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Global Registries Initiative Research Data Access and Preservation Summit RDAP 2011 Poster Session globalregistries.org

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Mission <ul><li>to facilitate a global data and scholarly resources commons into which anyone can contribute, and from which anyone can discover and reuse valuable scholarly materials and research data </li></ul><ul><li>[across the historical boundaries of knowledge domains and jurisdictions] </li></ul>

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Use Cases <ul><li>Postgrad &quot;I need a way of discovering globally all the data specific to my research. I also would like to contact the researchers that are responsible for creating those data collections” </li></ul><ul><li>Research Project Leader “ I need to keep tabs on all national and global research outputs within my field of expertise so that I can effectively manage my team, and forge global networks that will collaborate around a common problem … ” </li></ul>

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Use Cases <ul><li>Research Administrator “ I need an intuitive system that allows me to monitor my projects and investigators, and identify the national and global networks and collaborations that they belong to … ” </li></ul><ul><li>ICT Specialist “I need a list of machine-accessible catalogues of relevant research and data for the discipline areas covered by my Research Centre so I can mash-up all these sources into a single search index tailored for their needs.” </li></ul>

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Strategy <ul><li>to build a federation of national collection registries and global discipline-specific registries, providing an interoperable core of services based around the concept of a global “Register of Registries” </li></ul><ul><li>enable discovery services based on a collection-centric information model complementary to current item-centric models (eg google search) </li></ul><ul><li>Provide consistent, standardised methods for web apps to communicate with collection registries </li></ul>

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Possible Architecture ?

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Participants <ul><li>OCKHAM Initiative - Ockham Digital Library Services Registry </li></ul><ul><li>IESR - Information Environment Service Registry </li></ul><ul><li>ANDS - Australian National Data Service </li></ul>

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History <ul><li>Initial scoping meeting held in December 2007 </li></ul><ul><li>Initial participants: </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Ockham Digital Library Services Registry; </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>IESR Information Environment Service Registry; </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>ANDS Australian National Data Service; </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>later NSF Data Conservancy Program </li></ul></ul><ul><li>Annual meetings held 2008 to 2010 – outcomes documented on globalregistries.org web site </li></ul><ul><li>Invitational workshop held March 29 th to develop strategy for moving forward </li></ul>

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Questions for you ! <ul><li>How do you think global discovery services for grey literature, research data, learning materials and primary digital resources would benefit your project/organisation ? </li></ul><ul><li>If your project has involved the aggregation of metadata from other collections (or you have been a contributor to other aggregations) what issues/problems have you experienced ? </li></ul><ul><li>Are there indexes with valuable content you would like to see aggregated into a single discovery service? </li></ul><ul><li>See survey form: creator.zoho.com/stu002/registries/ </li></ul>