Institute for scientific and technical information

www.inist.fr

Upskilling of information specialists and research

support strategy

Marie-Christine Jacquemot-PerbalLIBER 42nd Annual Conference 26 - 29 June 2013, Munich, Germany

M-C. Jacquemot-Perbal, LIBER 2013 2

Overview

Evolution of INIST-CNRS mission

Approach to move toward data-related activities

• Feasibility study

• Broadening knowledge and upgrading skills through constructivist-based

approach

• Establish partnerships to pool knowledge and skillsConclusion

M-C. Jacquemot-Perbal, LIBER 2013 3

INIST-CNRS

CNRS

President

Research office

Sciences institutes

Scientific and technical information (DIST)

INIST

CCSD

Ressource office

ParisNancy

M-C. Jacquemot-Perbal, LIBER 2013 4

INIST mission until 2011

Enabling scientific litterature availability, findability and

accessibility

Document delivery

Portals

Multidisciplinary bibliographic metadata

databases

Terminology

M-C. Jacquemot-Perbal, LIBER 2013 5

New mission from 2011 on

Increasing the visibility and accessibility of the french and international

scientific production

Document delivery

Portals

Valorization of french research production (litterature + data)

Terminology, ontologies

Thematic bibliographic metadata databases

M-C. Jacquemot-Perbal, LIBER 2013

Approach to move toward data-related activities

Assesment of local

researchers’ needs

Assessment of required

knowledge and skills

Broadening knowledge and upgrading skills

6

Partnerships

Pool of skills and

knowledge

M-C. Jacquemot-Perbal, LIBER 2013 7

Aim

Feasibility study

• Findings

• Demands and responses

Assess the needs of local researchers and identify support and services to provide for

Methodology

Outcome

• Survey questionnaire to local researchers

• Interviews of researchers and other stakeholders

• Desk research on french data-related activities

• Desk research on the european and international research data

projects and initiatives

M-C. Jacquemot-Perbal, LIBER 2013 8

Feasibility study: findings

Data policy

• No national funding agency policy but strong encouragement from European Commission

(Horizon 2020, OpenAirePlus)

• No institutional data policy in every disciplin/domain

• Publishers’data policy in some disciplins

Awareness of researchers

• Lack of awareness on research data management (RDM), Open Data movement, use of

persistent identifiers

• Lack of knowledge on data-related legal and ethical issues

Most common RDM practice

• Publication focused

• Many local « dark » data or databases with heterogeneous metadata

M-C. Jacquemot-Perbal, LIBER 2013 9

Researchers’demands

Managing data and materials

• Collaborative workspace environment

Sustainability and valorization of databases

• Maintaining databases at the end of a project• Making databases accessible and discoverable

Integrating heterogeneous data types

• Assistance in developping metadata schema or model• Assistance in design and development of databases

Storage and preservation of data

• Data storage space• Persistent archiving of data

M-C. Jacquemot-Perbal, LIBER 2013 10

Responses with the broader perspective of data sharing

Advocacy Open data

Persistent ID and data citation

Use of metadata standards

Training Research data management good practice

Advice and/or assistance

Metadata quality, interoperability

Metadata schema or models

Metadata conversion

Data management systems

Legal and ethical issues

M-C. Jacquemot-Perbal, LIBER 2013 11

Skills and knowledge requirements

Knowledge

• Research process understanding• Data life cycle• Legal and ethical data-related issues• Research data management practices as applied in specific discipline• Terminology and metadata standards• Data citation and publication

Skills

• Metadata handling• Conceptual modeling (metadata, ontology)• Pedagogy• Influencing

M-C. Jacquemot-Perbal, LIBER 2013 12

Role

Job title Information specialists

Education Scientific background Scientific backgound

Experience/activities Indexation of bibliographic metadata databases

Terminology, thesaurus

Information engineering projects

-

3 years RDM project in biology -

Knowledge/Skills Scientific information literacy, thesaurus

Metadata

Broadening knowledge and upgrading skills: actors’ profile

Coordinators2

«Learners »8

+ Motivation

M-C. Jacquemot-Perbal, LIBER 2013 13

Broadening knowledge and upgrading skills: process

Guided desk researchProjects

Proactive training

« Learners »

Knowledge/skills

Coordinators

M-C. Jacquemot-Perbal, LIBER 2013 14

Outcome

Constructivist-based

methodology

Aim

Guided desk research

Questions• Incentives for researchers to share their data• Existing data management-related infrastructures or

projects in France and european or international involvement if any

• Existing standards for metadata and their scopeProvision of a few sources of informationDesk research

Extend the knowledge of the « learners » to research data management issues as applied to their disciplin/domain

Oral presentation enables the « learners » to• structure and build new knowledge • raise the awareness of all staff• dialog with researchers

M-C. Jacquemot-Perbal, LIBER 2013 15

Project-based learning

Demand

of local laboratory

Required knowledge and

skillsResponse

Molecular biology

Pooling and managing biological materials

Existing standards

Assistance in structuration and standardization of metadata, computer

design

Neuroimaging

Integrating heterogeneous metadata

Existing metadata standards and infrastructures

Needs met by an existing platform

Environment

Multidisciplinary data

Collaborative workspace

Research process

Existing standards

Open data

M-C. Jacquemot-Perbal, LIBER 2013 16

Proactive training

Responsible learners

• Draw out the required knowledge and skills • Choose their role • Express specific needs

Coordinators

• Find or develop training supports • Help learners to build up confidence

M-C. Jacquemot-Perbal, LIBER 2013 17

Establish partnerships

RBDD

• A national database support network• Involvement in the metadata working group• Advocacy and training seminar on the implementation of INSPIRE directive

(2 learners)

DataCite

• Involvement in the metadata working group (1 coordinator)

Conferences, workshop• GFII, EUDAT, SIM4RDM: opportunities to establish partnerships

M-C. Jacquemot-Perbal, LIBER 2013 18

Conclusions

Coordinators’point of view• One step forward• Increasing involvement from learners

Learners’ feelings• Interesting challenge• So much knowledge to build up with so little time • Still some fears to dialog with researchers

Perspective• Analysis of case studies, organize webseminars• Identify experts and build up a national network• Become an actor in RDM at the national level

M-C. Jacquemot-Perbal, LIBER 2013 19

Thank you for your attention!