Research Data Access and Preservation Summit, 2015 Minneapolis, MN April 22-23, 2015 Erica M. Johns, Jon Corson-Rikert, Huda J. Khan, Dean B. Krafft and Matthew S. Mayernik

1. Open Questions
IDENTIFYING AND MEETING USER NEEDS
How do we identify and meet researcher needs for resource discovery and
sharing through a semantic data network?
• How do people find data, tools, publications, collaborators?
• Which aspects of an individual’s work are most important to include on an
information platform?
Survey results: AGU workshop: Bering Sea + UNAVCO constituents
BUILDING CONNECTIONS WITHIN THE RESEARCH ECOSYSTEM
What mechanisms (tools and procedures) are being used to establish and
maintain relationships between research contributors and their products?
• How are you linking publications and associated data?
• Does your organization create researcher profiles?
• What technology is used?
• What information is managed as part of a profile?
• Who manages that information?
• Are ORCID iDs part of the solution?
• Does your organization promote or require ORCID iDs ?
• How aware is your research community of ORCID iDs ?
WHAT ARE THE SOLUTIONS YOUR INSTITUTION EMPLOYS?
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
EarthCollab is funded by the US National Science Foundation, grant # 1440293, 1440213, 1440181, PIs Matthew Mayernik, Mike Daniels, Linda Rowan, and Dean Krafft. Thanks to
the many project members, especially Linda Rowan for leading the survey development and Benjamin Gross for the UNAVCO VIVO screenshot. For additional questions about the
project, contact mayernik@ucar.edu .
EarthCollab Use Case Communities
• Geodesy: UNAVCO
• Arctic Science: Bering Sea Project (EOL<NCAR)
• Using VIVO suite developed by Cornell University
EarthCollab: Connecting Scientific Information Sources
Erica M. Johns Jon Corson-Rikert Huda J. Khan Dean B. Krafft Matthew S. Mayernik
Cornell University Cornell University Cornell University Cornell University NCAR/UCAR
EarthCollab Objectives
Connect and link Researchers and Stakeholders
• To data, publications, researchers, projects,
organizations
• To instruments and
facilities and other
relevant resources
EarthCollab Data Structures
Build ontology extensions for linking:
• VIVO-ISF: People, organizations, publications
• DCAT: data sets and catalogs
• GCIS: Scientific instruments, platforms, projects
• Original ontology development to fill gaps
CAR, Cornell University, and UNAVCO are
collaborating on a project titled "Enabling
Scientific Collaboration and Discovery through
Semantic Connections," also known as EarthCollab.
The project is funded by the National Science
Foundation’s EarthCube initiative, which supports
transformative approaches to data management
across the geosciences.
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http://earthcube.org/group/earthcollab
Example of Linked VIVO instances
Bering Sea Project VIVO Website UNAVCO VIVO Website
EOL Bering Sea
Project Data Portal
UNAVCO
Data Portal
Bering Sea Project Data Store UNAVCO Data Store
Cornell VIVO Website
Cornell Data Store
Other VIVO Instances
VIVO Data Store
Other Linked Data Stores