A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.u k UKOLN is supported by: UK Perspectives on the Curation and Preservation of Scientific Data Dr Liz Lyon, Director, UKOLN, University of Bath, UK Associate Director, UK Digital Curation Centre AAAS Annual Meeting Boston, February 2008. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Licence Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
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A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
UKOLN is supported by:
UK Perspectives on the Curation and Preservation of Scientific Data
Dr Liz Lyon, Director, UKOLN, University of Bath, UK
Associate Director, UK Digital Curation Centre
AAAS Annual Meeting Boston, February 2008.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons LicenceAttribution-ShareAlike 2.0
Overview1. Context: “big science, small
science & open science”
2. Strategy, Policy, Planning: Dealing with Data Report
3. Practice & Futures
Big versus Small Science
“Data from Big Science is … easier to handle, understand and archive. Small Science is horribly heterogeneous and far more vast. In time Small Science will generate 2-3 times more data than Big Science.”
“Lost in some research assistant’s computer, the data are often irretrievable or an undecipherable string of digits”
“To vet experiments, correct errors, or find new breakthroughs, scientists desperately need better ways to store and retrieve research data”
‘Lost in a Sea of Science Data’ S.Carlson, The Chronicle of Higher Education (23/06/2006)
Open Science
Millennials as native data scientists
Social networks for scientists
Second Life: virtual worlds
Community repositories for data
Tagging and sharing workflows
Open Notebook Science (ONS)
Data Curation and Preservation choices?
1. Disciplinary data centre2. 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 8. Ecosystem of hosted lifebits services (Jon Udell) 9. None of these?10. All of these?
UKOLN Liz Lyon June 2007 35 Recommendations for JISC
Roles, Rights, Responsibilities,
Relationships: scientist, institution, data centre, user, funder, publisher
Data repositories• Use DRAMBORA Interactive for self-assessment• Add PREMIS preservation metadata• Collect eCrystals representation information• Examine repository platform conformance to OAIS Reference Model• Survey partner preservation policies
Dealing with Data Report Future challenges?
• Instrumentation and laboratory equipment
• Dataset re-use: significant properties
• Versions, identifiers, citation
• Robust bi-directional linking
• IPR and model licences for data
• Cost-benefits of data curation
• Careers, specialist skills and capacity
• Data curation within the curriculum
Future UK developments• JISC initiatives
– Data Audit Framework Study– Research Data Preservation Costs Study– Institutional Preservation Policy Study– Preservation of Web Resources Workshops– Data curators: professional development and careers Study
• Shared Research Data Service Feasibility Study: report January 2009• Research Information Network (RIN) Publication of Data Outputs study
pending• Open Repositories Conference April 2008 University of Southampton
• 4th International Digital Curation Conference, December 2008, Edinburgh
A centre of expertise in digital information management