The document discusses research data discovery in the UK. It summarizes that a research data discovery service would aggregate metadata records from UK research institutions and data centers to make research data more discoverable and reusable. A pilot of the service harvested metadata from 9 universities and 3 data centers. Based on feedback, phase 2 will focus on developing the service into a sustainable shared infrastructure to support open access of research data.
Research data spring - Jisc Digital Festival 2015Jisc
This demonstration explored a few ideas and the collborative process implemented by Jisc R&D to select ideas and gather feedback for technical tools, software and service solutions to support the management of research data.
Collaboration through technology: moving from possibility to practice - Marti...Jisc
Led by Martin Hamilton, futurist, Jisc.
With contribution from Daniel Fairbairn, e-learning manager, Uxbridge 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 London, 28 June 2016
Helping you shape infrastructure to implement open access efficientlyJisc
This session focused on two projects Jisc monitor and Jisc publications router that will develop prototype solutions and other outputs that point to ways to radically reduce the administrative burden of implementing open access.
Closing plenary - John Wilkin and David MaguireJisc
Infrastructure for US research and scholarship
Speaker: John Wilkin, dean of libraries and university librarian at the University of Illinois, previous executive director, HathiTrust.
Efficient infrastructure for UK research
Speaker: David Maguire, vice-chancellor of the University of Greenwich and chair of Jisc.
Jisc and CNI conference, 6 July 2016
Showcasing research data tools - Jisc Digifest 2016Jisc
The document summarizes several projects from Phase 3 of the Research Data Spring initiative. It describes DataVault, a platform for long-term archival of research data. It also discusses DMA Online, a dashboard that aggregates research data management information from multiple sources. Additionally, it outlines Clipper, a tool for creating and sharing clips from audiovisual materials. Finally, it presents a project that aims to incentivize data deposit by enabling researchers to publish "data papers" describing their datasets.
Getting value from institutional repositories: IRUS UK - Jisc Digital Festiva...Jisc
IRUS-UK collects usage data from UK institutional repositories and provides statistics and reports to help repositories understand download trends and benchmark performance. It collects raw download data from repositories using EPrints, DSpace and Fedora and filters robot activity before processing daily provisional and monthly statistics. The presentation provided examples of IRUS-UK reports and how one university uses the data for quality checks, benchmarking, advocacy and promoting repository content.
Kit-Catalogue - Discovering the Value of Equipment Sharing - Universities UK ...Martin Hamilton
Universities UK (UUK) 4th Annual Efficiency in Higher Education Conference talk from me and UCL's Jacky Pallas on accelerating equipment sharing. This covers Jisc initiatives such as our shared data centre and VAT cost sharing group, and our pilot of the Kit-Catalogue equipment database software - with a case study from UCL showing how they have used Kit-Catalogue.
Research data spring: filling in the digital preservation gapJisc RDM
This document discusses a project investigating the use of Archivematica for long-term digital preservation of research data. The project is a collaboration between researchers at the University of Hull and University of York. Archivematica is an open source digital preservation system that packages preservation tools. The project aims to set up local implementations of Archivematica at Hull and York and explore integrating it more broadly. Work in Phase 2 included enhancing Archivematica, spreading awareness of the project, and planning for sustainability and outreach in a potential Phase 3.
Research data spring - Jisc Digital Festival 2015Jisc
This demonstration explored a few ideas and the collborative process implemented by Jisc R&D to select ideas and gather feedback for technical tools, software and service solutions to support the management of research data.
Collaboration through technology: moving from possibility to practice - Marti...Jisc
Led by Martin Hamilton, futurist, Jisc.
With contribution from Daniel Fairbairn, e-learning manager, Uxbridge 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 London, 28 June 2016
Helping you shape infrastructure to implement open access efficientlyJisc
This session focused on two projects Jisc monitor and Jisc publications router that will develop prototype solutions and other outputs that point to ways to radically reduce the administrative burden of implementing open access.
Closing plenary - John Wilkin and David MaguireJisc
Infrastructure for US research and scholarship
Speaker: John Wilkin, dean of libraries and university librarian at the University of Illinois, previous executive director, HathiTrust.
Efficient infrastructure for UK research
Speaker: David Maguire, vice-chancellor of the University of Greenwich and chair of Jisc.
Jisc and CNI conference, 6 July 2016
Showcasing research data tools - Jisc Digifest 2016Jisc
The document summarizes several projects from Phase 3 of the Research Data Spring initiative. It describes DataVault, a platform for long-term archival of research data. It also discusses DMA Online, a dashboard that aggregates research data management information from multiple sources. Additionally, it outlines Clipper, a tool for creating and sharing clips from audiovisual materials. Finally, it presents a project that aims to incentivize data deposit by enabling researchers to publish "data papers" describing their datasets.
Getting value from institutional repositories: IRUS UK - Jisc Digital Festiva...Jisc
IRUS-UK collects usage data from UK institutional repositories and provides statistics and reports to help repositories understand download trends and benchmark performance. It collects raw download data from repositories using EPrints, DSpace and Fedora and filters robot activity before processing daily provisional and monthly statistics. The presentation provided examples of IRUS-UK reports and how one university uses the data for quality checks, benchmarking, advocacy and promoting repository content.
Kit-Catalogue - Discovering the Value of Equipment Sharing - Universities UK ...Martin Hamilton
Universities UK (UUK) 4th Annual Efficiency in Higher Education Conference talk from me and UCL's Jacky Pallas on accelerating equipment sharing. This covers Jisc initiatives such as our shared data centre and VAT cost sharing group, and our pilot of the Kit-Catalogue equipment database software - with a case study from UCL showing how they have used Kit-Catalogue.
Research data spring: filling in the digital preservation gapJisc RDM
This document discusses a project investigating the use of Archivematica for long-term digital preservation of research data. The project is a collaboration between researchers at the University of Hull and University of York. Archivematica is an open source digital preservation system that packages preservation tools. The project aims to set up local implementations of Archivematica at Hull and York and explore integrating it more broadly. Work in Phase 2 included enhancing Archivematica, spreading awareness of the project, and planning for sustainability and outreach in a potential Phase 3.
The research data spring project "DataVault" slides for the third sandpit workshop. Project led by University of Manchester and University of Edinburgh.
The Safe Share Project is a pilot project running from 2014-2017 that enables the secure exchange of health data between universities and research institutions. It uses an encrypted overlay network over Janet to facilitate analysis while protecting sensitive data. The goal is to further medical research on diseases and treatments through collaborative analysis of data, in a way that maintains public trust through secure handling of personal information.
Bristol's Research Data Service - Debra Hiom - Jisc Digital Festival 2014Jisc
The Research Data Service at Bristol University aims to make research data support a regular service by August 2015. It currently operates as a pilot program with staff including a service manager, research data librarians, and a technical developer. The service offers guidance on data management plans, data storage, sharing, publication, and training. It provides researchers with 5TB of storage and tools for collaboration, deposition of published datasets, and a public catalogue. Priorities for the next year include promoting the service, establishing ongoing service levels, developing an institutional research data policy, and integrating the data repository with the university's research information system.
Jisc's vision is to make the UK a leader in digital education and research. Its mission is to help higher education exploit digital technologies. Jisc supports collaboration between higher education and other sectors like health, provides digital services, and shares its infrastructure to benefit both its members and other public services. It is working on initiatives like connecting healthcare and education networks, sharing content and capabilities, and expanding its Safe Share service for secure data transfer within and beyond health informatics.
Application of Assent in the safe - Networkshop44Jisc
The document summarizes the Safe Share project, which aims to enable the secure exchange of health data between research sites for medical research. It establishes a higher assurance network using encrypted overlays between network nodes. It also explores implementing an authentication, authorization and accounting infrastructure to allow researchers to access data and systems using their home institution credentials. Several pilot programs are underway to test the network and authentication capabilities. The overall goal is to accelerate medical research while maintaining strict security and privacy of sensitive health data.
BRISSKit: biomedical research made easy - Jisc Digital Festival 2015Jisc
BRISSKit is a demo web application that intends to simplify the process whereby medical and translational researchers find and study patient cohorts and link to other biomedical datasets.
Reading lists as open data - Meeting the Reading List Challenge 2016Martin Hamilton
1. The document discusses an open data project involving Jisc, Universities UK, and the Open Data Institute to make university reading lists openly available.
2. The project aims to collaborate across universities to publish reading list data in order to power applications like a book recommendation app and identify popular texts for potential deals.
3. Next steps could include using the consolidated open reading list data to recommend new texts, identify books to remove from lists, and monitor adoption of open textbooks between institutions. Barriers to sharing may include lack of common data standards.
Goonhilly Earth Station played a key role in the development of the Internet. It was involved in the first demonstration of packet radio networking across the Atlantic in 1977. Goonhilly is now exploring ways to extend Internet connectivity to space, such as by developing disruption tolerant networking to enable an interplanetary Internet and supporting private lunar missions. Goonhilly also aims to diversify its business by offering commercial satellite services and partnering with universities on radio astronomy research.
Jisc Monitor workshop - Jo Lambert and Brian Mitchell - Jisc Digital Festival...Jisc
The Jisc APC pilot project aimed to respond to a changing global Open Access (OA) landscape by exploring key issues around the management of article processing charges. By bringing together representatives from academic institutions, publishers, funders and intermediaries, the project explored different approaches to managing Article Processing Charges (APCs) and investigated opportunities for achieving greater efficiencies.
The project indicated that Open Access publishing activity must be considered in its entirety to deliver maximum efficiencies within an institutional context. Following the pilot project, Jisc OA Monitor aims to provide a shared service enabling institutions to collate, analyse and report on all of its Open Access publishing activities and outputs (Green and Gold) both internally and to its funders. The service will offer institutions an insight into their degree of compliance with funder mandates and encourage international co-operation to assist in the development of processes, systems and standards that facilitates the sharing and exchange of relevant information between institutional, publisher and vendor systems.
An overview of Jisc OA Monitor outlining its core components. Community engagement and co-design is a key aspect of Jisc OA Monitor and the workshop will enable participants to contribute ideas to inform development of this new service.
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
Northumbria University is working to implement a robust research data management (RDM) solution. It has engaged in several activities to assess current RDM practices and infrastructure needs, including interviews with grant holders, a survey of researchers, and workshops with the Digital Curation Centre. Through these workshops, the university used the RISE model to evaluate its capabilities for data ingest, access, preservation, and more across several potential repository platforms. This helped provide evidence to secure budget and staffing to pilot and roll out a new RDM system starting in 2018. The university aims to go to procurement in September 2017 after finalizing business requirements and an options appraisal.
Data centre networking at the University of Bristol - Networkshop44Jisc
The document summarizes the modernization of the University of Bristol's existing data center and plans for a new second data center. It discusses how the existing data center was upgraded from legacy switches to Cisco Nexus switches with copper and fiber connectivity. It also addresses challenges in configuring the legacy switches and moving from Fibre Channel storage to iSCSI. Plans for the new data center include geographic diversity, sub-2ms connectivity between sites to allow for synchronous storage, and architecting services to work across multiple data centers. The future plans include using Nexus 9k switches with APIC and integrating F5 load balancers and Hyper-V into the network architecture.
Demonstration of the 4C cost comparison toolJisc RDM
The document discusses a demonstration of the 4C Cost Comparison Tool, which allows organizations to map asset types, activities, purchases, and staff to create cost sets for research data management. It describes the process of creating an organization profile, cost set, and activity mapping in the tool. The presentation concludes with a live demo of the tool and links to related projects for assessing the costs of research data management.
Chair: Josh Howlett, head of trust and identity, Jisc.
The importance of trust and identity to the network continues to grow in step with the rapid expansion in the scale and complexity of delivering services and content to distant users. As a result, the consumers and providers of digital services and content need access to increasingly sophisticated capabilities to make the best of the opportunities offered by the network.
This presents technical and resource challenges to those charged with providing these capabilities. In this session, we explore how Jisc and other organisations and initiatives are responding to the opportunities and challenges faced by institutions.
Running order of talks:
09:15-09:40 - Jisc service update
Speaker: Simon Cooper, trust and identity services group manager, Jisc.
09:40-10:05 - National AAAI pathfinder project
Speaker: Jeremy Yates, UCL.
10:05-10:30 - Better together!
Speaker: Klaas Wierenga, GÉANT.
The document provides an overview of the UK research data discovery service, which aggregates research data from universities and national data centers to enable discovery of UK research data. It describes the pilot and development of the service, including participating organizations, requirements gathering, and next steps to transition the beta service into a production service. The demonstration shows the search capabilities of the beta discovery service platform.
The document summarizes a workshop on interoperability between grant funding systems. Key points discussed include:
- Desire to reduce duplication by allowing data to be shared between research organization and funding council systems.
- Initial outcomes from the workshop on possible ways to share data on costs, people, students, spending, and outcomes.
- Barriers to interoperability include the diversity of research organization systems and incomplete adoption of standards.
- The new grants system will take an agile approach, gradually introducing functionality based on user research and testing.
Mobile learning in practice - Jisc Digital Festival 2015Jisc
Want to optimise your students' learning experience through mobile technology? This workshop stimulated thinking and discussion around integration of mobile apps into teaching practice by showcasing further and higher education case studies and providing practical guidance and hands-on activities.
Get involved with codesign - Jisc Digital Festival 2015Jisc
This session gave an overview of the 5 challenges that Jisc is addressing via research and development effort.
It covered what the challenges are, and how you can get involved in developing solutions to address these.
The research data spring project "DataVault" slides for the third sandpit workshop. Project led by University of Manchester and University of Edinburgh.
The Safe Share Project is a pilot project running from 2014-2017 that enables the secure exchange of health data between universities and research institutions. It uses an encrypted overlay network over Janet to facilitate analysis while protecting sensitive data. The goal is to further medical research on diseases and treatments through collaborative analysis of data, in a way that maintains public trust through secure handling of personal information.
Bristol's Research Data Service - Debra Hiom - Jisc Digital Festival 2014Jisc
The Research Data Service at Bristol University aims to make research data support a regular service by August 2015. It currently operates as a pilot program with staff including a service manager, research data librarians, and a technical developer. The service offers guidance on data management plans, data storage, sharing, publication, and training. It provides researchers with 5TB of storage and tools for collaboration, deposition of published datasets, and a public catalogue. Priorities for the next year include promoting the service, establishing ongoing service levels, developing an institutional research data policy, and integrating the data repository with the university's research information system.
Jisc's vision is to make the UK a leader in digital education and research. Its mission is to help higher education exploit digital technologies. Jisc supports collaboration between higher education and other sectors like health, provides digital services, and shares its infrastructure to benefit both its members and other public services. It is working on initiatives like connecting healthcare and education networks, sharing content and capabilities, and expanding its Safe Share service for secure data transfer within and beyond health informatics.
Application of Assent in the safe - Networkshop44Jisc
The document summarizes the Safe Share project, which aims to enable the secure exchange of health data between research sites for medical research. It establishes a higher assurance network using encrypted overlays between network nodes. It also explores implementing an authentication, authorization and accounting infrastructure to allow researchers to access data and systems using their home institution credentials. Several pilot programs are underway to test the network and authentication capabilities. The overall goal is to accelerate medical research while maintaining strict security and privacy of sensitive health data.
BRISSKit: biomedical research made easy - Jisc Digital Festival 2015Jisc
BRISSKit is a demo web application that intends to simplify the process whereby medical and translational researchers find and study patient cohorts and link to other biomedical datasets.
Reading lists as open data - Meeting the Reading List Challenge 2016Martin Hamilton
1. The document discusses an open data project involving Jisc, Universities UK, and the Open Data Institute to make university reading lists openly available.
2. The project aims to collaborate across universities to publish reading list data in order to power applications like a book recommendation app and identify popular texts for potential deals.
3. Next steps could include using the consolidated open reading list data to recommend new texts, identify books to remove from lists, and monitor adoption of open textbooks between institutions. Barriers to sharing may include lack of common data standards.
Goonhilly Earth Station played a key role in the development of the Internet. It was involved in the first demonstration of packet radio networking across the Atlantic in 1977. Goonhilly is now exploring ways to extend Internet connectivity to space, such as by developing disruption tolerant networking to enable an interplanetary Internet and supporting private lunar missions. Goonhilly also aims to diversify its business by offering commercial satellite services and partnering with universities on radio astronomy research.
Jisc Monitor workshop - Jo Lambert and Brian Mitchell - Jisc Digital Festival...Jisc
The Jisc APC pilot project aimed to respond to a changing global Open Access (OA) landscape by exploring key issues around the management of article processing charges. By bringing together representatives from academic institutions, publishers, funders and intermediaries, the project explored different approaches to managing Article Processing Charges (APCs) and investigated opportunities for achieving greater efficiencies.
The project indicated that Open Access publishing activity must be considered in its entirety to deliver maximum efficiencies within an institutional context. Following the pilot project, Jisc OA Monitor aims to provide a shared service enabling institutions to collate, analyse and report on all of its Open Access publishing activities and outputs (Green and Gold) both internally and to its funders. The service will offer institutions an insight into their degree of compliance with funder mandates and encourage international co-operation to assist in the development of processes, systems and standards that facilitates the sharing and exchange of relevant information between institutional, publisher and vendor systems.
An overview of Jisc OA Monitor outlining its core components. Community engagement and co-design is a key aspect of Jisc OA Monitor and the workshop will enable participants to contribute ideas to inform development of this new service.
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
Northumbria University is working to implement a robust research data management (RDM) solution. It has engaged in several activities to assess current RDM practices and infrastructure needs, including interviews with grant holders, a survey of researchers, and workshops with the Digital Curation Centre. Through these workshops, the university used the RISE model to evaluate its capabilities for data ingest, access, preservation, and more across several potential repository platforms. This helped provide evidence to secure budget and staffing to pilot and roll out a new RDM system starting in 2018. The university aims to go to procurement in September 2017 after finalizing business requirements and an options appraisal.
Data centre networking at the University of Bristol - Networkshop44Jisc
The document summarizes the modernization of the University of Bristol's existing data center and plans for a new second data center. It discusses how the existing data center was upgraded from legacy switches to Cisco Nexus switches with copper and fiber connectivity. It also addresses challenges in configuring the legacy switches and moving from Fibre Channel storage to iSCSI. Plans for the new data center include geographic diversity, sub-2ms connectivity between sites to allow for synchronous storage, and architecting services to work across multiple data centers. The future plans include using Nexus 9k switches with APIC and integrating F5 load balancers and Hyper-V into the network architecture.
Demonstration of the 4C cost comparison toolJisc RDM
The document discusses a demonstration of the 4C Cost Comparison Tool, which allows organizations to map asset types, activities, purchases, and staff to create cost sets for research data management. It describes the process of creating an organization profile, cost set, and activity mapping in the tool. The presentation concludes with a live demo of the tool and links to related projects for assessing the costs of research data management.
Chair: Josh Howlett, head of trust and identity, Jisc.
The importance of trust and identity to the network continues to grow in step with the rapid expansion in the scale and complexity of delivering services and content to distant users. As a result, the consumers and providers of digital services and content need access to increasingly sophisticated capabilities to make the best of the opportunities offered by the network.
This presents technical and resource challenges to those charged with providing these capabilities. In this session, we explore how Jisc and other organisations and initiatives are responding to the opportunities and challenges faced by institutions.
Running order of talks:
09:15-09:40 - Jisc service update
Speaker: Simon Cooper, trust and identity services group manager, Jisc.
09:40-10:05 - National AAAI pathfinder project
Speaker: Jeremy Yates, UCL.
10:05-10:30 - Better together!
Speaker: Klaas Wierenga, GÉANT.
The document provides an overview of the UK research data discovery service, which aggregates research data from universities and national data centers to enable discovery of UK research data. It describes the pilot and development of the service, including participating organizations, requirements gathering, and next steps to transition the beta service into a production service. The demonstration shows the search capabilities of the beta discovery service platform.
The document summarizes a workshop on interoperability between grant funding systems. Key points discussed include:
- Desire to reduce duplication by allowing data to be shared between research organization and funding council systems.
- Initial outcomes from the workshop on possible ways to share data on costs, people, students, spending, and outcomes.
- Barriers to interoperability include the diversity of research organization systems and incomplete adoption of standards.
- The new grants system will take an agile approach, gradually introducing functionality based on user research and testing.
Mobile learning in practice - Jisc Digital Festival 2015Jisc
Want to optimise your students' learning experience through mobile technology? This workshop stimulated thinking and discussion around integration of mobile apps into teaching practice by showcasing further and higher education case studies and providing practical guidance and hands-on activities.
Get involved with codesign - Jisc Digital Festival 2015Jisc
This session gave an overview of the 5 challenges that Jisc is addressing via research and development effort.
It covered what the challenges are, and how you can get involved in developing solutions to address these.
Showcasing uk teaching resources: Jorum - Jisc Digital Festival 2015Jisc
This session will provide an overview of the UK's largest open educational resources repository Jorum and its new website. A demonstration will highlight new features, collections and content as well as an insight into upcoming developments.
Maximised discovery of institutions digital collections - Jisc Digital Festiv...Jisc
This workshop discussed a number of services and tools that Jisc is developing to support institutions boost the discoverability of their digital collections.
Using jisc's JUSP and CCM services effectively to manage resources - Jisc Dig...Jisc
This session discussed the very real, practical benefits gained from using Jisc services (JUSP, Copac Collections Management/CCM) in enabling more effective and efficient collection management activity to take place in higher education institutions.
Call for participants - Jisc Digital Festival 2015Jisc
Call for Participants (CFP) is a former Jisc Summer of Student Innovation project that provides academic researchers with an improved, easy and free way to recruit participants for research.
With hundreds of registered researchers from over 200 universities world-wide, Call For Participants is gaining significant interest and is available to all universities who engage in research activity.
Total cost of ownership: reducing the cost of gold open access - Jisc Digital...Jisc
Learn how Jisc Collections is addressing the cost UK higher education institutions face in maintaining subscriptions and also paying for article processing charges to the same publishers for the same journals.
The cost of curation - Jisc Digital Festival 2015Jisc
How to get to grips with understanding your digital curation and preservation costs using the curation costs tool on the Curation Costs Exchange - a community-owned platform which helps organisations of any kind assess the costs of curation practices through comparison and analysis.
Staff-student partnership working to effect institutional change - Jisc Digit...Jisc
This document summarizes a presentation on staff-student partnerships working to enact institutional change. It discusses the vision of empowering students as active participants rather than mere consumers. Examples are provided of partnerships at various universities, including student fellows schemes and "Digipals" programs. The Change Agents' Network supports students as agents of technology-related change through events, resources, and a student partnership toolkit.
The continued development of 3D technologies has enabled more affordable and accessible use in a wide range of teaching and research disciplines.
This workshop gave delegates a better understanding of how using 3D technologies can benefit education and research.
Telephony is changing - is your institution ready? - Jisc Digital Festival 2015 Jisc
How you can improve your users’ experience now and in the future, and how you can really save your institution money. Learn about how other institutions have made informed purchasing decisions and how much they have saved in the process.
This sessiongave delegates an overview of the five challenges that Jisc is addressing via research and development effort.
You will hear what the challenges are and learn how you can get involved in developing solutions to address the challenges.
The changing role of the IT leader - Jisc Digital Festival 2015Jisc
The higher education IT enterprise has become complex. The IT department is no longer simply responsible for provisioning IT infrastructure and services, but increasingly helps to re-envision business and service models—all in a context of cost and accountability pressures.
IT is simultaneously more challenging, relevant, and exciting than ever; leading IT requires unique characteristics and capabilities.
Finding the right cloud solution for your organisationJisc
Finding the right cloud solution for your organisation can be difficult with many options to consider. This session helped delegates to unravel the different cloud models, understand the implications and benefits of migration and dispel any myths.
Delegates heard from key cloud providers to discover how Jisc can support and guide their cloud decisions. 'Real benefits’ of migration will be demonstrated through the experience of a fully migrated organisation.
Risk management is a powerful tool in decision making. Delegates heard about how Jisc is approaching information security risk management and how the lessons learnt in implementing flexible, robust and effective processes can help your everyday work.
Open access: changes in the global research market - Jisc Digital Festival 2015Jisc
All outputs of research funded under the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 and the European Research Council will be made open access. As more UK researchers collaborate in EU-funded projects, it’s crucial that they stay informed.
This session aimed to demonstrate Jisc’s leadership in the area of EU open access developments and help delegates ensure compliance with EU policies.
Keynote speech - Carole Goble - Jisc Digital Festival 2015Jisc
Carole Goble is a professor in the school of computer science at the University of Manchester.
In this keynote, Carole offered her insights into research data management and data centres.
Directions in research data management - Jisc Digital Festival 2015Jisc
The next five years of activity are critical for research data management, as research expectations grow and funder mandates begin to bite.
Working with ARMA, RLUK, RUGIT, SCONUL and UCISA, Jisc has supported the sector in setting out the vision, principles and priorities that will shape activity in the months and years to follow.
This session introduced the directions in research data management report, which will be published at or shortly after the session.
Big data and the dark arts - Jisc Digital Media 2015Jisc
There still remains a certain misunderstanding by the very definition of "big data" and the perceived hype around the term. This workshop clarified the concepts and give examples of relevant big data projects.
Jisc Research Data Discovery Service ProjectJisc RDM
This document summarizes the UK Research Data Discovery Service (UKRDDS) project run by Jisc from 2013-2016. The project had two phases: an initial pilot to evaluate options for a research data registry and a second phase to build a test service based on the CKAN platform. The project engaged universities and data centers to pilot the service and provide feedback. It focused on developing a core metadata schema and getting stakeholder input to define requirements and priorities through an advisory group structure. The timeline outlines milestones like prototyping the service, implementing pilots, and developing plans to transition the service to ongoing operations.
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.
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.
Jisc is a UK organization that supports digital technology use in education and research. There is growing pressure on universities to better manage research data due to funder policies requiring data sharing. Jisc is working with universities to build research data management capacity through infrastructure projects, training programs, and developing best practices. Barriers to progress include low researcher priority for data management and lack of funding and resources.
RD shared services and research data springJisc RDM
Daniela Duca's presentation at the DataVault workshop on 29 June. An overview of research at risk, research data shared service and research data spring.
Towards an integrated UK national research data infrastructureJisc RDM
Jisc seminar at Science and Innovation 2016 conference.
Daniela Duca, Martin Hamilton, Fiona Murphy, Athanasios Velios.
Slides include: overview of Jisc, research data shared service, research data discovery service, giving researchers credit for their data and recording research data for artists.
The Jisc Research Data Discovery Service Project aims to build a UK research data discovery service that enables discovery of UK research data and meets requirements. Phase 2 will build on previous pilot work to lay foundations for the future delivery of the service, including developing use cases, agreeing metadata standards, and creating a business case. The project team is working with participating universities and data centers to ingest metadata and gather feedback to develop an effective solution.
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.
Building an international infrastructure for research data - Jisc Digital Fes...Jisc
Research data infrastructures exist at the national and international level and with the increasing amount of international research collaboration it is crucial that these are joined up.
This session showcased collaborative work that Jisc and its partners are undertaking to create a pan-European e-infrastructure solution through the EC funded EUDAT project.
SURFSara outlined the approach to research data infrastructure in the Netherlands alongside Jisc's approach for a UK infrastructure.
Implementing Open Access: Effective Management of Your Research DataMartin Hamilton
This document discusses research data management and support available from Jisc and the Digital Curation Centre (DCC). It provides background on policy drivers for research data management, outlines support offered by the DCC including capability studies, data management planning tools, and training. It also summarizes results from a 2014 survey of UK higher education institutions which found most progress in policy development and plans, but challenges around staffing, funding, and engagement of researchers. The document concludes with feedback on future priorities such as compelling services, engaging researchers, and shared infrastructure solutions.
How to equip researchers in managing data - JIsc Digital Festival 2015Jisc
This demonstration will encourage information professionals, librarians and research support staff to become familiar with online training materials and methods to support researchers in achieving research data management best practice.
How Jisc supports reporting, communicating and measuring research in the UKJisc RDM
Jisc supports reporting, communicating, and measuring research in the UK through several initiatives:
1) Promoting the adoption of research data standards and identifiers like ORCID, OrgID, and DOIs to improve interoperability between systems.
2) Leading projects to increase compatibility between funders' and universities' research information management systems through OSIP and organizational identifier pilots.
3) Developing tools that help institutions monitor and report on open access compliance and discover openly accessible research outputs.
Researcher data management shared service for the UK – John Kaye, Jisc
Hydra - Tom Cramer, Stanford University and Chris Awre, University of Hull
Addressing the preservation gap at the University of York - Jenny Mitcham, University of York
Emulation developments - David Rosenthal, Stanford University
Jisc and CNI conference, 6 July 2016
This document provides an overview of a webinar on digital curation and research data management for universities. The webinar covers an introduction to digital curation, the benefits and drivers for research data management, current initiatives in UK universities, and the role of libraries in supporting research data management. Libraries are increasingly involved in developing institutional policies, providing training, and advising researchers on writing data management plans and sharing data. The webinar highlights training opportunities for librarians to develop skills in research data management and digital curation.
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Chapter-1
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Chapter 2
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3. » Introduction – Catherine Grout
» Research Data Discovery Service – Christopher Brown
» ORCID –VerenaWeigert and Janette Colclough
» Organisational Identifiers – Christopher Brown
Session content
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4. » Many institutions and research institutes (within and outside
universities)
» Many research funders (UK Research Councils only 30% of total
research income)
» Varied infrastructure – Institutional Repositories, CRIS’s (one of
these or neither)
» Changing environment
› Mandates effecting research information and research data
› Increasing importance of external (non-governmental) funding
› Interdisciplinary and international focus
UK research context: General
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5. » Research excellence Framework (REF) from the four university
funding bodies* - research impact (REF2014 published,
preparation for 2020 - awaiting guidance)
» REF open access policy - to be eligible authors accepted
manuscripts must be deposited in Institutional Repositories
(journal material)
» Research Councils UK (RCUK) - 7 subject based research councils:
the RCUK Policy on Open Access aims to achieve “immediate,
unrestricted, online access to peer reviewed and published
research papers, free of any access charge”
UK research context: policies and mandates
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*Higher Education FundingCouncil for England (HEFCE), Scottish FundingCouncil (SFC), the Higher Education Funding
Council forWales (HEFCW) and the Department for Employment and Learning (DEL)
6. » To help implementation - new funding policy block grant to
Universities to cover cost of Article Processing charges (APC’s)
» EPSRC Research Data Mandate – universities set in place
processes and practices to ensure curation and preservation of
research data (create roadmap for compliance and act on it)
UK research context: policies and mandates
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7. » Not a shared national reporting infrastructure
» Funders and agencies
› Funder systems’ landscape is complex (and somewhat ad hoc): Je-S;
ResearchFish, Research Outcomes System; Grants on the Web; REF;
HESA
» Universities
› Institutional systems landscape is complex (ad hoc): 60 using
CRIS/Cerif, spreadsheets, repositories used by many, 125 HEIs with an
Institutional Repository
» Information required for both day-to-day management, funding
requirements and strategic decision making
UK research context: RIM
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8. » Supporting adoption and implementation of key standards
» Jisc CASRAI-UK pilot
» ORCID
» Frameworks - CERIF, euroCRIS, UKRISS
RIM – Standards
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9. » Support universities core business and help make research process
more productive
› Developing shared services/infrastructure where appropriate
› Supporting implementation of key standards
› Providing a channel for universities requirements with funders,
vendors etc.
› Getting everyone together
› Research Data – management, policies, discoverability
Jisc – How are we helping?
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10. » Organisational identifiers – Jisc CASRAI-UK working group of
stakeholders to help develop recommendations
» Researcher identifiers – ORCID pilot
» Discoverability of research data – Research data discovery service
(pilot to potential service)
» Open Access reporting working group (Jisc CASRAI-UK pilot)
» Vocabularies for Open Access (V4OA) and key metadata standards
Fitting the pieces together
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Research data management and discovery services
for the research data lifecycle
Key Other supportedJisc supported
Data
Clouod
Librarians,research managers & IT
have three interlocking suites of
services, to support researcher
needs and institutional policies
Researchers have a cohesive and
interlocking suite of research data
management, publication and
discovery services
Research data
management and
planning services
Research data storage and archival services
Research data discovery
services
UKDA, BADCICSU / WDSEBI / GenBank
Research data management applications
Journal policies registry
Research data registry / Cross
repository discovery service
DMPonline
DMP Registry
SWORD +
Disciplinary data repositories
(National and International)
Institutional data cataloguesInstitutional data catalogues
Disciplinary research data
Discovery services
Metadata exchange between journals, archives, repositories
Data identifiers and
Metadata schema
Supportfor Research data lifecycle
Cloud/Storage
There is a set of
infrastructure
components that
underpin all three suites
Researcher identifiers Organisation identifiers RegistriesData Identifiers
Research data management applications
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12. Find out more…
Contact…
Except where otherwise noted, this
work is licensed under CC-BY-NC-ND
Catherine Grout
Head of change - Research
@catherinegrout
14. » Funder mandates for UK universities to have data
catalogues/registries. Broader mandate to know what research
data assets exist and make sure they are reusable
› For example, “EPSRC expects research organisations to publish
appropriately structured metadata online describing the research data
they hold, normally within 12 months of the data being generated”
See more at: dcc.ac.uk/resources/policy-and-legal/research-funding-
policies/epsrc#sthash.eUvFiSxv.dpuf
» A registry solution that aggregates simple, but textually rich,
metadata records for research data assets
Research data discovery – requirements
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15. » A discovery solution for UK research data collections
» Presents records as web pages and thus promotes the visibility of
data resources to search engines
» Two important related use cases:
› to break down data silos, encouraging linking and reuse of related
data collections, particularly in interdisciplinary research;
› to facilitate linking data to other research outputs, making data
citation and referencing easier, thereby incorporating data in research
achievements and impact
Research data discovery – requirements
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» Idea from UKRDS report in 2010
» Modelled on Research Data Australia developed by ANDS
» In order to be re-used, data must be discoverable
» Harvests simple, but textually rich, metadata records for research
data assets
» Piloted with early adopters - 9 HEIs and UK Data Archive,
Archaeology Data Centre and NERC data centres
Phase 1 - DCC pilot / technical evaluation (Oct 2013-Mar 2014)
Research data discovery – From pilot to service
17. Research data discovery – Phase 1: HEI pilots
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18. » UK Data Archive
» NERC data centres
› British Atmospheric DataCentre (BADC)
› British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC)
› Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC)
› National Geoscience Data Centre (NGDC)
› NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC)
› Polar Data Centre (PDC)
› UK Solar System Data Centre (UKSSDC)
» Archaeology Data Service
Research data discovery – Phase 1: Data centre pilots
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19. » Technical Development
› Trialled Australian National Data Service (ANDS)
– Existingnationalresearch dataregistryserviceresearchdata.ands.org.au/
– Open Source software (Apache License version 2.0)
github.com/au-research/ANDS-Registry-Core
» CentOS Linux instance in Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform
» Harvester – separate Java component
» Crosswalks – imported metadata has to be converted to RIF-CS
(Registry Interchange Format – Collections and Services) format
(from DDI, UK GEMINI 2, Datacite, EPrints, MODS, OAI-PMH
Dublin Core)
Research data discovery – Phase 1
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20. » Technical Recommendations:
› Evaluation of alternatives e.g. CKAN
› Effort to agree more broadly on metadata schemas
» If going with the ANDS software:
› Collaborate to:
– make it more easily adapted to other contexts
– improve documentation
– shape future developments
› Develop associated components (Harvester)
› Further develop and test crosswalks
Research data discovery – Phase 1
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» HEI/Data Centre Requirements
› Need to have some research
data and expose its metadata
› Harvest the associated
metadata
› Project should incorporate
representation of researchers’
needs
› Service should look into what
will encourage and increase
reuse of datasets
› Software should be easier for
users to understand
› Software should be able to
respond appropriately to
deletions and merge records
› Service should promote
visibility of research datasets
to generic search engines
› Desirable for institutions to
have opportunity to check
quality of harvested output
Research data discovery – Phase 1
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» Laying the firm foundations for the service, including a service
operation plan and business case for its delivery into the future
» Engaged with early adopters, now moving to possible shared
infrastructure
» Plan for shared service but assessing the best way to deliver this
and key use cases
Phase 2 - From pilot to production (Nov 2014 – July 2016)
Research data discovery – From pilot to service
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» Further evaluate potential software solutions (ANDS, CKAN and
any other)
» Collaborate closely with the HEIs and Data Centres from Phase 1
» Identify and finalise the agreement on the metadata schema that
is appropriate for a successful cross disciplinary service
» Produce toolkits and advice/guidance on implementation
Phase 2 - From pilot to production (Nov 2014 – July 2016)
Research Data Discovery – From pilot to service
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» Develop and agree sector requirements for a UK Research Data
Discovery Service
» Ingest metadata into a functioning service instance for all
participating Data Centres and HEIs
» Making sure Research Data that is being managed and available
can be found
» Providing a data catalogue solution for institutions
Phase 2 - Further Aims
Research data discovery – Phase 2
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» Establish and run stakeholder groups to engage with the community
to understand their needs and to help to build an effective solution
» Evaluate the role of this service as providing institutional
infrastructure for data discovery and how it works with universities
» Ensure the service and user interface has undergone
comprehensive usability tests
» Clear articulation of where the UK Research Data Discovery
Service sits within other elements of research data infrastructure
Phase 2 - Further Aims
Research data discovery – Phase 2
26. Phase 2 - Work packages
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» Stakeholder engagement
» Requirements gathering
» Software evaluation
» Metadata development
» HEI Pilots implementation
» Data centres pilots implementation
» Service definition and design
» Dissemination
Research data discovery – Phase 2
rdds.jiscinvolve.org/wp/
Supported by:
Led by:
29. » January 2013
Joint statement in support of ORCID (ARMA, HEFCE, HESA, RCUK,
UCISA,WellcomeTrust, Jisc); joint implementation plan
» May 2014 – March 2015
Jisc ARMA ORCID Pilot
Aim: streamline ORCID implementation process at universities
develop the best value approach for a potential UK wide adoption of
ORCID in HE.
» 8 HEI based pilots (May 2014-January 2015)
» Summary Report and Cost-Benefit Analysis (March 2015)
ORCID adoption in the UK
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» Preparing to consult with the sector to ask HEIs to express their
interest in participating in consortium, also consulting with funders
and reconvened ORCID implementation group (ARMA, HEFCE,
RCUK, UCISA, HESA, SCONUL, RLUK, WellcomeTrust, BL) to keep
them informed
» Considering what other support we can provide post the Jisc
ARMA ORCID pilot – e.g. technical support
» Working on the dissemination of the results of
Jisc-ARMA ORCID pilot
Next step is to coordinate ORCID consortium membership
for UK Jisc is now:
ORCID adoption in the UK
32. Implementing ORCID iDs at the
University ofYork
Experiences of the JISC-ARMA ORCID Pilot
Janette Colclough, Research support manager,
Information directorate, University ofYork
33. The University context
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» Founded 1963
» Research intensive (14th in REF)
» Member of the Russell Group
andWhite Rose Consortium
» 16,000 students, 1,400
academic and research staff
» >30 departments in humanities,
social sciences, sciences
» High duck density
ORCID iDs at the University ofYork
34. » Voluntary registration for iDs by researchers, with institutional
support and advocacy
» Backed by institutional policy (University Policy on the Publication
of Research)
» Technology: Integration of ORCID iD functionality into CRIS (Pure)
» Technology: Use EPrints connector to populate the shared
repository (White Rose Research Online) with ORCID iDs
» Joint Information Directorate and Research Strategy and
Policy Office project
ORCID iDs at the University ofYork
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Key features of theYork project
35. ORCID iDs at the University ofYork
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» Membership of ORCID
› Basic Creator license enabling one API integration
» Easy to activate once Pure options were available and working
» EPrints connector now working in PureTest (4.20.3)
» SeeYork ORCID blog for more information
Technical set up
36. » Short trial of technical and advocacy issues with 4 departments
› Monitored uptake, online survey
» Add/Create options in Pure
› Worked but many researchers did not Save their iD into Pure
› More instructions needed
» Wide recognition of need to “Distinguish yourself”
» Expectation that Pure would populate ORCID profile
» Role of research administrators
ORCID iDs at the University ofYork
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Pilot stage exercise
37. ORCID iDs at the University ofYork
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» Email from Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research
» Website modified from pilot stage exercise
› york.ac.uk/orcid
› Added instructions, benefits of Pure, iD only
» Pre-launch promotion
› Bookmarks distributed to researchers
› York Research Administrators Forum
» Progress to date
Implementation for academic and research staff
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» Complete work on EPrints connector and repository (WRRO)
» Make iDs visible inYork Research Database (Pure portal)
» Consider implementation for postgraduate research students and
staff without Pure profiles
» Work on sustainability issues
› Continuing costs
› New staff and students
Next steps
39. ORCID iDs at the University ofYork
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» SeeYork ORCID blog yorkorcid.blogspot.co.uk/
› Users and use case
› Technical approaches
› Important lessons learned
› Benefits of our approach
» Breakout session at UK Serials group conference
Find out more
40. Find out more…
Contact…
Janette Colclough
Research support manager,
University ofYork
janette.colclough@york.ac.uk
york.ac.uk/library
42. » Consortia Advancing Standards in Research Administration
Information (CASRAI)
» International community of leading research funders and
institutions collaborating to ensure seamless interoperability of
research information
» Develop and maintain a common data dictionary and advocate on
best practices
Introduction to CASRAI
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43. » Jisc andCASRAI are piloting three NationalWorkingGroups in theUK
› Data management plans
› Organisational identifiers
› Open Access reporting
» Each at different stage of process but has charter and plan
» Pilot ends March 2015
Jisc CASRAI-UK pilot
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44. » Identify main candidate sources of OrgIds
» Subject them to common use cases which are relevant to
universities and other parts of the RIM and RDM workflow
» The main output will be a common statement about how the UK
research community should use OrgIds and the policy requirement
in order for harmonised OrgIds to work
» Develop a sustainable process for maintaining authoritative lists of
organisations in the CASRAI dictionary
» The membership of this working group includes representatives
fromARMA, Research Councils, HEDIIP, BL, CrossRef,
WellcomeTrust, CRIS system vendors and UK HEIs
OrgId working group - objectives
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45. » Organisational Id landscape study – a report to inform the working
group on the current use of organisational identifiers was
commissioned and delivered (Sept 2013)
» Organisational Id review – commissioned by the working group to
review a core set of organisational identifiers (ISNI, Ringgold,
Digital Science and UKPRN) (Dec 2014)
» Use cases – based on key use cases from the Research lifecycle,
these have been identified by the working group and further
developed under the OrgId Review (Dec 2014)
OrgId working group - outputs
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46. » Examined the landscape of organisational identifiers in the UK and
identified 23 different IDs
» Based on interviews with key individuals
» Stakeholders interviewed for this study typically described
identifying organisations as “a nightmare”, specifically
disambiguation and deduplication
Landscape Study: Summary
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47. » Benefits from effective unique identifiers are truly realised when
data is shared
» Key aspects of identifiers that support the widest range of uses:
› Governance, trust, transparency, temporal, appropriate metadata
› Of these, the “temporal” information is perhaps the most challenging
to address
Landscape study: Summary
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48. » None of the identifiers investigated fulfils the role of being an
“authoritative list” of organisations involved in research.They are
all constrained in scope
» ISNI and UKPRN both warrant particularly careful consideration by
the working group
» The Research Councils, as major funders of research in the UK,
should be closely involved in the development of any new
identifier system
Landscape study: Recommendations
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49. » Given the range of existing identifiers, any new identifier system
should only be developed and introduced if there is clear evidence
of demand, and sufficient buy in to ensure that it is universally
adopted
» The authority can remain separate from the identifier (for
example, it would be feasible to establish an authority list with
appropriate metadata but using the ISNI as the identifier)
Landscape study: Recommendations
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50. » Clarify a representative but not comprehensive set of use cases for
the UK research community to use organisational identifiers
» Survey and interview a small number of well-informed people in the
field in order to create and prioritise a list of desirable features for
the provision of OrgIDs and potential services built around them
» Check the use cases and these required features against four*
possible candidate OrgIDs and their providers
» Inform the Working Group of the review’s conclusions and, if
appropriate, make recommendations for adoption by the UK
research community
*Four candidates = ISNI, Ringgold, UKPRN, Digital Science
OrgId review:Terms of reference
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51. » UC1 - Researcher applying for funding As a Researcher applying for funding, I need to list multiple organisations related
to my proposal in order to enable the target funder to uniquely identify previous employers and other funders, collaborators or
industry partners and beneficiaries.
» UC2 - Funder: minimising conflicts of interest As a funder preparing to find referees or reviewers, I need to be able to
identify suitable people in order to minimize conflicts of interest (through potential co-location at host institution).
» UC3 - Funder - tracking published outputs As a Funder, collating outputs in end-of-research reports, I need to be able
to track published outputs in order to understand our contribution & successful collaborations.
» UC5 - Researcher or research manager - reporting academic impacts to funders As a research producer,
I need to report academic impacts to different funders with different requirements.
» UC6 - Researcher - tracking organisations across time As a researcher I need to preserve the historical integrity of
organisational names at the time of data creation, collection or deposit (and other, specified times); it is similarly important, however,
to record and retain the links between these differing names, so that any user can see which data came from which organisation, even
if the organisation name has changed.
» UC7 - Repository manager - populating repositories, managing automation As a repository manager I
need to be able to uniquely identify my repository, whether or not its location or URL changes; this will enable me to control semi-
automated population of repository records.
» UC8 - Developer - directory services As a developer for research funders, I need to link an OrgID within my application to
a directory service.This will allow an end user or a machine to verify identity and contact details.
N.B. UC4 was deleted early in the review
OrgId Review – Use Cases
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52. » UKPRN
› ukrlp.co.uk
› UK Register of learning providers is a register of legally verified
learning providers in UK
› Each verified provider will be assigned with a unique provider
reference number UKPRN
› Information shared across sector with agencies (e.g. Skills Funding
Agency, Higher Education Statistics Agency, HE Funding Council for
England and Universities and Colleges Admissions Service)
OrgId review: Candidates
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53. » Digital Science Institute Database
› Public beta Feb 2015 idb.datasci.it
› Global coverage of organisations that feature in the scientific lifecycle
› 25,ooo organisations expected to be indexed by release
› Metadata includes names, aliases, urls, wikipedia pages, types,
relationships and addresses, with all address data linked to geonames
› Substantial amount of this database available for free under a CC-BY
licence
OrgId review: Candidates
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54. » ISNI www.isni.org/
› Holds public records of over 7.49 million identities including 7M
individuals (800K are researchers) and 490,000 organisations
› ISNI database is a cross-domain resource, contributed to by 29
institutions and databases, and 40 major national and research libraries
› Part of the suite of ISO identifiers (along with ISBN, ISSN, etc.)
› Its governance infrastructure is designed with the purpose of ensuring
the long-term viability of the identifier
› ISNI is a bridge identifier, designed to provide interoperability between
different proprietary identifiers, such as the Ringgold ID and a critical
component in Linked Data and Semantic Web apps
OrgId review: Candidates
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55. » Ringgold ringgold.com
› A registration agency for ISNI
› Identify database contains 400,000 organisation records with organisational
identifiers and associated metadata
› The database is global and covers all market sectors, including universities,
research centres, funders, corporations, non-profit organisations, government
entities and organisations, healthcare and hospitals, schools and public libraries
› It contains basic location metadata and is not designed to replace existing
identifiers but to provide a bridge between them across multiple parts of the
wider creative industries
› Not replacing the Ringgold ID with the ISNI number, but will provide the ISNI
number along with the Ringgold ID.The ISNI number is designed to sit above
the proprietary identifier to link systems of identifiers together as a
bridge identifier
OrgId review: Candidates
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56. OrgId review: Candidate check against use cases
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58. » A hybrid approach with ISNI as the backbone. Institutions and others needing to register and use
OrgIDs should use a solution which relies on and feeds the minimum data set curated by ISNI
» In considering registration solutions and value-added services, organisations should bear in mind
that, in the short term, Ringgold is the most developed agency conforming to the above
» Expect that soon there will be other service providers working to deliver value added services on top
of ISNI and the Working Group should do what they can to encourage such competition by, for
example, Digital Science, who should consider the possibility of acting as a registration agency for
ISNIs in a similar way to Ringgold
» CrossRef should consider creating and maintaining a crosswalk or table of equivalence between
FundRef IDs and ISNI, either through a direct relationship with ISNI or through a third party /
registration agency. Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) has recently become a registration
agency for ISNI and the review recommends that HEFCE and the British Library discuss whether it
would be appropriate for there to be a UK-based registration agency and how bulk
creation/checking of ISNIs (and bulk registration and/or the creation of a table of equivalence for
UKPRNs) might take place for UK academic institutions and other organisations involved in research
OrgId Review – Key recommendations
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59. » Statement of Agreement – currently being drafted
› A draft statement based on the recommendations from the OrgId
Review Report and discussions with the OrgIdWorking Group.The
purpose of this statement is for key organisations such as Jisc, RCUK,
HEFCE, etc. to sign up to
OrgId working group:What next?
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60. » Testing
› A merged list of organisations, created from UCL's interactions with
Wellcome, should be submitted to ISNI to test the quality of the
UCL/Wellcome data and the quality and timeliness of the existing ISNI
data and their response
› "sandbox" experiments should be set up with Ringgold, Digital Science
and ISNI to look at whether the data tested in [i] (or a subset) is
capable of providing the basis for a value added solution with the
present state of orgID services
» Post-pilot Working Group
› Pilot ends March 2014 -> future relationship with CASRAI
› Review working groups
OrgId working group:What next?
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61. » CASRAI/Jisc National Network: Jisc.ac.uk
» CASRAI website casrai.org
» Jisc CASRAI-UK pilot blog jisccasraipilot.jiscinvolve.org/
» Organisational Identifiers
› Landscape study - repository.jisc.ac.uk/5381/
› Review & use cases - repository.jisc.ac.uk/5853/
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