Open Data: Ready Set Go

OPEN DATAOPEN DATA

READY, SET, GO!

Paul Groth Twitter: @pgrothBlog: thinklinks.wordpress.comhttp://www.few.vu.nl/~pgroth

The Science Lifecycle

scientists

LocalWebRepositories

Graduate Students

Undergraduate Students

Virtual Learning Environment

Technical Reports

Reprints

Peer-Reviewed Journal &

Conference Papers

Preprints &

Metadata

Certified Experimental Results

& Analyses

experimentation

Data, Metadata, Provenance, Scripts, Workflows, Services,Ontologies, Blogs, ...

Digital Libraries

Next Generation Researchers

Adapted from David De Roure’s slides

TWO STORIES TWO STORIES

THE CONSUMER AND PRODUCER

Faculteit der Exacte Wetenschappen

MEET JULIEMEET JULIE

PhD Student

“institutional influences on patterns of collaboration in producing research of interdisciplinary character”


Julie needs dataJulie needs data

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I AM NOT A LAWYERI AM NOT A LAWYER

Web of Knowledge Terms of Use

You are entitled to access the product, download or extract reasonable amounts of data from the product that are required for the activities you carry out individually or as part of your employment, and include insubstantial portions of extracted data in your work documents and reports, provided that such documents or reports are for the benefit of (and belong to) your organization, or where such documents or reports are intended for the benefit of third parties (not your organization ), extracted data is immaterial in the context of such documents or reports and used only for illustrative/demo purposes.

Thomson Reuters determines a “reasonable amount” of data to download by comparing your download activity against the average annual download rates for all Thomson Reuters clients using the product in question. Thomson Reuters determines an “insubstantial portion” of downloaded data to mean an amount of data taken from the product which (1) would not have significant commercial value of its own; and (2) would not act as a substitute for access to a Thomson Reuters product for someone who does not have access to the product.

You are not entitled to do anything that would cause a breach of the terms of the agreement between your organization and Thomson Reuters, such as (1) allowing anyone else to use your username/password, (2) downloading excessive amounts of data, (3) providing data to anyone else, other than in licensed, source-acknowledged documents or reports created as part of your normal work, (4) archiving or using downloaded data to create a derivative database or metrics, (5) using the product or any downloaded data to provide services to anyone outside your organization, or (6) using the product in a way that risks damaging, disabling, overburdening or impairing the operation of the product, or any other person’s use or enjoyment of the product.

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Faculteit der Exacte Wetenschappen7



OPEN DATA: 2 WEEKS 15 MINUTESOPEN DATA: 2 WEEKS 15 MINUTES

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SELECT ?author ?affiliation ?uriAffiliation WHERE { GRAPH <$graph> { {<$article> swrc:author ?author.

OPTIONAL{?author swrc:affiliation ?uriAffiliation.} OPTIONAL{?author swc:affiliation ?affiliation.} }

UNION { <$article> foaf:maker ?author.

OPTIONAL{?author swrc:affiliation ?uriAffiliation.} OPTIONAL{?author swc:affiliation ?affiliation.}

} UNION { <$article> dc:creator ?author.

OPTIONAL{?author swrc:affiliation ?uriAffiliation.} OPTIONAL{?author swc:affiliation ?affiliation.}}

}

PRODUCERPRODUCER

INSTITUTION

PRODUCERPRODUCER

PERSONAL





Faculteit der Exacte Wetenschappen16 Photo by IvanClow - http://www.flickr.com/photos/ivanclow/4201955402/


ERR….SUPPORT?ERR….SUPPORT?

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5 TAKE-AWAYS5 TAKE-AWAYS

1. Open Data is a boon to young scientists as consumers

2. Trade-offs for producers of open data

3. Producers need support

4. Clear simple guidelines for data publication

5. Data citation is a key to open data

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Technology

Open Data: Ready Set Go