access to research data: action is needed
but what action
my story
- Background information SURFfoundation
- initiatives & activities
- Accessibility research data
- Importance, urgency and questions
- coherence enhanced publications & collaboratories
- Starting points & scenarios for the future
- Possible answers
- Conclusion
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some background
information
- SURFfoundation
- initiator of innovation in higher education and
research
- A focus area is scholarly communication
- permanent access to research data, enhanced
publications & collaboratories
- Tried-and-tested SURF method for innovation:
success through co-operation.
- everything done with, for, & by staff participating
institutions on basis of calls for tender
- involves carrying out studies, setting up pilots, &
organising small-scale grassroots projects
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my work package
- Research data & access
- Relatively small work package as part of SURFshare
program
- Supporting other work packages
- Deliverables are building blocks to be used by
universities as a starting point
- Input for new SURF program 2012
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some initiatives
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Tangible building blocks
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3 projects regarding guidelines for preserving
research data
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study legal status of raw data
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study organisational aspects of accessibility of data
Study about establishing a data centre
Research Data Forum
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Co-ordinating Group with representatives from most
important organisations in the field
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3 working groups
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accessibility data
- contradictory picture
- few organisations and few initiatives
- heterogeneous data infrastructure which results in
many different forms of data networking &
management
- discipline orientated & based on existing
organisations in research environment
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importance
- SURFfoundation stimulates creation of enhanced
publication
- precondition is availability of data
- SURFfoundation builds collaboratories with facilities
for creating enhanced publications
- precondition is accessibility of data
- Continuing changes scholarly communication
- Changing role of libraries
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urgency
- Publishers work closely with & pamper researchers
- researchers ask for possibilities for storage & access
but who is going to help them
- who wins the battle for the researchers
- Several publishers have adopted data policies
- influence data policies of utmost importance
- ensure that data become & stay open data
- How to co-operate with publishers & which role will
both stakeholders play
- how to prevent universities only act as a storage
medium
- where is point of convergence
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my questions
- How to involve institutions & researchers to
participate
- time, manpower, money and perhaps interest is
lacking
- a few champions who share data is not enough
- why initiate writing data management plans when the
actual management is still unclear
- How to change existing attitude regarding
ownership of data
- How to connect to the international environment
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possible scenarios
- do the absolutely necessary and nothing more
- researchers themselves take care for storage and
access
- data repositories managed by libraries
- national repositories for different disciplines
- 1 big national domain unspecific data archive
- cloud computing
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possible answers
starting point: researcher controls data
- explicit policies needed with allotting
responsibilities
- allocation part funding for deposit data & data
management
- accept several layered infrastructure
- collaboratories
- clear arrangements for service providers
- archiving & storage on (inter) national level
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conclusion
- data of growing importance in research
environment
- many initiatives on (inter) national level
- picture activities and roles of stakeholders often
incomplete
- ambiguity which activities & responsibilities belong
where
quest which role SURF has to play, what initiatives to
support, what role universities are willing to play &
how we can do this together
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Thank you for your attention
Wilma Mossink
mossink@surf.nl
www.surf.nl
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