Metadata for Re-Use: the Australian National Data Service and the role of Institutional Repositories

Andrew Treloar, Deputy Director, ANDS

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Relevant background for me Monash University Information Management

strategy Australian Research Repositories Online to the

World (ARROW) Dataset Acquisition, Annotation and Accessibility

eResearch Technologies (DART) Australian ResearCH Enabling enviRonment

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Australian Repository Landscape All universities have IR

funded out of ASHER program

13 of 40 use VITAL, rest a mix of ePrints, dSpace, Digitool, etc.

Almost without exception, content is publications only

Monash ARROW repository has some datasets, loading more

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Data stores Large universities have one or are building one Australian Research Collaboration Service is

building out national data fabric A$50M for storage A$37M for services A$12M for discipline-specific applications

All publicly-funded researchers in Australia should get access

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Australian National Data Service Funded by Australian Government at A$24M+48M

($A72M = €44M or £39M) through to mid-2011 Largest current national investment in data management

Seven programs of work: Frameworks/Capabilities, Data Capture, Public Data Access, Metadata Stores, ARDC Core, Seeding the Commons, Applications

Vision: More researchers re-using more data more often

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Australian Research Data Commons

Driving and enabling re-use1

Information for discovery Information for determination of value Information for access Information for re-use

Ideally all of these should be available at discovery time

[1] Drawing on thinking from UKDA (data-archive.ac.uk)

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Information for discovery Closest thing to catalogue metadata Some can be inferred Some can be extracted from other systems Some has to be entered manually

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Information for determination of value Helping a researcher decide if they want to re-use Based on as much context as possible

experimental design researcher research program institution linked publications availability of re-use metadata (see later)

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Information for access To enable researcher to get to data Four possibilities

Direct link to open-access data Link to datastore with its own access controls

register/login only for open access register/login for restricted access

Contact information for how to get data Metadata only (no access)

variations in how people feel about this

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Information for re-use Varies hugely by discipline Possible elements

variable names and scales (Temp?) instrument settings for experiment calibration values for instrument against reference reagents used rights restrictions

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Metadata Stores solutions Use existing IR

Newcastle

Build something new ADFI/USQ Fascinator-derivative Griffith/QUT Mediaflux-derivative UniMelb VITRO application Monash Oracle application

Something else (TBF)

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Questions? andrew.treloar@ands.org.au

http://andrew.treloar.net/

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