The ANDS “Identify My Data” service and related issues

Andrew Treloar, ANDS

JISC Research Identifier Workshop

3 Feb 2010, London1

Australian National Data Service (ANDS) An initiative of the Australian Government being

conducted as part of the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy ($A24M) and the Super Science Initiative ($A48M)

A collaboration between Monash University, the Australian National University and CSIRO

Operations nodes in Melbourne, Canberra, and elsewhere

About 40 staff, and growing2ands.org.au

What does ANDS do? Establish the Australian Research Data Commons

A shared data space Collaborative research Distributed model Data stewardship Interoperability and access

Vision: ‘More researchers re-using more data more often’

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Australian Research Data Commons

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Why make data public? Funding guidelines

publicly funded research avoid duplication encourage re-use

Open research verification of claims available for re-analysis

Longitudinal studies Collaboration, mash-ups, linking data…

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Publishing Data Benefits Acknowledgement for the creator/ publisher Stable part of scholarly communication

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Publishing and Scholarly Comm’n

Registration (to resolve questions of precedence) Certification (of the validity of a scholarly claim) Awareness (to ensure that scholars are kept

aware of new work) Archiving (to preserve the scholarly record over time) Rewarding (for measured performance according to discipline or

system-specific metrics) Roosendaal, H., and Geurts, P. 1997, ‘Forces and functions in scientific communication: an

analysis of their interplay’, Cooperative Research Information Systems in Physics, August 31—September 4, Oldenburg, Germany.http://www.physik.uni-oldenburg.de/conferences/crisp97/roosendaal.html7ands.org.au

Data and Publications

Traditionally data has been a means to generate a publication (or part of it)

ANDS wants to see data as a first class object, with equal (but different) status

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ANDS Data Sharing Verbs Create Store Describe Register Identify Discover Access Exploit

research group

data facility group

consumer group

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Create

Store

Describe

Register

Identify

Discover

Access

Exploit

Monolithic eResearch or Repository Application

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Identify My Data – allocate a persistent identifier

Register My Data – register a public collection description with contextual information

Research Data Australia – discover browse, explore a mesh of data collections and the people, research organisations, and services

Publish My Data – the lot!

Describe

Register

Identify

Discover

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ANDS Services Online

Available to users on the Web

Web services Designed for machine-to-machine

transactions

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ANDS Identify my Data Allows researchers or their organisations to

allocate persistent identifiers to datasets. Why?

What happens to the published references to your datasets when your Department changes name?

Or your data store software completely changes platforms? Or your webserver re-arranges its directory hierarchy?

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What is a persistent identifier? A URL says where something is Problem if the thing is moved: need to tell everyone A PID says where to look for where the location of the

thing is written ANDS provides a place to write that location Now if the thing moves, the PID stays the same, and

the location only has to be updated in one place

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Four kinds of persistence identifier

text string – won’t expire

resolution ability to get from identifier to object

binding/mapping relationship between identifier and object

object in its storage system

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Managing persistent identifiers If one has a PID, someone has to manage it. ANDS provides the infrastructure to enable

machines/people to update the location information when data is moved

NOTE: Software is not a solution to the human problem, or the need for ongoing responsibility for PIDS

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Nuts and Bolts Identifier = 102.100.100/243 ANDS is part of the global Handle infrastructure to

resolve persistent identifiers http://hdl.handle.net/102.100.100/243

ANDS has just joined DataCite, and will this year start offering DOIs for published, citable data

In effect, this is a Basic+Premium service offering

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Links ANDS Services documentation:

http://ands.org.au/services/ ANDS Services site: http://services.ands.org.au/ ANDS Web Services docs for PIDs:

http://services.ands.org.au/documentation/pids/pids_text.pdf

andrew.treloar@ands.org.au http://andrew.treloar.net/

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