Talk delivered at forum at SURF in the Netherlands with the hashtag #disef. Talk deals with an overview of some thinking being done about elements of the ecosystem for scholarship, as well as some slides dealing with the Australian National Data Service (ands.org.au) and the Research Data Alliance (rd-alliance.org). These latter slides were used during a Q&A session as part of the talk.

1. DANS is an institute of KNAW and NWO
Data Archiving and Networked Services
Data Archiving and Networked Services
Data Infrastructure and the
Scholarly Ecosystem of the
Future
(actually, the other way around…)
Dr Andrew Treloar
DANS Visiting Fellow/ANDS Director of
Technology
2-Oct-13, SURF, Utrecht
#disef

2. Structure presentation
• Ecosystems vs. ecosystems
• Scholarship and scholarly communications
• Role of underpinning infrastructure
• ANDS as a national infrastructure provider
• RDA as an international infrastructure coordinator
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3,
2013
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3. Ecosystems vs ecosystems
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3,
2013
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4. Jungle
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3,
2013
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5. Only use this slide to present a screenshot of an application.
As no style is applied, the screenshot can take up the whole
slide. For all other information please use the slide with
preset style!
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3,
2013
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6. Thoughts on ecosystems from Jason
Priem (emphasis added)
• “The peer-reviewed journal is the product of some 350
years of selective breeding, a thoroughbred exquisitely
tuned to wring the best possible performance from the
paper-based world of its creation. But the Web has
irrevocably changed our information environment — it is no
longer the habitat the journal evolved in…
• The next decade will see a dramatic dieback in journals
and a Cambrian explosion of communication species
evolved for the Web- and network-centric world. Most of
these will be failures. … Similarly, we can expect the
intense selection pressure generated by scholars'
hunger for relevant information to drive rapid evolution in
systems for certification, recommendation and
assessment.”
– Jason Priem, Scholarship: Beyond the paper, Nature 495, 437–440 (28
March 2013) doi:10.1038/495437a
October
3,
2013
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7. Elements of scholarly ‘eco’system
• Creating Knowledge - activities
• Sharing Knowledge - functions
• Information components
• Underpinning Social/Political Infrastructure
• Underpinning Technical Infrastructure
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3,
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8. • Capture
• Combine
• Generate
• Analyse
• Synthesise
• Write
Creating Knowledge – Scholarly
Activities
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3,
2013
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9. Sharing Knowledge – Scholarly
Communication Functions
Roosendaal
& Geurts (1997)
• Registration
• Certification
• Awareness
• Archiving
• Rewarding
Rowland (2002)
• Registration
• Certification
• Dissemination
• Archiving
And
what
about
Commentary?
Priem and
Hemminger (2012)
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3,
2013
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10. Creating vs. Sharing? Really?
• Distinction is an artefact of the ‘previous’ system
of scholarship
• The evolving system of scholarship is blurring the
boundary
• “The Web opens the workshop windows to
disseminate scholarship as it happens, erasing
the artificial distinction between process and
product.” (emphasis added)
– Jason Priem, Scholarship: Beyond the paper, Nature 495, 437–
440 (28 March 2013) doi:10.1038/495437a
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3,
2013
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11. Information components
Ex:
researchdata.ands.org.au/five-­‐human-­‐breast-­‐cancer-­‐microarray-­‐gene-­‐expression-­‐datasets
Ex:
www.elsevier.com/physical-­‐sciences/computer-­‐science/executable-­‐papers
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3,
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12. Social/Political Infrastructures
• Reward Systems
• Research Funding
• Disciplines
• Institutions
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13. Technical Infrastructure
• Storage
• Network
• Compute
• Authenticate?
• Collaborate?
• …
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3,
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14. Actors
• Creating knowledge
– Researchers
– Public
• Sharing knowledge
– Researchers
– Publishers
– Public
• Social/Political Infrastructure
– Scholarly societies
– Research administration
– Ministries/Funders
• Technical Infrastructure
– Infrastructure providers
– Institutions
– Ministries/Funders
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3,
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15. October
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16. Questions/Comments?
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3,
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17. Infrastructure examples
• National provider
– Australian National Data Service
– ands.org.au
• International coordinator
– Research Data Alliance
– rd-alliance.org
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3,
2013
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19. ANDS
enables
transformaTon
of:
From
Data:
" Unmanaged
" Disconnected
" Invisible
" Single
use
To
Structured
CollecTons:
" Managed
" Connected
" Findable
" Reusable
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so
that
Australian
researchers
can
easily
publish,
discover,
access
and
use/re-­‐use
research
data.
NaTonal
Policy
Context
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3,
2013

20. Questions/Comments?
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3,
2013
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21. 21
§ Formed in 2012 by research funders from
§ EU (500M)
§ US (300M)
§ AU (23M)
§ Members in every continent except Antarctica
§ But strongly biased towards US, Europe
§ Plenary 2 took place in Washington DC in September
2013
§ https://www.rd-alliance.org/future-events
§ Plenary 4 taking place in Netherlands in September/
October 2014
Research Data Alliance Overview
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22. 22
§ Interest Groups
§ people concerned with a particular class of problems (by
discipline or by kind)
§ may have ongoing existence
§ will probably spin off series of working groups
§ Working Groups
§ focussed on a particular problem
§ will run for 12-18 months
§ will produce a piece of infrastructure (broadly interpreted) for
deployment
§ should lead to more data being exchanged
Working Groups and Interest Groups
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23. Questions/Comments?
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2013
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24. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)
Anna van Saksenlaan 10 | 2593 HT The Hague | The Netherlands
P.O. Box 93067 | 2509 AB The Hague | The Netherlands
070 3446 484 | info@dans.knaw.nl | www.dans.knaw.nl
KVK 54667089 | DANS is an institute of KNAW en NWO
Thank you for your attention,
questions, and input!
For more information please contact
@atreloar
andrew.treloar@dans.knaw.nl
andrew.treloar.net
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