ANDS: increasing connections to add value

Andrew Treloar, Director of Technology

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ANDS at a glance In operation since 2009 40 staff (mostly Melbourne, Canberra) Funded as “the voice for data” Working to make Australia’s research data more

valuable Funding through to mid 2016 (mid 2017?)

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ANDS enables transformation of:

Data:UnmanagedDisconnectedInvisibleSingle use

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to Structured Collections:ManagedConnectedFindableReusable

so that Australian researchers can easily publish, discover, access and use/re-use research data.

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Why care about connections? Context Discovery Evidence for trustworthiness Credit Integrity of scholarly record Better basis for analysis Summary: greater value!

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Central role of identifiers Need to be able to identify the endpoint for a

connection ideally uniquely

Some identifiers need to be managed globally, but some can be managed locally

NOTE: Identifiers do not necessarily need to persist

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5 things that need to persist for persistence the identifier- that is the token or string itself. the thing being pointed at by the identifier. For example,

the content. the mapping of the identifier to the thing being identified. the resolver that allows one to follow the mapping of the

identifier to the thing being identified. a mechanism for updating the mapping of the identifier to

the thing being identified. See http://crosstech.crossref.org/2015/03/january-2015-

doi-outage-followup-report.html for more on persistence7

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Persistence vs. Coolness Persistent identifiers are often criticised in favour

of cool URIs http://www.w3.org/TR/cooluris/

Yes, it’s possible to be cool, but impossible to be effortlessly cool

Persistent identifier mechanisms are often a way of engineering away brittleness in identifier infrastructure

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A data-centric view of the space

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ResearcherLink

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ANDS originally encouraged use of Trove/NLA ID ORCID now has market momentum behind it ANDS recently assisted with work towards decision

by ARC/NHMRC/UA/CAUL/ARMS to broadly encourage use of ORCID doi:10.4225/14/552b16efae74b

PublicationLink

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DataCite DOIs increasingly the way to link from publications to data

ANDS working with Thomson-Reuters Data Citation Index to enable them to track citations to data

ANDS provides national harvest point through Research Data Australia

http://ands.org.au/cite-data/dci.html

GrantLink

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ANDS working with ARC and NHMRC to provide LOD URIs for research grants ARC: http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP0211416 NHMRC: http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1020281

Overview: http://ands.org.au/guides/ardc-activity-infrastructure.html

API: http://developers.ands.org.au/services/getgrants/

Research Data Switchboard

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Collaborative project to enable cross-platform discovery between research data services

Created as part of Research Data Alliance DDRI-WG

Using network of AMS EC2 instances to automate process

Harvest from data providers, create graph database, provide API to consumers of graph

Obligatory architecture diagram

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Some gratuitous eye-candy

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Project THOR

Technical and Human infrastructure for Open Research

Builds on ODIN (ORCID-DataCite Interoperability Network)

Establishing seamless integration between articles, data, and researchers across the research lifecycle

Making persistent identifier use for people and research artefacts the default

http://project-thor.eu

Project partners

Project Partners

Conclusion

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ANDS cares about connections ANDS is working to develop and provide LOD-

compatible URIs as part of national infrastructure ANDS is continuing development on Research Data

Switchboard available for public use on September 23

Questions? ands.org.au http://ands.org.au/guides/data-connections.html http://rd-switchboard.org/

andrew.treloar@ands.org.au @atreloar

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