A talk given at a Vitae event in Leeds, 2015-12-01, on how universities and other research organisations can help their researchers practice open research, with a special focus on the training resources provided by FOSTER.
This online European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) event was held on 15 December 2021.
You’ll get information about:
- Developments in the EOSC Association
- The work of the new EOSC Advisory Groups and Task Forces
- What’s happening in some of the EOSC implementation projects
- Ways you can become involved in EOSC
My data, your data, our data - increasing data value through reuse (Eurocris2...Kevin Ashley
My keynote talk for Eurocris2014, Rome. I make the case for reuse of research data, discuss the barriers and look at ways we are trying to overcome them.
Digital scholarship and identifiers - Geoffrey Bilder, CrossReff
Share update – Elliott Shore, Association of Research Libraries
Jisc Monitor update – Neil Jacobs, Jisc
Infrastructure and services to track research activity – Daniel Hook, Digital Science
Jisc and CNI conference, 6 July 2016
The document discusses how to bring together people, buildings, networks, and mobility to support collaboration between health and social care in Kent. It proposes building a single infrastructure service across Kent and Medway using the existing Kent Public Service Network (PSN) and a common roaming service. This would facilitate a shared approach to integrated systems, help meet common goals like a personal health record for residents, and mobilize the workforce. The PSN currently connects over 370,000 users across 1,160 sites for organizations like local authorities, health, schools, and emergency services. Expanding the existing roaming service could further enable mobility and productivity across the public sector "virtual estate".
The European Open Science Cloud: just what is it?Jisc
The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) aims to provide a virtual environment for Europe's 1.7 million researchers to store, share, and reuse research outputs. It will reduce duplication of efforts and simplify access across borders and disciplines. The EOSC will be guided by FAIR principles to make data findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable. Its implementation will focus on engaging stakeholders, developing open standards and interoperable services, and addressing skills gaps in data management. The EOSC seeks to build on existing research infrastructures and e-infrastructures through a distributed and community-driven approach.
4th June 2015 – “Finding, managing and using the right MediaHub content” presentation for the “Connect More with Jisc in Scotland” event, Napier University, Edinburgh.
The Janet end-to-end performance initiative aims to help communities optimize the use of the Janet network for data-intensive applications by identifying and sharing best practices, raising awareness of issues that impact performance, and promoting awareness of what high performance is possible. The initiative documents techniques for tuning end systems, data transfer tools, local site networks, and application monitoring. Today's talks provide an overview of some key topics addressed by the initiative.
Introduction to Networkshop - Networkshop44 2016Jisc
This document provides an overview and agenda for the Networkshop conference organized by Jisc. The conference is an annual technical event for network providers using the Janet network. The agenda includes plenary sessions on the Janet network and pervasive monitoring, parallel sessions on topics like campus networking and MPLS, and share and explore sessions. There are also opportunities to visit the exhibition and meet exhibitors and speakers, attend a reception and conference dinner, and download a conference app. Attendees are encouraged to discuss their objectives for the conference.
This online European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) event was held on 15 December 2021.
You’ll get information about:
- Developments in the EOSC Association
- The work of the new EOSC Advisory Groups and Task Forces
- What’s happening in some of the EOSC implementation projects
- Ways you can become involved in EOSC
My data, your data, our data - increasing data value through reuse (Eurocris2...Kevin Ashley
My keynote talk for Eurocris2014, Rome. I make the case for reuse of research data, discuss the barriers and look at ways we are trying to overcome them.
Digital scholarship and identifiers - Geoffrey Bilder, CrossReff
Share update – Elliott Shore, Association of Research Libraries
Jisc Monitor update – Neil Jacobs, Jisc
Infrastructure and services to track research activity – Daniel Hook, Digital Science
Jisc and CNI conference, 6 July 2016
The document discusses how to bring together people, buildings, networks, and mobility to support collaboration between health and social care in Kent. It proposes building a single infrastructure service across Kent and Medway using the existing Kent Public Service Network (PSN) and a common roaming service. This would facilitate a shared approach to integrated systems, help meet common goals like a personal health record for residents, and mobilize the workforce. The PSN currently connects over 370,000 users across 1,160 sites for organizations like local authorities, health, schools, and emergency services. Expanding the existing roaming service could further enable mobility and productivity across the public sector "virtual estate".
The European Open Science Cloud: just what is it?Jisc
The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) aims to provide a virtual environment for Europe's 1.7 million researchers to store, share, and reuse research outputs. It will reduce duplication of efforts and simplify access across borders and disciplines. The EOSC will be guided by FAIR principles to make data findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable. Its implementation will focus on engaging stakeholders, developing open standards and interoperable services, and addressing skills gaps in data management. The EOSC seeks to build on existing research infrastructures and e-infrastructures through a distributed and community-driven approach.
4th June 2015 – “Finding, managing and using the right MediaHub content” presentation for the “Connect More with Jisc in Scotland” event, Napier University, Edinburgh.
The Janet end-to-end performance initiative aims to help communities optimize the use of the Janet network for data-intensive applications by identifying and sharing best practices, raising awareness of issues that impact performance, and promoting awareness of what high performance is possible. The initiative documents techniques for tuning end systems, data transfer tools, local site networks, and application monitoring. Today's talks provide an overview of some key topics addressed by the initiative.
Introduction to Networkshop - Networkshop44 2016Jisc
This document provides an overview and agenda for the Networkshop conference organized by Jisc. The conference is an annual technical event for network providers using the Janet network. The agenda includes plenary sessions on the Janet network and pervasive monitoring, parallel sessions on topics like campus networking and MPLS, and share and explore sessions. There are also opportunities to visit the exhibition and meet exhibitors and speakers, attend a reception and conference dinner, and download a conference app. Attendees are encouraged to discuss their objectives for the conference.
Agile resources on the open web …. a global digital libraryJisc
The document summarizes a presentation about JISC's efforts to create an open, global digital library and infrastructure for accessing educational resources. It discusses JISC's role in funding content providers and shared services; principles for the infrastructure including being integrated, interoperable, and sustainable; creating open metadata and linking datasets; and a vision of students and researchers having easy access to integrated library, museum and archive resources through a collaborative framework.
Collaboration through technology: moving from possibility to practice - Tim B...Jisc
Led by Tim Boundy, applications and video development team manager, Jisc.
With contribution from Pete Gallop, head of ILT, Isle of Wight College.
This session will explore the potential that technology can bring to all forms of collaboration, and consider the difference that it has made to some local organisations and their practices.
Connect more in Nottingham, Tuesday 12 July 2016.
This document discusses developing virtual mobility for staff and students through online collaboration and learning opportunities. It defines virtual mobility as online exchanges and partnerships between institutions that allow students and staff to participate in international learning experiences without traveling abroad. The benefits of virtual mobility include increased inclusion, sustainability, and opportunities to integrate internationalization into daily work. The document provides examples of virtual mobility programs for students, such as online master's courses, and for staff, including open online courses for professional development. It also offers resources and tools to help institutions develop their own virtual mobility initiatives.
This document discusses Jisc's vision and strategy for solving research data problems in the UK. It aims to make the UK the most digitally advanced research nation by providing seamless digital infrastructure. Key priorities include comprehensive connectivity, a suite of common research services, and representing UK interests internationally. The strategy outlines plans for a tiered storage system and research data shared service. It also provides updates on working groups and pilots to develop these services.
This document discusses open data and open scholarship. It provides examples of how data from different disciplines can be reused in new contexts, highlighting the benefits of open data for research quality, speed, and cost effectiveness. It also outlines funder policies requiring data to be shared and challenges for universities in supporting open data. Overall it advocates for making research data discoverable and reusable to further open scholarship.
From Jisc's campus network engineering for data-intensive science workshop on 19 October 2016.
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/campus-network-engineering-for-data-intensive-science-workshop-19-oct-2016
This document provides an overview of a seminar on technology transfer in the Middle East and North Africa region. The seminar will introduce participants to technology transfer practices in the UK and US, include group exercises on barriers to tech transfer and potential solutions, and have participants develop and present elevator pitches on why industry should collaborate with their university. The seminar leaders, Lita Nelsen and David Secher, have extensive experience in technology licensing and commercialization. The goal is for participants to learn about establishing successful technology transfer operations and ecosystems in the MENA region.
The document summarizes the history and development of MIT Open Education, including OpenCourseWare (OCW) and MITx. It describes how OCW was established 15 years ago to publish openly licensed course materials from MIT's curriculum. MITx was later created to offer online courses with assessment and certificates. While there were initial hopes for collaboration, OCW and MITx have operated more separately due to different goals, platforms, and IP policies. Both have focused on high volume production and are now reconsidering strategies to provide greatest value to users in a changing online learning environment.
The speaker thanks the audience for their feedback and discusses Jisc's progress and aspirations. While Jisc has come a long way, it still has further progress to make to meet stakeholder expectations. The speaker aims to make Jisc a world-class organization that provides valued digital support and transformation services to UK education and research communities. Feedback from stakeholders is needed to help Jisc understand what services should be improved or discontinued. The speaker expresses confidence that Jisc can justify stakeholder investments by adding real value.
Stakeholder forum 2015 - The way forward together - Phil RichardsJisc
This document outlines an agenda for a stakeholder forum on moving forward together. It includes sections on research and development pipelines at Jisc, ensuring radical innovation, and group exercises. Upcoming and current projects are briefly described, such as an online tool for participant recruitment, a kit cataloguing system, and tools to analyze higher education datasets. Risk distribution strategies for future projects and the need for bold ideas beyond incremental changes are also mentioned. The document concludes with a list of breakout group topics for the stakeholder forum.
Jisc held a strategic update meeting for stakeholders in Scotland on December 8, 2021. The agenda included presentations from Paul Boyle, vice chancellor of Swansea University and Jisc chair, on reviewing the last twelve months. Jason Miles-Campbell, head of Jisc Scotland, provided nation-specific highlights. Heidi Fraser-Krauss, Jisc CEO, looked ahead to upcoming priorities. Nicola Arnold, Jisc CFO, gave a finance update. Robin Ghurbhurun and Liam Earney then provided sector updates on further education/skills and higher education/research respectively. The meeting concluded with a question and answer session.
Business Link Talk Gloucestershire Cricket Club What Is Your Wikipedia B...SteveVirgin
Talk for Business Link South West at Gloucestershire Cricket Club in Bristol....audience a mix of SME business people....aim to exlain how \'they\' can get involved...show potential of doing so...and get them thinking about the goals and values of what we do
Slides for a talk on "Working with Wikimedia Serbia" given by Brian Kelly, Innovation Advocate at Cetis, University of Bolton at the Eduwiki 2014 conference in Edinburgh on Friday 31 October 2013.
See https://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/events/eduwiki-2014/
- EdShare is a service developed at the University of Southampton that allows academics to share educational resources using a lightweight infrastructure built on Web 2.0 principles.
- The project is now in service since 2008 and benefits realization work is being done to extend adoption across the university and other institutions.
- A new JISC-funded OneShare project aims to further develop EdShare with new features like user profiles and improved integration with the university's virtual learning environment.
Overview of issues and tools to ensure long-term access to scholarly content. Presented at II Seminário sobre Informação na Internet in Brasilia, 3 - 6 August 2015.
The document discusses managing research data and reputation. It provides tips for curating data to showcase outputs, highlight collaborations, and promote reuse. Good data practices are important for both protecting against risks and enhancing reputation. Institutions should develop policies, plans, training, and repositories to help researchers manage and share their data.
Sarah Jones - National approaches to data managementdri_ireland
From "A National Approach to Open Research Data in Ireland", a workshop held on 8 September 2017 in National Library of Ireland, organised by The National Library of Ireland, the Digital Repository of Ireland, the Research Data Alliance and Open Research Ireland.
Agile resources on the open web …. a global digital libraryJisc
The document summarizes a presentation about JISC's efforts to create an open, global digital library and infrastructure for accessing educational resources. It discusses JISC's role in funding content providers and shared services; principles for the infrastructure including being integrated, interoperable, and sustainable; creating open metadata and linking datasets; and a vision of students and researchers having easy access to integrated library, museum and archive resources through a collaborative framework.
Collaboration through technology: moving from possibility to practice - Tim B...Jisc
Led by Tim Boundy, applications and video development team manager, Jisc.
With contribution from Pete Gallop, head of ILT, Isle of Wight College.
This session will explore the potential that technology can bring to all forms of collaboration, and consider the difference that it has made to some local organisations and their practices.
Connect more in Nottingham, Tuesday 12 July 2016.
This document discusses developing virtual mobility for staff and students through online collaboration and learning opportunities. It defines virtual mobility as online exchanges and partnerships between institutions that allow students and staff to participate in international learning experiences without traveling abroad. The benefits of virtual mobility include increased inclusion, sustainability, and opportunities to integrate internationalization into daily work. The document provides examples of virtual mobility programs for students, such as online master's courses, and for staff, including open online courses for professional development. It also offers resources and tools to help institutions develop their own virtual mobility initiatives.
This document discusses Jisc's vision and strategy for solving research data problems in the UK. It aims to make the UK the most digitally advanced research nation by providing seamless digital infrastructure. Key priorities include comprehensive connectivity, a suite of common research services, and representing UK interests internationally. The strategy outlines plans for a tiered storage system and research data shared service. It also provides updates on working groups and pilots to develop these services.
This document discusses open data and open scholarship. It provides examples of how data from different disciplines can be reused in new contexts, highlighting the benefits of open data for research quality, speed, and cost effectiveness. It also outlines funder policies requiring data to be shared and challenges for universities in supporting open data. Overall it advocates for making research data discoverable and reusable to further open scholarship.
From Jisc's campus network engineering for data-intensive science workshop on 19 October 2016.
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/campus-network-engineering-for-data-intensive-science-workshop-19-oct-2016
This document provides an overview of a seminar on technology transfer in the Middle East and North Africa region. The seminar will introduce participants to technology transfer practices in the UK and US, include group exercises on barriers to tech transfer and potential solutions, and have participants develop and present elevator pitches on why industry should collaborate with their university. The seminar leaders, Lita Nelsen and David Secher, have extensive experience in technology licensing and commercialization. The goal is for participants to learn about establishing successful technology transfer operations and ecosystems in the MENA region.
The document summarizes the history and development of MIT Open Education, including OpenCourseWare (OCW) and MITx. It describes how OCW was established 15 years ago to publish openly licensed course materials from MIT's curriculum. MITx was later created to offer online courses with assessment and certificates. While there were initial hopes for collaboration, OCW and MITx have operated more separately due to different goals, platforms, and IP policies. Both have focused on high volume production and are now reconsidering strategies to provide greatest value to users in a changing online learning environment.
The speaker thanks the audience for their feedback and discusses Jisc's progress and aspirations. While Jisc has come a long way, it still has further progress to make to meet stakeholder expectations. The speaker aims to make Jisc a world-class organization that provides valued digital support and transformation services to UK education and research communities. Feedback from stakeholders is needed to help Jisc understand what services should be improved or discontinued. The speaker expresses confidence that Jisc can justify stakeholder investments by adding real value.
Stakeholder forum 2015 - The way forward together - Phil RichardsJisc
This document outlines an agenda for a stakeholder forum on moving forward together. It includes sections on research and development pipelines at Jisc, ensuring radical innovation, and group exercises. Upcoming and current projects are briefly described, such as an online tool for participant recruitment, a kit cataloguing system, and tools to analyze higher education datasets. Risk distribution strategies for future projects and the need for bold ideas beyond incremental changes are also mentioned. The document concludes with a list of breakout group topics for the stakeholder forum.
Jisc held a strategic update meeting for stakeholders in Scotland on December 8, 2021. The agenda included presentations from Paul Boyle, vice chancellor of Swansea University and Jisc chair, on reviewing the last twelve months. Jason Miles-Campbell, head of Jisc Scotland, provided nation-specific highlights. Heidi Fraser-Krauss, Jisc CEO, looked ahead to upcoming priorities. Nicola Arnold, Jisc CFO, gave a finance update. Robin Ghurbhurun and Liam Earney then provided sector updates on further education/skills and higher education/research respectively. The meeting concluded with a question and answer session.
Business Link Talk Gloucestershire Cricket Club What Is Your Wikipedia B...SteveVirgin
Talk for Business Link South West at Gloucestershire Cricket Club in Bristol....audience a mix of SME business people....aim to exlain how \'they\' can get involved...show potential of doing so...and get them thinking about the goals and values of what we do
Slides for a talk on "Working with Wikimedia Serbia" given by Brian Kelly, Innovation Advocate at Cetis, University of Bolton at the Eduwiki 2014 conference in Edinburgh on Friday 31 October 2013.
See https://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/events/eduwiki-2014/
- EdShare is a service developed at the University of Southampton that allows academics to share educational resources using a lightweight infrastructure built on Web 2.0 principles.
- The project is now in service since 2008 and benefits realization work is being done to extend adoption across the university and other institutions.
- A new JISC-funded OneShare project aims to further develop EdShare with new features like user profiles and improved integration with the university's virtual learning environment.
Overview of issues and tools to ensure long-term access to scholarly content. Presented at II Seminário sobre Informação na Internet in Brasilia, 3 - 6 August 2015.
The document discusses managing research data and reputation. It provides tips for curating data to showcase outputs, highlight collaborations, and promote reuse. Good data practices are important for both protecting against risks and enhancing reputation. Institutions should develop policies, plans, training, and repositories to help researchers manage and share their data.
Sarah Jones - National approaches to data managementdri_ireland
From "A National Approach to Open Research Data in Ireland", a workshop held on 8 September 2017 in National Library of Ireland, organised by The National Library of Ireland, the Digital Repository of Ireland, the Research Data Alliance and Open Research Ireland.
Jisc on repositories unleashing data - Daniela DucaRepository Fringe
Jisc aims to make the UK the most digitally advanced education and research nation. It supports research through developing shared infrastructure, providing input to funders and publishers, and supporting standards. It is working on two relevant projects: the UK Research Data Discovery Service, which aims to make research data more discoverable by evaluating metadata models from Australia and Canada; and Research Data Metrics, which is scoping a tool to assess data usage and management systems through a proof of concept using the IRUS dataset.
Inverting the data pyramid: maximising the value of data reuse (IMCW2014/ICKM...Kevin Ashley
This document summarizes a presentation on research data management and reuse. It discusses:
1. The Digital Curation Centre's (DCC) mission to increase research data services capabilities in UK institutions and how this is an international issue.
2. How data reuse is already occurring but could be expanded, providing benefits for research quality, speed, and costs. Proper data management can also help ensure research integrity.
3. Barriers to increased data reuse including lack of infrastructure and services in some domains, and variability in data management practices between fields. Overcoming these issues requires attention from senior researchers, librarians, and policymakers.
How the Research Data Service supports Open Research (aka Open Science) at the University of Edinburgh. Abridged slides used for presentation to Open Access Scotland meeting in Edinburgh on Wednesday 27th of March 2019.
Bridging the gap between researchers and research data management Marieke Guy
This document summarizes Marieke Guy's presentation at the ISKO UK Biennial Conference on July 9th, 2013 in London. The presentation discussed research data management and the Digital Curation Centre's work with higher education institutions to help them develop research data management policies, tools and services. It provided an overview of the drivers for improved research data management, the types of support the DCC provides through assessments, training and tools, and case studies of working with institutions like Oxford Brookes.
This document summarizes the work of the Research Data and Discovery Task Force (RDTF) to improve resource discovery across UK higher education libraries, museums, and archives. It discusses the RDTF's vision and goals to create an integrated and seamless method of accessing these collections by 2012. It provides updates on projects and metadata work to aggregate data and develop innovative discovery services. It announces the launch of a new phase called UK Discovery to further engage stakeholders and explore what open data can enable through real-world examples and case studies.
Opening up data: a UK perspective – Jisc and CNI conference 10 July 2014Jisc
This document summarizes Kevin Ashley's presentation on opening up research data from a UK perspective. The presentation discusses the policy background around open data in the UK, developments in infrastructure to support open data, and costs associated with making data openly available. It also notes that fully realizing the benefits of open data will require international cooperation across organizations like the Digital Curation Centre.
Data Innovation Spaces are identified by BDVA as a key instrument to foster the Data-Driven Innovation in Europe. They provide innovation and experimentation environments where companies in their respective ecosystems could have their data-driven and AI-related products and solutions piloted, tested, and exploited before going to the market. BDVA launches every year a process to identify and recognize relevant initiatives in Europe that meet specific quality criteria in infrastructures, services, projects, and sectors of application, ecosystem and sustainability (BDVA i-Spaces call for labels).
During this session, we will present the concept of BDVA i-Spaces (as it is reflected in the BDVA SRIA), the process and steps of i-Spaces labeling, the value proposition of being an i-Space and activities and examples of collaboration. The session will also include examples of first-hand experience from three recognized i-Spaces: ITAINNOVA (DIH Aragon), UPM, and Demokritos NCSR (aheed DIH).
This document summarizes a webinar about BDVA i-Spaces, which are data innovation spaces that foster data-driven innovation. The webinar discussed what i-Spaces are, their value in collaborating and connecting to other initiatives, and the process for obtaining an i-Space label. Experiences from several labelled i-Spaces were also shared. The goal of i-Spaces is to establish a network across Europe for testing, piloting and exploiting big data technologies and applications through technical and business support services. Obtaining the i-Space label recognizes quality and impacts spaces that connect existing initiatives and promote data-driven innovation.
Strategic Developments in Digital Initiatives at Academic LibrariesHong (Jenny) Jing
The document discusses three critical strategic developments for academic libraries to focus on regarding digital initiatives:
1. Focus digital initiatives on collaborating with stakeholders to develop new user services.
2. Use multiple systems and adopt new technologies like linked data and Fedora 4 for digital assets and institutional repositories.
3. Work with partners through consortia to share costs, expertise, and enhance standards and cooperation. The document provides examples of current technologies, systems, and consortia collaborations to illustrate these strategic developments.
Joining it all up: developing research-practice linkages in the UKHazel Hall
Seminar presentation on efforts to strengthen research-practice linkages in librarianship and information science in the UK since 2009 presented to the School of Business and Economics, Åbo Akademi University, Finland on Thursday 13th March 2014. There is a fuller report of my work visit to Finland at http://hazelhall.org/2014/03/17/social-media-and-public-libraries-a-doctoral-defence-in-finland/.
Presentation of current challenges of upgrading the intrasturcture for access and preservation of social science research data and worklow in Slovene social science data archive
DSpace-CRIS_An open source solution for Research_EDU15Michele Mennielli
The research area is a complex world to manage. It involves collecting data, supporting researchers and administrators, monitoring results, allocating resources efficiently, enhancing visibility, and strengthening national and international collaborations. RIMs manage these activities, but they might be too expensive. This is why Cineca developed DSpace-CRIS, and released it in open source.
Repositories unleashing data and Jisc projectsJisc RDM
Jisc supports the UK research process through developing shared infrastructure and standards. Two relevant projects are the UK Research Data Discovery Service and Research Data Metrics. The UK Research Data Discovery Service aims to make research data more discoverable by evaluating metadata aggregation models and developing a sustainable discovery service. It is currently in Phase 2 testing local and cross-institutional search. The Research Data Metrics project aims to assess data usage and develop a proof-of-concept tool to measure the effectiveness of research data management systems and inform the progression to a metrics service.
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RISE - the DCC's Research Infrastructure Self-Evaluation FrameworkKevin Ashley
The document introduces RISE, a research infrastructure self-evaluation framework developed by the Digital Curation Centre. RISE aims to help research institutions assess the maturity of their research data services, identify gaps, prioritize improvements, and benchmark against peers. It comprises 22 capabilities across different levels of achievement. The framework was created based on the DCC's experience and incorporates standards from existing models. It is freely available online and several institutions have conducted self-assessments using RISE.
An analysis of open data and open science policies in Europe - a SPARCEurope ...Kevin Ashley
A short presentation given at the SPARCEurope members meeting on July 5th in Patras, Greece. It summarises the findings of a recent joint report by the DCC and SPARCEurope on European national open data and open science policy.
This document summarizes a presentation on the benefits of research data management. It discusses how data management can benefit researchers through increased citations and compliance with funder requirements. It also benefits society by enabling data sharing, reuse and discovery. However, many researchers do not practice good data management due to a lack of skills, resources or incentives. The presentation provides information on data management best practices and their importance for research excellence.
Use and reuse: research data locally & globally #esipfedKevin Ashley
The document discusses the importance of research data reuse and the growing demands by funders for data management and sharing. It notes that properly managing and sharing research data can improve research quality, speed, and cost effectiveness. However, many researchers remain reluctant to share data due to various excuses. The document advocates for national research data infrastructure and services to support universities in meeting funder requirements and overcoming barriers to data sharing.
Data Quality and Data Curation - a personal viewKevin Ashley
- The document discusses data quality and curation from the perspective of Kevin Ashley, director of the Digital Curation Centre.
- It notes that different stakeholders have varying definitions of data quality, as some aspects of quality, like accuracy, may conflict with others like timeliness or completeness.
- It suggests that current curation practices often only cater to single consumer groups and domains, and that taking a more generic approach could increase data mobility and reuse across different domains.
The document discusses the importance of good research data management. It notes that good data is needed for good research and outlines funder requirements for data management plans and long-term data preservation. The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) provides tools, services, and support to help research institutions develop their research data management capabilities and policies.
Research data for repository managers Kevin Ashley
A presentation given at ULCC's Institutional Repository Manager's workshop 2012 on 2012-06-15. Aimed at getting traditional repository managers to think about their role in research data management.
Research Data Management: the UK national change programme (Nordbib)Kevin Ashley
The UK National Change Program aims to realize the maximum value of research data through a 5-year program of national services and support coordinated by the Digital Curation Centre. The program focuses on building capacity and capability for research data management within research institutions. Proper research data management is important because data is expensive to create, facilitates reuse and reproducibility, and is increasingly subject to legal and regulatory requirements from research funders.
Missing links closing talk - with notesKevin Ashley
A closing talk I gave at the JISC/DPC 'Missing Links' conference on web archiving in July 2009. The talks were on the DPC site but ironically the link is now broken.
What can the DCC do for you? Sheffield RoadshowKevin Ashley
A description of the ways in which the Digital Curation can work with institutions to improve research data management at institutional level. Delivered at the 2nd DCC roadshow, Sheffield, 2011-03-01
Audit and outsourcing: their role in creating interoperable repository infras...Kevin Ashley
A brief presentation for the REPRISE workshop before IDCC09 (2009-12-02) in London. I look at the role that audit and outsourcing play in helping deliver interoperable preservation in repositories.
JISC repositories and preservation programme: Plenary presentation 2009Kevin Ashley
The document summarizes the Repositories and Preservation Programme that was conducted by JISC, looking back at what was asked of participants and what was accomplished, and looking forward to the future direction. Specifically:
1) JISC asked participants to create more repositories, enhance existing ones, and provide services to help and exploit repository content through specific targeted projects.
2) Participants established more repositories, built on existing successes, and created services to help with discovery, deposit, and application profiles.
3) Looking ahead, the document suggests moving away from individual projects and toward more joined-up international activities, exposing and sharing content across repositories to better support research, teaching, and learning.
This document reviews challenges in digital preservation research by examining past reports that identified key research areas. It discusses work that has been done, is currently being done, and remains to be done. Some areas explored include format migration, repository models, metadata standards, and preserving newer digital formats and software. The document emphasizes the need for both pragmatic and theoretical research that can inform practice and help define problems more specifically to guide future work.
Remote Sensing and Computational, Evolutionary, Supercomputing, and Intellige...University of Maribor
Slides from talk:
Aleš Zamuda: Remote Sensing and Computational, Evolutionary, Supercomputing, and Intelligent Systems.
11th International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (IcETRAN), Niš, 3-6 June 2024
Inter-Society Networking Panel GRSS/MTT-S/CIS Panel Session: Promoting Connection and Cooperation
https://www.etran.rs/2024/en/home-english/
ANAMOLOUS SECONDARY GROWTH IN DICOT ROOTS.pptxRASHMI M G
Abnormal or anomalous secondary growth in plants. It defines secondary growth as an increase in plant girth due to vascular cambium or cork cambium. Anomalous secondary growth does not follow the normal pattern of a single vascular cambium producing xylem internally and phloem externally.
When I was asked to give a companion lecture in support of ‘The Philosophy of Science’ (https://shorturl.at/4pUXz) I decided not to walk through the detail of the many methodologies in order of use. Instead, I chose to employ a long standing, and ongoing, scientific development as an exemplar. And so, I chose the ever evolving story of Thermodynamics as a scientific investigation at its best.
Conducted over a period of >200 years, Thermodynamics R&D, and application, benefitted from the highest levels of professionalism, collaboration, and technical thoroughness. New layers of application, methodology, and practice were made possible by the progressive advance of technology. In turn, this has seen measurement and modelling accuracy continually improved at a micro and macro level.
Perhaps most importantly, Thermodynamics rapidly became a primary tool in the advance of applied science/engineering/technology, spanning micro-tech, to aerospace and cosmology. I can think of no better a story to illustrate the breadth of scientific methodologies and applications at their best.
ESPP presentation to EU Waste Water Network, 4th June 2024 “EU policies driving nutrient removal and recycling
and the revised UWWTD (Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive)”
This presentation explores a brief idea about the structural and functional attributes of nucleotides, the structure and function of genetic materials along with the impact of UV rays and pH upon them.
Phenomics assisted breeding in crop improvementIshaGoswami9
As the population is increasing and will reach about 9 billion upto 2050. Also due to climate change, it is difficult to meet the food requirement of such a large population. Facing the challenges presented by resource shortages, climate
change, and increasing global population, crop yield and quality need to be improved in a sustainable way over the coming decades. Genetic improvement by breeding is the best way to increase crop productivity. With the rapid progression of functional
genomics, an increasing number of crop genomes have been sequenced and dozens of genes influencing key agronomic traits have been identified. However, current genome sequence information has not been adequately exploited for understanding
the complex characteristics of multiple gene, owing to a lack of crop phenotypic data. Efficient, automatic, and accurate technologies and platforms that can capture phenotypic data that can
be linked to genomics information for crop improvement at all growth stages have become as important as genotyping. Thus,
high-throughput phenotyping has become the major bottleneck restricting crop breeding. Plant phenomics has been defined as the high-throughput, accurate acquisition and analysis of multi-dimensional phenotypes
during crop growing stages at the organism level, including the cell, tissue, organ, individual plant, plot, and field levels. With the rapid development of novel sensors, imaging technology,
and analysis methods, numerous infrastructure platforms have been developed for phenotyping.
ESR spectroscopy in liquid food and beverages.pptxPRIYANKA PATEL
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Supporting open research - how to help your researchers - Vitae15
1. Supporting open research – how
to help your researchers
Kevin Ashley
Digital Curation Centre
www.dcc.ac.uk
@kevingashley
Kevin.ashley@ed.ac.uk
Reusable with attribution: CC-BY
The DC Cis supported by Jisc, the
European Commission and the
University of Edinburgh
With content from Sarah Jones (DCC Glasgow),
Martin Donnelly (DCC Edinburgh), Astrid Orth &
Birgit Schmidt (State and University Library
Göttingen), Dan North (LIBER)
2. My home – the DCC
• Mission – to
increase capability
and capacity for
research data
services in UK
institutions
• Not just a UK
problem – an
international one
• Training, shared
services, guidance,
policy, standards,
futures
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3. DCC networks and partnerships
Original Slide:
Martin Donnelly,
DCC
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4. What is open research?
“research carried out and communicated in a manner
which allows others to contribute, collaborate and add
to the research effort, with all kinds of data, results
and protocols made freely available at different stages
of the research process.”
Research Information Network, Open Science case studies
www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/data-management-and-curation/
open-science-case-studies
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5. More than open access publishing
CC-BY Andreas Neuhold
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6. Open methods
• Documenting and sharing workflows and methods
• Sharing code and tools to allow others to reproduce
work
• Using web based tools to facilitate collaboration and
interaction from the outside world
• Open netbook science – “when there is a URL to a
laboratory notebook that is freely available and
indexed on common search engines.”
http://drexel-coas-elearning.blogspot.co.uk/2006/09/open-notebook-science.html
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7. Research as a cycle
SHARE
…and
RE-USE
The DataONE
lifecycle model
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8. What should the institution do for
researchers?
• Provide incentives (not all need them)
• Provide support:
– examples
– tools and services
– Provide knowledge and skills
• Being open with own content
• Using other’s open content
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9. Incentives
COMPLIANCE-DRIVEN
• Your funder requires open
data/papers/code etc
• University policy requires it
• Professional practice/ethics
require it
ADVANTAGE-DRIVEN
• You will get results more
quickly
• Your work will be more
highly-cited
• You are more likely to be
invited to join collaborative
research proposals
• You will be more
employable
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10. Increased use and economic benefit
Up to 2008
• Sold through the US Geological
Survey for US$600 per scene
• Sales of 19,000 scenes per year
• Annual revenue of $11.4 million
Since 2009
• Freely available over the internet
• Google Earth now uses the images
• Transmission of 2,100,000
scenes per year.
• Estimated to have created value for the
environmental management industry of
$935 million, with direct benefit of
more than $100 million per year to the
US economy
• Has stimulated the development of
applications from a large number of
companies worldwide
The case of NASA Landsat satellite imagery of the Earth’s surface:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=83394&src=ve
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DCC Policy
Summary
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/policy-and-legal
12. Incentive - Citability
• Making data available increases citations
• Everyone – academic, funder, institution –
loves citations
• Want evidence?
– Alter, Pienta, Lyle – 240%, social sciences *
– Piwowar, Vision – 9% (microarray data)†
– Henneken, Accomazzi – 20% (astronomy) #
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† Piwowar H, Vision TJ. (2013) Data reuse & the open data citation advantage. PeerJ PrePrints 1:e1v1
http://dx.doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1v1
* Amy Pienta, George Alter, Jared Lyle, (2010) The Enduring Value of Social Science Research: The Use and Reuse of Primary Research Data.
http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/78307
# Edwin Henneken, Alberto Accomazzi, (2011) Linking to Data - Effect on Citation Rates in Astronomy. http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.3618
13. Not just with data…
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Slide: Neil Chue Hong
14. Examples - Data reuse stories
• The palaeontologist who saved years of work with
archaeological data
• The 19th-century ships logs that help us model climate
change
• The ‘noise’ from research radar that mapped dust from
Eyjafjallajökull
• See also:
– Whyopenresearch.org
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15. Data reuse from Hubble
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17. Some example services
• Storage – persistent, shareable
• Permanent, citeable identifiers
• Database as a service (e.g. Oxford ORDS)
• Embed tools in Excel – Dataup, others
• Workflow management – Taverna
• Training for early career researchers
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20. Open access button
The Open Access Button helps you get the research
you want right now (without paying for it), and adds
papers you still need to your wishlist.
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21. How to make data open?
1. Choose your dataset(s)
- What can you may open? You may need to revisit this step if you
encounter problems later.
2. Apply an open license
- Determine what IP exists. Apply a suitable licence e.g. CC-BY
3. Make the data available
- Provide the data in a suitable format. Use repositories.
4. Make it discoverable
- Post on the web, register in catalogues…
https://okfn.org
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22. www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/how-guides/license-research-data
Licensing research data openly
This DCC guide outlines the pros and cons
of each approach and gives practical
advice on how to implement your licence
CREATIVE COMMONS LIMITATIONS
NC Non-Commercial
What counts as commercial?
ND No Derivatives
Severely restricts use
These clauses are not open licenses
Horizon 2020 Open Access
guidelines point to:
or
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23. EUDAT licensing tool
Answer questions to determine which licence(s)
are appropriate to use
http://ufal.github.io/lindat-license-selector
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24. Metadata standards to use
Use relevant standards for interoperability
www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/metadata-standards
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25. Data repositories
http://databib.org
http://service.re3data.org/search
• Does your publisher or funder suggest a repository?
• Are there data centres or community databases for your discipline?
• Does your university offer support for long-term preservation?
Zenodo
• OpenAIRE-CERN joint effort
• Multidisciplinary repository
• Multiple data types
– Publications
– Long tail of research
data
• Citable data (DOI)
• Links funding, publications,
data & software
www.zenodo.org
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26. OBJECTIVES
• To support different stakeholders, especially
younger researchers, in adopting open access in the
context of the European Research Area (ERA) and in
complying with the open access policies and rules
of participation set out for Horizon 2020
• To integrate open access principles and practice in
the current research workflow by targeting the
young researcher training environment
• To strengthen institutional training capacity to
foster compliance with the open access policies of
the ERA and Horizon 2020 (beyond the FOSTER
project)
• To facilitate the adoption, reinforcement and
implementation of open access policies from other
European funders, in line with the EC’s
recommendation, in partnership with PASTEUR4OA
project
FacilitateOpenScienceTrainingforEuropeanResearch
The FOSTER project
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27. METHODS
• Identifying existing content
• Developing a portal to support e-learning
• Delivering face-to-face training
FacilitateOpenScienceTrainingforEuropeanResearch
The project
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29. Training Toolkit
• Helping you to create your own Training Event
• Suggestion: 6 TYPES OF TRAINING SESSIONS
1. Expert talk: ‘ex cathedra’ talk by an external expert on the subject, preferably
followed by Q&A.
2. Talk by peers: experience-based talk by a peer, preferably followed by Q&A.
3. Panel session: panel consisting of three or more experts, preferably with audience
engagement.
4. Workshop: informal, hands-on session lead by an expert. Can be aimed at creation
of tools/policies or just include practical exercises.
5. Group work/Break-out sessions: informal sessions where experts and/or peers
share knowledge and/or experiences.
6. E-learning: using online educational technologies for learning and teaching (online
courses, webinars, etc.).
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30. FOSTER Portal
• All materials are free
to use, and can be
edited, repurposed,
recombined to suit
your own training
needs.
• Many of these
materials are being
compiled into
courses. [Work in
progress.]
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32. Summary
• Persuade those who need persuading that
open research is good for them and you
• Support them with services and training
• You aren’t alone – help is available
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Editor's Notes
I’m Kevin Ashley; I run an organisation called the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) in the UK, and I’ve been invited here today to talk about the lesson we have learnt about establishing research data management services.
My home – the DCC – is a national service whose role is to increase the capability and capacity for UK research institutions – mainly universities – to run their own research data services. Where it makes sense, we also run some national services which those universities use. Because this is not just an national problem, we work alongside many partners and colleagues around the world. We provide training, shared services, guidance, policy, we develop standards and we look at future possible directions in this area.
But the strapline – the phrase at the heading of our web pages – bears closer examination. “Because good research needs good data” is behind all of what we do and much of what I’ll say today. The data we use isn’t always ours, but it always needs to be good.
And a couple I forgot to put on the original slide
INNOVATION: Enables new uses for publication (e.g. text mining and automation)
There’s also an economic benefit, as seen by the case of the NASA landsat satellite images. These were sold until 2008 for $600 a scene. Now they’re freely available and used by Google Earth. Previously they sold 19,000 images a year, whereas now they transmit 2.1 million. The revenue has gone up incredibly too from $11.4 million to an estimated value of $935 million with direct benefit of more than $100 million. The release has also stimulated the development of applications from companies worldwide.
This case study comes from the Royal Society Report on Science as an Open Enterprise.
Did I mention that making data available increases citations? This is a win all round. If you don’t believe me, here are three studies from three different areas that all show robust, positive correlations. The effect size varies with discipline, but we have enough evidence now that anyone who says that their area is different needs to come up with evidence to show why.
There are many such stories of unexpected data reuse; these are a few examples. The last, exemplified in the Old Weather project, is seeing the original data being reused for at least the third time and in doing so is helping both climatologist and family historians through a single piece of transcription work. An impressive result.
Many of you may be familiar with this graph from the Hubble Space telescope data archive. It tells the same story in a different way, and also tells a story about the transformation of astronomy as a discipline. In the days of photographic plates, sharing (analogue) astronomical data was difficult. Digital instruments transformed this, and some time around 2000, more research was being done with old data than with new data.
Which leads to our second lesson. Some people say data sharing and reuse is a difficult change for researchers. In some disciplines, it is. But many have been doing it for some time, and those that have changed have benefited as a result.
Guidance from the DCC can also help researchers to understand data licensing. This guide outlines the pros and cons of each approach e.g. the limitations of some CC options
The OA guidelines under Horizon 2020 point to CC-0 or CC-BY as a straightforward and effective way to make it possible for others to mine, exploit and reproduce the data. See p11 at: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/grants_manual/hi/oa_pilot/h2020-hi-oa-pilot-guide_en.pdf
To make sure their data can be understood by themselves, their community and others, researchers should create metadata and documentation.
Metadata is basic descriptive information to help identify and understand the structure of the data e.g. title, author...
Documentation provides the wider context. It’s useful to share the methodology / workflow, software and any information needed to understand the data e.g. explanation of abbreviations or acronyms
There are lots of standards that can be used. The DCC started a catalogue of disciplinary metadata standards which is now being taken forward as an international initiative via an RDA working group
The FOSTER project – what and how.
FOSTER’s training strategy uses a combination of methods and activities, from face-to-face training, to the use of e-learning, blended and self-learning, as well as the dissemination of training materials/contents/curricula via a dedicated training portal, plus a helpdesk. Face-to-face trainings targets graduate schools in European universities and in particular will train trainers/teachers/multipliers that can conduct further training and dissemination activities in their institution, country and disciplinary community. FOSTER combines experiences and materials to showcase best practices, setting the scene for an active learning and teaching community for open access practices across Europe.
The main outcomes of the project are:
The FOSTER portal to host training courses and curricula;
Facilitate the organisation of FOSTER training events and the creation of training content across Europe
Identification of existing contents that can be reused in the context of the training activities and develop/create/ enhance contents if/where they are needed;
The FOSTER project – what and how.
FOSTER’s training strategy uses a combination of methods and activities, from face-to-face training, to the use of e-learning, blended and self-learning, as well as the dissemination of training materials/contents/curricula via a dedicated training portal, plus a helpdesk. Face-to-face trainings targets graduate schools in European universities and in particular will train trainers/teachers/multipliers that can conduct further training and dissemination activities in their institution, country and disciplinary community. FOSTER combines experiences and materials to showcase best practices, setting the scene for an active learning and teaching community for open access practices across Europe.
The main outcomes of the project are:
The FOSTER portal to host training courses and curricula;
Facilitate the organisation of FOSTER training events and the creation of training content across Europe
Identification of existing contents that can be reused in the context of the training activities and develop/create/ enhance contents if/where they are needed;
It is important to note that this is not about standardising the training that people receive: indidividual organisations will always have varying needs in terms of their training provision. But it is about reducing the confusion or complexity that can come when materials are dispersed in discreet units across the far corners of the internet. And by organising those materials into courses, the aim is to create a cohesive e-learning expression out of some of the modular content that exists, so that you can target particular topics and match them to the needs of your staff. Although the portal contents are not exhaustive, they will continue to grow, especially in response to community feedback, and all of the portal contents have been evaluated for quality by FOSTER partners.