alliance
http://rd-alliance.org//
Working Groups
Interest Groups
1st Plenary Gothenburg,
March 2013
2nd Plenary September
2013, Washington DC
“One of the things we’re doing to
fuel more private sector innovation
and discovery is to make vast
amounts of America’s data open
and easy to access for the first
time in history. ”
USA: Obama
Administration
Executive
Order
May 2013
Open Science “Champions of Change”
Includes Paul Ginsparg, Stephen Friend, Atul Butte….
June 2013 at the White House
Sage-DREAM Breast
Cancer Prognosis
Challenge
“publication-as-prize model”
From: The Scientist, 4 June 2013
scholarly communications for
an open team data challenge
UK government
supports open data
Re-using data
Helping SMEs
• Crime and Justice
• Energy & the Environment
UCL?
Photo Credits:Flickr Jodi Squirmelia
Research is data-intensive….
open data
is mixed,
munged,
mined…
• Policy Framework on Research Data 2011
• Principles and Expectations
•
http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/about/standards/researchdata/Pages/policyfram
ework.aspx
Institutional
Roadmaps
Alignment with EPSRC Expectations
sition:Where we are now
Roles and Responsibilities:
Within the Institution
Objectives:
Where we need to be
Actions:
How we’re going to get there
Milestones:
When it will be done by
EPSRC focus is on “the institution”
•
http://www.bath.ac.uk/rdso/University-of-Bath-Roadmap-for-EPSRC.pdf
But….
…many funders’
focus is on “the PI”
Data Management
Plan
DCC listing of
funder DMP
requirements
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/sites/default/files/docu
ments/resource/policy/FundersDataPlanReq
s_v4%204.pdf
Bath institutional DMP guidance
Template
Positioning the university
as an (open) data publisher
• Takes responsibility
for its data products
• HEI stakeholders
(Lyon Informatics
Transform paper 2012)
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Advocacy gap
Infrastructure gap
Reputation?
Risk?
Data integrity: reputations on-the-line?
Institutional data publication
services
• Data repository: curation
• Data catalogue: discovery
• Data citation: Amsterdam
Manifesto, identifiers, DOIs,
ORCID, data licences
• New actionable formats:
data papers, data journals,
+ data peer review….
• Data metrics: Altmetric
ImpactStory
Futures…
Photo Credits:Flickr solfrost ChrisK
Some challenges remain….
1. Who pays?
“Data is the new currency for research,” said Alan
Blatecky, the director of advanced cyberinfrastructure
at the National Science Foundation. “The question is
how do you address the cost issues, because there is
no new money.”
Understanding
the costs
• A rather grey area…..
• UK Research funder grants
• Direct costs (during lifetime
of grant)
• Funder expectations
• Long-term RDM investment
an institutional responsibility
2. New
roles are
needed
…data librarian, research data services manager, data
scientist, technical data co-ordinator, data curator, data
analyst, data steward, chief data officer....
Develop data capability in
research support services
http://immersiveinformatics.org/
ImmersiveInformatics pilot
Co-developed with University of Melbourne
10 modules (OER)
Day release
Immersive data
sessions in labs
Co-curate dataset
Keep “data diary”
Evaluate pilot
3. Advocacy and Incentives
• Researcher awareness is low
• Advocacy needed (like OA)
• Change behaviour to
“open by default” (G8)
• Open data literacy (G8)
• RDM training: Research360 &
• Doctoral Training Centres
• Get credit for your
data ?UK REF2020?
9 simple ways to make data (re)use easier
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Share your data
Provide metadata
Provide unprocessed (raw) form
Use standard data formats
Use good null values
Make it easy to combine (use common contextual data)
Perform basic quality control
Use an established repository (trust)
Use an established and open licence
– Ethan P. White et al, Utah State University (2013) PeerJ,
– (with a focus on ecology & evolutionary biology)
9th International Digital Curation Conference,
San Francisco, 24-27th February 2014
Commodity, catalyst or change-agent? Datadriven transformations in research, education,
business & society
Thank you !
DCC Resources
http://www.dcc.ac.uk
ImmersiveInformatics
http://immersiveinformatics.org
Research360 Project at University of Bath
http://blogs.bath.ac.uk/research360/
Informatics Transform article
http://www.ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/article/view/210