Data management and governance - the re3data.org experience

Frank Scholze | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) European Library Advisory Board | Munich 16.5.2013

Outline

• Background

• Research Data Repositories

• re3data.org

Background • Research data are valuable and ubiquitous

• New technologies facilitate data-intensive science

• Broad discussion about the permanent access to research

data

• Increasing requirements from funders to make data openly

available

• Growing demand for trustable and sustainable research data

repositories

Trend: data journals

OSTP Directive „digitally formatted scientific data resulting from unclassified research supported wholly or in part by Federal funding should be stored and publicly accessible to search, retrieve, and analyze.“

Office of Science and Technology Policy. (2013). Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research. Retrieved from http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/ostp_public_access_memo_2013.pdf

The Royal Society „ Where data justify it, scientists should make them available in an appropriate data repository.“

- Intelligent Openness (accessible, assessable, intelligible, useable)

The Royal Society. (2012). Science as an open enterprise. The Royal Society Science Policy Centre report 02/12. Retrieved from http://royalsociety.org/uploadedFiles/ Royal_Society_Content/policy/projects/sape/2012-06-20-SAOE.pdf.

Research Data Repositories

• EC: ICT infrastructures for e-science

„The landscape of data repositories

across Europe is fairly heterogeneous,

but there is a solid basis (…) to

overcome the fragmentation and enable

research communities to better manage,

use, share and preserve data.“

Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions. COM(2009) 108 final. Retrieved from http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2009:0108:FIN:EN:PDF

The Landscape of Research Data Repositories

funders

researchers

journals

research data repositories

universities and research labs

Where can I store my data?

Investigators are expected to share their data!

Underlying data must be accessible!

Where can I find data?

Should we offer repositories

for all disciplines?

Open Data LMU, http://data.ub.uni-muenchen.de

PURR, http://research.hub.purdue.edu

Institutional RDR

Disciplinary RDR

PANGAEA, http://www.pangaea.de

GEO, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/

Figshare, http://figshare.com

Multidisciplinary RDR

BDPP, http://www.digitalpantheon.ch

SDDB, http://www.scientificdrilling.org

Project Specific RDR

re3data.org: Objectives

• global registry of research data repositories

• better understanding of the concept of research data

repositories

• help researchers, funding bodies, publishers and scholarly

institutions to find research data repositories

• promote a culture of sharing, increased access and better

visibility of research data

re3data.org: Status quo

• First project phase (2012/13)

• The registry went live in autumn 2012

web-based registry

definition of selection criteria

formulation of a metadata scheme (vocabulary)

re3data.org: Aspects

David Marques (2013) http://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/articles/best-practices/2013-02/research-data-driving-new-services

re3data.org: Vocabulary

• Vierkant, P., Spier, S., Rücknagel,

J., Gundlach, J., Fichtmüller, D.,

Kindling, M., Pampel, H., et al.

(2012). Vocabulary for the

Registration and Description of

Research Data Repositories.

Version 2.0. doi:10.2312/re3.002

Vocabulary in practice • Review

• 37 criteria • 25 controlled vocabularies

• Icons as representation of

sets of criteria

• Value added service for researchers and repository managers

A closer look at access icons Access Icons

Access to Repository open open or

restricted closed

Access to Data

open, (restricted,

closed)

restricted, (closed) closed

Upload open or restricted

open or restricted -

Orange: values have to be available

Icons and numbers

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

160

Certification Open Access Persistent Id All Aspects

From a total of 340 RDR in re3data

Champions • CLARIN-ERIC

• Archaeology Data Service

• EASY (DANS)

• IQSS Dataverse network

• CrystalEye (beta)

• Durham HepData Project

• figshare

• Global Change Master

Directory (NASA)

• NeuroMorpho

• Neuroscience Information

Framework

• ClinicalTrials.gov

• Ecological Archives (ESA)

• PANGAEA

• WDC for Remote Sensing of

the Atmosphere

RDR by Country

USGERUKCANNEDJPNFRANAUSDEN

Trends and Challenges • Long tail

• Institutional perspective

• Workflow and information

continuum

• Take intelligent openness seriously

(accessible, assessable, intelligible, useable)

Thank you

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