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Moving towards eResearch - some recent trends

Moving towards eResearch - some recent trends. Dr Liz Lyon, Director UKOLN, University of Bath JISC Consultation Workshop, Warwick 5 th March, 2004. MLA.

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Moving towards eResearch - some recent trends

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  1. Moving towards eResearch - some recent trends Dr Liz Lyon, Director UKOLN, University of Bath JISC Consultation Workshop, Warwick 5th March, 2004 MLA

  2. “The next generation of research breakthroughs will rely upon new ways of handling the immense amounts of data that are being produced by modern research methods and equipment, such as telescopes, particle accelerators, genome sequencers and biological imagers….”

  3. “….Similar developments are having an impact in the arts and humanities, and in the social sciences.” A Vision for Research, RCUK, December 2003.

  4. Powering the Virtual Universehttp://www.astrogrid.org(Edinburgh, Belfast, Cambridge, Leicester, London, Manchester, RAL) Picture credits: “NASA / Chandra X-ray Observatory / Herman Marshall (MIT)”, “NASA/HST/Eric Perlman (UMBC), “Gemini Observatory/OSCIR”, “VLA/NSF/Eric Perlman (UMBC)/Fang Zhou, Biretta (STScI)/F Owen (NRA)” Multi-wavelength showing the jet in M87: from top to bottom – Chandra X-ray, HST optical, Gemini mid-IR, VLA radio. AstroGrid will provide advanced, Grid based, federation and data mining tools to facilitate better and faster scientific output. :

  5. “The governments of …34 countries…recognising that open access:to, and unrestricted use of, data promotes scientific progress and facilitates the training of researchers;will maximise the value derived from public investments in data collection efforts;” OECD Declaration on access to research data from public funding. January 2004

  6. “The governments of …34 countries…declare their commitment to:work towards the establishment of access regimes for digital research data…in accordance with the following principles….openness, transparency, legal conformity, formal responsibility, professionalism, protection of IPR, interoperability, quality and security, efficiency, accountability…..”

  7. A global initiative • US Sabo Bill (“Public Access to Science”) • Berlin Declaration (BOAI) • Wellcome Trust statement • DAREnet Dutch scientific results • JISC FAIR Programme • Australian government statement • WSIS Declaration of Principles & Plan of Action • …..and the forthcoming….. • UK Parliament Science & Technology Committee Inquiry on Scientific Publications

  8. eResearch – the trends? • Research is increasingly data–intensive • Open access to data and information • Inter-disciplinary / new disciplines e.g. Astro-informatics • New approaches require new skills (IT + statistics + domain) • Collaborative: virtual communities / organisations • Knowledge-rich infrastructures: development of ontologies, terminology servers • Highly distributed resource utilisation – instruments, primary data, bibliographic collections

  9. New resources……. • Physical and remote • Telescope, scanner, computer cycles • Primary / original data • Observational, experimental, numeric, genomic, 2/3D molecular structures, satellite images, electron micrographs, wave spectra, CAD, code, musical compositions, VR, performances, animations • Informational / bibliographic • Articles, theses, eprints, maps, music scores, scripts, newspapers, programs • Human discourse • Chat, instant messaging, email, discussion lists, virtual meetings, minutes, workshops, annotations

  10. Sloan Digital Sky Survey http://www.sdss.org

  11. Messier 81: a classic 2-armed spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major

  12. ….used in new ways • Data and information • Creation, discovery, gathering, aggregation, dis-aggregation, replication, federation, manipulation, transformation, linking, annotation, editing/versioning, validation, (self-)archiving, deposit, publication, curation • Knowledge extraction and management • Analysis (textual, musical, statistical, mathematical, visual, chemical, gene……) • Mining (text, data, structures……) • Modelling (economic, mathematical, biological..) • Simulation (molecular, physical, environmental, games…) • Presentation (visualisation, rendering….) • Distributed collaborative discourse • Discuss, criticise, evaluate, support, agree, disagree, reject…

  13. What are the user / community requirements? • Integrated • Roles: researcher, learner, citizen, consumer • Resources and functionality: Web services, portals, registries • Portable / ubiquitous access: wireless, iPOD • Managed / secure / sustainable • Access: digital certificates, Shibboleth? • Rights: Creative commons, trusted repositories • Archives: digital curation • Usable • Next generation search Vivissimo, Grokker, visualisation • Semantic interoperability, ontology services • Collaborative • Shared interaction: Access Grid, Twiki, Jabber, instant messaging • Personalised • MySpace, recommender systems • “Intelligent”: agent technology, improve workflows, save me time

  14. Some questions ….. • Is there a shared vision for an e-research environment? • What are the disciplinary differences / commonality? • What are the critical functions? • What are the barriers to implementation? • What are the implications for researchers, for information services and for institutions? • What are the development and funding priorities? • What are the sustainability issues?

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