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The CURL/SCONUL joint e-research task force

The CURL/SCONUL joint e-research task force. CURL members’ meeting 2006-11-02. Members. Liz Lyon, UKOLN and DCC Martin Lewis, University of Sheffield John MacColl, University of Edinburgh Luis Martinez, LSE John Owen, University of Birmingham Jane Savidge, University of Surrey

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The CURL/SCONUL joint e-research task force

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  1. The CURL/SCONUL joint e-research task force CURL members’ meeting 2006-11-02

  2. Members • Liz Lyon, UKOLN and DCC • Martin Lewis, University of Sheffield • John MacColl, University of Edinburgh • Luis Martinez, LSE • John Owen, University of Birmingham • Jane Savidge, University of Surrey • Mark Thorley, NeRC • David Whitehurst, University of Manchester • Neil Beagrie, BL/JISC • Carmen O’Dell, University of Sheffield • Stéphane Goldstein, RIN

  3. Terms of reference • To raise awareness and understanding of the issues associated with support of e-research in CURL and SCONUL member libraries and to stimulate discussion about them at institutional level. • To position CURL and SCONUL member libraries’ staffs to engage with their local e-research stakeholders and to encourage them to make appropriate inputs at the research proposal stage. • To identify skills gaps in relation to support of e-research and to assist member libraries in addressing them. • To work with other e-research stakeholders, including the DCC, RLN and BL, to ensure that information management to support e-research is a high priority for future investment by funders. • To advise the CURL Board and the SCONUL Executive Board on matters relating to the support of e-research. • To monitor, and report on, the Group’s progress against an action plan agreed annually by the CURL Board and SCONUL Executive Board.

  4. “e-science is about global collaboration in key areas of big science and the next generation of infrastructure that will enable it” Dr John Taylor, Director General of the UK Research Councils, 2000 What is e-research?

  5. e-research: key features • Collaborative: regional, national, global • Multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary • GRID technology • Data • quantity • formats • metadata • annotation and re-use • curation and preservation

  6. History • UK e-science programme launched Nov 2000 • Allocations to individual research councils • Core e-science programme administered by EPSRC • Tony Hey, Director until Oct 2005 (Hugh Pilcher-Clayton Programme Manager from 1 April 2006) • OST (now OSI) e-infrastructure review 2006 • Six sub-group reports completed • Final report imminent • JISC e-infrastructure programme 2006-2009 • UK e-Science envoy (Prof Malcolm Atkinson) April 2006

  7. OST e-infrastructure review sub-groups • middleware/AAA/DRM • network, compute power and storage • preservation and curation • search and navigation • data and information creation • virtual research communities

  8. Persistent national information infrastructure • Development programme recommended by OST preservation and curation subgroup • £40M over next seven years 2007 -2014

  9. Core e-science Programme phase 1 • A National e-Science Centre linked to a network of Regional Grid Centres • Generic Grid Middleware and Demonstrator Projects • Grid 'IRC' Research Projects • Support for e-Science Pilot Projects • Participation in International Grid Projects and Activities • Establishment of a Grid Network Team

  10. Core e-science Programme phase 2 • A National e-Science Centre linked to a network of Regional Grid Centres • Support activities for the UK e-Science Community • An Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute (OMII) • A Digital Curation Centre (DCC) • New Exemplars for e-Science • Participation in International Grid Projects and Activities

  11. Key players in e-research • RCUK (EPSRC) • JISC (e-infrastructure programme) • National e-Science Centre (Edinburgh/Glasgow) • Digital Curation Centre • ESFRI (European Strategy Forumon Research Infrastructures) • Current chair John Wood, CCLRC • Office of Science and Innovation • BL? • RIN?

  12. Trends in e-research • E-research is becoming multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary • E-research is global • E-research is becoming mainstream • “The data network is moving from being the repository to being the starting point for science” NSF Cyberinfrastructure Vision and Strategic Plan

  13. Libraries and e-research • Tony Hey challenge • CILIP Update March 2004 According to Professor Tony Hey, head of the UK's e-Science Core Programme, academic librarians 'are concentrating on only half the plot'. These days, he says, his students in computing and engineering, and others in scientific disciplines like particle physics and astronomy, do not use the university library much, if at all; often they use only the online journals, so 'there needs to be a refocusing of what libraries do'. This doesn't mean that university librarians are redundant. Far from it - they have an absolutely vital role to play, but it is one which many of them currently ignore.

  14. Libraries and e-research • Tony Hey, contd Librarians as digital curatorsThat's why Professor Hey thinks that digital curation and interoperability issues should be so much higher up the agenda, why he despairs of what he sees as the limited vision of the Consortium of University Research Libraries and the Research Support Libraries Group report (it looked primarily at books and printed resources).

  15. Some more history… • Tony Hey meeting with CURL Board July 2004 and members Oct 2004 • 2005 CURL decision to establish Task Force • proposal to SCONUL for joint Task Force (cf TF on Scholarly Communications) • First TF event – Dec 2005 workshop • First TF meeting March 2006

  16. Work package #1 Information and awareness Lead: David Whitehurst • Recruit network of e-research liaison contacts in HE library & information services; establish JISCmail list • Survey of e-research activity, e-research support requirements, and e-research support work within HEIs (coordinate with WP2 needs analysis) • Survey of the policy and practice of research funders in relation to data curation • Disciplinary mapping of existing data curation services and gaps in provision

  17. Research data curation EBI CERN NERC UKDA AHDS

  18. Work package #2 Workforce development Lead: Jane Savidge • Training & development needs analysis (link with WP1 survey activity on researcher support requirements) • Design, commissioning and delivery of training and development events for HEI library & information services staff

  19. Work package #3 Research intelligence Lead: John MacColl • Maintain awareness of funding and bidding opportunities for the eRTF • Lead on bid drafting • (with WP1) identify potential case studies/exemplar projects for development with DCC

  20. Discussion points • What is the role of university libraries in supporting e-research? • What are the risks of getting involved? not getting involved? • Should e-research data be held locally or in large-scale repositories? • What skills are needed to manage and curate e-research data? to advise researchers on e-research data management? Do we have them? • Who pays for the e-research information infrastructure?

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