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Victoria Moody, UK Data Service Co-I, deputy director, director of impact
Part of Jisc research strategy leadership team
18 October 2019
Tracking and recognising data as research
outputs in their own right

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What we’re covering
1. If we have sustainable, FAIR data we can re-use them (and reproduce
findings)
2. If we don’t have sustainable, FAIR data we can’t re-use them (and
reproduce findings)
3. Opportunities
• Expand/ industrialise the ecosystem (with tech and policy?)
• Use the tools we have and apply them to ‘unsustainable’ data (where we
can)
• Get the right mix – for sustainable data and mechanisms to reproduce
effectively for ‘unsustainable’ data (or make it differently sustainable)
• Skill share and skill well

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1. If we have sustainable, FAIR data we can re-use them
(and reproduce findings)

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http://dx.doi.org/10.5257/iea/web/2018-10

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Growing the corpora of standards to meet the mandate
and requirements for reproducibility:

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2. If we don’t have sustainable, FAIR data we can’t re-use
them (and reproduce findings)

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Building FAIR-ness

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“….notions of value are often woven into the uses and
understandings of data as well as the visions and promises that
are attached to them.
This makes data a routine and structurally significant part of the
ordering of the social world…”
The Data Gaze, David Beer
https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2019.1609544

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Building FAIR-ness 2

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3. Opportunities?
Use the tools we have and apply them to what we don’t (where we
can)
Industrialise and expand the ecosystem (with tech and policy?)
Get the right mix – for sustainable FAIR data and mechanisms to
reproduce effectively for unsustainable data (or make it sustainable)
Skill well and skill share

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Considerations
• Drive to OA extending to data
• Meta-standards = ethical outcomes
• FAIR codebooks/ syntax libraries
• Support a transition from idiosyncratic approaches
• Intelligent metadata models
• Skill sharing to manage new approaches/ vastness
• Skill well…

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Victoria.moody@jisc.ac.uk
Thank you