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The Brave New World:
Implementing the LERU
Roadmap for Research Data
Dr Paul Ayris
Director of UCL Library Services and UCL Copyright Officer
Chief Executive, UCL Press
Chair, LERU Chief Information Officer Community
e-mail: p.ayris@ucl.ac.uk
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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Contents
 Importance of Research Data
 LERU Roadmap for Research Data
 Next Steps for LERU
 Conclusions
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Contents
 Importance of Research Data
 LERU Roadmap for Research Data
 Next Steps for LERU
 Conclusions
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See Science as an open enterprise
http://royalsociety.org/policy/projects/scie
nce-public-enterprise/report/
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Technological change
 Modern computers permit massive datasets to be
assembled and explored in ways that reveal inherent but
unsuspected relationships. This data-led science is a
promising new source of knowledge (p. 7)
 The emergence of linked data technologies creates new
information through deeper integration of data across
different datasets with the potential to greatly enhance
automated approaches to data analysis (p. 7)
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Map of Interlinked Data
W3C (2012). Available at:
http://www.w3.org/wiki/SweoIG/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData
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Open Data
 Open data is the idea that certain
data should be freely available to
everyone to use and republish as
they wish, without restrictions from
copyright, patents or other
mechanisms of control
Auer, S. R.; Bizer, C.; Kobilarov, G.; Lehmann, J.;
Cyganiak, R.; Ives, Z. (2007). "DBpedia: A Nucleus
for a Web of Open Data". The Semantic Web.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4825. p. 722.
doi:10.1007/978-3-540-76298-0_52. ISBN 978-3-54076297-3.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DNA_orbit_animated.gif
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Human Genome Project
 Aim: To determine the
sequence of chemical
base pairs which make
up human DNA, and to
identify and map the
total genes of the
human genome
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA
Benefits – felt from molecular medicine to human evolution
 Better understanding of disease
 Design of medication and prediction of their effects
 Commercial development of genomics research
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Contents
 Importance of Research Data
 LERU Roadmap for Research Data
 Next Steps for LERU
 Conclusions
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LERU Roadmap for Research Data
 Overseen by Research Data
Working Group
Pablo Achard (University of Geneva)
Paul Ayris (UCL, University College London)
Serge Fdida (UPMC, Paris)
Stefan Gradmann (University of Leuven)
Wolfram Horstmann (University of Oxford)
Ignasi Labastida (University of Barcelona)
Liz Lyon (University of Bath)
Katrien Maes (LERU)
Susan Reilly (LIBER)
Anja Smit (University of Utrecht)
Available at
http://www.leru.org/files/publications/AP14_LERU_
Roadmap_for_Research_data_final.pdf
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LERU Roadmap for Research Data
1. Policy and Leadership
2. Advocacy
3. Selection and Collection,
Curation, Description,
Citation, Legal Issues
4. Research Data Infrastructure
5. Costs
6. Roles, Responsibilities and
Skills
7. Recommendations to
different stakeholder groups
Cern, Geneva
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See http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/e.j.lyon/150.pdf
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Key Messages
 Each LERU university
needs a Research Data
Management Strategy
 Researchers should have
Research Data
Management Plans
 LERU universities need to
bring stakeholders together
 Benefits of ‘open data’ for
sharing and re-use should
be advocated and explored
 New role of Data Scientist
is emerging
King’s Cross, London
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Policy Development
 Case Study on Policy
development from UCL
 Drivers
 External funders
 Need to inform researchers
 Raise awareness of issues
facing UCL researchers
 Identifies roles and
responsibilities
 Data to be made open in
the most open manner
appropriate
See www.lanecrothers.net/politicalprof/thepolicy-cycle-and-our-frozen-politics/
 Researchers should have
Data Management Plans
 LERU slams lack of data
policies – Research Europe
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Open Data
 Open Data allows research data to be shared and re-used
 Avoids costly duplication of research activity
 Provides greater transparency in research activity
 Potential to speed discovery of solutions to societal Grand
Challenges, such as health care & environmental science
 Can all research data be open?
 Certain categories probably cannot
 National security
 Data protection
 Commercial Funder requirements
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Open_Data_stickers.jpg
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Data
management
 Which of these
layers of
research data
need to be
 curated for a
fixed term?
 preserved for
the long term?
 thrown away?
 LERU Roadmap
identifies this as
an area for
future study
The ODE Data Publication Pyramid at
http://www.alliancepermanentaccess.org/wpcontent/uploads/downloads/2011/11/ODEReportOnIntegrationOfDataAndPublications-1_1.pdf
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Collaboration a way forward
 LERU Rectors see this as an
area for study
 Collaboration between Dutch
institutions
 Focus is on research data
which lies behind
publications
 Each university and faculty
has its own Dataverse
installation
 Support services offered by
libraries in Dutch universities
See http://www.syndromic.org/communities
Utrecht, Tilburg, Erasmus
University Rotterdam, Maastrict,
Groningen, 3TU Datacentrum and
Netherlands Institute of Ecology
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Contents
 Importance of Research Data
 LERU Roadmap for Research Data
 Next Steps for LERU
 Conclusions
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Next Steps
 LEARN
 EU-funded project starting in
June 2015 will scale up
LERU Roadmap to be a
global Roadmap
 LEARN will help embed
LERU Roadmap across
national boundaries
 LEARN will deliver
 Key templates for core RDM
documents
 Examples of Best Practice in
RDM on a global scale
Old State House, Boston, USA
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LEARN – LEaders Activating Research
Networks
 Purpose is to develop the
LERU Roadmap for
Research Data to build a
global co-ordinated global
e-infrastructure
 Outputs
 Model Research Data
Management policy
 Toolkit to support
implementation
 Executive Briefing in five
core languages so as to
ensure wide outreach
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LEARN
 5 partners
 UCL (University College
London) – lead partner
 University of Barcelona
 University of Vienna
 LIBER
 ECLAC – UN Commission
for Latin America and the
Caribbean
 Starts in June 2015; runs
for 24 months
 €497,000 budget
King’s Cross Station, London
 100% funded
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 LIBER has produced a good deal of guidance for
libraries
 10 Recommendations on how to get started in RDM
 http://libereurope.eu/blog/2014/07/16/workshop-reportlibraries-and-research-data-management/
 One of the most downloaded items from the LIBER website
 11 LIBER RDM Case Studies
 http://libereurope.eu/committee/scholarly-research/
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UCL’s performance
against LIBER targets
LIBER target
UCL performance
1. Offer RDM support
UCL Library Services has appointed Advocacy Officer
and Library has visited all 11 Schools/Faculties to work
with UCL Research Data Service [RDS]
2. Engage in metadata Not yet done
services
3. Engage in
professional skills
development
University of Sheffield training Library’s liaison teams in
RDM in 2014-15
4. Engage in policy
development
UCL Library Services authored UCL’s Research Data
Policy at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/isd/services/researchit/documents/uclresearchdatapolicy.pdf
5. Create partnerships
for interoperable
infrastructures
Not yet done. Emphasis in RDS is on UCL provision
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UCL’s performance
against LIBER targets
LIBER target
UCL performance
1. Offer RDM support
UCL Library Services has appointed Advocacy Officer
and Library has visited all 11 Schools/Faculties to work
with UCL Research Data Service [RDS]
2. Engage in metadata Not yet done
services
3. Engage in
professional skills
development
University of Sheffield training Library’s liaison teams in
RDM in 2014-15
4. Engage in policy
development
UCL Library Services authored UCL’s Research Data
Policy at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/isd/services/researchit/documents/uclresearchdatapolicy.pdf
5. Create partnerships
for interoperable
infrastructures
Not yet done. Emphasis in RDS is on UCL provision
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UCL’s performance
against LIBER targets
LIBER target
UCL performance
6. Provide services for
storage, discovery and
permanent access
RDS has storage service in place. Archive service
being established by RDS. Discovery service not yet
in place – will be joint RDS/Library service
7. Apply persistent
Arrangements made with DataCite to produce
identifiers to research data persistent identifiers; complements UCL’s
membership of CrossRef which allows UCL to give
DOIs to publications
8. Provide an institutional
data catalogue
Planned, but not yet done. Will be joint RDS/Library
development
9. Engage in subjectLibrary’s Liaison Teams being trained in RDM 2014specific data management 15
10. Offer storage solutions Storage and Archive services offered by RDS. Library
will curate outputs of ‘Small Science’, active datasets
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and outputs from digitisation programmes
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UCL’s performance
against LIBER targets
LIBER target
UCL performance
6. Provide services for
storage, discovery and
permanent access
RDS has storage service in place. Archive service
being established by RDS. Discovery service not yet
in place – will be joint RDS/Library service
7. Apply persistent
Arrangements made with DataCite to produce
identifiers to research data persistent identifiers; complements UCL’s
membership of CrossRef which allows UCL to give
DOIs to publications
8. Provide an institutional
data catalogue
Planned, but not yet done. Will be joint RDS/Library
development
9. Engage in subjectLibrary’s Liaison Teams being trained in RDM 2014specific data management 15
10. Offer storage solutions Storage and Archive services offered by RDS. Library
will curate outputs of ‘Small Science’, active datasets
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and outputs from digitisation programmes
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Contents
 Importance of Research Data
 LERU Roadmap for Research Data
 Next Steps for LERU
 Conclusions
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Conclusions
 Libraries have not
traditionally collected
research data
 Open data has the power
to revolutionize the way
research is undertaken and
disseminated
 New role for libraries in
supporting their
researchers
Saint Jerome in his Study, fresco by Domenico
Ghirlandaio, 1480. Church of Ognissanti, Florence
Complex issue
Technically
Financially
Administratively
Academically
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Finally
 If you have been
 Thanks for listening
 Happy to hear questions