adding value to researchers' data
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Presentation delivered at launch of TPAC eResearch CloudTRANSCRIPT
Adding Value to Researchers’ Data
Dr Andrew Treloar, Director of Technology
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Outline § Research is changing § We are all in the data business § ANDS characterisEcs § Adding value to researchers’ data
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So many research lifecycles…
Minimal Research Lifecycle
Share
Think Do
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LHC output from 2009-2013 = 100PB
(www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/february-2013/achievement-unlocked-100-petabytes-of-data)
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Long-‐tail data
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Size
Number
Lee Berger and Australopithecus sediba
8 Lee Berger Google Talk: The Skull in the Rock
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What business are we in? Theodore LeviR, The Changing Character of Capitalism, Harvard Business Review, July–August 1956 “The railroads did not stop growing because the need for passenger and freight transportaEon declined. That grew. The railroads are in trouble today not because that need was filled by others (cars, trucks, airplanes, and even telephones) but because it was not filled by the railroads themselves. They let others take customers away from them because they assumed themselves to be in the railroad business rather than in the transporta6on business.”
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Key differenEators for ANDS § NaEonally co-‐ordinated approach § InsEtuEonally-‐focussed engagement
§ “helping them meet their research data ambiEons”
§ Engaging with large naEonally-‐funded discipline investments
§ Bulk of funds spent outside ANDS § All disciplines covered § Focus on adding value to data and re-‐use
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ANDS enables the transformaEon of: Data that are: " Unmanaged " Disconnected " Invisible " Single use
To Structured CollecEons that are: " Managed " Connected " Findable " Reusable
so that Australian researchers can easily publish, discover, access and use/re-‐use research data.
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ANDS online services § Research Data Australia § Cite my Data DOI IdenEfier service § Vocab creaEon/management service + API § Research AcEvity idenEfier service + API § Developer toolbox
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Value of data is increased because § It is beRer managed § It is more findable § It is citeable § It is (potenEally) more re-‐usable § InternaEonal data environments are more compaEble with those in Australia
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Major programs undertaken (200+ projects) § Seeding the Commons (fixing the past) § Data Capture (fixing the future) § Metadata Stores (managing insEtuEonal research data assets)
§ ApplicaEons (demonstraEng value of joining data) § Major Open Data CollecEons (content focus) § eResearch Infrastructure ConnecEvity (connecEon focus)
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