Presentation given by Liz Lyon (UKOLN) at the 1st DCC Regional Roadshow, Bath, UK in November 2010.

1. A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
UKOLN is supported by:
Evolution or revolution?
The changing data landscape
Dr Liz Lyon, Director, UKOLN, University of Bath, UK
Associate Director, UK Digital Curation Centre
1st
DCC Regional Roadshow, Bath, November 2010
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2. “Data sets
are becoming
the new
instruments
of science”
Dan Atkins, Univ Michigan

3. Digital data
as the new
special
collections?
Sayeed Choudhury, Johns Hopkins

4. Research data :
institutional
crown jewels?
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5. Perspectives
• Environmental scan
– Scale and complexity
– Infrastructure
– Open science
• Policy
– Funders
– Institutions
– Ethics & IP
• Practice Challenges
– Storage
– Incentives
– Costs & Sustainability
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thegreenalbum/3997609142/

6. Big
science

7. PDB
GenBank
UniProt
Pfam
Spreadsheets, Notebooks
Local, Lost
High throughput experimental
methods
Industrial scale
Commons based production
Publicly data sets
Cherry picked results
Preserved
CATH, SCOP
(Protein
Structure
Classification)
ChemSpider
Data collections
Slide: Carole Goble

8. A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
Structural Sciences
Infrastructure

9. Infrastructure Roadmap
Cross Organisations

10. Infrastructure Roadmap
Cross Disciplines

11. Infrastructure Roadmap
Open Science

12. Open Laboratories

13. A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
• Faculty work with public
• Smartphone apps facilitation
• Societal benefits
Citizen as scientist

14. Validate
results data

15. Policy

16. INCREMENTAL ProjectInstitutional perspective
• Creating & organising data
• Storage and access
• Back-up
• Preservation
• Sharing and re-use
The majority of people felt
that some form of policy or
guidance was needed....

17. Jeff Haywood, RDMF V October 2010
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/sites/default/files/documents/RDMF/RDMF5/Haywood.pdf

18. “While many researchers are
positive about sharing data
in
principle, they are almost
universally reluctant in
practice. ..... using these
data to publish results before
anyone else is the
primary way of gaining
prestige in nearly all INCREMENTAL Project
“Data
sharing was
more readily
discussed by
early career
researchers.”

19. “In our view, CRU should have been
more open with its raw data…”
Data is headline news
JISC FoI FAQ

20. P4 medicine:
Predictive,
Personalised,
Preventive,
Participatory.
Leroy Hood –
Institute for Systems Biology
Your genome is basis for
your medical record

21. Open data and ethics
• Direct-to-Consumer kits
• Informed consent?
• Privacy?
• UC Berkeley initiative
• Implications for HE
students & staff?

22. Policy Gaps...
• Is Policy
disconnected from
Practice?
– Data Sharing
– Data Licensing
– Ethics and Privacy
– Citizen Science &
Public Engagement
– Data Storage,
Selection & Appraisal
– Data Citation and
Attribution

23. “Departments don’t have guidelines or
norms for personal back-up and researcher
procedure, knowledge and diligence varies
tremendously. Many have experienced
moderate to catastrophic data loss”
Incremental Project Report, June 2010
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattimattila/3003324844/

24. Data storage...
The case for cloud computing in genome
informatics. Lincoln D Stein, May 2010
– Scaleable
– Cost-effective (rent on-demand)
– Secure (privacy and IPR)
– Robust and resilient
– Low entry barrier / ease-of-use
– Has data-handling / transfer /
analysis capability
• Cloud services?

25. Your data in the cloud

26. Incentivising
data
management

28. Sustainability:
Who owns?
Who benefits?
Who selects?
Who preserves?
Who pays?

29. KRDS

30. Chicago Mart Plaza, 6-8 December 2010
Thank you…