1. SCOPING DIGITAL REPOSITORIES SERVICES FOR RESEARCH DATA MANAGEMENT A Project of the Office of the Director of IT 1 The management of research data in digital repositories Oxford e-Research Centre Lunchtime Seminar, April 2008 Luis Martinez Uribe Luis.Martinez-Uribe@oerc.ox.ac.uk Digital Repositories Research Coordinator Luis.Martinez-Uribe@oerc.ox.ac.uk

2. SCOPING DIGITAL REPOSITORIES SERVICES FOR RESEARCH DATA MANAGEMENT A Project of the Office of the Director of IT 2 Background What are research data and data management? Benefits and challenges of managing research data Digital repositories Web 2.0 tools Project Summary

3. SCOPING DIGITAL REPOSITORIES SERVICES FOR RESEARCH DATA MANAGEMENT A Project of the Office of the Director of IT 3 Background “From Data to Wisdom: Pathways to Succesful Data Management for Australian Science ” The data deluge (Hey & Threfethen 2003) “More digital data will be produce in the next 5 years than in whole human history” (Australian DEST ) The management of data is as key component of the e-Infrastructure

4. SCOPING DIGITAL REPOSITORIES SERVICES FOR RESEARCH DATA MANAGEMENT A Project of the Office of the Director of IT 4 What are research data? SOME DATA CATEGORIZATIONS* By needs they serve: Research data collections - to meet the needs of specific projects/groups Resource data collections - serving a single community Reference data collections - serving the need of large scale or diverse communities By their origin: Observational Computational Experimental Other Raw/derived Quantitative/Qualitative Text/audio/image/numeric Static/dynamic Primary or secondary product of research *Taken from NSF’s report “Long Live Digital Data Collections”and also slide by Michael Jubb at the DCC Data Management Forum n March 2008

5. SCOPING DIGITAL REPOSITORIES SERVICES FOR RESEARCH DATA MANAGEMENT A Project of the Office of the Director of IT 5

6. SCOPING DIGITAL REPOSITORIES SERVICES FOR RESEARCH DATA MANAGEMENT A Project of the Office of the Director of IT 6 Data Management Takes from knowledge/information management “…is understanding the current data needs and future ones” (US Department of Defence) A mean to an end Not just technical infrastructure but also procedures and policies Digital Curation and Sheer Curation

7. SCOPING DIGITAL REPOSITORIES SERVICES FOR RESEARCH DATA MANAGEMENT A Project of the Office of the Director of IT 7 Benefits Ensuring data quality and authenticity Not re-inventing the wheel - data collection can be expensive! Better access to information (which in many cases is publicly funded) will produce high quality research Future access (preservation) Comply with requirements of funding agencies

8. SCOPING DIGITAL REPOSITORIES SERVICES FOR RESEARCH DATA MANAGEMENT A Project of the Office of the Director of IT 8 Challenges RIN‘s ”Stewardship of digital research data” (2007) Roles and Responsibilities - Who does what? (researchers, data managers, informaticians, librarians, computing services) Standards and Quality Assurance - What standards and procedures should be used? How do we ensure that data is of quality? Data peer-review? Access, Usage and Credit - Who owns the data? Are there metadata to help using the data? How to provide access? How to protect from misuse? How to cite data? Benefits and cost effectiveness - How to prove the benefits of managing research data? Preservation and sustainability - How to select which data needs to be preserved?

9. SCOPING DIGITAL REPOSITORIES SERVICES FOR RESEARCH DATA MANAGEMENT A Project of the Office of the Director of IT 9 Digital Repositories Open Access to Scholarly Communication Libraries set up repositories to store, provide access and preserve digital output produced institutionally (e-prints and theses mainly) Oxford Research Archive (ORA) What about data repositories?

10. SCOPING DIGITAL REPOSITORIES SERVICES FOR RESEARCH DATA MANAGEMENT A Project of the Office of the Director of IT 10 Domain Data Centres UKDAAHDS EBICERNNERCCCDC Slide from Martn Lewis talk at DCC Data Management Forum March 2008

11. SCOPING DIGITAL REPOSITORIES SERVICES FOR RESEARCH DATA MANAGEMENT A Project of the Office of the Director of IT 11 Data Repositories Current repositories good at services like: –Storage/Access/Preservation/Resource description Research data may need extra repository services: –Access control –Data Visualization/Analysis –Annotation –?

12. SCOPING DIGITAL REPOSITORIES SERVICES FOR RESEARCH DATA MANAGEMENT A Project of the Office of the Director of IT 12 Initiatives, Services and Projects Oxford activities –OeRC GRID datasets –Image Bioinformatics Research Group Databases/tools&services/datawebs/ontologies –JISC DataShare project/NEEO Project –Neurogrid –Beazley Archive/Lexicon of Greek Personal Names International scene –Australian National Data Service (ANDS) –Sustainable Digital Data Preservation and Access Network (DATANET) –UK Research Data Service (UK RDS)

13. SCOPING DIGITAL REPOSITORIES SERVICES FOR RESEARCH DATA MANAGEMENT A Project of the Office of the Director of IT 13 In the mean time…

14. SCOPING DIGITAL REPOSITORIES SERVICES FOR RESEARCH DATA MANAGEMENT A Project of the Office of the Director of IT 14 Scoping Digital Repository Services for Research Data Management Aim “ to scope the requirements, including for the underlying infrastructure and interoperability, for digital repositories services to store, curate, disseminate and preserve research data generated at Oxford. ” Objectives Capture researchers’ requirements for data management services Produce recommendations for provision of services Contribute to an interoperability plan for a federation of repositories Develop and initiate collaborations Raise awareness and communicate best practice

15. SCOPING DIGITAL REPOSITORIES SERVICES FOR RESEARCH DATA MANAGEMENT A Project of the Office of the Director of IT 15 Progress and Next Steps Website and Blog http://www.ict.ox.ac.uk/odit/projects/digitalrepository/ Literature Review Scoping Study Interviews –Document current practices –Capture requirements for data management services –Produce recommendations Workshop –Theme : Data management for researchers –Raise awareness and encourage discussion

16. SCOPING DIGITAL REPOSITORIES SERVICES FOR RESEARCH DATA MANAGEMENT A Project of the Office of the Director of IT 16 Thanks