Carina Carlhed, Iris Alfredsson IASSIST/IFDO 2009. Mobile data and the life cycle

1. Swedish National Data Service's Strategy for Sharing and Mediating DataPractices of Open Access to and Reuse of Research Data – The State of the Art in Sweden 2009 Carina Carlhed, Iris Alfredsson IASSIST/IFDO 2009. Mobile data and the life cycle

2. Committee for Research Infrastructures (KFI) • formulates long-term strategies • handles resource allocation for expensive scientific equipment, large research facilities and extensive databases • deals with Swedish interests in, and funding of, various national and international research infrastructures. The overall aim is to provide better conditions for Swedish researchers by ensuring access to high quality infrastructures. Producer of Swedish Research Council's Guide to Infrastructure IASSIST/IFDO 2009. Mobile data and the life cycle

3. Database InfraStructure Committe (DISC) • promote the development of an effective infrastructure for sharing research data resources in Sweden • aims to ensure that researchers have rapid, easy, and free-of-charge access to research databases of high quality IASSIST/IFDO 2009. Mobile data and the life cycle

4. Transforming SSD into SND “SND shall meet the needs of the research community for data on empirical research in the areas of social science, humanities, and medicine. Actions include providing technical, legal, educational, and other administrative resources for collecting, storing, and distributing data for research.” IASSIST/IFDO 2009. Mobile data and the life cycle

5. Data Services Collaboration • Localize • Collect & preserve • Document & process • Maintain & mediate • Information • Support • Guidance Quality ensuring Technical edvelopment & infrastructure Strategic areas SND Epidemiology/public health research Social sciences Humanities IASSIST/IFDO 2009. Mobile data and the life cycle

6. Important task for SND to strengthen the altruistic reception of the importance of data sharing and open access among researchers. IASSIST/IFDO 2009. Mobile data and the life cycle

7. Legal barriers • Possessiv barriers IASSIST/IFDO 2009. Mobile data and the life cycle

8. Activities to promote data sharing • Influence research financiers • support researchers through the whole research process • be present in different research contexts and to inform about the benefits of sharing data IASSIST/IFDO 2009. Mobile data and the life cycle

9. Feed-back from the research community IASSIST/IFDO 2009. Mobile data and the life cycle

10. The SND surveys • Twosurveys, researchers in Humanities and Social sciences, 1) Swedish professors and 2) doctoral students • Emailquestionnaires • Approx. 80 itemscovering for example; the researchers affiliations, domain of discipline, gender, age, familiarities with research policies and ventures, and opinions to use, re-use, archivingpractices of digital research data • Response rates: professors 38 % (N=549) and doctoral students 28 % (N=1147) • Comparation with a Finnish survey from 2006 IASSIST/IFDO 2009. Mobile data and the life cycle

11. Results and conclusions… • descriptive and presented tentatively • the researchers’ attitudes towards current ventures and strivings in research infrastructures are predominantly positive • important to raise issues of guidelines concerning accessibility to digital research data • engage researchers and relevant authorities in creating arenas for discussing and shaping research infrastructure for the future IASSIST/IFDO 2009. Mobile data and the life cycle

12. Practices of re-using digital data IASSIST/IFDO 2009. Mobile data and the life cycle

13. Opinions of benefits of increasing accessibility to data IASSIST/IFDO 2009. Mobile data and the life cycle

14. Results and conclusions… • Key actors - the universities and university colleges themselves and The Swedish Research Council (VR) and The Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (FAS). • effective interventions for enhancing accessibility to digital data • research grants should include funds for preparing the data for sharing and archiving • Making data accessible for the use by the scientific community is acknowledged to be scientific merit. • more education about life cycles of digital data and research ethics. IASSIST/IFDO 2009. Mobile data and the life cycle

15. Obstacles to re-using data and sharing • important reasons for not reusing digital data - Swedish researchers emphasize ethical, juridical, technical aspects and issues quality of data as more problematic than the Finnish researchers. • obstacles to sharing digital data • Swedish professors regard deficiency of resources for researchers to document and arrange their data to reusable conditions, as the most difficult obstacle to sharing digital data together with lacking guidelines to documentation, • while the Finnish professors reported that it was the situation when the respondents were not informed that their contributions should be used in the research society generally. They share this concern with the Swedish doctoral students. IASSIST/IFDO 2009. Mobile data and the life cycle

16. Sharing digital data… • the professors seems to be more eager to share data than the doctoral students. • A large proportion of the total group was also expressing doubts in sharing data, probably because uncertainty and lack of sufficient guidelines. • Researchers in Humanities however, were those who distinguished themselves as potential “sharers”. IASSIST/IFDO 2009. Mobile data and the life cycle

17. Finally… • acknowledge the researchers’ positive orientation about e-science • put forward these survey results of opinions of digital research data and barriers to share and re-use • At last, the results of these surveys have to be acknowledged and seriously taken care of in understanding the obstacles and challenges we face in order to achieve a sufficient and approved research infrastructure IASSIST/IFDO 2009. Mobile data and the life cycle