Presentation given by Chris Higgens at the Annual Infrastructure for Spatial Information in European (INSPIRE) Conference Krakow, Poland. 22 June 2010.
The role of the ‘traditional librarian’ is evolving with advent of Google and other online utilities as well as the rapid pace of change in relation to information management, delivery, consumption, curation, and of course the data deluge!
Research Data Management (RDM) is a hot topic which requires a range of information handling skills (organisation, metadata, research support, service delivery, resource discovery).
Presentation given by Chris Higgens at the Annual Infrastructure for Spatial Information in European (INSPIRE) Conference Krakow, Poland. 22 June 2010.
The role of the ‘traditional librarian’ is evolving with advent of Google and other online utilities as well as the rapid pace of change in relation to information management, delivery, consumption, curation, and of course the data deluge!
Research Data Management (RDM) is a hot topic which requires a range of information handling skills (organisation, metadata, research support, service delivery, resource discovery).
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Poster delivered by Robin Rice at the Open Repositories 2016 conference. Covers:
* Creating a data management plan
* Storing data
* Synchronising data
* Finding and analysing data
* Training
* Online training
* Support
* Sharing open data
* Archiving data
* Recording datasets using PURE
Addy Pope demonstrates how a suite of EDINA and Edinburgh University Data Library tools and apps can make curating your spatial data a breeze. Presented at the Open Repositories 2014, June 9-13, Helsinki, Finland http://or2014.helsinki.fi
Stuart Macdonald reviews what researchers need to do to comply with the new EPSRC framework concerning the management and provision of access to publicly-funded research data. Presented at the Mobility, Mood and Place Research Committee Meeting workshop at the Edinburgh College of Art, 16 June, 2015.
An overview of how the Hiberlink project relates to the persistence on the web of digital versions of theses. Given by Peter Burnhill, Director of EDINA, at the 17th International Symposium on Electronic Theses & Dissertations - which took place from 23 July to 25 July 2014 at the University of Leicester in the UK.
Poster delivered by Robin Rice at the Open Repositories 2016 conference. Covers:
* Creating a data management plan
* Storing data
* Synchronising data
* Finding and analysing data
* Training
* Online training
* Support
* Sharing open data
* Archiving data
* Recording datasets using PURE
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Presentation given by Anne Robertson as part of "Connect more with Jisc in Scotland" one-day interactive event held at Edinburgh Napier University on 4 June 2015
Delivered by Peter Burnhill at Text Mining for Scholarly Communications and Repositories Joint Workshop, Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, University of Manchester, 28-29 October 2009
Stuart Macdonald steps through the process of creating a robust data management plan for researchers. Presented at the European Association for Health Information and Libraries (EAHIL) 2015 workshop, Edinburgh, 11 June 2015.
Management of research data specifically for Engineering and Physical Science. Delivered by Stuart Macdonald at the "Support for Enhancing Research Impact" meeting at the University of Edinburgh on 22 June 2016.
An overview of the Digimap collections, how they fit together, and advice for using them effectively. Delivered at Jisc Digifest 2016 by Emma Diffley, EDINA User Support.
Delivered by Peter Burnhill at Academic Publishing in Europe 9, 29 January 2014. Our shared task is to ensure ease and continuity of access to the scholarly & cultural record.
Making research data more resourceful - Jisc digital festival 2015Jisc
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Presented by Stuart Macdonald at the IT Professionals Forum (20/5/14) and the PPLS (School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences) RDM Workshop (6/5/14).
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Presentation by Stuart Macdonald at DCC-Arkivum event 'Data Storage & Preservation Strategies for Research Data Management' at University of Edinburgh 27 October 2014
Figshare is a research data management platform that offers out-of-the-box compliance with the EPSRC mandate on open access to research data. Not only does figshare satisfy open data mandates but it also provides a world class research data dissemination platform. With private sharing and collaboration functionality, figshare for institutions provides a flexible and comprehensive end-to-end data management platform. This session will focus on how the University of Sheffield and the University of Salford have implemented figshare for institutions.
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A look at the research being carried out by Dr Stuart Dunn at Kings College London. This includes his work on rediscovering Corpse Paths in Great Britain.
A presentation by Clare Rowland from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology given at EDINA's GeoForum 2017 about the new Landcover 2015 data now available in Environment Digimap.
A presentation by John Murray from Fusion Data Science given at EDINA's GeoForum 2017 about the use of Lidar Data and the technology and techniques that can be used on it to create useful datasets.
Slides accompanying the presentation:"Reference Rot in Theses: A HiberActive Pilot", a 10x10 session (10 slides over 10 minutes) presented by Nicola Osborne (EDINA, University of Edinburgh). This presentation was part of Repository Fringe 2017 (#rfringe17) held on 3rd August 2017 in Edinburgh. The slides describe a project to develop Site2Cite, a new (pilot) tool for researchers to archive their web citations and ensure their readers can access that archive copy should the website change over time (including "Reference Rot" and "Content Drift").
Slides accompanying the "If I Googled You, What Would I Find? Managing your digital footprint" session at the CILIPS Conference 2017: Strategies for Success, presented at the Apex Hotel, Dundee, on Tuesday 6th June 2017 by Nicola Osborne, EDINA Digital Education Manager.
"Managing your Digital Footprint : Taking control of the metadata and tracks and traces that define us online" invited presentation for CIG Scotland's 7th Metadata & Web 2.0 Seminar: "Somewhere over the Rainbow: our metadata online, past, present & future", which took place at the National Library of Scotland, 5th April 2017.
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"Enhancing your research impact through social media" - presentation given by Nicola Osborne, EDINA Digital Education Manager, at the Edinburgh Postgraduate Law Conference 2017 (19th January 2017).
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1. Service Integration to Enhance RDM:
RSpace electronic laboratory notebook
(ELN) case study
Stuart Macdonald (RDM Services Coordinator,
University of Edinburgh)
stuart.macdonald@ed.ac.uk
Rory Macneil (CEO, Research Space)
rmacneil@researchspace.com
10th International Digital Curation Conference, London, 10 February 2014
2. University of Edinburgh RDM Policy
University of Edinburgh is one
of the first Universities in UK
to adopt a policy for managing
research data:
http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/resear
ch-data-policy
The policy was approved by
the University Court on 16 May
2011.
It’s acknowledged that this is
an aspirational policy and that
implementation will take some
years.
3. Policy implementation:
RDM Roadmap Colleagues in IS developed a roadmap
to deliver a suite of services that will
meet:
• RDM policy objectives
• the needs of our researchers
Cross-divisional collaboration
3 Phases (Aug. 2012 – May 2015)
Services already in place:
o Data management planning
o Active working file space =
DataStore
o Data publication repository =
DataShare
Services in development:
o Long term data archive = DataVault
o Data Asset Register (DAR)
RDM support: Awareness raising,
training & consultancy
http://edin.ac/1u3sKqy
Before research During research After research
4. Research Data Management Planning
Customised instance of DCC’s DMPonline toolkit for Univ. of
Edinburgh use:
A range of funders and local (non-funder) DMP templates
Institutional guidance (storage, services, support)
Tailored DMP assistance for researchers submitting research
proposals (F-2-F)
DataStore
NAS facility to store data that are actively used in current research
activities
0.5 TB (500GB) allocated per researcher (incl. PGRs)
Up to 0.25TB can be used for “shared” group storage
Extra storage costs: £200 per TB per year incl. back-up and DR copies
Infrastructure in place. Allocation of space devolved to School IT
departments overseen by Heads of IT from each College.
5. DataShare
Edinburgh DataShare is the University’s OA multi-disciplinary data
repository hosted bt the Data Library : http://datashare.is.ed.ac.uk
Assists researchers who want to share their data, get credit for data
publication, and preserve their data for the long-term (DOI, licence, citation)
Data Vault
Safe, private and secure long-term data archive
Current focus on front-end application requirements (authorisation,
retention & deletion, file structure, file transfer, integration)
Data Asset Register (DAR)
Using PURE as the catalogue of data assets produced by Edinburgh
researchers for discovery, access, and re-use as appropriate.
Interoperation
Systems are more likely to be used if some or all of the components are
integrated and developed to minimise ‘duplication’ of effort
6. RDM Support
• RDM team work with Research Administrators , Academic Support
Librarians and IT staff in each of the 22 Schools.
• Queries can be sent to the IS Helpline who will direct them to appropriate
RDM staff via CMS.
• Introductory sessions on local RDM services and support for researchers
and research administration staff in Schools / Institutes
• RDM website: http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/data-management
• RDM blog: http://datablog.is.ed.ac.uk
• RDM wiki:
https://www.wiki.ed.ac.uk/display/RDM/Research+Data+Management+Wiki
7. Training: Tailored Courses
Formal and bespoke training in the form of workshops, seminars and drop in
sessions to help researchers with RDM issues.
Creating a data management plan for your grant application
Handling data using SPSS
Managing your research data: why it is important and what should you
do? NEW
Publishing and sharing sensitive data (pilot) NEW
MANTRA - http://datalib.edina.ac.uk/mantra
An internationally recognized free online RDM training course for
researchers - developed by the Data Library
Software-specific data handling exercises
CC License & embed units in VLE’s e.g. Moodle
8. Service Integration examples
• DataShare is a customised DSpace instance with OAI-PMH
compliant DCMI metadata fields for data discovery through
Google and other search engines
• Records are harvested by Thomson-Reuters Data Citation Index
• SWORD API utilised for batch deposit of large and/or many files
from remote computers (‘Push using http’)
• Internal batch ingest of many/large files to circumvent 2.1GB limit
via the web interface (‘Pull via command line interface’)
• checksums determine that delivered object mirrors deposited object
• DSpace GITHUB plugin* - allows software used in research to be
archived from GitHub (or similar) source code repository into
DataShare, which can then be assigned a DOI to facilitate citation
- using the SWORD deposit protocol
9. DataSync – a secure dropbox-like facility for synchronising data on
DataStore with desktop and mobile machines:
• uses open source ‘ownCloud’ technology
Refresh of ECDF Computing Cluster (‘Eddie’) complete with
‘Data Centric Computing’ business model – integrate Eddie storage &
HPC, parallel and cloud computing layers with DataStore for data
sharing i.e. data transferred from DataStore for analysis run on Eddie
and then data ported back to DataStore (DataVault)
Linking of SDA toolkit with numeric ASCII data held in DataShare for
the purposes of analysis (re-use)
Facility to embargo variables within numeric files (in statistical analysis
package formats) for subsequent open deposit into DataShare of de-
sensitised version
Research data deposit directly from RSpace Electronic Lab Notebook
(ELN) interface into DataShare and Datastore (& Data Vault) using
SWORD protocol
10. Who and what is driving demand for
ELNs?
● Researchers
– Utility and convenience of paper lab book + online capabilities
– On multiple devices
– File management/integration
● Groups/PIs
– Controlled sharing
– Collaboration
– Group management
– File management/integration
● Institutions: data librarians, research admins, IT, commercialisation offices
– Enterprise features: Scalable deployment, Single Sign On
– IP protection: audit trail, signing
– Publishing
– Archiving
– Repository integration
– File management/integration
12. Business Model
● Free public cloud for labs and individuals
● Institutional deployments @$100/user/year
● Seamless movement of groups and data between different RSpaces
Researchers Institutions Funders
Value
Edinburgh
Public
Cloud
Stanford
Lab
LabLab
Convenience
Productivity
Portability
Control
Compliance
Data mining
Data mining
13. RSpace at Edinburgh
– Linking to files in Edinburgh DataStore
– Depositing content in Edinburgh
DataShare
– Archiving in Edinburgh DataVault
14. Linking to DataStore
“My plan for workflow would be generally to
deposit my data in DataStore either from the
wet lab instruments (gel photos, elisa data,
etc, and also possibly directly from an iPad) or
from in silico data analysis I’ve been doing,
and then link to it from within RSpace.”
22. Archiving in Edinburgh DataVault
● DataVault functionality/API not yet
specified
● Anticipate use of XML zip archive
● Many requirements to be determined
– e.g., searching, restoration
23. RSpace and Edinburgh RDM
RSpace
server
DataShareDataStore
DataVault User / Browser