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Digital Future of Research. Manchester Metropolitan University.15/04/2023 slide 1

Tomorrow's Researchers

Matthew DoveyProgrammes Director, Jisc

Skills Needed to Adapt to the Future Demands of Digital Research

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“Research Technologists”

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http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/briefingpapers/2011/bpsupportingresearchers.aspx

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CSC, SURF, Jisc report to EU e-IPF

Recognition of the need for Research Technologists and the organisational and financial consequences is crucial to the impact of research.

Advocacy - It is crucial to influence policy and resource allocation of both the research funders and also the institutions undertaking research in order to establish this role.

Training - Incorporating a basic level of understanding and training is critical – this should happen for all researchers and be introduced at the point at which they are first exposed to research. Training on the use and impact of technology on the research process should therefore be included from undergraduate level and fully integrated into research student programmes.

Embedding - With an established career pathway and appropriate training it will be necessary to incorporate and empower the Research Technologist in the research process.

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Institutional and funding

council structures and

policies

ICT facilities and associated

support

Training researchers

Transforming or making available research outputs

Creating technology

Creating innovation

Developing software

Using tools and e-infrastructure

Data curation and

management

Services and solutions

RESEARCH

“Skills Wheel”

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Institutional and funding

council structures and

policies

ICT facilities and associated

support

Training researchers

Transforming or making available research outputs

Creating technology

Creating innovation

Developing software

Using tools and e-infrastructure

Data curation and

management

Services and solutions

RESEARCH

Researcher

“Researcher”

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Institutional and funding

council structures and

policies

ICT facilities and associated

support

Training researchers

Transforming or making available research outputs

Creating technology

Creating innovation

Developing software

Using tools and e-infrastructure

Data curation and

management

Services and solutions

RESEARCH

ICT CapableResearcher

“ICT-skilled Researcher”

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Institutional and funding

council structures and

policies

ICT facilities and associated

support

Training researchers

Transforming or making available research outputs

Creating technology

Creating innovation

Developing software

Using tools and e-infrastructure

Data curation and

management

Services and solutions

RESEARCH

Specialist Support

“IT Support”

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Institutional and funding

council structures and

policies

ICT facilities and associated

support

Training researchers

Transforming or making available research outputs

Creating technology

Creating innovation

Developing software

Using tools and e-infrastructure

Data curation and

management

Services and solutions

RESEARCH

Research Technologist

Support & Knowledge Transfer

“Research Technologist”

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Researchers

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Digital Roles of the Future Researcher

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InformationManager

DataManager

Technologist

PRManager

ProjectManager

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Information Manager

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InformationManager

DataManager

PRManager

ProjectManager

Technologist

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SCONUL Seven Pillar of Information Literacy

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Vitae Framework, Information Literacy Lens: http://www.vitae.ac.uk/researchers/437191/Increasing-the-impact-and-engagement-of-researchers.html

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Vitae Framework, Information Literacy Lens: http://www.vitae.ac.uk/researchers/437191/Increasing-the-impact-and-engagement-of-researchers.html

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Researchers of Tomorrow Study

Education for Change, together with The Research Partnership,was commissioned by the British Library and JISC to undertake a groundbreaking study on the research behaviour of the 'Generation Y' scholar

The study spent three years tracking the information-seeking behaviour of doctoral students born between 1982 - 1994; analysed their habits in online and physical research environments and assessed how they used library and information sources, both on and off line

Over 17,000 doctoral students from more than 70 higher education institutions participated in the three annual surveys, which were complemented by a longitudinal student cohort study.

http://explorationforchange.net/index.php/rot-home.html

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Finding and Using Research Resources Text-based and secondary research sources are

predominant, compared to primary sources, across all subject disciplines and all ages of student

Most students found the research information they sought in more than one kind of resource, but e-journals dominate

If they cannot get hold of an e-journal article almost half the Generation Y doctoral students make do with the abstract. Fewer older students are likely to do this

Only Google commands a similarly important role as an information source across all subject disciplines

Generation Y doctoral students seem rarely to be aware of the actual publisher or name of the e-information source, as they rely on their library’s own interface or Google to locate and access resources

There is widespread lack of understanding and uncertainty about open access and self-archived resources among doctoral students of all ages

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Take-up of Technologies and Applications Take-up of most institutionally-provided and open

web technology tools and applications is low among doctoral students overall

Generation Y doctoral students are more likely than older doctoral students to use technology to assist them in their research

Generation Y doctoral students tend to use technology applications and social media in their research if they augment, and can be easily absorbed into, existing work practices

Levels of use of social media and other applications helpful in retrieving and managing research information are steadily rising among Generation Y doctoral students, but those applications most useful for collaboration and scholarly communications remain among the least used

Fellow students and peers are the major influence on whether or not Generation Y doctoral students decide to use a technology application and are their main source of hands-on help

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Collaboration, Sharing and Disseminated Research The majority of all Generation Y doctoral students

across all subject disciplines work alone rather than in collaborative teams

Informal networking with fellow students and peers is important to most Generation Y doctoral students in exchanging information and ideas and warding off the effects of isolation

The Generation Y doctoral student’s main place of work – their institution or home – has an impact on collaborative and support-seeking behaviours

The majority of Generation Y doctoral students share their research outputs only with their work colleagues

Few doctoral students overall are as yet using institutional repositories, and concerns exist over, for example, copyright liabilities if their theses are made public this way

With regard to greater openness and sharing in research, Generation Y doctoral students tend to reflect a mixture of in-principle endorsement and the inclination to retain control over their own work, which characterises academic researchers and wider scholarly communications in general

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Institutional Services and Facilities to Support Research While the majority of Generation Y doctoral

students take up some training in finding and using secondary source research resources, they are less likely to opt for training in using technology-based methods and tools, such as e-research infrastructure or Web 2.0 applications

Among institutional training offers there is widespread and heavy reliance on ‘traditional’ modes of training delivery, such as lectures, talks or demonstrations, and workshops. Face-to-face methods are favoured by students over online delivery

Working mainly from an institutional base has positive implications for networking and support among peers and academics, but home-based Generation Y doctoral students may be more likely to make use of the support services provided by the institution

The high importance assigned by Generation Y doctoral students to some institutional services and facilities is not matched by equally high levels of satisfaction with the services and facilities on offer in their institutions

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Key Findings

Doctoral students are increasingly reliant on secondary research resources (e.g. journal articles, books), moving away from primary materials (e.g. primary archival material and large datasets).

Access to relevant resources is a major constraint for doctoral students’ progress. Authentication access and licence limitations to subscription-based resources, such as e-journals, are particularly problematic.

Open access and copyright appear to be a source of confusion for Generation Y doctoral students, rather than encouraging innovation and collaborative research.

This generation of doctoral students operate in an environment where their research behaviour does not use the full potential of innovative technology.

Doctoral students are insufficiently trained or informed to be able to fully embrace the latest opportunities in the digital information environment.

Key Barriers

– Time Constraints - finding electronic research and getting hold of relevant resources

– Doctoral students believe that they are insufficiently trained or informed to enable them to embrace the latest opportunities

– Low awareness and understanding of intellectual property and copyright and open access

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Data Manager

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InformationManager

DataManager

Technologist

PRManager

ProjectManager

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Royal SocietyScience as an Open Enterprise Report, 2012

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• ‘how the conduct and communication of science needs to adapt to this new era of information technology’.

• ‘As a first step towards this intelligent openness, data that underpin a journal article should be made concurrently available in an accessible database. We are now on the brink of an achievable aim: for all science literature to be online, for all of the data to be online and for the two to be interoperable.’

• Royal Society June 2012, Science as an Open Enterprise, http://royalsociety.org/policy/projects/science-public-enterprise/report/

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G8 Science Ministers Statement London UK, 12 June 2013

Open Scientific Research Data• To the greatest extent and with the fewest constraints possible publicly

funded scientific research data should be open, while at the same time respecting concerns in relation to privacy, safety, security and commercial interests, whilst acknowledging the legitimate concerns of private partners.

• Open scientific research data should be easily discoverable, accessible, assessable, intelligible, useable, and wherever possible interoperable to specific quality standards.

• To maximise the value that can be realised from data, the mechanisms for delivering open scientific research data should be efficient and cost effective, and consistent with the potential benefits.

• To ensure successful adoption by scientific communities, open scientific research data principles will need to be underpinned by an appropriate policy environment, including recognition of researchers fulfilling these principles, and appropriate digital infrastructure.

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Data as New Output of Research

‘technology has enabled data to become the prevalent material and currency of research. Data, not information, not publications, is rapidly becoming

the accepted deliverable of research.’

Graham Pryor, Observations on the RLUK Reskilling for Research Report

http://www.dpconline.org/newsroom/whats-new/842-whats-new-issue-44-april-2012

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Changing Research Methods and Requirments

Wide variety of research practices in sub-disciplines.

Unequal distribution of generic information skills.

Importance of generic and bespoke data analysis tools; importance of programming skills.

‘New technologies for sharing data and for combining data from disparate sources are particularly valuable in multidisciplinary fields such as earth science and nanoscience. ... The challenge of federating, mining, analysing and interpreting these data will be a key focus in coming years.’

http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/using-and-accessing-information-resources/physical-sciences-case-studies-use-and-discovery-

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“Its not just curation, retrieving and integrating data – its also what we do with it!”

Jim Gray, Microsoft

“When you go and look at what scientists are doing, day in and day out, in terms of data analysis, it is truly dreadful. We are embarrassed by our data!”

So what are the priorities?

1. Ensuring scientifically valid processing

2. Innovative manipulation to create new information

3. Effective management of research data

There is a serious issue of education, training and support at undergraduate, doctoral and post-doctoral levels

Geoffrey Boulton (University of Edinburgh)

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Big Data

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Why Research Data Management?

• Research Excellence & Impact – data will be cited; used by others including peers, other disciplines, the public, industry, in learning – ability to meet global challenges; innovate & create new research areas.

• Research integrity - replication, verification of research, improvement of methods & results.

• Efficiency - save duplication of research effort, data creation & therefore costs; ease of access & re-use.

• Managing risks – ability to meet FOI requests; protect reputation.

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The reality …

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Social Scientist- “I have notes, photos & video and audio of subjects it would

take way too long to anonymise it ”

Informatics researcher- “ yes I will share my

data but people should register; & why change

to the Open Data Commons licence I

have a bespoke licence I have always used”

Philosopher- “I don’t have data, I annotate books”

Bio-scientist- “why would I put my data in a repository? I share it informally with my peers, no-one else would understand it. “

Engineer “ I have lots of data but you need a licence to this

bespoke software to use it”

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DUDs

The data centre under the desk (or in a back pack) is

not adequate.

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Evidence that significant data loss occurs ‘Departments typically don’t have guidelines or norms for personal back-

up and researcher procedure, knowledge and diligence varies tremendously. Many have experienced moderate to catastrophic data loss.’– Incremental Project Scoping Study and Implementation Plan

http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/preservation/incremental/documents/Incremental_Scoping_Report_170910.pdf

‘The current environment is such that responsibility for good data management is devolved to individual researchers and in practice PIs set the 'rules' and establish the cultural practices of the research groups and this means there is good data management practice going on in pockets but no consistency across groups. There is also consequently a high risk of data losses by a number of means’.– MaDAM Project Requirements Analysis

http://www.merc.ac.uk/sites/default/files/MaDAM_Requirements%20_%20gap%20analysis-v1.4-FINAL.pdf

UHMLG: Innovation, Transformation, Continuation - Bristol

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JISC Research Data Management Programme

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Improved research data management practice

Improved RDM skills

ImprovedDM

planning

Improved metadata

Improved storage

decisions

Improved access control

Improved institutional

support for RDM

Etc.

Greater visibility / use of institution research data

Improved compliance with

funder requirements

Time / costs saved by improved

RDM infrastructure

Improved use / uptake of RDM infrastructure

Raised understanding and

awarenessof RDM

Higher profile for researchers

Improved metrics for REF etc.

Institutional reputation

enhancement

Higher bidding success rate

Improved productivity / effectiveness

Minimised risk of data loss

More cohesive practice across

campus

Improved motivation for good RDM

practice

Improved availability of RDM

infrastructure

Enhanced potential for new

knowledge creation

Data policy formation and

compliance

Etc.

Key:Overall benefit of programme

Benefits addressed by the current evidence-gathering activity

Potential further benefits of programme activity

Training attendance

Data policy promotion

Enhanced opportunities for

collaboration

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Second JISC MRD Programme, 2011-13: http://bit.ly/jiscmrd2011-13

Institutional RDM Infrastructure

Services17 Projects

RDM Training5 projects

RDM Planning

10 projects

Data Publication3 projects

Second MRD Programme, 2011-13

Ownership: High level ownership of the problem, senior manager on steering committee.Sustainability: Large institutional contributions.Develop business cases to sustain work.

Encouraged to reuse outputs from first programme and elsewhere.Mix of pilot projects and embedding projects.Holistic institutional approach to RDM.

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Need for Training in RDM and Data Skills

‘data skills should be made a core academic competency’

‘data handling [should be] embedded in the curriculum’

‘There is a need to go beyond the workshop and the short training course, and embed preparation for a professional (and personal) lifetime of digital

data curation within the academic curriculum.’

Graham Pryor and Martin Donnelly (2009), ‘Skilling up to do data: whose role, whose responsibility, whose career? IJDC, Issue 2, Volume 4,

pp.158-170.

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JISCMRD Project Findings: Incremental1. Produce accessible, straightforward

guidance on creating, storing and managing data.

2. Offer practical training resources with discipline-specific examples

3. Connect researchers with support staff for tailored advice and partnering

4. Connect this with a comprehensive data management infrastructure

Project Page: http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/preservation/incremental/index.html

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JISCMRD Training Projects

• Need for subject focussed research data management / curation training, integrated with PG studies

• Five projects to design and pilot (reusable) discipline-focussed training units for postgraduate courses: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/mrd/rdmtrain.aspx

• Health studies:

http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/ceis/re/isrc/themes/rmarea/datum/ • Creative arts: http://www.projectcairo.org/ • Archaeology, social anthropology:

http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/preservation/datatrain/ • Psychological sciences: http://www.dmtpsych.york.ac.uk/ • Social sciences, geographical sciences, clinical psychology:

Project http://bit.ly/RDMantra ; Online course: http://datalib.edina.ac.uk/mantra/

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MANTRA Training Materials, University of Edinburgh

• Online course built using OS Xerte toolkit.• Sections include:

– DMPs– Organising Data– File Formats and Transformation– Documentation and Metadata– Storage and Security– Data Protection– Preservation, sharing and licensing

• Also software practicals for users of SPSS, R, ArcGIS, Nvivo

• Research Data MANTRA: http://datalib.edina.ac.uk/mantra/

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DCC How-to Guides

• DCC How-To Guides: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/how-guides

– Appraise and select research data for curation

– How to license research data

– How to develop a data management and sharing plan

– How to cite research data!• Further Guides in

preparation.

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Understanding the challenges of meeting funder requirements: DMP-ESRC Project

• Led by UK Data Archive: http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/create-manage/projects/jisc-dmp

• Study of data management practices in ESRC funded Centres and Programmes.• Data Management Recommendations:

http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/media/257765/ukdadatamanagementrecommendations_centresprogrammes.pdf – Clear roles and responsibilities; RDM coordinator; Data Inventory; Data Management

Resources Library.– Guidelines on anonymisation, security and backup etc.– Greater use of collaborative environments; improve usability and training.

• Data Management Costing Tool: http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/media/257647/ukda_jiscdmcosting.pdf

Projects to understand challenges of meeting funder requirements: Social Sciences, Engineering, Medical Research, Plant Microscopy, Gravitational Wave Astronomy, Interdisciplinary:

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/mrd/rdmp.aspx

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Functions of an Institutional RDM Service

1) Requirements2) Planning3) Informatics4) Citation5) Training

6) Licensing7) Appraisal8) Storage9) Access10)Impact

• Liz Lyon, ‘The Informatics Transform: Re-Engineering Libraries for the Data Decade’, International Journal of Digital Curation (2012), 7(1), 126–138; http://dx.doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v7i1.220

Institutional Coordinationand Partnerships

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Data

Librarians and research managers 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

Data Data

UKDA, BADC

Research Data Management Applications

ICSU / WDSEBI / GenBank

Research Data Management Applications

Journal Policies RegistryResearch Data Registry / Cross Repository Discovery Service

Key

Established service

Project

Other supported

JISC supported

DMPonline

DMP Registry

Research Data Management and Discovery Services for the Research Data Lifecycle

SWORD +

Disciplinary Data Repositories (National and International)

Institutional Data CataloguesInstitutional Data Catalogues

Disciplinary Research Data Discovery Services

Metadata Exchange Between Journals, Archives, Repositories

There is a set of infrastructure

components that underpin all three

suitesResearcher identifiers Organisation identifiers RegistriesData Identifiers

Data Identifiers and Metadata Schema

Support for Research Data Lifecycle

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data.bris

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Consultants in the Scientific Process

• Importance of efforts to share and link data.• 'The need for librarians to reinvent their roles as

partners in the scientific and research process is acute.’

• Gives examples of success (library collaborations in metadata and database development with chemists).

• Such opportunities ‘where library professionals become scientific consultants that can advise on information practices and policies in scientific collaborations, are one way for libraries to remain central to the research process.’

• Importance of collaborations across stakeholders: researchers, librarians, professional societies, publishers.

http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/using-and-accessing-information-resources/physical-sciences-case-studies-use-and-discovery-

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Changing Role for Subject Librarian

A shift can  be  seen  which   takes   Subject  

Librarians   into   a   world   beyond  

information   discovery   and   management,   collection   development   and   information   literacy   training,   to   one   in   which   they   play   a   much   greater   part   in   the  

research  process  and  in  particular  in  

the  management,  curation  and  

preservation  of  research  data,  and  in  

scholarly   communication   and   the  

effective   dissemination   of   research  

outputs.

RLUK/Mary Auckland, http://www.rluk.ac.uk/content/re-skilling-research

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Technologist

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InformationManager

DataManager

Technologist

PRManager

ProjectManager

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Holistic Research

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Result

DataSoftware

Value Transition

'Software is the Modern Language of Science‘Ed Seidel, NSF

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VREs - VERA

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VREs – My Experiment

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VREs – Cancer Imaging

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VRE Toolkit for SP2010

Cancer Imaging VRE (VRE-CI) to provide a framework to allow researchers and clinicians involved in Cancer Imaging to share information, images and algorithms. Builds on the Research Information Centre (RIC) developed for bioscience researchers by the British Library and Microsoft Corporation.

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VREs - AMI

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• AMI - a prototype of a natural user interface system that allows bench scientists to interact with their experimental information at the fumehood, using innovative modes of communication appropriate to the lab setting, focusing on voice recognition, touch-screens and laser keyboards.

The Ami experiment selection screen

Log in using ID badge (Touch-A-Tag RFID reader)

The Ami event log screen

All chemicals and apparatus tagged with an RFID tag

http://amiproject.wordpress.com

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VREs – Blog My Data

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• Allows environmental scientists to visually and interactively explore large datasets, then create notes and annotations about the data.

www.blogmydata.org

www.rdg.ac.uk/godiva2

+ =blogs.chem.soton.ac.uk

@Keith: What do you

think is going on here?

@Tom: Looks like a bug

in the model.

@Harry: Could be a bad

observation. I’ll overlay

the obs database.

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CloudBIM – Data Collaboration and Management

Building Information Management

Many different types of roles and organisations involved in designing, building and managing a building over its lifetime

Data sharing and collaboration facilities limited

Developing Cloud-based workflow and storage for all information around a building, from design down to demolition

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Image courtesy of CloudBim Project http://cloudresearch.jiscinvolve.org/wp/category/projects/cloudbim/

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Clouds in Space

Millions of particles in orbit pose serious risks for satellites and space craft

Ever growing amount of sensor data on these objects

Large scale and flexible computing infrastructure needed to analyse the data and calculate most efficient flight path for removal vehicle

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Understanding the Riots – Social Media Analysis

Two stage project working with social media analysis collaboration

Phase 1: Use cloud computing to analyse Tweets from 2011 riots (with Guardian and others)

Phase 2: Develop generic toolkit for others to reuse

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/torstenreimer/6177737512/ (c) Torsten Reimer

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Supporting Empirical Social Scientific Research with a VRE

Develop an environment for combining and analysing social data sets and real time sources such as Twitter

Use a selection of digital research tools such as sentiment and tension analysis, social network analysis, and geospatial plotting;

Visualize the results

Enable more interactive sessions to be supported with social media data, enabling a variety of “what-if” scenarios to be supported;

Archive and share the analysis processes and results with other researchers for interoperable reuse and reproducible experiments.

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Image courtesy http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/cosmos/

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LeafWatch & Batmobile

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NaCTeM

Funded by JISC (and partners) as a project 2004-2011

Brief: “to contribute to the associated national and international research agenda, to establish a service for the wider academic community, and to make connections with industry”

Self-sustaining since 2012, funding from industry and (inter)national research grants and collaborations

Offers text mining tools, services and advice, some of it for free

http://nactem.ac.uk/

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Peter Bury CC BY NC ND 2.0http://www.flickr.com/photos/bury_irc/5981036346/

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Benefits and Value of Text Mining

JISC-commissioned study, undertaken by Dr Diane McDonald, Intelligent Digital Options and Ursula Kelly, Viewforth Consulting

Set in the context of the Intellectual Property Office’s Consultation on proposals to change the UK's copyright system and the Hargreaves review

Report publish March 2012

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Brief:

What is the potential for text mining and text analytic technologies and practices in UKFHE?

What are the costs, benefits (in particular the economic value) and risks of exploiting this potential, for whom, both now and in the foreseeable future?

What are the main barriers to the exploitation of this potential, and how might they be overcome?

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Value and Benefits: Main Findings

Use of text mining in some areas (bio-medical), much less so in others

Significant potential for cost-savings as well as new research findings

Uptake held back by several, interlinked barriers, most importantly legal

Evidence of market failure suggests targeted intervention such as copyright exemption for text mining

Awareness raising and training critical

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PR Manager

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InformationManager

DataManager

Technologist

PRManager

ProjectManager

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Research has a cast list

Career of the Future: Data Scientist Study Results InfographicEMC2 : http://www.emc.com/microsites/bigdata/infographic.htm

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“Scientific fraud is rife: it's time to stand up for good science”

“Science is broken” Examples:

psychology academics making up data,

anaesthesiologist Yoshitaka Fujii with 172 faked articles

Nature - rise in biomedical retraction rates overtakes rise in published papers

This week, “economists have been astonished to find that a famous academic paper often used to make the case for austerity cuts contains major errors. Another surprise is that the mistakes, by two eminent Harvard professors, were spotted by a student doing his homework”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22223190

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Public ParticipationTim Gowers - crowd-sourced mathematics

An unsolved problem posed on his blog. 32 days – 27 people – 800 substantive contributions Emerging contributions rapidly developed or discarded Problem solved! “Its like driving a car whilst normal research is like pushing it”

Citizen Science Galaxy Zoo: Hubble

Solar Storm Watch

Old Weather

Whale FM

Ancient Lives

Fold It (creating protein molecules)

SETI (extra terrestrial intelligence)

Etc.

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The Open Digital World is Highly Visible

Public Engagement with Science

–Citizen Science

–Public Critique• “Climate-gate”• Tree rings data

–Scrutiny of public funding

Persistence of Digital Footprint

–Social network embarrassments

–Working in the public eye

–Digital information cannot be revoked

Need for skills for conduct and communication with the general public not just peers

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Project Manager

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InformationManager

DataManager

Technologist

PRManager

ProjectManager

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Gateway for Higher Education

The G4HE project aims to engage with the BIS-funded RCUK Gateway to Research (GtR) initiative to improve the information exchange between HEIs and the Research Councils. The project will develop tools and interfaces to allow both human and machine access to data held on GtR, and elsewhere where that is required. The tools and interfaces will be based on validated use-cases shown to have specific and demonstrable value to HEIs, and will be subject to robust assurance on both quality and sustainability criteria. The use cases will be used to prioritise which data improvements should be addressed and what value this delivers for universities.

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Summary

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Researchers – Research Technologists – Research Support

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Challenge:which skills do researchers need?which skills do research support need?which skills flow between?

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