Public Datasets In the Cloud

Michael Klein and Rosalyn Metz

Agenda

• What do we mean by the cloud?• What is data in the cloud?• Examples of data in the cloud• Publish your data in the cloud!

What do we mean by “the cloud”?

5 Characteristics

1.On demand self service2.Broad Network Access3.Resource Pooling4.Rapid Elasticity5.Measured Service

1. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

1. Platform as a Service (PaaS)

1. Software as a Service (SaaS)

3 Service Models

What is data in the cloud?

no, we’re talking about...

• data whose primary presentation is “raw data”• data that can be used outside the defined

constructs of the raw data• data that corresponds to one of the cloud based

service modelso ie. SaaS, PaaS, IaaS

we are not talking about…

• data you can download from a website• data catalog sites like data.gov

Infrastructure

Platform

Patron Discovery

• Cloud datasets have huge research value• How can we make patrons aware of them?• How can we facilitate use of these resources?

o Complete access is beyond our scopeo Cataloging is noto What level of automation is possible?o Screencasts? Tutorials? Library instruction?

Pushing Library Data to the Cloud

• Secondary uses of library datao Researcho Testingo Unified indexing

• Not just bibliographic datao Usage/Borrowing

Can we anonymize enough to share it safely and ethically?

Institutional Review Board concernso Anything from the archives world?