UKOLN is supported by: e-Research: trends, requirements and challenges Dr Liz Lyon, UKOLN, University of Bath, UK Cross Research Council ICT Conference NeSC, Edinburgh, May 2004 www.bath.ac.u k a centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.u k
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UKOLN is supported by:
e-Research: trends, requirements and challenges
Dr Liz Lyon, UKOLN, University of Bath, UK
Cross Research Council ICT Conference
NeSC, Edinburgh, May 2004
www.bath.ac.uk
a centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
Cross Research Council ICT Conference 2
Overview
• Looking at the trends– Open access publishing– Diversification of resources
• Identifying requirements– Towards a common infrastructure – “Virtual research environments”
• The scholarly knowledge cycle– A changing landscape– The eBank UK Project
• Challenges for the future
Looking at the trends
“The next generation of research breakthroughs will rely upon new ways of handling the immense amounts of data that are being produced by modern research methods and equipment, such as telescopes, particle accelerators, genome sequencers and biological imagers….Similar developments are having an impact in the arts and humanities, and in the social sciences.”
A Vision for Research,
Research Councils UK, December 2003.
Cross Research Council ICT Conference 5
Report of the National Science Foundation
Blue-Ribbon Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure
2003
http://www.cise.nsf.gov/sci/reports/toc.cfm
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Open Access - a global initiative
• US Sabo Bill (“Public Access to Science”)• DAREnet Dutch scientific results• Australian government statement• Berlin Declaration (BOAI)• WSIS Declaration of Principles & Plan of Action • Wellcome Trust statement• JISC FAIR Programme• UK Parliament Science & Technology Committee
Inquiry on Scientific Publications
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“The governments of …34 countries…recognising that open accessto….data promotes scientific progress… declare their commitment to work towards the establishment of access regimes for digital research data…in accordance with the following principles….
openness, transparency, legal conformity, formal responsibility, professionalism, protection of IPR, interoperability, quality and security, efficiency, accountability…..”
OECD Declaration on access to research data from public funding.
January 2004
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e-Research trends summary
• Increasingly data–intensive, quantitative• Open access to data and information • Implementing new science • Inter-disciplinary • New disciplines e.g. Astro-informatics• New skills requirements
– IT + statistics + domain
• Collaborative• Highly distributed resources
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Distributed resources….used in new ways
• Primary / original data – Observational, experimental, numeric, genomic, 2/3D molecular
• JISC-funded for 1 year from September 2003• UKOLN (lead), University of Southampton, University of
Manchester• “Building the links between research data, scholarly
communication and learning”• e-Science testbed Combechem
– Grid-enabled combinatorial chemistry– Crystallography, laser and surface chemistry– Development of an e-Lab using pervasive computing technology– National Crystallography Service