Open Research Data from the Citzens Perspective

1. Open Research Data – the Citizen’s Perspective
Improving Data Access and Research Transparency (DART) in Switzerland
November 7th 2014
Bern, Hotel Bern
André Golliez
Managing Partner itopia ag
President Opendata.ch, Swiss Chapter of the Open Knowledge Foundation
andre.golliez@itopia.ch
Open Definition
“Open data and content can
be freely used, modified, and
shared by anyone for any
purpose subject, at most, to
requirements that preserve
provenance and openness.”
(Source: http://opendefinition.org/)
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2. The Open Data Ecosystem
Applications
Visualisation,
Analysis
Enrichment,
Mashups
further
Services
Open Data Portal Open Data Portal Open Data
Portal
Public Sector Corporates Individuals
Using Data
Publishing Data
Opening up
Data
Individuals,
Corporates
Public Admin.,
Science
Media, Politics
Civil Society
Research Institutions
Open Dataspace
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G8 Open Data Charter (June 2013)
Principles:
• Open Data by Default
• Quality and Quantity
• Useable by All
• Releasing Data for Improved
Governance
• Releasing Data for Innovation
Data Categories (alphabetical):
• Companies
• Crime and Justice
• Earth observation
• Education
• Energy and Environment
• Finance and contracts
• Geospatial
• Global Development
• Government Accountability
and Democracy
• Health
• Science and Research
• Statistics
• Social mobility and welfare
• Transport and Infrastructure
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3. Open Research Data in Switzerland?
• «Data Silos»:
Research data generally remain confined in closed domain-specific
environments.
• Usage of data:
Basically no secondary usage beyond the research project that has
produced the data.
• Need for action acknowledged (SUK programme 2013-2016 P-2):
Development of a metadata infrastructure («Metadata Hub») that spans
across institutes and projects in order to make research data more
broadly visible and accessible.
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Open Research Data Platform Switzerland (ORD@CH)
User
Domain specific research
institution/project):
- recording
- analyzing
- processing
- storing
Fachspezifische Forschungs-institution
Fachspezifische Forschungs-institution
(-projekt):
(-projekt):
- recording
- analyzing
- processing
- storing
- recording
- analyzing
- processing
- storing
Metadata
Metadata
Primary data
Metadata
Primärdaten
Primärdaten
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Linked Data
Services
Open Research Metadata Hub
Search Service
Feedback
...
Metadata catalogue
(with link to the primary data)
Metadata Harvesting
(OAI-PMH, REST, LOD etc.)
Institute/Project website
API’s
openresearchdata.ch
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4. Profile of the ORD@CH Project
• Development and pilot operation (9 months) of a metadata based
publication platform for research data from the social sciences, the
humanities, and the life sciences.
• Participating institutions:
– FORS (Lead)
– Digital Humanities Lab of the University of Basel
– Scientific IT Services / SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics of the ETH Zurich
• Milestones:
– Start of the project: July 2014
– Start of the pilot operation: spring 2015
– Open Reserach Data Hackday: June 5./6. 2015 (Basel and Lausanne)
– End of the project: December 2015
• Continued operation and extension of the platform as an extensive
metadata hub for Swiss research data in 2016.
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Objectives
• Promotion of secondary analysis of research data.
• Performance indicator for publicly funded research programs.
• Promotion of interdisciplinary approaches in research and teaching.
• Access to publicly funded research data for the general public.
• Increased visibility of research teams and institutes.
• Simplified publication of data linked to publications.
• Progressive integration of additional databases to build an extensive
metadata infrastructure for research data in Switzerland.
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5. Federated Architecture ORD@CH
Public User
(„Citizen“)
openresearchdata.ch
CKAN
Open Reserach
Metadata Hub
User
Life Sciences
systemsx.ch/data
CKAN
CKAN instance for
the life sciences
OpenBIS
OpenBIS
(other)
User
Humanities
dhlab.unibas.ch/data
CKAN
CKAN instance for
the humanities
SALSAH
Linked Open Data
(other)
User
Social Sciences
unil.ch/fors.ch/data
CKAN
CKAN instance for
the social sciences
DARIS
NESSTAR
SHP and
others
ETH Data
Archive
ZORA
(UZH)
(other) (other)
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Research (Data) from a Citizen’s Perspective (I)
Citizen
(tax payer)
Impact?
Open Data, Open Access, Open Research…
Research Results
Primary
Data
Metadata
Trust?
Research Project
Research Data
Contribution?
Participation?
Research
Publications
Metadata
Funding?
Researcher
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6. Research (Data) from a Citizen’s Perspective (I)
• Funding and trust:
what’s happening with my taxes?...
-> research results should be reproducible based on open research data!
• Knowledge and impact:
what’s going on in research and how does it influence my daily life?...
-> research results shoud be communicable based on open reserach data!
• Partizipation and involvment:
how can I help to improve/complete research data?...
-> openness helps to improve research data completness and quality.
(see Fold.it, Galaxy Zoo, Butterfly Counting etc.)
• Contribution:
what’s the value of my personal data to reserach?...
-> «My Data» should be accessible to research under my control!
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Research Reusing Data from the Web…
Research Results
Primary
Data
Metadata
Research Project
Research Data
Research
Publications
Metadata
Researcher
Personal Data Impersonal Data
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7. The My Data Vision:
Citizen Controlled Scondary Use of Personal Data
Research Results
Primary
Data
Metadata
Research Project
Research Data
Research
Publications
Metadata
Retail …
My Data (Secondary Use)
Telecom &
Mobile
Finance &
Insurance
Health
Researcher
Contract
Individual
(Data Owner)
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Thank You For Your Attention!
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8. Contact.
itopia
corporate information technology
technoparkstrasse 1
ch-8005 zürich
tel. +41 (0)44 355 56 00
fax +41 (0)44 355 56 01
www.itopia.ch
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