PUSH and HSI hosted the Readying Your University to Open Data Compliance Webinar on January 18, 2019. In this webinar, Utah State University representatives shared their policy, procedures, and guidance for complying with funders’ data management and open data requirements.
1. Hosted by
Hunger Solutions Institute (HSI)
and
Presidents United to Solve Hunger (PUSH)
January 16, 2019
Readying Your University to Open Data Compliance
#PUSH4opendata and #OpenData
2. Presenters:
Kara Newby, Auburn University and HSI
Kevin Peterson, Utah State University
Betty Rozum, Utah State University
Jaime Adams, USDA (furloughed)
Host:
Anne Mims Adrian, Auburn University & PUSH
Readying Your University to Open Data Compliance
#PUSH4opendata and #OpenData
4. Presidents United to Solve Hunger (PUSH)
An international consortium of universities
have the collective mission to end hunger
and poverty, both locally and globally.
Over 100 university presidents from
5 continents have agreed to make food and
nutrition security a priority on their campus—
through research, instruction, student
engagement, and outreach.
www.pushtosign.org
5. Questions?
PUSH and how can your university become a
PUSH university
Kara Newby, Operations Manager, Hunger
Solutions Institute, kara.newby@auburn.edu
Advancing open data at universities
Anne Mims Adrian, PhD, PUSH Open Data
Project Manager, aadrian@auburn.edu
6. PUSH 2018 Study & Report: in partnership with GODAN
http://wp.auburn.edu/push/?page_id=1087
Of 99 PUSH schools, 15 have open access
policies.
Most of open access policies provide licensing
requirements for sharing scholarly works and
allow for faculty to waive the licensing
requirements unless the funder requires open
access.
No school has an open data policy.
Open data and data management planning are
driven by funders’ requirements for researchers
to receive funding.
7. Both GODAN and PUSH Found
http://wp.auburn.edu/push/?page_id=1087
Grantees struggle to ensure data quality,
effective data management, and provisions
to responsible data reuse.
Lack of proper budgeting and institutional
open data policies hinder processes of
opening and publishing data correctly.
Lack of clear directives on where to publish
and low awareness to access published data
create barriers to compliance.
This is especially true for researchers
without a mature disciplinary repository.
8. Reasoning for Open Data Requirements
Enhance and accelerate research and innovation.
Provide more transparency to research.
Connect researchers from various locations and disciplines.
Increase collaboration opportunities.
Help provide solutions to wicked problems.
9. Funders’ Open Data Requirements
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
(OSTP) executive order and memo of 2013.
Many U.S. federal agencies have been requiring open access
and open data for awhile.
Requirements from federal agencies different.
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USDA intends to complete a USDA-wide data policy in 2019
that will align all of the agency data reporting requirements for
USDA customers.
10. Open Access and Open Data Definitions
• Open Access:
• Research articles and information that are free online,
coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the
digital environment.
• Open Data:
• Research data that anyone can access, use, or share
freely available on the internet permitting any user to –
download, copy, analyze, re-process, pass to software,
and use for any other purpose.
• With no financial, legal, or technical barriers other than
those inseparable from gaining access to the internet
itself.
11. Open Access and Open Data Definitions
• Open access and open data are sometimes used
interchangeably.
• Regardless of how the terms are defined, open data must
be released responsibly with clear ownership and
licensing. The FAIR Principles, developed by the Dutch
TechCentre for the Life Sciences (DTL) specify that data
should be
• Findable,
• Accessible,
• Interoperable, and
• Re-usable to enhance the ability of machines to
automatically find and use the data, in addition to
supporting its reuse by individuals.
