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The Brave New World:

Implementing the LERU

Roadmap for Research Data

Dr Paul Ayris Director of UCL Library Services and UCL Copyright Officer

Chief Executive, UCL Press

President of LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries)

Chair, LERU Chief Information Officer Community

e-mail: p.ayris@ucl.ac.uk

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Contents

Importance of Research Data

LERU Roadmap for Research Data

Next Steps for LERU

Conclusions

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Contents

Importance of Research Data

LERU Roadmap for Research Data

Next Steps for LERU

Conclusions

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See Science as an open enterprise

http://royalsociety.org/policy/projects/scie

nce-public-enterprise/report/

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Technological change

Modern computers permit massive datasets to be

assembled and explored in ways that reveal inherent but

unsuspected relationships. This data-led science is a

promising new source of knowledge (p. 7)

The emergence of linked data technologies creates new

information through deeper integration of data across

different datasets with the potential to greatly enhance

automated approaches to data analysis (p. 7)

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Map of Interlinked Data

W3C (2012). Available at:

http://www.w3.org/wiki/SweoIG/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData

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Open Data

Open data is the idea that certain

data should be freely available to

everyone to use and republish as

they wish, without restrictions from

copyright, patents or other

mechanisms of control

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DNA_orbit_animated.gif

Auer, S. R.; Bizer, C.; Kobilarov, G.; Lehmann, J.;

Cyganiak, R.; Ives, Z. (2007). "DBpedia: A Nucleus

for a Web of Open Data". The Semantic Web.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4825. p. 722.

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-76298-0_52. ISBN 978-3-540-

76297-3.

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Human Genome Project

Aim: To determine the

sequence of chemical

base pairs which make

up human DNA, and to

identify and map the

total genes of the

human genome

Benefits – felt from molecular medicine to human evolution

Better understanding of disease

Design of medication and prediction of their effects

Commercial development of genomics research

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA

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Contents

Importance of Research Data

LERU Roadmap for Research Data

Next Steps for LERU

Conclusions

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LERU Roadmap for Research Data

Overseen by Research Data

Working Group

Pablo Achard (University of Geneva)

Paul Ayris (UCL, University College London)

Serge Fdida (UPMC, Paris)

Stefan Gradmann (University of Leuven)

Wolfram Horstmann (University of Oxford)

Ignasi Labastida (University of Barcelona)

Liz Lyon (University of Bath)

Katrien Maes (LERU)

Susan Reilly (LIBER)

Anja Smit (University of Utrecht)

Available at

http://www.leru.org/files/publications/AP14_LERU_

Roadmap_for_Research_data_final.pdf

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LERU Roadmap for Research Data

1. Policy and Leadership

2. Advocacy

3. Selection and Collection,

Curation, Description,

Citation, Legal Issues

4. Research Data Infrastructure

5. Costs

6. Roles, Responsibilities and

Skills

7. Recommendations to

different stakeholder groups

Cern, Geneva

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See http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/e.j.lyon/150.pdf

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Key Messages Each LERU university

needs a Research Data

Management Strategy

Researchers should have

Research Data

Management Plans

LERU universities need to

bring stakeholders together

Benefits of ‘open data’ for

sharing and re-use should

be advocated and explored

New role of Data Scientist

is emerging

King’s Cross, London

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Policy Development

Case Study on Policy

development from UCL

Drivers

External funders

Need to inform researchers

Raise awareness of issues

facing UCL researchers

Identifies roles and

responsibilities

Data to be made open in

the most open manner

appropriate

Researchers should have

Data Management Plans

LERU slams lack of data

policies – Research Europe

See www.lanecrothers.net/politicalprof/the-

policy-cycle-and-our-frozen-politics/

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Open Data

Open Data allows research data to be shared and re-used

Avoids costly duplication of research activity

Provides greater transparency in research activity

Potential to speed discovery of solutions to societal Grand

Challenges, such as health care & environmental science

Can all research data be open?

Certain categories probably cannot

National security

Data protection

Commercial Funder requirements

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Open_Data_stickers.jpg

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Data

management

Which of these

layers of

research data

need to be

curated for a

fixed term?

preserved for

the long term?

thrown away?

LERU Roadmap

identifies this as

an area for

future study

The ODE Data Publication Pyramid at

http://www.alliancepermanentaccess.org/wp-

content/uploads/downloads/2011/11/ODE-

ReportOnIntegrationOfDataAndPublications-1_1.pdf

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Collaboration a way forward

LERU Rectors see this as an

area for study

Collaboration between Dutch

institutions

Focus is on research data

which lies behind

publications

Each university and faculty

has its own Dataverse

installation

Support services offered by

libraries in Dutch universities

Utrecht, Tilburg, Erasmus

University Rotterdam, Maastrict,

Groningen, 3TU Datacentrum and

Netherlands Institute of Ecology

See http://www.syndromic.org/communities

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Contents

Importance of Research Data

LERU Roadmap for Research Data

Next Steps for LERU

Conclusions

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Next Steps

LEARN

EU-funded project starting in

June 2015 will scale up

LERU Roadmap to be a

global Roadmap

LEARN will help embed

LERU Roadmap across

national boundaries

LEARN will deliver

Key templates for core RDM

documents

Examples of Best Practice in

RDM on a global scale Old State House, Boston, USA

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LEARN – LEaders Activating Research

Networks

Purpose is to develop the

LERU Roadmap for

Research Data to build a

global co-ordinated global

e-infrastructure

Outputs

Model Research Data

Management policy

Toolkit to support

implementation

Executive Briefing in five

core languages so as to

ensure wide outreach 20

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LEARN

5 partners

UCL (University College

London) – lead partner

University of Barcelona

University of Vienna

LIBER

ECLAC – UN Commission

for Latin America and the

Caribbean

Starts in June 2015; runs

for 24 months

€497,000 budget

100% funded21

King’s Cross Station, London

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LIBER has produced a good deal of guidance for

libraries

10 Recommendations on how to get started in RDM

http://libereurope.eu/blog/2014/07/16/workshop-report-

libraries-and-research-data-management/

One of the most downloaded items from the LIBER website

11 LIBER RDM Case Studies

http://libereurope.eu/committee/scholarly-research/

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UCL’s performance

against LIBER targets

LIBER target UCL performance

1. Offer RDM support UCL Library Services has appointed Advocacy Officer

and Library has visited all 11 Schools/Faculties to work

with UCL Research Data Service [RDS]

2. Engage in metadata

services

Not yet done

3. Engage in

professional skills

development

University of Sheffield training Library’s liaison teams in

RDM in 2014-15

4. Engage in policy

development

UCL Library Services authored UCL’s Research Data

Policy at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/isd/services/research-

it/documents/uclresearchdatapolicy.pdf

5. Create partnerships

for interoperable

infrastructures

Not yet done. Emphasis in RDS is on UCL provision

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UCL’s performance

against LIBER targets

LIBER target UCL performance

6. Provide services for

storage, discovery and

permanent access

RDS has storage service in place. Archive service

being established by RDS. Discovery service not yet

in place – will be joint RDS/Library service

7. Apply persistent

identifiers to research data

Arrangements made with DataCite to produce

persistent identifiers; complements UCL’s

membership of CrossRef which allows UCL to give

DOIs to publications

8. Provide an institutional

data catalogue

Planned, but not yet done. Will be joint RDS/Library

development

9. Engage in subject-

specific data management

Library’s Liaison Teams being trained in RDM 2014-

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10. Offer storage solutions Storage and Archive services offered by RDS. Library

will curate outputs of ‘Small Science’, active datasets

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Contents

Importance of Research Data

LERU Roadmap for Research Data

Next Steps for LERU

Conclusions

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Conclusions

Libraries have not

traditionally collected

research data

Open data has the power

to revolutionize the way

research is undertaken and

disseminated

New role for libraries in

supporting their

researchers

Saint Jerome in his Study, fresco by Domenico

Ghirlandaio, 1480. Church of Ognissanti, Florence

Complex issue

Technically

Financially

Administratively

Academically

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Finally

If you have been

Thanks for listening

Happy to hear questions