Site Operations Manager’s Workshop – September 26th-28th, 2006

Data Curation at NEES

Claude TrottierData Curator

Site Operations Managers Site Operations Managers WorkshopWorkshop

Site Operations Manager’s Workshop – September 26th-28th, 2006

Data Curation – Huh?

• Society’s best known curators– Museum curators– Librarians

• NEES Data Curator is some of both

Site Operations Manager’s Workshop – September 26th-28th, 2006

Definition of Data Curation

Preparation of NEES research project contents, and subsequent publications, for facilitated indefinite accessibility and research duplication

Site Operations Manager’s Workshop – September 26th-28th, 2006

NEES Data Curator

• Tool developer

• Service Provider

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NEES Data Curator

• Service provider– Curate project research data– Assist PIs in developing their DASP– Conduct NEEScentral project research data

reviews– Catalog project research data and NEES

publications– Maintain the NEES Ontology– Maintain NEES project and publication access

Web site and digital library

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Data Curation Process• PI defines project in NEEScentral along with

a Data Archiving and Sharing Plan (DASP)• Data curator reviews initial project definition,

assigns initial state, and creates initial catalog entry

• Researchers load data files into their local repository after experiments/trials and add metadata to files

• Researcher with overall data management responsibility uploads data files and metadata to NEEScentral

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Data Curation Process

• Data Curator reviews uploaded data files and their metadata and assigns appropriate status on the experiment or trial

• For experiment or trial data files that pass the review the Data Curator registers and catalogs them

• Data Curator updates status for cataloged material

• Data Curator notifies project contact of the status modifications on their experiment and trial data files

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Data Archiving and Sharing Plan (DASP)

• Identifies what files and file types a project will upload to NEEScentral

• Identifies exceptions to standard file types• Identifies third party software to be used• Identifies custom software to be used• Contains a preliminary experiment schedule• Lists uploads and status changes in the form

of a check off list• Will be online in NEEScentral under project

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Earthquake Engineering Ontology

• Controlled vocabulary and conceptual data model

• Purpose– Promote consistent terminology

throughout NEES– Source for definitions– Educational tool– Subject hierarchy for catalog

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NEES Research Catalog Title Type DateSeismic Performance Assessment and PRESENTATION 2005 Retrofit of Non-Ductile RC Frames withInfill Walls

Semiactive Control of Nonlinear Structures PROJECT 2004 Taiwan-Canada Hybrid Test on a Double- PROJECT 2006Skinned-Concrete-Filled-Tubular Bridge

Taiwan-Canada Hybrid Test Simultaneous EXPERIMENT 2006 Shake Table Motion Feed to Simulation

Testing and Simulation of Ultra-Low Cycle POSTER 2005Fatigue and Fracture in Steel Braces

Tsunami Inundation PROJECT 2006

Tsunami Wave Basin PHOTOGRAPH 2005

Tsunami Wave Basin MOVIE 2005

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Project Data and Publications Public Catalog Entry Layout

Title: Taiwan-Canada Hybrid Test on a Double-Skinned-Concrete-Filled-Tubular BridgeType: ProjectNEES ID: NEES-2006-0137Classified Under: Hybrid Test; Double Skinned Concrete; Tubular BridgeDescription: Introduces a Taiwan-Canada transnational collaborative pseudo- dynamic (PsD) experiment of a multiple-span Double-Skinned Concrete-Filled Tube (DSCFT) bridge system, simulating its dynamic responses induced by a series bi-lateral ground motions. The PsD experiment of testing three DSCFT piers of the bridge system will be carried out at three geographically distributed laboratories over long distance.Primary Investigator: Suzy SmithCurrent State: In progress – Experiment Results AvailableState Date: 04/16/2006Original Catalog Date: 02/25/06