Invisible Repositories, Re-Use and Reproducible Research

Wolfram HorstmannOpen Repositories 2013

10 July 2013PEI, CA

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IRRRR…

Invisible Repositories…

1. Research as the Centre of Repositories2. Re-using Repositories in Research

A. Publication RecordsB. Linking Publications and Research DataC. Research DataD. Research Processes

3. Supporting Reproducibility of Research

1. RESEARCH AS THE CENTRE OF REPOSITORIES

Institutional Imperatives of Research

1. ‘Communalism’ refers to the claim that research results are property of the community

2. ‘Universalism’ means that everybody should be able to contribute, for example independent of cultural or national origin

3. ‘Disinterestedness’ requires the greater scientific good to be valued higher than personal interests

4. ‘Skepticism’ implies critical scrutiny of research results

Merton, Robert K. The sociology of science: Theoretical and empirical investigations. University of Chicago press, 1979.

OPEN REPOSITORIES TO IMPLEMENT THESE IMPERATIVES

2A. PUBLICATION RECORDSRe-using Repositories in Research

2B. LINKING PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH DATA

Re-using Repositories in Research

2C. RESEARCH DATARe-using Repositories in Research

Preparation and planning Data creation

Data discovery Data preservation and publication

Creation of data management plans

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Local data file management – DataStage

Institutional data repository – DataBank

Searching over rich metadata – DataFinder

Preparation and planning Data creation

Data discovery Data preservation and publication

Creation of data management plans

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Local data file management – DataStage

Institutional data repository – DataBank

Searching over rich metadata – DataFinder

2D. RESEARCH PROCESSESRe-using Repositories in Research

3. SUPPORTING REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESEARCH…

…Ask the Researcher

Institutional Repositories

Invisible Research

BEFORE AFTER

Thanks• Najko Jahn and the Bielefeld Team

– http://www.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/~jahn/pubexamples.html

• Patrick Hochstenbach and the Gent Team– https://biblio.ugent.be

• Jörgen Eriksson and the Lund Team– https://lup.lub.lu.se

• Mark Legott and the Islandora Team– http://islandora.ca/

• Fedora Futures– https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Fedora+Futures+Home

• BDLSS folks at the Bodleian in Oxford– http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/bdlss