1. What’s so special about the social sciences? Peter Burnhill Director, EDINA national academic data centre, University of Edinburgh, Scotland UK Bloomsbury Conference on e-publishing and e-publications University College London, 24/25 June 2010
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6. UK funding councils JISC Sub-Committees JISC Collections acting as platform for network-level services & helping to build the JISC Integrated Information Environment research, learning & teaching in UK universities & colleges Research Councils UK National Data Centres
7. EDINA Management Board met yesterday to review its 3-year Strategy and its Budget from JISC for the coming year
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10. authorisation licence to use Ensuring researchers, students and their teachers have ease and continuity of access to online scholarly resources ‘ ease’ ‘ continuity’ P.Burnhill, Edinburgh 2009 open restricted access to content & services usability post-cancellation back content preservation Creative Commons licensing discoverability Search (Re-)Use Modify/Combine Share (Issue/Publish) additional considerations Should apply to different types of resource: typically journal articles, but also now OER learning materials, data etc
11. Finds the agencies looking after e-journal, and the volumes being preserved
17. Pattern of research publication in the social sciences Table from Burnhill and Tubby-Hille (1994) reproduced in Vasilakos et al (2007) ‘Evaluating the Performance of UK Research in Economics’, [sponsored by the Royal Economic Society] Keele Economics Research Papers, ISSN1740-231x www.keele.ac.uk/depts/ec/kerp
18. Pattern of research publication in the social sciences from Burnhill and Tubby-Hille (1994), not yet reproduced by anyone
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23. Data as scholarship: a cultural shift? Preserve or Perish “ You are not finished until you have done the research, published the results, and published the data, receiving formal credit for everything.” Mark A. Parsons (2006) International Polar Year “ A scholar’s positive contribution is measured by the sum of the original data that he contributes. Hypotheses come and go but data remain.” in Advice to a Young Investigator (1897) Santiago Ramón y Cajal (Nobel Prize winner, 1906)
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42. Pattern of research publication in the social sciences from Burnhill and Tubby-Hille (1994), not yet reproduced by anyone
43. ISSN Register E-J Preservation Registry Service E-Journal Preservation Registry SERVICES: user requirements (a) (b) Data dependency P iloting an E -journals P reservation R egistry S ervice METADATA on extant e-journals METADATA on preservation action Abstract Data Model: Figure 1 in reference paper in Serials , March 2009 Digital Preservation Agencies e.g. CLOCKSS, Portico; BL, KB; UK LOCKSS Alliance etc.
44. Author (article) Reader (article) Publisher article serial issue Library (serial) Licence Challenge to Ensure Continuing Access peer review peer exchange Informal: ‘invisible college’ and the ‘gift economy’ Institutional arrangement Licensed Online Access Fo rma£ E c onomy ILL/ docdel Continuity of access learned society Long term digital preservation E-prints Institutional Repositories free to web access E-prints Subject Repositories
45. Author (article) Reader (article) Publisher article serial issue Library (serial) Licence Increasing dominance of The Web peer to peer exchange Informal: ‘invisible college’ and the ‘gift economy’ Institutional arrangement Fo rma£ E c onomy free to web access Role of Institutional Repositories? Web 2.0/3.0: Semantic web mash-ups, Blogs. RSS feeds, Wikis
46. Research Data Creator Researcher Generates (curates) data for own purpose, or as part of team … wants/has to ‘put’ it somewhere for use by others (perhaps to be recognised by a peer community) Key User (Researcher) Verbs: Discover data of interest Locate service on that data with documentation on provenance etc Request permission to use service Access to service/data, Evidential value of data in analysis as object of desire’
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49. licence to use ‘ ease’ P.Burnhill, Edinburgh 2009 usability open preservation post-cancellation back content restricted access to content & services who/WAYF authentication licence registry entitlement history location registry/discovery content registry archiving registry UKAMF registry Suncat & Zetoc OpenURL Router [Curation is additional but has relation to ease and continuing access.] Use case: article–length work published in e-journals ISSN Register as a key content registry; need registry of ToC ‘ continuity’ Ensuring researchers, students and their teachers have ease and continuity of access to online scholarly resources
Notas del editor
As many of you will know, JISC is the Joint Systems Committee of the UK funding bodies for higher and further education. It has a number of sub-committees which help inform policy and also watch over programmes of funding and the operation of services, such as those provided by the two National Data Centres. It has also set up a company, JISC Collections as a legal body to broker licences.
EDINA may be less familiar, at least to all of you. It is a national academic data centre, established in 1995 following the success of the University of Edinburgh putting forward its Data Library in an open competition to set up three datacentres capable of hosting and providing access to bibliographic datasets and numeric research data. The other two were BIDS, which subsequently moved into the private sector as Ingenta, and MIDAS, the data centre at the University of Manchester - its now renamed as Mimas. The mission of EDINA, which incidentally is the older poetic name for Edinburgh, is to enhance productivity of research, learning and teaching in the UK. It used to host a range of key A&T databaes like BIOSIS ~Previews, Compendex, Inspec, Art Abstracts etc, but now the services on journal …. As you can see, EDINA is a funded by JISC … <click>
This illustrates that in the Sociology of Science how evidence from one decade is re-used in the next – especially since this relates to research awards made in 1984/5. See also the role played by ‘research papers’, even given an ISSN
Digital is a medium, which along with telematics makes different things possible – but why conflate digital media with data? Digital surrogate of an analogue work may be regarded as ‘data’ but only to the extent to which the analogue work was previously thought of having evidential value.
Type A: if its part of the published work then should we look to the preservation agencies, the national deposit libraries and CLOCKSS, LOCKSS and Portico, for access over the longer term? And do publishers see these as costly files to maintain in the short to medium term? Or do publishers want to hand the responsibility to subject and institutional data repositories? Type B: and with knowledge of UKDA, ADS but also the (growing but problematic ??) call for data to be held in institutional repositories, some recommendations on what is the 'right thing' to do, and how that can be done with ease - a Repository Junction task! For Type C, I intend to propose what editors should require by way of citation and URL link. I am on the hunt for such editorial practice.
Focus here on ‘article-length’ work rather than longer working papers or book-length work,nor correspondence, annotation & criticism, nor text books.