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Save the Cows! Cyberinfrastructure for the Rest of Us

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Save the Cows! Cyberinfrastructure for the Rest of Us — Presentation Transcript

Save the Cows! Cyberinfrastructure for the rest of us Dorothea Salo Digital Repository Librarian University of Wisconsin 11 March 2009

Cyberinfrastructure Petabytes Y TE S Data mining X A B Grid Computing E tio n Terabytes Id aE-Research entit or E-Science ab ta oll da y C a G H !Stan et Data Curation s dard M A A R IT? A A Faculty? Libraries?

It’s simpler than that. (thank goodness!)

Scholars use in their research

This produces DATA.

In addition to DATA.

So now we have to support that. Data generation Data management Data storage Data certification Data discovery and reuse

That’s all this is about. Really.

What I will not talk about today • Collaboration technology • Identity-management, authentication, authorization, etc. • Grid computing • Instrument science • Open Notebook Science Of course these are important. I’m just not competent to opine. Fortunately, you have Melissa!

What I’m on about DATA.

Data?

Charts and graphs are DEAD data Killed! Cut in pieces! Ground up! Unrecognizable! Not revivable! Not reusable!

Okay, what’s data, then? We have to save the cows!

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Do we have to keep data? SOMETIMES. (but it’s often a good idea even if you don’t have to)

Funders may require it.

Journals may require it.

Here’s the catch Some of these places have built barns Many haven’t. for the cows.

Guess who’s on if they don’t?

What can be done with data? • Experimental validation • Meta-analysis, data-mining, mashups • Interdisciplinary investigation • Historical investigation • Modeling and model validation • ... the possibilities are endless—IF we have the cows the data.

Is all data from “BIG SCIENCE”?

Absolutely not. (they don’t even need our help)

“Small Science” Less money Less know-how In aggregate? MORE COWS.

Arts & Humanities

Here’s the catch.

Nobody knows how to do all this. (yet)

But we do know a few things...

Cows are dumb. They will not save themselves.

It takes a village to save the cows.

Researchers Can you tell a Holstein from an Angus? Me neither. But researchers know their cows.

Information Technologists

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Grant administrators Cows don’t corral themselves. Neither do researchers.

The big gray area Informaticists? Researchers who code? IT pros who grok metadata? Librarians who model data?

Great. So now what?

Find use cases

Plan for infrastructure

Build alliances

Start conversations

Ten Questions 1. What is the story of your data? 2. What form and format are the data in? 3. What is the expected lifecycle of your data? 4. How could your data be used, reused, and repurposed? 5. How large is your dataset, and what is its rate of growth? 6. Who are the potential audiences for your data? 7. Who owns the data? 8. Does the dataset include any sensitive information? 9. What publications or discoveries have resulted from the data? 10. How should the data be made accessible? —Michael Witt and Jake Carlson, Purdue University

Keep an eye out

If this seems like common sense... ... good! It mostly is!

Thank you! (and save a cow today!)

Credits • Title slide: http://www.flickr.com/photos/flikr/131673772/ • Server rack: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dumbledad/3276756770/ • Command centre: http://www.flickr.com/photos/soundman1024/2054512893/ • Laptop: http://www.flickr.com/photos/arbron/56216464/ • Dual-monitor setup: http://www.flickr.com/photos/blakespot/2372432028/ • Photo-data: http://www.flickr.com/photos/51114580@N00/1597765466/ • Word cloud: http://www.flickr.com/photos/55772089@N00/3291287830/ • Internet map: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/63009926/ • Dhaka image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahaqueusa/1268467179/ • Plant cross-section: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonios-pics/387510805/ • Journals: http://www.flickr.com/photos/emdot/56157732/ • Books: http://www.flickr.com/photos/guwashi999/2635608241/ • Manuscript: http://www.flickr.com/photos/86624586@N00/10187684/ • Hamburger: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nadya/1019816514/ • Row of cows: http://www.flickr.com/photos/flikr/230379411/ • Beware of cow: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tm-tm/2339539399/ • Cowboys: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bistrosavage/30710414/ • Hands: http://www.flickr.com/photos/iandesign/1204632335/ • Money: http://www.flickr.com/photos/emraya/2867188734/

Thank you! (and save a cow today!)

Richard Akerman Slide 1 is awesome. 2 years ago

Are you sure you want to Yes No

Hafeez ur Rehman , IT Manager at Bayer Pakistan (Pvt) Limited. Really very nice talk. Well done. continue these type of topics in future. :) 2 years ago

Steve Koch , Professor at University of New Mexico Great talk, love it! 2 years ago

Dorothea Salo , Faculty Associate at School of Library and Info Studies, U Wisconsin-Madison Well, one of 'em was labeled Holstein on Flickr. *g* 2 years ago

Christina Pikas , Librarian at JHU/APL i think those are both angus - holstein are white and black and used for milk - angus are black and used for meat. :) 2 years ago

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