what the future holds: metadata and document repositories stanislav nazarenko (oki)
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What the future holds: Metadata and Document Repositories
Open Access: Tackling health inequalities 25 October 2016
Information in Digital Age
Advantages of digital media Easy to store, 100% lossless preservation, easy to copy
Worldwide access
Realities of digital preservation Less copies than we think
Deterioration of storage media, outdated hardware to read it (tapes, floppy disks, CDROM etc)
Legacy formats – old software can’t run on modern PCs
Threat of the Digital Dark Age
Challenges with access to information Private data repositories exist only as long as funding is provided
Research funded by the public is often available only behind paywalls
Digital divide and barriers to access public interest information
We have solutions to many aspects of information inequality but it requires everyone to participate and change their data management processes
Example: Research Data
80% of researchers will not be able to provide the data 3 years
after completing the research. *
Prof. Dr. Mark Ferguson, Science Foundation Ireland
* we believe that is probably a slight understatement
Pilot: Open Document Repository
The Future of Document Repositories
Technology
LOD (Linked Open Data)
IPFS (Inter-Planetary File System)
Blockchain (technology behind Bitcoin)
Benefits
Shared storage model: no single point of failure, data owned by all parties
Transparency in regards to provenance, modification: not through trust but as a mathematical proof
Participation and engagement: direct collaboration and decision-making
Your Role
Sustainable data management practices
Open by default
Consistent meta-data
FAIR principles
http://ec.europa.eu/research/press/2016/pdf/opendata-infographic_072016.pdf