1. The Open Data Environment
IASSIST 2007
Chuck Humphrey
University of Alberta

2. Outline Themes emerging from IASSIST 2006
A cyberinfrastructure framework
A model of an open data environment
Tool development collaboration

3. IASSIST 2007 and open data Four themes from IASSIST 2006
Cyberinfrastructure
Digital Repositories
DDI 3.0
Data Life Cycle
I will use these four themes from last year’s conference to set the context for describing some models of open data environments.

4. An infrastructural framework
European Research Observatory for the Humanities and Social Sciences (EROHS)
Bjørn Henrichsen
Chair, ESFRI Social Science and Humanities Roadmap Working Group
IASSIST - Ann Arbor - May

5. Open Access
OUTPUTS
Open Data
Data
Environment
Open Source

6. Implementation strategies
There will be a mix of strategies to implement large, complex cyberinfrastructure frameworks, such as the one articulated by the ESFRI Social Sciences and Humanities Roadmap Working Group.
Among the mix of strategies will be national and international initiatives from research councils and agencies funding infrastructure development.
Open data environments also have a role to play in these implementation strategies.
ESFRI : The European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures

7. Data Environments Are the metadata open? Are the data open? No Yes
Closed Environment
Discovery Environment
File Retrieval Environment
Repurposing Environment

8. Life Cycle Model of Research Knowledge Creation

9. No Open Metadata : No Open Data
Closed Data Environment

10. No Open Metadata : Open Data
File Retrieval Environment

11. Open Metadata : No Open Data
Discovery Environment

12. Open Metadata : Open Data
Repurposing Environment

13. Tool development collaboration
How can we collaborate nationally and internationally in developing an open data environment?
These open data environments depend also on tools to facilitate preservation and access.
Build simple tools that perform single functions and that can be chained together
Meet to discuss development needs
Share in development