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Data Management and Institutional Transformation
The latest edition of share from the Australia National Data Service (ANDS)
newsletter is available. The theme for this edition is institutional
transformation.
Ross Wilkinson (ANDS) states, this issue of share celebrates and explains the changes that have taken place at Australian institutions to enable researchers to use data differently - working in new partnerships, addressing new problems and getting properly acknowledged for their data (Feb 2013).
Contents include:
- Progressing Melbourne University's agenda
- Deakin's Library plays a vital role
- Flinders' cross-institution collaboration
- CSIRO's data treasures revealed
- Griffith: Doing it differently
and more.......... share ANDS newsletter, February 2013
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Looking for a Data Repository
Digging into Data is a useful online resource listing repositories.
It includes:
- Digital libraries
- Data archives
- Data repositories
For each repository, you'll find a description of their contents, contact information, and other details.
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UK Data Archive - Data in Use
The UK Data Archive is the largest UK collection of digital research data in the social sciences and humanities. "Deposit Data our data in use" gives examples how researcher and teacher are using UK Data Archives data.
Examples include:
- 100 families, 1900-1988: In-depth interviews into family life, the data has been used in a project on Masculine preserves.
- School Leavers Study 1978: Research based on household labour and community life on the Isle of Sheppey, the data has been used for living and working project on Sheppey.
- The last refuge 1958-1959: Examining if long stay institutions were still needed for the elderly, this data as formed the foundation for several studies on residential care for old people.
To find more examples go to Deposit Data our data in use.
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Dying languages get digital home
A SURF project has helped create a digital home for dying languages. The University of Leiden Library in Holland, in collaboration with the CARDS (Controlled Access to Research Data Stored Securely) project of SURF in the Netherlands, is working on a project with Roberta D'Alessandro, Professor of Italian at Leiden University, to develop a data management system to manage and share important research data on dying Italian dialects. For Roberta and her team being able to upload and share the data they have collected is a central feature of the system, simplifying collaboration and allowing other language researchers to use the material. To read the full report go to Research Information: August/September 2012
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Will Big Data be Huge?
According to a report in 2011 by the World Economic Forum, big data is redrawing the boundaries of business and could be viewed as a new class of economic asset, like oil.
But just how big will big data become? How will it affect your company and what management skills will be needed to exploit its potential?
Read more from the UQ Business School; Big data - a huge opportunity or a big challenge?
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Highlight’s of Repository of the Week – Dryad
Dryad is an international data repository in the basic and applied biosciences. The goal of the repository is to preserve all the underlying data reported in a paper at the time of publications. Recognising the emerging trend of data citation, this is an excellent example of a repository supporting the management of data and sharing. See the November 2011 blog on Dryad for further information.
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Open Exeter Data Asset Framework Survey
Open Exeter Data Asset Framework Survey, is a recently published study by The University of Exeter, on data management practice and attitudes to Open Access. The findings for the University has helped them to gain a better understanding of current research data management practices across different disciplines and with different levels of research experience.
Findings included:
- How researchers created data.
- Where they stored their data.
- Whether they backed up their data.
- What happened to their data when the project was finished.
- Few researchers had experience of completing a data management plan.
- Recognised the significant complexity of data, from file formats to the size of data.
Read the full article or follow the blog by the project team.
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Latest ANDS Newsletter is Available
The latest Australian National Data Service (ANDS) newsletter is now available. This issue examines research data from the perspective of researchers.
Including:
- International partnerships.
- Enabling new and efficient research.
- Big data.
- International engagement.
- Up and coming events.
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Managing Research Data (video)
A video created by the Digital Curation Centre, UK offers an interesting overview of research data management. It provides insights into the researchers' role in managing their data, and also identifies some tools and resources available on the Digital Curation Centre website.
Watch the DCC video - Managing Research Data.
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Repository of the Week - British Oceanographic Data Centre
The British Oceanographic Data
Centre (BODC) is a United Kingdom national facility designed to hold,
manage and distribute data concerning the marine environment. Data holdings
include biological, chemical, physical and geophysical data, containing
measurements of nearly 22,000 different variables.
BODC describes their approach to marine data management as:
- Careful storage, quality control and archiving of data - so that data are unaffected by changes in technology and will be available into the future.
- Distributing data to scientists, education, industry and the public - with a goal to enable online access to all data via the web site.
- Working alongside scientists during marine research projects - to provide a data management service during the life time of the project.
BODC holds a wealth of publicly accessible marine data under the provision of licence agreements. Read more about:
- Submitting, requesting and retrieving data.
- Data management services
- UK, European and International projects at BODC.
- The Published Data Library (PDL), which is an operational prototype that provides snapshots of specially chosen data sets, archived using rigorous version management. This enables citation of the data set in journal papers through the assignment of a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) in collaboration with the British Library.
BODC is run by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), and hosted by the National Oceanography Centre (NOC).
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Pixar tells a story - Back up your files!
In a YouTube video clip, Pixar relates the story of how they almost lost the entire film of Toy Story 2, whilst the film was in development. Watch the clip for an important lesson in file storage and back up.
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Article - The Conundrum of Sharing Research Data
Christine Borgman, of the UCLA Department of Information Studies, has written an interesting in-depth discussion paper on "the conundrum of sharing research data":
Researchers are producing an unprecedented deluge of data by using new methods and instrumentation. Others may wish to mine these data for new discoveries and innovations. However, research data are not readily available as sharing is common in only a few fields such as astronomy and genomics. Data sharing practices in other fields vary widely. Moreover, research data take many forms, are handled in many ways, using many approaches, and often are difficult to interpret once removed from their initial context. Data sharing is thus a conundrum. Four rationales for sharing data are examined, drawing examples from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities: (1) to reproduce or to verify research, (2) to make results of publicly funded research available to the public, (3) to enable others to ask new questions of extant data, and (4) to advance the state of research and innovation. These rationales differ by the arguments for sharing, by beneficiaries, and by the motivations and incentives of the many stakeholders involved. The challenges are to understand which data might be shared, by whom, with whom, under what conditions, why, and to what effects. Answers will inform data policy and practice.
Borgman, C. L. (2012), The conundrum of sharing research data. J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci., 63: 1059-1078. doi: 10.1002/asi.22634
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Stewards' enquiry ...
Any librarians scratching their heads about their role in the
data management universe should watch Clifford Lynch talking about
it. This is one of several interviews from the November 2011 Charleston Conference.
The full
program is online and lots of presentations are on slideshare.
Cliff's in no doubt - we need to help researchers with stewardship.
And it can be done by actively encouraging any author who publishes an article to discuss what they've done with the underlying data. This is where librarians can add value.
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Out of England
Despite the inevitable funding cuts that austerity budgets bring,
it's really not a bad time to be a UK researcher - lots of organisations want
to help you manage and share your data.
First up, there's the new open access world opening up, courtesy of a UK government mandate.
Then digital-science offered a whole range of useful tools like figshare and LabGuru.
And now the Digital Curation Centre has listed a stack of handy services and tools for sharing output and tracking impact and managing active research data.
If you are a manager of a repository or the curator of a digital collection, there are tools for archiving and preserving information packages, managing and administering repositories and depositing and ingesting digital objects.
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