The document discusses implementing the LERU Roadmap for research data management. It outlines the importance of research data sharing and outlines the LERU Roadmap, which provides recommendations for universities to develop research data policies, infrastructure, and skills. It also discusses next steps, including the LEARN project that will help scale the LERU Roadmap globally and provide templates and best practices for research data management.
Paul Ayris: The Brave New World: implementing the LERU Roadmap for Research Data
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The Brave New World:
Implementing the LERU
Roadmap for Research Data
Dr Paul Ayris
Director of UCL Library Services and UCL Copyright Officer
Chief Executive, UCL Press
President of LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries)
Chair, LERU Chief Information Officer Community
e-mail: p.ayris@ucl.ac.uk
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Contents
Importance of Research Data
LERU Roadmap for Research Data
Next Steps for LERU
Conclusions
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Contents
Importance of Research Data
LERU Roadmap for Research Data
Next Steps for LERU
Conclusions
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See Science as an open enterprise
http://royalsociety.org/policy/projects/scie
nce-public-enterprise/report/
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Technological change
Modern computers permit massive datasets to be
assembled and explored in ways that reveal inherent but
unsuspected relationships. This data-led science is a
promising new source of knowledge (p. 7)
The emergence of linked data technologies creates new
information through deeper integration of data across
different datasets with the potential to greatly enhance
automated approaches to data analysis (p. 7)
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Map of Interlinked Data
W3C (2012). Available at:
http://www.w3.org/wiki/SweoIG/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData
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Open Data
Open data is the idea that certain
data should be freely available to
everyone to use and republish as
they wish, without restrictions from
copyright, patents or other
mechanisms of control
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DNA_orbit_animated.gif
Auer, S. R.; Bizer, C.; Kobilarov, G.; Lehmann, J.;
Cyganiak, R.; Ives, Z. (2007). "DBpedia: A Nucleus
for a Web of Open Data". The Semantic Web.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4825. p. 722.
doi:10.1007/978-3-540-76298-0_52. ISBN 978-3-540-
76297-3.
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Human Genome Project
Aim: To determine the
sequence of chemical
base pairs which make
up human DNA, and to
identify and map the
total genes of the
human genome
Benefits – felt from molecular medicine to human evolution
Better understanding of disease
Design of medication and prediction of their effects
Commercial development of genomics research
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA
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Contents
Importance of Research Data
LERU Roadmap for Research Data
Next Steps for LERU
Conclusions
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LERU Roadmap for Research Data
Overseen by Research Data
Working Group
Pablo Achard (University of Geneva)
Paul Ayris (UCL, University College London)
Serge Fdida (UPMC, Paris)
Stefan Gradmann (University of Leuven)
Wolfram Horstmann (University of Oxford)
Ignasi Labastida (University of Barcelona)
Liz Lyon (University of Bath)
Katrien Maes (LERU)
Susan Reilly (LIBER)
Anja Smit (University of Utrecht)
Available at
http://www.leru.org/files/publications/AP14_LERU_
Roadmap_for_Research_data_final.pdf
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LERU Roadmap for Research Data
1. Policy and Leadership
2. Advocacy
3. Selection and Collection,
Curation, Description,
Citation, Legal Issues
4. Research Data Infrastructure
5. Costs
6. Roles, Responsibilities and
Skills
7. Recommendations to
different stakeholder groups
Cern, Geneva
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Key Messages
Each LERU university
needs a Research Data
Management Strategy
Researchers should have
Research Data
Management Plans
LERU universities need to
bring stakeholders together
Benefits of ‘open data’ for
sharing and re-use should
be advocated and explored
New role of Data Scientist
is emerging
King’s Cross, London
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Policy Development
Case Study on Policy
development from UCL
Drivers
External funders
Need to inform researchers
Raise awareness of issues
facing UCL researchers
Identifies roles and
responsibilities
Data to be made open in
the most open manner
appropriate
Researchers should have
Data Management Plans
LERU slams lack of data
policies – Research Europe
See www.lanecrothers.net/politicalprof/the-
policy-cycle-and-our-frozen-politics/
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Open Data
Open Data allows research data to be shared and re-used
Avoids costly duplication of research activity
Provides greater transparency in research activity
Potential to speed discovery of solutions to societal Grand
Challenges, such as health care & environmental science
Can all research data be open?
Certain categories probably cannot
National security
Data protection
Commercial Funder requirements
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Open_Data_stickers.jpg
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Data
management
Which of these
layers of
research data
need to be
curated for a
fixed term?
preserved for
the long term?
thrown away?
LERU Roadmap
identifies this as
an area for
future study
The ODE Data Publication Pyramid at
http://www.alliancepermanentaccess.org/wp-
content/uploads/downloads/2011/11/ODE-
ReportOnIntegrationOfDataAndPublications-1_1.pdf
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Collaboration a way forward
LERU Rectors see this as an
area for study
Collaboration between Dutch
institutions
Focus is on research data
which lies behind
publications
Each university and faculty
has its own Dataverse
installation
Support services offered by
libraries in Dutch universities
Utrecht, Tilburg, Erasmus
University Rotterdam, Maastrict,
Groningen, 3TU Datacentrum and
Netherlands Institute of Ecology
See http://www.syndromic.org/communities
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Contents
Importance of Research Data
LERU Roadmap for Research Data
Next Steps for LERU
Conclusions
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Next Steps
LEARN
EU-funded project starting in
June 2015 will scale up
LERU Roadmap to be a
global Roadmap
LEARN will help embed
LERU Roadmap across
national boundaries
LEARN will deliver
Key templates for core RDM
documents
Examples of Best Practice in
RDM on a global scale Old State House, Boston, USA
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LEARN – LEaders Activating Research
Networks
Purpose is to develop the
LERU Roadmap for
Research Data to build a
global co-ordinated global
e-infrastructure
Outputs
Model Research Data
Management policy
Toolkit to support
implementation
Executive Briefing in five
core languages so as to
ensure wide outreach 20
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LEARN
5 partners
UCL (University College
London) – lead partner
University of Barcelona
University of Vienna
LIBER
ECLAC – UN Commission
for Latin America and the
Caribbean
Starts in June 2015; runs
for 24 months
€497,000 budget
100% funded
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King’s Cross Station, London
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LIBER has produced a good deal of guidance for
libraries
10 Recommendations on how to get started in RDM
http://libereurope.eu/blog/2014/07/16/workshop-report-
libraries-and-research-data-management/
One of the most downloaded items from the LIBER website
11 LIBER RDM Case Studies
http://libereurope.eu/committee/scholarly-research/
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UCL’s performance
against LIBER targets
LIBER target UCL performance
1. Offer RDM support UCL Library Services has appointed Advocacy Officer
and Library has visited all 11 Schools/Faculties to work
with UCL Research Data Service [RDS]
2. Engage in metadata
services
Not yet done
3. Engage in
professional skills
development
University of Sheffield training Library’s liaison teams in
RDM in 2014-15
4. Engage in policy
development
UCL Library Services authored UCL’s Research Data
Policy at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/isd/services/research-
it/documents/uclresearchdatapolicy.pdf
5. Create partnerships
for interoperable
infrastructures
Not yet done. Emphasis in RDS is on UCL provision
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UCL’s performance
against LIBER targets
LIBER target UCL performance
6. Provide services for
storage, discovery and
permanent access
RDS has storage service in place. Archive service
being established by RDS. Discovery service not yet
in place – will be joint RDS/Library service
7. Apply persistent
identifiers to research data
Arrangements made with DataCite to produce
persistent identifiers; complements UCL’s
membership of CrossRef which allows UCL to give
DOIs to publications
8. Provide an institutional
data catalogue
Planned, but not yet done. Will be joint RDS/Library
development
9. Engage in subject-
specific data management
Library’s Liaison Teams being trained in RDM 2014-
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10. Offer storage solutions Storage and Archive services offered by RDS. Library
will curate outputs of ‘Small Science’, active datasets
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Contents
Importance of Research Data
LERU Roadmap for Research Data
Next Steps for LERU
Conclusions
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Conclusions
Libraries have not
traditionally collected
research data
Open data has the power
to revolutionize the way
research is undertaken and
disseminated
New role for libraries in
supporting their
researchers
Saint Jerome in his Study, fresco by Domenico
Ghirlandaio, 1480. Church of Ognissanti, Florence
Complex issue
Technically
Financially
Administratively
Academically