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Digital | Curation | Centre

Supporting Digital Curation to safeguard research data: adding value today and ensuring long-term access

Dr Liz Lyon,

DCC Associate Director Outreach

Director, UKOLN, University of Bath, UK

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JISC Conference

March 2006

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Overview

• Digital curation and the e-Research cycle• UK Digital Curation Centre

– Development activity– Research agenda– Advisory services – Outreach programme

• Chemistry exemplar projects

“maintaining and adding value to a trusted body of digital information for current and future use”

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UK Digital Curation Centre

• Development activities

• Research agenda

• Delivering services

• Outreach Programme

• http://www.dcc.ac.uk/

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DCC people (some of them…)

• Management & Co-ordination– Director Chris Rusbridge (University of Edinburgh)

• Community Support & Outreach– Led by Dr Liz Lyon (UKOLN, University of Bath)

• Service Definition & Delivery– Led by Professor Seamus Ross (HATII, University of Glasgow)

• Development– Led by Dr David Giaretta (Astronomical Software & Services, CCLRC)

• Research– Led by Professor Peter Buneman (University of Edinburgh)

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(Very simple) e-Research Cycle and Data Curation

Formulate hypothesis / ideas, test, experiment, observe: data creation,

collection & capture

Adding value: Data linking, annotation,

visualisation, simulation

(New) knowledge extraction: data mining, modelling, analysis, synthesis

e-Infrastructure

Open access

Collaboration

Scholarly communications: data disclosure, publication, citation, discovery, re-use

Data management storage & validation: description, deposit,

self-archiving, preservation,

certification

Data processing

Data processingData processing

Data processing

Data processing

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Data capture & integration into research workflows

• R4L Repository for the Laboratory Project (JISC-funded) automated data capture from instrumentation, deposit of results (chemistry)

• SMART TEA electronic Laboratory notebook + annotations

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Disciplinary data-centres

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eBank UK Project• Two key themes:

– Open access to datasets– Linking research data to publications and to learning

• UKOLN, University of Southampton, University of Manchester• e-Science application ‘Combechem’ : Grid-enabled combinatorial

chemistry + National Crystallography Service• Resource Discovery Network / PSIgate physical sciences portal

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/projects/ebank-uk/

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A data repository entry

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Access to the underlying data: complex objects

ecrystals.chem.soton.ac.uk

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Data descriptions• Validation, publication & discovery

of data models & schema• Metadata packaging standards

– METS– MPEG 21 DIDL

• Semantic descriptions– Formal controlled vocabularies– High-level and domain ontologies– Inter-disciplinary discovery

• Informal approaches Web 2.0 “folksonomies”

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Audit & certification: trusted digital repositories

• DCC Development & Services teams• Draft Audit Checklist for Certification August

2005 Research Libraries Group RLG-NARA • Pilot audits planned

– Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB) – British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC)– JISC Digital Repository projects?– Institutional repositories?

• Revised Checklist based on feedback and pilot audit outcomes

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Development: Representation Information Registry

• “DCC Approach to Digital Curation” based on the Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS); ISO standard, 14721:

• Development of a Representation Information (RI) registry/repository (DCC-RR)

• Prototype demonstrator: based on 2 key concepts to facilitate sharing of the curation effort

– Curation persistent ID– Descriptive “label” (structural, semantic, other metadata)

• Development of tools and interfaces for creating, using and re-using representation information

http://dev.dcc.ac.uk

for details of Wiki and email list

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Persistent identifiers for data citation

• Warwick Workshop research issue

• Schemes: DOI, Handle, ARK, PURL

• Global identification: express as http URIs• eBank data citation policy (human and

machine-actionable) http://dx.doi.org/10.1594/ecrystals.chem.soton.ac.uk/145

• Domain identifiers: e.g. International Chemical Identifier (INChI) codes

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Discovering data:

Coles, S.J., Day, N.E., Murray-Rust, P., Rzepa, H.S., Zhang, Y., Org. Biomol. Chem., 2005, (10),1832-1834. DOI: 10.1039/b502828k

• Domain identifier: International Chemical Identifier (INChI) code• Google molecule using INChISlide from Simon Coles

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Adding value: eBank linking data to publications

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Linking research to learning - embedding eBank aggregator service in a science portal for student learners

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Adding value through annotation

DCC Research at the University of Edinburgh

• Scientific databases: Annotation scoping report

• AstroDAS: distributed annotation servers in astronomy

• New annotation model + prototype MONDRIAN: top-ranked demonstration at recent DB conference

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Supporting the community: Services

• [email protected]

• legal - technical guidance

• Curation Manual 45 chapters planned,

• Briefing Papers• Case studies

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DCC Case Study published: Wide Field Astronomy Unit

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Supporting the community: Outreach & Services • Workshops:

• LOCKSS 6 April Warwick• Archiving e-Mail 24 April, Newcastle• Associates Network 17 May, NeSC,

Edinburgh• Digital Curation Policies, June,

Oxford tbc• Data dictionary for Preservation

Metadata (PREMIS), July tbc

• Information Days 2006 Nottingham, Birmingham, Manchester

• 2nd International Conference 21-22 November Glasgow

• Keynotes: Hans F. Hoffmann, CERN, Clifford Lynch, CNI

• Call for papers deadline 3rd April

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Associates Network

Goals: Develop understanding, share best practice, advance research, promote recognition, develop consensus

376 Members and growing…….

Benefits: Early access to R&D outputs, advisory services, training, input to definition and design, community participation

Discussion Forum www.dcc.ac.uk Topics: formats at risk, Creative Commons, digital archives and digital libraries

Meeting 17 May @ NeSC, Edinburgh Please join us!


Thank you.Questions?

[email protected]

Join the DCC Associates Network at www.dcc.ac.uk