Open Science and the Research Library Roles Challenges
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. UKOLN is supported by: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Licence Attribution-Share. Alike 2. 0 www. ukoln. ac. uk A centre of expertise in digital information management
Three themes 1. Open science : trends and practice. 2. Data curation and preservation choices. 3. Roles, challenges & opportunities for the research library?
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Social networks for librarians…. …and scientists
New channels for library - researcher interaction? ?
New modes of scholarly communications… Innovation in scholarly communicatio ns? …. 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: multidisciplinary and public
At the coalface: tagging & sharing workflows Astronomy, Bioinformatics, Chemistry, Social Science pilots. Universities of Manchester & Southampton
“Small science” : sharing in the lab
Chemistry exemplar Transforming practice? 2006 Open Notebook Science (ONS) 26 September: 1 st use of term blogged by Jean. Claude Bradley, Drexel University
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, Dabble. DB 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 Google hits for Open Notebook Science New ideas are surfacing very fast with instant development, testing and take-up…. .
And not just chemistry…. New postgraduate cohorts : millennials / Google generation : new behaviours
Social network mediated data-sharing User feeds or scraping data from your hard disk…. How far can this go?
1. Are you & your staff plugged into social networks : with other librarians and with scientists? So… 2. When (not “if”), more publisher preprint eservices 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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Curation / Preservation choices? 1. Disciplinary data centre: EBI Protein Data Bank, British Atmospheric Data Centre, UK Data Archive 2. Institutional / departmental / lab repository 3. Repository federation or network 4. National library or national archive 5. “Public” data repository or service 6. Web archiving services 7. Commercial data store - Amazon S 3 service 8. Ecosystem of hosted lifebits services (Jon Udell) 9. None of these? 10. All of these?
Funder From: Dealing with Data Report Policy & Advocacy Community standards Scientist Blogs, wikis Scientist Curate Preserve Create Deposit Collaborate Share Link Domain Data Standards Centre Scientist Link Domain Data Centre Training Advocacy Link Domain Data Centre Publisher Discover Re-use User Domain Data Deposit Model This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License Attribution-Share. Alike 2. 0 Link © Liz Lyon (UKOLN, University of Bath) 2007
Global and distributed disciplinary data centres
Institutional Repositories Supporting UK Higher Education institutions R&D projects: EU repository network Supporting UK JISC Development Programmes
Institutional exemplar: Origins in the e. Bank-UK Project Crystallography repositories at the University of Southampton New e. Crystals Federation Project
Funder Scientist Create Deposit Data centres / aggregator services Advisory IR Federation Curate Policy Preserve Advocacy Standards Training Collaborate Share Harvest Link Discover Re-use Link Publishers e. Crystals Federation Data Deposit Model User Link
Are these blogs being preserved? X Web archiving issues: Scale Currency Coverage
Commercial data store?
Microsoft Research Sense. Cam : lifelogging Hosted lifebits service for datacasts? Gordon Bell, Microsoft Research, My. Life. Bits Project
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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Dealing with Data Report UKOLN Liz Lyon June 2007 Dealing with Data: Roles, Rights, Responsibilities and Relationships 35 Recommendations for: • JISC • Funders • Institutions • Digital Curation Centre (DCC) 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 coordinated advocacy programmes targeted at specific disciplines… • The DCC should collaborate with other parties to deliver coordinated 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
Dealing with Data Report Roles, Rights, Responsibilities, Relationships: • 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. Relationships With scientist as service provider. With IT services as service Provide advocacy and training to support partner scientists. With institution as funder. Promote repository / data storage / Web archiving services. 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
Questions? Slides will be available at : http: //www. ukoln. ac. uk/ukoln/staff/e. j. lyon/presentations. html www. ukoln. ac. uk A centre of expertise in digital information management
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