Research Data
Management Infrastructure
The Current Context
Introduction to Research Data Management Services, January 2013
International developments
U.S. NSF funding envelope introduced in 2008: Sustainable
Digital Data Preservation and Access Network Partner (DataNet)
"Therein lies one of the major challenges of this scientific
generation: how to develop the new methods, management
structures and technologies to manage the diversity, size, and
complexity of current and future data sets and data streams.
This solicitation addresses that challenge by creating a set of
exemplar national and global data research infrastructure
organizations (dubbed DataNet Partners) that provide unique
opportunities to communities of researchers to advance science
and/or engineering research and learning."
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International developments
U.K. JISC funding envelope introduced in 2011: Managing
Research Data Programme
"JISC considers it a priority to promote and support good
research data management and sharing for the benefit of UK
Higher Education and Research. The Managing Research
Data Programme builds on earlier work which developed a
number of important tools, technologies and services, and
improved the support available for the sector to develop the
necessary skills and expertise in this area."
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International developments
U.K. JISC funding envelope: Research Data Management
Infrastructure Projects
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International developments
Riding the Wave
created a
framework for
collaborative data
infrastructure that
has become
EUDAT.
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International developments
EUDAT is a consortium currently consisting of 25 European
partners, including data centers and technology providers, along
with research communities and funding agencies from European
13 countries.
• Federating access to multiple existing archives from many
disciplines
• Managing increasingly complex data policies
• Optimising remote data access to minimise data transfer
• Optimising workflow technologies to make remote data
analysis possible
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International developments
Australian National Data Services (ANDS): formed to support
“Platforms for Collaboration” within the Australian National
Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy initiative.
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CARL-CFI proposal
Beginning in May 2010, CARL embarked on an 18-month
process to submit an application to the CFI for a national
collaborative research data management infrastructure.
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A decision at the October 2011 meeting of the U15 Vice
Presidents of Research resulted in CARL withdrawing it
application.
The only CFI funding envelope available was their
Leading Edge and New Initiatives Fund, while the CARL
project was better suited for a national platform program.
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National Data Summit
Mapping the Data Landscape: Report of the 2011 Canadian Research
Data Summit
Research Data Strategy Working Group (RDSWG) Action plan:
a. Broaden the stakeholder group in the RDSWG to reflect the diversity
of research data interests
b. Establish a national advisory council of senior representatives
c. Undertake a national online consultation on the results of the Data
Summit
d. Pursue resource development to form a secretariat for the RDSWG
e. Launch Research Data Canada as a multi-stakeholder, volunteerdriven replacement to the RDSWG
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CUCCIO DI Summit
National Digital Infrastructure Summit 2012Council of Canadian
CIOs (CUCCIO) action plan:
a. Create a Leadership Council for Digital Infrastructure
(August 28, 2012)
b. Set their vision, principles and terms of reference
(October 29-30, 2012)
c. Plan and deliver Digital Infrastructure Summit 2013
d. Funding from 5 or 6 university CIOs
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Gaffield’s position paper
At CASRAI's reconnection 2012 conference, Chad Gaffield
introduced a position paper entitled, "Towards a Robust and
Sustainable Ecosystem for Enhanced Digital Scholarship" that
describes digital scholarship as the future of higher education.
He claims that research data also now encompass learning data
as well as innovation data. Data will drive digital scholarship.
"In the distributed, open, empowered world of Digital
Scholarship, coordination rather than control is key especially
as networks replace vertically-integrated hierarchies."
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Gaffield’s position paper
He concluded his discussion with three agenda items
for Federal Research Granting Agencies:
o Informed by precedents elsewhere and developed in
consultation, publish guidelines for effective Data
Management Plans, and make compulsory their inclusion
with grant applications and final reports.
o Informed by precedents elsewhere and developed in
consultation, formally describe contributions to Digital
Scholarship that will be included in the evaluation process
(creation and deposit of data in trusted repository, etc.).
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Gaffield’s position paper
o Keep current with how other like-minded countries are
dealing with Digital Scholarship with a view toward
learning from their strategies and experience (including
nature and extent of investments), and in order to
benchmark progress and to monitor how Canada is doing
relative to others.
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Data ecosystem
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Where’s Canada?
1. Change in strategy: from National Institution to National
Infrastructure
a.
CARL-CFI business case for national Collaborative Data
Management Infrastructure
2. Change in strategy: Top-down to bottom-up
development
a.
Institutions working together to build collaborative data
management infrastructure
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Where’s Canada?
3. Focus on coordination, not control
Research council level (3+1 in Canada)
b. Stakeholders’ level
• Cross-sector
• Cross-discipline
c. Institutional level
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Balancing project-level and institutional-level
stewardship responsibilities
a.
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Where’s Canada?
A gap analysis on research data
infrastructure was conducted by the
Research Data Strategy Working Group in
2008 and updated in 2011.
Kathleen will review the findings from this
analysis.
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