Data Description Registry Interoperability WG at Research Data Alliance Third Plenary, Dublin, Ireland, March 2014

1. Data Description Registry Interoperability (WG)
co-chairs: Amir Aryani, Adrian Burton

2. Agenda:
• working group goal/objective
• participants
• discussion about
o the challenges for cross-platform discovery
o the collaboration opportunities with other groups​

3. Meeting notes:
• http://goo.gl/zUxhaV
• Also posted by
• @amir_at_ands
• #RDAPlenary

4. What is the problem?
Cross-platform discovery
• So many places to search
• Research data registries are
fragmented across
institutions, countries and
research domains.
• So many search results
• Finding a relevant dataset is not
a trivial task for many
researchers.

5. ...researchdata.ands.org.au/development-of-shy...
{All started here!}

6. Working software solution
• Not aiming to develop new standards or
create new protocols,
• instead aiming to leverage existing e-
infrastructure to build a set of working
software solutions.

7. Participants

8. Bilateral projects
• INSPIRE-HEP (CERN) and Research Data Australia (ANDS)
Interoperability Project
• Dryad and Research Data Australia Interoperability Project
• NARCIS (DANS) & Research Data Australia Interoperability Project
• VIVO Data Description Exchange Solutions
• DCI (Thomson Reuters) and Research Data Australia Interoperability
Project
• DataCite Data Description Exchange Solutions
• da|ra and Data-PASS Interoperability Project

9. Data Description
Registry Interoperability
Cross-Platform Discovery
Data Type Registries WG
Data in Context IG
Publishing Data IG
Search Optimisation
Persistent identifiers
PID Information
Types WG
PID IG
Author
Disambiguation
Metadata Exchange
Metadata Standards
Directory WG
Linking Grants to
Research Data
Data Citation
Thomson Reuters DCI
De-duplication
Challenges and Collaboration Opportunities

10. RDA WG Assumptions
•Activity funded through pre-
existing sources
•Willingness to share and to
contribute to a global task
•Willingness to extend existing
projects to test conclusions

11. This Working Group
•Existing discovery interoperability projects
•Share learning and contribute to a more
general framework for discovery
interoperability
•Extend existing projects to test and
implement that framework

12. Outputs
•Bi-lateral project reports
•Shared Framework document
•Installed code base; enabling infrastructure

13. General
Framework
– first steps

14. General Framework – first steps
1. Making it easier to
federate and aggregate
information from data
description registries
2. Making it easier to provide
meaningful consolidated
discovery

15. 1.Easier Aggregation and Federation
•Reduce friction and unnecessary effort
•Existing mature protocols OAI-PMH, OGC
CSW, DDI SDMX, OpenSearch, SRU, WPT...
•Identify, list and describe commonly used
protocols and their parameters
•Facilitate the market place through registers of
compliant registries

16. Better Discovery
•Standardised concepts
•Identifiers for linkage and de-duplication
•Research Context: data-grants-publication

17. Registry [system]
A place [system] where registers (official lists)
or records are kept [and made machine
accessible]
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18. Discovery Services
Some data description registries support web
services that enable:
•Run a query
•Ask for descriptions
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19. Standard Protocols for Discovery
Standard
protocols exist
for those
discovery
services
Geospatial
Statistical
Inf Mgmt
Astro
etc
SDMX
IVO
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OAIPMH
SRU
OGC

20. SDMX
IVO
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OAIPMH
SRU
OGC

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Statistical
Inf Mgmt
Astro
etc
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