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WIS Workshop on Information Access Enablers

Matthew J. Dovey

JISC Programme Director (e-Research)

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JISC in the UK Higher Education Context

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JISC Support for Research Programmes

JISC Strategic Theme Programme Activities

People Research Communities Engagement • e-Research Roadshows• e-Research Events/Conferences• Institutional ICT Support Models• Requirements and “Evidence Base”

Collaboration Virtual Research Environments • VRE Status Review• VRE Community Support• VRE Innovation Projects• e-Lab Notebook Review• Research Project Resource Modelling

Research Data Research Data Management 

• Defining Strategy and Policy• Building Infrastructure and Improving Processes• Planning Tools and Methodologies• Demonstrating Benefits• Building Capacity and Skills

Infrastructure Research Infrastructures • National Grid Service• ESFRI Workshops• Cloud Computing and Virtualisation• NaCTeM• e-InfraNet

Access Access and Identity Management • Identity Management Toolkit• Identity Management Landscape Studies• Future look Innovation Projects

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Data Digitization

Virtual Environments for Research in Archaeologyhttp://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/vre2/vera.aspx

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Data Digitization

VRE for Study of Ancient Documents and Manuscripts: http://bvreh.humanities.ox.ac.uk/VRE-SDM

e-Science and Ancient Documents: http://www.ahessc.ac.uk/image-text-interpretation

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Opening up systems - JISC/RLUK Resource Discovery Task Vision

UK students and researchers will have easy, flexible access to content and services through a collaborative, aggregated and integrated resource discovery and delivery framework which is comprehensive, open and sustainable

Graphics courtesy of the JISC web2practice project: http://www.netskills.ac.uk/content/projects/2008/JISC-web2practice/index.html

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Opening Up Systems – Mash-Ups

Deconstruct process into task focused modules

Simple interfaces “just do enough”

Documented interfaces and formats

Allow access points rather than force user interface

– Allow users to do stuff with your data/metadata

(Open Data; Linked Data)

Persistence of reference (Smart URLs)– Bad: http://search.gov/sru2xml.php?

– Good: http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79737

Example mashups:

– JISC Rapid Innovation Projects: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/inf11/jiscri.aspx

– VRERI: http://code.google.com/p/vreri/

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Opening Participation

Social Networking for Researchers

– MyExperiment and NeISS allow researchers to shared data, workflow, processes, simulations, visualisations, etc. ala MySpace/Facebook/ManyEyes/NetVibes etc.

• www.myexperiment.org/

• www.neiss.org.uk

– Open Science/Citizen Science allow public participation in the process e.g. Galaxy Zoo

• www.galaxyzoo.org

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Trust – Document, Document, Document!

What the data is

How to interpret the data

Provenance of data

How the data collected/created

Why the data collected/created

Analysis and process

– What analysis applied, how data was selected, when data selected, what software, what software version, what platform

Access restrictions

– CLARIAN project – Embargo Manager - http://clarionproject.wordpress.com/

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Changing Behaviour – JISC Research Data Management Programme

Building support capacity within Universities

– PegBoard (http://www.paleo.bris.ac.uk/projects/peg-board/blog/)

Building support capacity within Research Groups

Incentives

– Data Publication and accreditation

• Overlay Journal Infrastructure for Meteorological Sciences (OJIMS) -http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/reppres/sue/ojims.aspx

• DataCite - www.datacite.org

• CODATA - www.codata.org

• Current funding call

– Strand A: Citing, Linking and Integrating Research Data

– Strand B: Innovative Publications for Research Datahttp://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2009/12/1409researchdata.aspx

Digital Curation Centre – promoting good practice between Universities and Research Communities

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Some Key Messages

Linking data and publication – data as publication

Enable end users and intermediaries by providing simple documented task-focused persistent interfaces/access points to data and process

Deliver “just enough” quickly rather than “perfection never”

Document all points (interfaces, data formats, provenance, assumptions, etc) in the data supply chain

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Questions?