Transcript Open Science and the Research Library: Roles, Challenges and Opportunities? Dr Liz Lyon, Director, UKOLN, University of Bath, UK Associate Director, UK Digital Curation.

Open Science and the Research
Library: Roles, Challenges and
Opportunities?
Dr Liz Lyon, Director, UKOLN, University of Bath, UK
Associate Director, UK Digital Curation Centre
ARL Directors Meeting, Cambridge, Mass. November 2007.
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Three themes
1. Open science :
trends and practice.
2. Data curation and
preservation choices.
3. Roles, challenges &
opportunities for the
research library?
Open science: trends and practice
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Social networks
for librarians….
…and
scientists
New channels for
library - researcher
interaction?
?
New modes of
scholarly
communications…
Innovation in
scholarly
communicatio
ns?
….votes, ratings,
open peer review
Community content for
scientists : rich media
video + paper = Pubcast
Open data: in the
public domain….
?
Data usability: presentation and visualisation
Sharing data: uploads & more ratings…
?
“Big
science”
data
services:
multidisciplinary
and public
At the
coalface:
tagging &
sharing
workflows
Astronomy,
Bioinformatics,
Chemistry, Social
Science pilots.
Universities of
Manchester &
Southampton
“Small science” : sharing in the lab
Chemistry
exemplar
Transforming practice?
2006
Open Notebook
Science (ONS)
26 September:
1st use of term
blogged by JeanClaude Bradley,
Drexel University
2007
27 March: ONS at
Amer Chem Society
Symposium
7 August: ONS Poster in
Second Life on Nature
island
24 September: ONS
Case Studies in Second
Life
4 October: > 43,000 hits
in Google for term ONS
10 & 15 October:
Policy lists,DabbleDB
membership
database created US
11 October: ONS
experiment starts in
Cambridge, UK
7 November:
Cameron Neylon
(Univ Southampton /
STFC, UK) posts
“Sourceforge for
Science” concept
10 November: Open Data
for common molecules Wikichemicals? Peter
Murray-Rust’s blog at Univ.
Cambridge, UK
Yesterday: about 2,000,000
Google hits for Open
Notebook Science
New ideas are
surfacing very fast
with instant
development, testing
and take-up…..
And not just chemistry….
New postgraduate cohorts :
millennials / Google generation :
new behaviours
Social network
mediated data-sharing
User feeds or
scraping data from
your hard disk….
How far can this go?
1. Are you & your staff plugged into social networks
: with other librarians and with scientists?
So…
2. When (not “if”), more publisher preprint eservices appear, what does this mean for your
library? Online services? Physical space?
3. If a critical mass of scientists openly publish their
research (in blogs, wikis etc.), what will happen to
the traditional journal format?
4. How will the increasing volume of data be
discovered, used, curated and preserved?
Data curation and
preservation choices
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Curation / Preservation choices?
1. Disciplinary data centre: EBI Protein Data Bank,
British Atmospheric Data Centre, UK Data Archive
2. Institutional / departmental / lab repository
3. Repository federation or network
4. National library or national archive
5. “Public” data repository or service
6. Web archiving services
7. Commercial data store - Amazon S3 service
8. Ecosystem of hosted lifebits services (Jon Udell)
9. None of these?
10. All of these?
From: Dealing with Data Report
Funder
Policy &
Advocacy
Community
standards
Scientist
Scientist
Scientist
Blogs,
wikis
Curate
Preserve
Create
Deposit
Scientist
Collaborate
Share
Link
Domain
Data
Standards
Centre
Scientist
Link
Domain
Data
Centre
Training
Advocacy
Link
Domain
Data
Centre
Publisher
Discover
Re-use
User
Domain Data Deposit Model
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Global and distributed
disciplinary data
centres
Institutional Repositories
Supporting UK Higher
Education institutions
R&D projects:
EU repository
network
Supporting UK
JISC Development
Programmes
Institutional
exemplar:
Origins in the
eBank-UK Project
Crystallography
repositories at the
University of
Southampton
New
eCrystals
Federation
Project
Funder
Data centres /
aggregator
services
Scientist
Scientist
Create
Deposit
Advisory
IR Federation
Curate
Policy
Preserve
Advocacy
Standards Training
Collaborate
Share
Harvest
Link
Discover
Re-use
Link
Publishers
eCrystals Federation
Data Deposit Model
User
Link
Are these blogs being preserved?
X
Web
archiving
issues:
Scale
Currency
Coverage
Commercial data store?
Microsoft
Research
SenseCam :
lifelogging
Hosted lifebits service
for datacasts?
Gordon Bell,
Microsoft Research,
MyLifeBits Project
And so…
1. Is research data managed, curated and
preserved in your institution?
2. Does your institutional repository contain
research data? Theses? Supplementary data
for journal publication?
3. Does your Library collaborate with any data
centres? Faculty?
4. Are data-sets deposited in multiple
repositories? How is identification, versioning,
duplication, updating and linking managed?
Roles, challenges & opportunities
for the research library?
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Dealing with Data Report
UKOLN Liz Lyon June 2007
Dealing with Data: Roles,
Rights, Responsibilities and
Relationships
35 Recommendations for:
• JISC
• Funders
• Institutions
• Digital Curation Centre (DCC)
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/e.j.lyon/publications.html#2007-06-19
Report Recommendations 1
• JISC should develop a Data Audit
Framework to enable all Universities &
colleges to carry out an audit of
departmental data collections,
awareness, policies & practice…
• Each Higher Education Institution
should implement an Institutional Data
Management, Preservation & Sharing
Policy, which recommends data deposit
in an appropriate open access data
repository and/or data centre where
these exist.
Report Recommendations 2
•The DCC should create a Data
Networking Forum where
….staff….can exchange
experience and best practice
• The DCC should promote coordinated advocacy programmes
targeted at specific disciplines…
• The DCC should collaborate
with other parties to deliver coordinated training programmes…
Digital Curation Centre
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/
• Community
Development work
• Data Forum exchange
of experience
• Policy & Advocacy
• Training: workshops,
summer school?
• Build workforce
capacity
Dealing with Data Report
Roles, Rights, Responsibilities,
Relationships:
• scientist
• institution
• data centre
• user
• funder
• publisher
What about
libraries?
Library: lead, co-ordinate and deliver curation
service(s)
Rights To inform institutional policy.
Responsibilities
Provide leadership in data curation and
preservation strategy development.
Co-ordinate / facilitate / support institutional
policy implementation.
Support data stewardship in the short term,
with IT/Computing Services and Faculty.
Meet standards for good curation practice.
Awareness of changing research practice.
Relationships
With scientist as service provider.
With IT services as service
Provide advocacy and training to support
partner
scientists.
With institution as funder.
Promote repository / data storage / Web
archiving services.
With data centre via expert staff.
So finally……
1. Is research data from your institution openly shared
on social networks and blogs?
2. Does your institution have a Data Curation and
Preservation Policy? Strategy? Data Audit?
3. What are the practical and cultural barriers to policy
implementation? Resistance to change?
4. Should the Library be responsible for curation
awareness, training, skills and professional
development? Of your staff and the researchers?
5. Should you engage with Faculty to create modules
on data handling & curation skills for the
undergraduate / post graduate curriculum?
Take home messages
• Open science is driving
transformational change in
research practice: now
• Curating open data requires strong
Faculty links and multi-disciplinary
teams: Library + IT + Faculty
• Recognise and respect disciplinary
differences: get to know the data
centre people, new partnerships
• Libraries have a lot to offer: build
on your repository experience
Data underpins intellectual ideas:
we must curate for the future
Questions?
Slides will be available at :
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/e.j.lyon/presentations.html
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