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Recording (e)Research

A role for academic / research libraries!?

Maria Heijne

16 November 2009

IATUL Seminar Hong Kong


Groningen

U Twente

Nijmegen

Wageningen

Utrecht

Amsterdam

Rotterdam

Leiden

Tilburg

TU Eindhoven

Maastricht

Universities in the Netherlands

TU Delft


What can you expect?

• The academic environment: e-science as the driver• Some Dutch developments

• The role of the library in e-science: is there a choice?

• 3TU.Datacentre in Delft as an example

• Conclusions


Project BIG Grid 2005-2009

BIG Grid

• Aim: set up an e-science infrastructure based on the national Grid (SURFnet)

• This e-Science Grid will enlarge the existing storage and data processing capacity that is required for storage, access, archiving, linking and exchange of growing streams of data.


Future ICT infrastructure for scientific research in the Netherlands

• Establishment of an e-science Research center (e-SRC) supporting innovations of ICT infrastructure and applications for science

• All ICT Infrastructure for science developments and operations under one umbrella: SURF Foundation

• Follow up of Big Grid project

• Aim is a key position in pan-European ICT infrastructure for collaborative scientific research


SURFshare programme 2008-2011

Projects based on tenders by researchers in close collaboration with libraries

Themes• Innovation of the scientific publication cycle, including

‘enhanced publications’ and new models of peer review• Collaboratories : virtual research groups that allow

researchers to collaborate and share their sources• Quality assessment, dissemination and impact

measurements within an open access environment• Registration of research data and facilities for sustainable

accessibility of data


E-science/ E-research as ‘the’ driver for new (library) services

• E-science will lead to different methods of knowledge exchange • Science becomes more data driven• Access to large data collections /large scale computing

resources should be facilitated

• Through publication, visualization, data exchange…

• Leading to new services • for peer review and access to knowledge• knowledge ‘exploitation’ • data management, data retrieval, datamining• ensure data quality


Is there a choice?

Who else could/ should take up this role?


Why should libraries take up this role?

• Core business in information/data management• Storage, preservation, metadata creation,

access• Reuse of data/information

• Experience in teaching enhanced academic skills

• Active (new) role in pro active support of knowledge/research management

• Methods to organise and maintain links• Publication – data• Data - scientific workflow


Expert opinions• Liz Lyon (UKOLN): Librarians will become data consultants,

data service providers, data analysts, data miners, data curators• Enforce data quality• Support data retrieval• Construct data applications• Ensure data collections are properly annotated and preserved

• Clifford Lynch (CNI): build up skills in new areas of expertise for data curation• Reuse of data• Data management skills• Values and policies

• James Mullins (Purdue University/ NSF Task Force)• Librarian can bridge the gap between researchers


Activities 3TU.Datacentre

• Exploitation of a ‘data-archive’ to facilitate preservation of ‘static’ data of data producers (starting with the 3 Dutch technical universities);

• Advise data producers (how) to preserve ‘dynamic’ data in a collaboratory environment for access and publication (‘data-lab’)

• Provide easy access to data consumers

• Knowledge development/sharing and collaboration with Dutch partners (DANS,KB, Netherlands Coalition Digital Preservation)

• Collaboration DOI agency – originally European DOI infrastructure with TIB Hannover, ETH Zurich, INIST, TIC Copenhagen, but quickly changing in World wide coverage

Paris, March 2009

Actual status:

Australian National Dataand Service (ANDS)California Digital Library (CDL)andPurdue Universitywill become members

IJDC 2009Vol4 Iss2

Rusbridge/Donnelly


Skills 3TU.Datacentre

• Data creator / data scientist• Researcher• PhD’s• Students

• 3TU.Datacentre : data manager/ data librarian/ data scientist• Library/Information specialists (metadata/quality checks)• Library Account managers (advocacy/awareness/negotiation)• Library/ICT specialists (technical environment/data

management)• ICT developers (viewers/user interfaces)


Conclusions

• Is there a choice for research libraries?• In the e-science environment data become a valuable asset

to the institution - the researcher is the driving force• The library should claim and prove its role in ‘Data

management’, in close collaboration with parties for maintaining infrastructure and (technical) development

Important areas for the near future:• Awareness, Awareness, Awareness• Business model for economic viability of data curation• Training of ‘data’ skills for all parties involved


Thank you!


Preconditions• Organisation

• incentives for research• (inter) national co-operation• standardisation• long term management commitment • development of competencies

• Production• infrastructure for the digital archive• quality control• use/reuse requires direct involvement of data creator/researcher

• Technology• research on preservation strategies and their implementation• viewer design/user interface is crucial

• Business• data are a valuable asset > knowledge ‘valorisation’ • business model for economic viability of a digital archive• open access to data as a preference

Value chain for data storage and publication

Data Production Selection Add

Meta DataCheck Data Entry Data

Mgmnt

Marketing & Sales

FinancialTransactions

SystemDevelopment& Mgmnt

ViewerDevelopment& Mgmnt

Storage HelpdeskTechnicalMaintenance

Transport Delivery Support &services Interface & Systems

Content Direction Content Market Packaging

ConsumerCont

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Additional Services

Source: Report EC/ Andersen Consulting, 1996

Content Implementation

Data creation/production SelectionConversionAdd MetadataCheck DataCheck MetadataData entryData maintenance Additional ServicesAcquisition/Marketing & sales

Data creator Data creator3TU.DatacentreData creator + 3TU.DatacentreData creator + 3TU.DatacentreData creator + 3TU.DatacentreData creator3TU.DatacentreData creator + 3TU.Datacentre 3TU.Datacentre

Infrastructure Financial transactionsSystem development/managementViewer design/managementStorageHelpdeskTechnical maintenance

All tasks 3TU.Datacentreor any 3rd party

Value chain 3TU.Datacentre

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