IASSIST 2008Collection, Communication, Access and
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IASSIST 2008 – session E3
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: Data on the Web from Vision to
Practice to Sustainability
Bo WandschneiderUniversity of Guelph
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<odesi><odesi>
• Collaborative project of OCUL• Jointly funded by OCUL and
Ontario Buys• Builds on Scholar’s Portal
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<odesi>
• It provides university researchers with access to a significant number of datasets in a web-based data extraction system
• It will establish best practices for the DDI mark-up of these files.
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Vision
• written or spoken words or pictures that create a vivid mental image.
• use of images, metaphors, and examples make a vision more memorable.
• brings clarity to a thought or concept. • motivate and inspire. • makes certain predications and
assumptions about the future • may focus on an opportunity at some
moment in time. • is unique and will present a shared ideal
that delivers on the common good.
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Transformational Vision
• Transformational Visions• “Social Science Dream Machine”
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<odesi> vision
• Builds on other visions• Vision for a project• Two distinct parts
• Access through Scholar’s Portal• Best Practices around metadata
creation
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Foundation for <odesi> vision
• discussions, collaborative relationships, ideas and training/workshops from groups like IASSIST, DINO (OCUL Data group), DLI (Canadian Data Liberation Initiative), CAPDU (Canadian Association of Public Data Users), CANDDI (ad hoc group looking at DDI in Canada)
• a maturation of the DDI standard and increased acceptance
• success of other collaborative projects, such as CESSDA (Council of European Social Science Data Archives)
• a maturation of technologies at both the hardware and software level
• a realization of the common challenges across Ontario institutions and a desire to eliminate duplication
• the success of scholar’s portal as a replicable solution• the emergence of discussions in e-science and the notion
of trusted digital repositories
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Events leading up to <odesi>
• CANDDI• DINO• Discussion Paper
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What is in <odesi>
• common access for all partner institutions, irrespective of size
• development of meta data standards/best practices that enabled all institutions to participate and sustain the project. While at the same time allowing us to easily change course if the field took another direction
• allowing local needs to prevail• archiving locally produced data• enhancing usage• engaging undergraduates in a research
environment as both user and creator• enhancing numeracy• opportunities for linkages and sharing with other
national and international initiatives.• expression of cost savings
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New “visions”
• new visualization tools, • Federated Identity Management,• enhanced searching across all collections, not just
data, • serving up information in RSS feeds• focusing on negotiating shared access to ‘local’
collections• pushing <odesi> as a model for a node in a series
of trusted data repositories – moving towards some sort of national network
• Sustainability – this really flows out of the Best Practices and suggests that to attain sustainability we need to ensuring data providers adopt these tools/standards and deliver new data in a common format
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Can <odesi> be transformational
• Maybe a piece of something transformational
• Move to become a trusted data repository within a network• Maintain provincial purpose• Live within a national context
• Define an institutional role with sustainable operation
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Questions
• Can <odesi> model the way to a new organizational model for data access and preservation in Canada?
• Can <odesi> find space within the e-science framework?
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