Community Building & Partnerships

NSF DataNet site visit to MITFebruary 8, 2010

DataSpace

February 8, 2010 1NSF Site Visit to MIT DataSpace

What Communities?

• Research Universities (and other research-generating organizations)– Institutional Partners and DuraSpace – Emphasis on libraries, archives, IT and research computing departments

• Scientific research communities– Institutional Partners and Participating Scientists

• Technology infrastructure community– Technology company partners, advisory board

• The wider public– Citizen Science, OpenCourseWare

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Distributed Model

• Research-generating organizations manage locally-produced data

• Not necessarily perform all aspects of the curation lifecycle• Leverage institutional CI, expertise and support services

(e.g. libraries, archives, IT departments)• Leverage direct access to scientists

Example: HMI study at MIThttp://hmi.ucsd.edu/research_case_summary.php

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Institutional Partners

• Libraries at MIT, Georgia Tech, Oregon State, Rice University– serve many scientific disciplines– active, experienced in digital library, archives,

preservation– committed to data curation services

• Masdar (international partner)

• DSpace Foundation DuraSpaceFebruary 8, 2010 NSF Site Visit to MIT DataSpace 4

Science Partners

Now: Neuroscience and Biological Oceanography (MIT, Georgia Tech, OSU)

Next: Nanotechnology (Rice, MIT); HEP (Rice); Forrestry, Wave Energy (OSU)

Then: ongoing outreach and recruitment by campus service providers (e.g. library, IT department)

Value to scientists leads to word-of-mouth marketing and broad adoption

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Technology Partners

• EMC, Google, HP Labs, Microsoft

• Hardware, Software, Services; General purpose and science-specific

• Demonstrates commercial interest in research data curation, brings value to science and sustainability to CI

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The Wider Public

• Open Educational Publishing: collaborate with OCW for research data used in teaching

• Enhanced Publishing: collaborate with NPG, Thomson, PLoS, etc., on new models for research publishing (e.g. Science Commons)

• Citizen Science: public engagement as a form of outreach and education

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