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Open Science and the Research Library: Roles, Challenges and Opportunities?

Dr Liz Lyon, Director, UKOLN, University of Bath, UK

Associate Director, UK Digital Curation Centre

ARL Directors Meeting, Cambridge, Mass. November 2007.

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Three themes1. Open science : trends

and practice.

2. Data curation and preservation choices.

3. Roles, challenges & opportunities for the research library?

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Open science: trends and practice

Social networks for librarians….

…and scientists

New channels for library - researcher interaction?

?

Innovation in scholarly communications?

New modes of scholarly communications…

….votes, ratings, open peer review

Community content for scientists : rich media

video + paper = Pubcast

?

Open data: in the public domain….

Data usability: presentation and visualisation

Sharing data: uploads & more ratings…

?

“Big science” data services: multi-disciplinaryand public

At the coalface: tagging & sharing workflows Astronomy, Bioinformatics, Chemistry, Social Science pilots.

Universities of Manchester & Southampton

“Small science” : sharing in the lab

Transforming practice?

2006

Open Notebook Science (ONS)

26 September:

1st use of term blogged by Jean-Claude Bradley, Drexel University

Chemistry exemplar

2007

27 March: ONS at

Amer Chem Society Symposium

7 August: ONS Poster in Second Life on Nature island

24 September: ONS Case Studies in Second Life

4 October: > 43,000 hits in Google for term ONS

10 & 15 October: Policy lists,DabbleDB membership database created US

11 October: ONS experiment starts in Cambridge, UK

7 November: Cameron Neylon (Univ Southampton / STFC, UK) posts “Sourceforge for Science” concept

10 November: Open Data for common molecules - Wikichemicals? Peter Murray-Rust’s blog at Univ. Cambridge, UK

Yesterday: about 2,000,000 Google hits for Open Notebook Science

New ideas are surfacing very fast with instant development, testing and take-up…..

New postgraduate cohorts : millennials / Google generation : new behaviours

And not just chemistry….

Social network mediated data-sharing

User feeds or scraping data from your hard disk….

How far can this go?

So…

1. Are you & your staff plugged into social networks : with other librarians and with scientists?

2. When (not “if”), more publisher preprint e-services appear, what does this mean for your library? Online services? Physical space?

3. If a critical mass of scientists openly publish their research (in blogs, wikis etc.), what will happen to the traditional journal format?

4. How will the increasing volume of data be discovered, used, curated and preserved?

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Data curation and preservation choices

Curation / Preservation choices?1. Disciplinary data centre: EBI Protein Data Bank, British

Atmospheric Data Centre, UK Data Archive2. Institutional / departmental / lab repository 3. Repository federation or network4. National library or national archive5. “Public” data repository or service6. Web archiving services7. Commercial data store - Amazon S3 service8. Ecosystem of hosted lifebits services (Jon Udell) 9. None of these?10.All of these?

Publisher

CreateDeposit

Link

Curate Preserve

Scientist

Funder

Blogs, wikis

Collaborate Share

User

Discover Re-use

Domain Data Deposit Model

Link

Link

Domain Data Centre

Domain Data Centre

Domain Data Centre

Scientist

ScientistScientist

Scientist

Policy & Advocacy

Link

Training Advocacy

Standards

Community standards

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From: Dealing with Data Report

Global and distributed disciplinary data centres

Institutional Repositories

Supporting UK Higher Education institutions

Supporting UK JISC Development ProgrammesR&D projects:

EU repository network

Institutional exemplar:

Origins in the eBank-UK Project

Crystallography repositories at the University of Southampton

New eCrystals Federation Project

CreateDeposit

Link

Curate Preserve Standards

Scientist

Funder

Collaborate Share

User

Discover Re-use

eCrystals Federation Data Deposit Model

Link

Link

Scientist

Policy AdvocacyTraining

HarvestIR Federation

Publishers

Data centres / aggregator

servicesAdvisory

X

Are these blogs being preserved?

Web archiving issues: Scale Currency Coverage

Commercial data store?

Microsoft Research SenseCam :

life-logging

Gordon Bell, Microsoft Research, MyLifeBits ProjectHosted lifebits service

for datacasts?

And so…1. Is research data managed, curated and preserved in your

institution?

2. Does your institutional repository contain research data? Theses? Supplementary data for journal publication?

3. Does your Library collaborate with any data centres? Faculty?

4. Are data-sets deposited in multiple repositories? How is identification, versioning, duplication, updating and linking managed?

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Roles, challenges & opportunities for the research library?

35 Recommendations for:

• JISC

• Funders

• Institutions

• Digital Curation Centre (DCC)

Dealing with Data ReportUKOLN Liz Lyon June 2007 Dealing with Data: Roles, Rights, Responsibilities and

Relationships

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/e.j.lyon/publications.html#2007-06-19

Report Recommendations 1• JISC should develop a Data Audit Framework to enable all Universities & colleges to carry out an audit of departmental data collections, awareness, policies & practice…

• Each Higher Education Institution should implement an Institutional Data Management, Preservation & Sharing Policy, which recommends data deposit in an appropriate open access data repository and/or data centre where these exist.

Report Recommendations 2

•The DCC should create a Data Networking Forum where ….staff….can exchange experience and best practice

• The DCC should promote co-ordinated advocacy programmes targeted at specific disciplines…

• The DCC should collaborate with other parties to deliver co-ordinated training programmes…

Digital Curation Centre http://www.dcc.ac.uk/

• Community Development work

• Data Forum exchange of experience

• Policy & Advocacy• Training: workshops,

summer school?• Build workforce capacity

Roles, Rights, Responsibilities,

Relationships:

Dealing with Data Report

• scientist

• institution

• data centre

• user

• funder

• publisher What about libraries?

Library: lead, co-ordinate and deliver curation service(s)Rights To inform institutional policy.

Responsibilities

Provide leadership in data curation and preservation strategy development.

Co-ordinate / facilitate / support institutional policy implementation.

Support data stewardship in the short term, with IT/Computing Services and Faculty.

Meet standards for good curation practice.

Awareness of changing research practice.

Provide advocacy and training to support scientists.

Promote repository / data storage / Web archiving services.

Relationships

With scientist as service provider.

With IT services as service partner

With institution as funder.

With data centre via expert staff.

So finally……1. Is research data from your institution openly shared on social

networks and blogs?2. Does your institution have a Data Curation and Preservation

Policy? Strategy? Data Audit?3. What are the practical and cultural barriers to policy

implementation? Resistance to change? 4. Should the Library be responsible for curation awareness,

training, skills and professional development? Of your staff and the researchers?

5. Should you engage with Faculty to create modules on data handling & curation skills for the undergraduate / post graduate curriculum?

Take home messages• Open science is driving transformational change in research practice: now

• Curating open data requires strong Faculty links and multi-disciplinary teams: Library + IT + Faculty

• Recognise and respect disciplinary differences: get to know the data centre people, new partnerships

• Libraries have a lot to offer: build on your repository experience

Data underpins intellectual ideas: we must curate for the future

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Questions?

Slides will be available at :

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/e.j.lyon/presentations.html