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UCL LIBRARY SERVICES

The Brave New World: Implementing the LERU Roadmap for Research Data

Dr Paul Ayris Director of UCL Library Services and UCL Copyright OfficerChief Executive, UCL PressChair, LERU Chief Information Officer Community

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Contents

Importance of Research Data LERU Roadmap for Research Data Next Steps for LERU Conclusions


See Science as an open enterprise http://royalsociety.org/policy/projects/science-public-enterprise/report/

http://royalsociety.org/policy/projects/science-public-enterprise/report/





Technological change

Modern computers permit massive datasets to be assembled and explored in ways that reveal inherent but unsuspected relationships. This data-led science is a promising new source of knowledge (p. 7)

The emergence of linked data technologies creates new information through deeper integration of data across different datasets with the potential to greatly enhance automated approaches to data analysis (p. 7)


Map of Interlinked Data

W3C (2012). Available at: http://www.w3.org/wiki/SweoIG/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData

http://www.w3.org/wiki/SweoIG/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData




Open Data

Open data is the idea that certain data should be freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DNA_orbit_animated.gif

Auer, S. R.; Bizer, C.; Kobilarov, G.; Lehmann, J.; Cyganiak, R.; Ives, Z. (2007). "DBpedia: A Nucleus for a Web of Open Data". The Semantic Web. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4825. p. 722. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-76298-0_52. ISBN 978-3-540-76297-3.




Human Genome Project

Aim: To determine the sequence of chemical base pairs which make up human DNA, and to identify and map the total genes of the human genome

Benefits – felt from molecular medicine to human evolution Better understanding of disease Design of medication and prediction of their effects Commercial development of genomics research

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_pairs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_genome

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_genome





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LERU Roadmap for Research Data

Overseen by Research Data Working Group

Pablo Achard (University of Geneva)Paul Ayris (UCL, University College London)Serge Fdida (UPMC, Paris)Stefan Gradmann (University of Leuven)Wolfram Horstmann (University of Oxford)Ignasi Labastida (University of Barcelona)Liz Lyon (University of Bath)Katrien Maes (LERU)Susan Reilly (LIBER)Anja Smit (University of Utrecht)

Available at http://www.leru.org/files/publications/AP14_LERU_Roadmap_for_Research_data_final.pdf

http://www.leru.org/files/publications/AP14_LERU_Roadmap_for_Research_data_final.pdf




LERU Roadmap for Research Data

1. Policy and Leadership

2. Advocacy

3. Selection and Collection, Curation, Description, Citation, Legal Issues

4. Research Data Infrastructure

5. Costs

6. Roles, Responsibilities and Skills

7. Recommendations to different stakeholder groups

Cern, Geneva


See http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/e.j.lyon/150.pdf

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/e.j.lyon/150.pdf

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/e.j.lyon/150.pdf


Key Messages Each LERU university

needs a Research Data Management Strategy

Researchers should have Research Data Management Plans

LERU universities need to bring stakeholders together

Benefits of ‘open data’ for sharing and re-use should be advocated and explored

New role of Data Scientist is emerging

King’s Cross, London


Policy Development

Case Study on Policy development from UCL

Drivers External funders Need to inform researchers Raise awareness of issues

facing UCL researchers

Identifies roles and responsibilities

Data to be made open in the most open manner appropriate

Researchers should have Data Management Plans

LERU slams lack of data policies – Research Europe

See www.lanecrothers.net/politicalprof/the-policy-cycle-and-our-frozen-politics/

http://www.lanecrothers.net/politicalprof/the-policy-cycle-and-our-frozen-politics/




Open Data

Open Data allows research data to be shared and re-used Avoids costly duplication of research activity Provides greater transparency in research activity Potential to speed discovery of solutions to societal Grand

Challenges, such as health care & environmental science

Can all research data be open? Certain categories probably cannot

National security Data protection Commercial Funder requirements

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Open_Data_stickers.jpg




Data management Which of these

layers of research data need to be curated for a

fixed term? preserved for

the long term? thrown away?

LERU Roadmap identifies this as an area for future study

The ODE Data Publication Pyramid athttp://www.alliancepermanentaccess.org/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2011/11/ODE-ReportOnIntegrationOfDataAndPublications-1_1.pdf

http://www.alliancepermanentaccess.org/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2011/11/ODE-ReportOnIntegrationOfDataAndPublications-1_1.pdf





Collaboration a way forward LERU Rectors see this as an

area for study Collaboration between Dutch

institutions Focus is on research data

which lies behind publications

Each university and faculty has its own Dataverse installation

Support services offered by libraries in Dutch universities

Utrecht, Tilburg, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Maastrict, Groningen, 3TU Datacentrum and Netherlands Institute of Ecology

See http://www.syndromic.org/communities

http://www.syndromic.org/communities

http://www.syndromic.org/communities


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Next Steps LEARN

EU-funded project starting in June 2015 will scale up LERU Roadmap to be a global Roadmap

LEARN will help embed LERU Roadmap across national boundaries

LEARN will deliver Key templates for core RDM

documents Examples of Best Practice in

RDM on a global scale Old State House, Boston, USA


LEARN – LEaders Activating Research Networks Purpose is to develop the

LERU Roadmap for Research Data to build a global co-ordinated global e-infrastructure

Outputs Model Research Data

Management policy Toolkit to support

implementation Executive Briefing in five

core languages so as to ensure wide outreach

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http://www.uzh.ch/research/LERU_Roadmap_for_Research_data.pdf

http://www.uzh.ch/research/LERU_Roadmap_for_Research_data.pdf


LEARN

5 partners UCL (University College

London) – lead partner University of Barcelona University of Vienna LIBER ECLAC – UN Commission

for Latin America and the Caribbean

Starts in June 2015; runs for 24 months

€497,000 budget 100% funded

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King’s Cross Station, London


LIBER has produced a good deal of guidance for libraries

10 Recommendations on how to get started in RDM http://libereurope.eu/blog/2014/07/16/workshop-report-librarie

s-and-research-data-management/

One of the most downloaded items from the LIBER website

11 LIBER RDM Case Studies http://libereurope.eu/committee/scholarly-research/

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http://libereurope.eu/blog/2014/07/16/workshop-report-libraries-and-research-data-management/



http://libereurope.eu/committee/scholarly-research/

http://libereurope.eu/committee/scholarly-research/


UCL’s performance against LIBER targetsLIBER target UCL performance

1. Offer RDM support UCL Library Services has appointed Advocacy Officer and Library has visited all 11 Schools/Faculties to work with UCL Research Data Service [RDS]

2. Engage in metadata services

Not yet done

3. Engage in professional skills development

University of Sheffield training Library’s liaison teams in RDM in 2014-15

4. Engage in policy development

UCL Library Services authored UCL’s Research Data Policy at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/isd/services/research-it/documents/uclresearchdatapolicy.pdf

5. Create partnerships for interoperable infrastructures

Not yet done. Emphasis in RDS is on UCL provision23

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/isd/services/research-it/documents/uclresearchdatapolicy.pdf




1. Offer RDM support UCL Library Services has appointed Advocacy Officer and Library has visited all 11 Schools/Faculties to work with UCL Research Data Service [RDS]

2. Engage in metadata services

Not yet done

3. Engage in professional skills development

University of Sheffield training Library’s liaison teams in RDM in 2014-15

4. Engage in policy development

UCL Library Services authored UCL’s Research Data Policy at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/isd/services/research-it/documents/uclresearchdatapolicy.pdf

5. Create partnerships for interoperable infrastructures

Not yet done. Emphasis in RDS is on UCL provision24





6. Provide services for storage, discovery and permanent access

RDS has storage service in place. Archive service being established by RDS. Discovery service not yet in place – will be joint RDS/Library service

7. Apply persistent identifiers to research data

Arrangements made with DataCite to produce persistent identifiers; complements UCL’s membership of CrossRef which allows UCL to give DOIs to publications

8. Provide an institutional data catalogue

Planned, but not yet done. Will be joint RDS/Library development

9. Engage in subject-specific data management

Library’s Liaison Teams being trained in RDM 2014-15

10. Offer storage solutions Storage and Archive services offered by RDS. Library will curate outputs of ‘Small Science’, active datasets and outputs from digitisation programmes 25



6. Provide services for storage, discovery and permanent access

RDS has storage service in place. Archive service being established by RDS. Discovery service not yet in place – will be joint RDS/Library service

7. Apply persistent identifiers to research data

Arrangements made with DataCite to produce persistent identifiers; complements UCL’s membership of CrossRef which allows UCL to give DOIs to publications

8. Provide an institutional data catalogue

Planned, but not yet done. Will be joint RDS/Library development

9. Engage in subject-specific data management

Library’s Liaison Teams being trained in RDM 2014-15

10. Offer storage solutions Storage and Archive services offered by RDS. Library will curate outputs of ‘Small Science’, active datasets and outputs from digitisation programmes 26


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Conclusions

Libraries have not traditionally collected research data

Open data has the power to revolutionize the way research is undertaken and disseminated

New role for libraries in supporting their researchers

Saint Jerome in his Study, fresco by Domenico Ghirlandaio, 1480. Church of Ognissanti, Florence

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