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Some comments…
• Need to be careful of doing this as if it complicates the workflow, it just
won't happen
• I think the RRS you envisage sounds fantastic and would be a 'good
thing', what worries me is the 'function creep' taking us a few miles on
from some of the more basic, simpler 'few keystrokes' approach…
• The RRS sounds to have many features of a Virtual Research
Environment, albeit perhaps a less data centric VRE
• The availability of research via Open Access would increase if the same
systems that provide Open Access also provided, or were integrated
with, tools which support the authoring process
• My experience is, that feature requests of this sort [authoring support]
are exactly the ones which end up in the "users didn't know what they
wanted bin" (I'm a developer).
• A system to help streamline the editorial/publication process is fine (if
we can persuade academics to use it)
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- 1. a centre ofexpertise in data curation and preservation Moving the Repository upstream Chris Rusbridge ARROW Repositories day 14 October 2008 Funded by: This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 UK: Scotland License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons .org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/scotland/ ; or, (b) send a letter to Creative Commons, 543 Howard Street, 5th Floor, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA.
- 2. a centre ofexpertise in data curation and preservation Contents • The resistant scholar • Researcher work flow • On negative clicks… • Can the repository help rather than hinder? • Towards a Research Repository System? 2 ARROW Repositories Day
- 3. a centre ofexpertise in data curation and preservation The resistant scholar • Edinburgh Research Archive has 1100+ (publicly accessible) items • Edinburgh scholarly output? • Wet finger in the air: annual output ~ number of academics? (RAE every 4 years wants 4 papers) • Ie ~2500 papers per year! • So after 4 years we have <10% of output • A common story everywhere! 3 ARROW Repositories Day
- 4. a centre ofexpertise in data curation and preservation Why is this so? • Uncertainty, risk? • About copyright • About Ingelfinger rule • Change • Too busy • Doesn’t fit in the way they do things now • Not well motivated by advantages to others • Little in it for them! 4 ARROW Repositories Day
- 5. a centre ofexpertise in data curation and preservation Researcher work flow? • Many projects/tasks in parallel • All different stages • Teaching (several), research (several), writing up research, writing grant proposals, reviewing papers, administrative tasks, University governance, etc 5 ARROW Repositories Day
- 6. a centre ofexpertise in data curation and preservation Researcher work flow? • Think up research idea • Write grant proposal with colleagues • Submit, wait, refine/revise, resubmit • Hire/assign staff, plan project • Gather data, analyse data, refine hypothesis • Refine methods, more data etc • Write draft paper with colleagues • Refine, revise submit paper, repeat until successful • New directions, more data, new paper • Conference presentations, discussion, new research ideas… 6 ARROW Repositories Day
- 7. a centre ofexpertise in data curation and preservation Who are you working with? • Your group • Your department • Other departments in your university • Colleagues elsewhere worldwide • Often more of the latter than the former! • Wide variety of IT environments 7 ARROW Repositories Day
- 8. a centre ofexpertise in data curation and preservation Write paper work flow? • PI and co-PIs outline structure • PI assign sections to colleagues • Gather sections, edit, circulate • Identify weaknesses, gather more data • Select & organise citations, images, tables, graphs, supplementary data • Comment, revise, circulate, repeat until deadline • Submit, wait • Revise following review, circulate, resubmit • By now working on other research! • It’s published! Add to bibliography… 8 ARROW Repositories Day
- 9. a centre ofexpertise in data curation and preservation When do you submit to repository? • There’s no obvious point • It’s always extra work • Any doubt, uncertainty, distraction enough to put it off • “The library” wants you to do it? Sure, RSN • The repository doesn’t help, it hinders 9 ARROW Repositories Day
- 10. a centre ofexpertise in data curation and preservation On negative clicks • Research in Glasgow for Effective Records Management project (JISC-funded) • Currall, Johnson, Johnston, Moss, Richmond • “How many extra clicks are you willing to make to ensure preservation of the records you are creating?” • Answer: zero • Design goal follows: reduce work for clerks (fewer clicks) AND ensure preservation 10 ARROW Repositories Day
- 11. a centre ofexpertise in data curation and preservation How could a repository help? • Support the research • Support the researchers • Support the writing • Support the publishing • Be a natural part of the work flow… • How could we do that? 11 ARROW Repositories Day
- 12. a centre ofexpertise in data curation and preservation Negative click repository? • Could a repository reduce the workload of researchers? • Perhaps not on its own… • What would be needed to make things easier? • Maybe a system and services with the repository embedded? • Research Repository System 12 ARROW Repositories Day
- 13. a centre ofexpertise in data curation and preservation Some known research issues • Extended teams across institutions, even legal jurisdictions • Varying technology: Windows/Mac/Linux versions, MS Office, OpenOffice, LaTeX, EndNote, BibTeX, etc • Localised, segregated identity management • Informal extranets • Distrust of anyone who (ever!) adds complexity or difficulty, even apparent • University, IT dept, Library, School… • Individualist local IT management • Backup, version control, security, patching • Data quantity, quality, provenance, metadata, version, sharing • Analytic software version • Lab notebooks… 13 ARROW Repositories Day
- 14. a centre ofexpertise in data curation and preservation How could “we” help? • Who are “we”? • Repository managers • In/with the Library • And IT Services • Backed by the administration 14 ARROW Repositories Day
- 15. a centre ofexpertise in data curation and preservation Maybe we could… • Help with publisher liaison • Support multiple authoring across several institutions • More permissive identity management/extranet • Support multiple versions • Fine-grained access control • Checkpointing • Support supplementary data • Provide basic data management capability • Provide simple, cross-platform, persistent storage • Provide some longevity • Provide additional benefits 15 ARROW Repositories Day
- 16. a centre ofexpertise in data curation and preservation 16 ARROW Repositories Day
- 17. a centre ofexpertise in data curation and preservation Exposure • Digital Curation Blog posts • Comments and feedback • JISC Repository Ideascale discussions • Comments, feedback, voting • Blue Ribbon Task Force Ideascale discussions • voting 17 ARROW Repositories Day
- 18. a centre ofexpertise in data curation and preservation 18 ARROW Repositories Day
- 19. a centre ofexpertise in data curation and preservation Some comments… • Need to be careful of doing this as if it complicates the workflow, it just won't happen • I think the RRS you envisage sounds fantastic and would be a 'good thing', what worries me is the 'function creep' taking us a few miles on from some of the more basic, simpler 'few keystrokes' approach… • The RRS sounds to have many features of a Virtual Research Environment, albeit perhaps a less data centric VRE • The availability of research via Open Access would increase if the same systems that provide Open Access also provided, or were integrated with, tools which support the authoring process • My experience is, that feature requests of this sort [authoring support] are exactly the ones which end up in the "users didn't know what they wanted bin" (I'm a developer). • A system to help streamline the editorial/publication process is fine (if we can persuade academics to use it) 19 ARROW Repositories Day
- 20. a centre ofexpertise in data curation and preservation CRIS • Several spotted that Current Research Information Systems can provide “fill the blanks” metadata • Reduces workload • Provides context • Supports research disclosure • Needs administration support 20 ARROW Repositories Day
- 21. a centre ofexpertise in data curation and preservation Is there something useful here? • DISCUSS! 21 ARROW Repositories Day
- 22. a centre ofexpertise in data curation and preservation Thank you c.rusbridge@ed.ac.uk 22 ARROW Repositories Day