Collaboration & Services

Jeroen Rombouts

Head of TU Delft Research Data Services / 3TU.Datacentrum

j.p.rombouts@tudelft.nl

Contents

Scope for this session

Statements

Case 3TU.Datacentrum

Questions/discussion “Never, ever, think outside the box.” ;-)“Never, ever, think outside the box.” ;-)

Recommendations (15:4:60=?)

5. Liaise to foster interoperable infrastructure.

6. Support lifecycle for research data by services for storage, discovery and permanent access.

7. Promote data citation by PID’s.

8. Provide institutional Data Catalogue or Data Repository.

Reducing scope to

Discovery, Permanent access, Interoperability services.

Questions for discussion at the end:When generic, when subject/data specific approach?Collaborate on institute/national/international level?To what extent library centric?

Statements (several sources)

Discovery Mapping of infrastructures and repositories required! Start work on discovery within disciplines, followed by

development of discovery across disciplines.

Permanent access Balance “(Short term) usability” vs. “Long term availability”. Balance “Open” vs. “Privacy, Security, Valorisation”. Balance costs: “Curate” vs. “Regenerate”.

Statements

Interoperability Key: Involve all relevant partners. Sensible mix bottom-up and top-down approaches. Use common standards (AND subject specific standards).

General Work on required culture shift (to sharing, trust & openness) in all

possible ways.

‘Case’ 3TU.Datacentrum

1. Initiate, with researchers (2003-2007)e-Archive, Darelux

2. Develop, with other libraries (2008-2012)3TU.Datacentrum, DataCite NL, Data-Intelligence4Lib

3. Facilitate & organise with Institutional IT etc., other data repositories and national bodies, …Research Data NL (with DANS), Data-labs

Discover Perm. Access Interop.

Approach- Generic- Specific- …

Gen. & Subj./Data Spec.

Gen. Data Spec.?

Subj. Spec. Generic

Level- Institute- National- International

Inst. Internat. Inst. & Nat.(& Internat.?)

Nat. & Internat.

Centric- Library- IT- …

Library Archive Library & IT

Think BIG, start small, Act Now!