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Towards Open Data by Default: Global Directives for Local Impact? Dr Liz Lyon, Associate Director, UK Digital Curation Centre, Director, UKOLN Informatics, University of Bath, UK UCL Open Access Forum, October 2013.

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  1. Towards Open Data by Default: Global Directives for Local Impact? Dr Liz Lyon, Associate Director, UK Digital Curation Centre, Director, UKOLN Informatics, University of Bath, UK UCL Open Access Forum, October 2013 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons LicenceAttribution-ShareAlike 2.0 UKOLN Informatics is supported by:

  2. G8 Endorses OA Open Data Charter Policy Paper 18 June 2013

  3. Global: Research Data Alliance http://rd-alliance.org// Working Groups Interest Groups 1st Plenary Gothenburg, March 2013 2nd Plenary September 2013, Washington DC

  4. USA: Obama Administration Executive Order May 2013 “One of the things we’re doing to fuel more private sector innovation and discovery is to make vast amounts of America’s data open and easy to access for the first time in history. ”

  5. Open Science “Champions of Change” Includes Paul Ginsparg, Stephen Friend, Atul Butte…. June 2013 at the White House

  6. Sage-DREAM Breast Cancer Prognosis Challenge “publication-as-prize model”

  7. From: The Scientist, 4 June 2013 scholarly communications for an open team data challenge

  8. UK government supports open data Re-using data Helping SMEs • Crime and Justice • Energy & the Environment

  9. UCL? Photo Credits:Flickr Jodi Squirmelia Research is data-intensive….

  10. open data is mixed, munged, mined…

  11. Policy Framework on Research Data 2011 • Principles and Expectations • http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/about/standards/researchdata/Pages/policyframework.aspx Institutional Roadmaps

  12. Alignment with EPSRC Expectations Roles and Responsibilities: Within the Institution sition:Where we are now Objectives: Where we need to be Actions: How we’re going to get there Milestones: When it will be done by EPSRC focus is on “the institution” • http://www.bath.ac.uk/rdso/University-of-Bath-Roadmap-for-EPSRC.pdf

  13. But…. …many funders’ focus is on “the PI” Data Management Plan DCC listing of funder DMP requirements http://www.dcc.ac.uk/sites/default/files/documents/resource/policy/FundersDataPlanReqs_v4%204.pdf

  14. Bath institutional DMP guidance Template

  15. Positioning the university as an (open) data publisher • Takes responsibility for its data products • HEI stakeholders (Lyon Informatics Transform paper 2012) • Advocacy gap • Infrastructure gap • Reputation? • Risk?

  16. Data integrity: reputations on-the-line?

  17. Institutional data publication services • Data repository: curation • Data catalogue: discovery • Data citation: Amsterdam Manifesto, identifiers, DOIs, ORCID, data licences • New actionable formats: data papers, data journals, + data peer review…. • Data metrics: Altmetric ImpactStory

  18. Futures… Photo Credits:Flickr solfrost ChrisK Some challenges remain….

  19. 1. Who pays? “Data is the new currency for research,” said Alan Blatecky, the director of advanced cyberinfrastructure at the National Science Foundation. “The question is how do you address the cost issues, because there is no new money.”

  20. Understanding the costs • A rather grey area….. • UK Research funder grants • Direct costs (during lifetime of grant) • Funder expectations • Long-term RDM investment an institutional responsibility

  21. 2. New roles are needed …data librarian, research data services manager, data scientist, technical data co-ordinator, data curator, data analyst, data steward, chief data officer....

  22. Develop data capability in research support services http://immersiveinformatics.org/ ImmersiveInformatics pilot Co-developed with University of Melbourne

  23. 10 modules (OER) Day release Immersive data sessions in labs Co-curate dataset Keep “data diary” Evaluate pilot

  24. 3. Advocacy and Incentives • Researcher awareness is low • Advocacy needed (like OA) • Change behaviour to “open by default” (G8) • Open data literacy (G8) • RDM training: Research360 & • Doctoral Training Centres • Get credit for your data ?UK REF2020?

  25. 9 simple ways to make data (re)use easier • Share your data • Provide metadata • Provide unprocessed (raw) form • Use standard data formats • Use good null values • Make it easy to combine (use common contextual data) • Perform basic quality control • Use an established repository (trust) • Use an established and open licence • Ethan P. White et al, Utah State University (2013) PeerJ, • (with a focus on ecology & evolutionary biology)

  26. 9th International Digital Curation Conference, San Francisco, 24-27th February 2014 Commodity, catalyst or change-agent? Data-driven transformations in research, education, business & society

  27. Thank you ! • DCC Resources • http://www.dcc.ac.uk • ImmersiveInformatics • http://immersiveinformatics.org • Research360 Project at University of Bath • http://blogs.bath.ac.uk/research360/ • Informatics Transform article • http://www.ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/article/view/210

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