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How Electronic Lab Notebooks can galvanise Research Data Management

How Electronic Lab Notebooks can galvanise Research Data Management. Edinburgh University Dealing with Data Conference Rory Macneil Research Space 26 August 2014. What we’re going to cover. Research data management challenges Universities: a three pronged response

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How Electronic Lab Notebooks can galvanise Research Data Management

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  1. How Electronic Lab Notebooks can galvanise Research Data Management Edinburgh University Dealing with Data Conference Rory Macneil Research Space 26 August 2014

  2. What we’re going to cover • Research data management challenges • Universities: a three pronged response • The emergence of the institutional ELN for universities • Howthe institutional ELN can galvanise RDM

  3. Research data management challenges

  4. Traditional research workflow And the data gets discarded/lost

  5. The model under threat • Why? Data moving from afterthought to centre of value as technology drives: • Generation of more data • Better means of recording and sharing data • Pressure from: • Funders demanding • Data be made public • Data be preserved • More efficient and accountable research • Researchers demanding • Easier/cheaper access to publications • Better attribution of credit • Universities demanding • Cost reductions • Access to data to satisfy demands of funders

  6. Universities’ response

  7. Three (un?)related initiatives • Initial data capture with data storage facility • Make data publicly available with data repository • Preserve data with data archive

  8. Who is carrying these initiatives out? • IT • Data librarians • Research administrators

  9. Who are the initiatives ‘for’? • Funders √√√ • PIs √? • Researchers ?

  10. Will the initiatives be taken up???

  11. The emergence of an institutional ELNfor universities

  12. Three generations ofELNs • 1990s – for Big pharma • 2000s – for individual labs and researchers • 2010s – for universities

  13. 2010sThe (Third generation)Revolution is coming 2011/12 Wisconsin pilot “We need an ELN that can be rolled out across the university” It has to: • Be easy to use • Be platform agnostic • Support intra- and inter-group collaboration • Have enterprise capabilities • Support data publishing and archiving and . . . Still be affordable!!!!!!!!!”

  14. Three constituencies • Researchers • Utility and convenience of paper lab book + online capabilities • On multiple devices • File management /integration • PIs • Controlled sharing • Collaboration • Group management • File management /integration • IT, data librarians, research admin, commercialisation office • Enterprise features: Scalable deployment, Single Sign On • Multi-group support • IP protection • File management /integration • Archiving and repository integration

  15. Howthe institutional ELNcan galvanise RDM

  16. Conduit through the entire research process

  17. Infrastructural glue for RDM

  18. Appeals to three key constituencies • Researchers • PIs • IT/Research Admin

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