Presentation by Rachel Bruce, Deputy Chief Innovation Officer at Jisc, at the RICH meeting in Madrid. April 2016

1. Rachel Bruce, Deputy Chief InnovationOfficer, Jisc
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2. Jisc is the UK higher, further education and
skills sectors’ not-for-profit organisation for
digital services and solutions
Develop & operate
shared digital
infrastructure and
services
Provide trusted advice
and practical
assistance for
universities, colleges
and learning providers
We…
Negotiate sector-wide deals
and conditions with IT
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3. Our vision and mission
Mission
To enable people in higher
education, further education and
skills to perform at the forefront of
international practice by exploiting
fully the possibilities of modern
digital empowerment, content
and connectivity
Vision
To make the UK the most
digitally advanced
education and research
nation in the world
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4. European Open Science Cloud
 Appropriate governance and financing mechanisms
 Consolidate e-infrastructure platforms and federate existing research infrastructures > Cloud based services
 Define Implementation Roadmap
 Make Open Data the default option (opt outs)
 Make Data Management Plans (DMP) mandatory for all Horizon 2020 beneficiaries
 Connect your national priority research infrastructures to the EOSC
 A clear action plan for research data interoperability.
 Foster Global cooperation
 Agree with international partners to mandate common mandatory/reciprocal rules (with opt out) for
– open access to publicly funded research data on a global scale.
 Building capacity along European Data Expert and storage Nodes
 Develop training and guidance documents on the ORD pilot and DMPs
 Consider a follow up initiative to the 2012 Recommendation, requesting Member States to step up their
– commitment and activities on research data sharing (timing tbd).
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5. 2008
Timeline
2000 Today
It used to be called The Grid
“Transparent, dependable, and
secure access to networked
resources across organizational
boarders”

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7. A Common Endeavour (EU Perspective)
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8. European Open Science Cloud
.
A federated globally accessible environment where researchers, innovators,
companies and citizens can publish, find and re-use each other´s data and
tools for research, innovation and educational purposes.
Imagine that this all operates under well defined and trusted conditions,
supported by a sustainable and just value for money model.
This is the environment that must be fostered in Europe and beyond to
ensure that European research and innovation is able to contribute fully to
knowledge creation, meet global challenges and fuel economic prosperity in
Europe.
This we believe encapsulates the concept of the European Open Science
Cloud (EOSC), and indeed such a federated European endeavour might be
expressed as the European contribution to a global
research data commons

9. Enter the “Commons”
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Institutionalised community governance of the production and/or
sharing of a particular type of resource (from natural to intellectual)
Constructing
Genome
Commons
GÉANT: European
Communications
Commons
e-Infrastructure
Commons LinuxWikipedia
…Internet
Jisc: National
e-Infrastruture
Commons
Open Science
Commons

10. Principles for Open Scholarly Infrastructures
»Everything we have gained by opening content and data
will be under threat if we allow the enclosure of scholarly
infrastructures.We propose a set of principles by which
Open Infrastructures to support the research community
could be run and sustained.
»Geoffrey Bilder, Jennifer Lin, Cameron Neylon
»http://cameronneylon.net/blog/principles-for-open-
scholarly-infrastructures/
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11. Rules of engagement
»3 pillars of trust
» Governance – (good governance, inclusive,
what happens in wind down)
» Sustainability – (short-term funds for short-term
purposes, have a surplus, models based on paid for
services not data )
» Insurance – (what happens when it goes wrong)
» Implementation …ORCID example, others ?
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13. There is more then e-infrastructure to the EOSC
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Sustainability need also to be ensured for Open Access policies and infrastructure
Putting down roots
Securing the future of
open access policies
Workshop 10 November 2015
Report dated January 2016
1. Adopt sound governance structures
with greater representation from
funders and policy makers, promoting
the wider use of crucial identifiers and
standards
2. Ensure the financial sustainability of
critical services, particularly the DOAJ
and SHERPA services
3. Create an integrated infrastructure
for OA repositories based on central
‘nodes’, interoperability across the
broader landscape, and increased
engagement with the European
Commission’s OpenAIRE project and the
work of the Confederation of Open
Access Repositories (COAR)
4. Invest strategically in OA services
in order to create a coherent OA
infrastructure that is efficient,
integrated and representative of all
stakeholders
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14. Sustainability Index
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15. Sustainability
Index

16. RCUK, Data for Discovery
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17. Where’s the carrot?
“There is typically very little, if any,
formal recognition for data outputs
in key assessment processes –
including in funding decisions,
academic promotion, and in the UK
Research Excellence Framework.”
Expert advisory group on data access
May 2014
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Awareness of regulatory
environment
Data access statement
Policies and processes
Data storage
Structured metadata descriptions
DOIs for data
Securely preserved for a minimum
of 10 years from last use
There is a stick …
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19. Credit for Architecture concepts: John Lewis (Sheffield) & Stuart Lewis (Edinburgh) http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1202230
High level RDM Architecture
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20. » Per Oster, CSC, Matthew Dovey, Jisc
» Images: https://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/
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» Acknowledgements

21. Find out more…
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Thank you!
Email: rachel.bruce@jisc.ac.uk
Twitter: @rachelbruce
Acknowledgements: Per Oster,
CSC, Matthew Dovey, Jisc
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