beyond publication a passage through project store graham pryor, university of edinburgh

Beyond PublicationA passage through Project

StORe

Graham Pryor, University of Edinburgh

Agenda

• Aims and aspirations• Practices and preferences• A generic solution• The StORe pilot• Evaluation and prospects

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Aims and aspirations

• Seamless transport from research data to research publications and vice versa

• Bi-directional links proven in social science e-research

• Capable of export to other domains

Source

Output

Middleware




Aims and aspirations

A new context

• The ‘publication’ of data?• Distinction of purpose, data/scientific

paper• Peer review• Focus on impact from dual accessibility • Subversion vs strengthening of paper’s

integrity

Practices and preferences

Questionnaire and interviews

• Self sufficiency• Risky data management

practices• Recognition of the value

and demands of metadata

SURVEY OF SEVEN DOMAINS - 1



I decide which terms to use and I assign them: 212

Research colleague(s) assign metadata on the team's behalf: 55

Research support staff assign metadata on the team's behalf: 22

Metadata are assigned by library/information services staff: 4

Metadata are assigned by the repository administrators: 37

Metadata are generated automatically: 63

It is not known who assigns metadata: 68

Other (please specify): 37


Metadata assignment




Questionnaire and interviews

• Self sufficiency• Risky data management

practices• Recognition of the value

and demands of metadata

• Support for open access principle

• Caution over data access and ownership

• Personal networking





Opportunities to• Explore a deeper level

of detail• Supplement published

papers• Validate experiments• Track the use and

improvement of research output

• Identify collaborators• Confirm completeness

of information searches

Potential risks from• Uncertainty of peer

review• Premature

dissemination• Subversion of

scholarly paper• Scavenging• Lack of interpretative

data





A generic solution

Sufficient consensus to proceed with design• Two-way links endorsed as advantageous

(85%)• Need to avoid bureaucratic structures and

rules• Sharing of data a fundamental principle but

usually conducted on an individual basis• Need simplicity and standards for metadata• Simple Google-type searching preferred• Self-management preferred to intermediation





A generic solution• Web 2.0 approach, similar to services like Flickr or

MySpace, gives control to the researcher– Researchers determine which items are public / private– Researchers form collaborations with colleagues / ‘friends’– Researchers select items for deposit and for publication

• Permanent links created between publications and underlying data

• Based on federations of institutional repositories and data archives

• Simple process for assignment of metadata– Searchable metadata assigned at collection level inherited

by items within the collection– Collection owners add individual items plus minimum

additional metadata (e.g. titles)




The StORe pilot federation



StORe pilot demonstrator


Metadata – keeping it simple



Visibility - public or private collections

Evaluation and prospects


• NCeSS evaluation of business analysis and pilot

• Further development options:– Explore functionality in different

repository environments– Test linkage with a publisher repository– Implementation in a second domain– Implementation in an established

federation

Thank you

CLOSED

beyond publication a passage through project store graham pryor, university of edinburgh

Documents

comwikihome slide

comwikihome metadata

simple slide

domains http

metadata assignment

store pilot demonstrator

research data

store pilot federation