DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 25 2007 | policy, Open Access, open data, USA
"A diverse and growing alliance of organizations representing taxpayers, patients, physicians, researchers, and institutions that support open public access to taxpayer-funded research."
Based in the US, this group has helped press for a stronger NIH mandate to deposit peer reviewed research articles and the Federal Research Public Access Act, but also has a watch on progress for international public access poilcies.
- DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 05 2009 | Australia, storage, policy, guidelines, legal, data repositories
This government document (2007) guides institutions and researchers in responsible research practices, endorsed by both national research funders: National Health and Medical Research Council and the Australian Research Council.
Significantly, it says that INSTITUTIONS MUST: "... have a policy on the retention of materials and research data; ... provide facilities for the safe and secure storage of research data and for maintaining records of where research data is stored; ... have a policy on the ownership of research materials and data during and following the research project; ... have a policy on the ownership of, and access to, databases and archives that is consistent with confidentiality requirements, legislation, privacy rules and other guidelines."
- DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 22 2008 | institutional repositories, policy, usa, open access, publishing, licensing, presentation
This was a valuable conference to attend and now the slides, as well as audio links, notes with 'take-home tips' and spaces for discussion are up.
Baltimore, Nov 17-18, 2008 - DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 29 2008 | report, USA, libraries, policy, data curation, data management, repositories, training
Gail Steinhart, co-chair of the working group, forwarded me a link to this paper during the summer, and I’m very pleased to have read it. The group, formed in 2006, has been investigating issues, current activities, and opportunities for the Library to get involved in “digital research data curation.” Thus, it serves as a very useful US equivalent to our DISC-UK State of the Art Review, but also hones in on the specific issues within a given institution, which is what I’d like to help the Information Services do within the University of Edinburgh.
The white paper begins with an environmental scan beyond Cornell, before turning to the strengths and potential areas of collaboration within the University. It looks at the actual and potential role of the academic research library, international organisations such as CODATA, activities in the UK including the importance of Liz Lyon’s 2007 report on roles and responsibilities, the EU DRIVER project, The Australian National Data Service and the activities at Monash University (“noteworthy in terms of utilizing institutional repositories for research data”), and developments in the US including the formation of the federal Interagency Working Group on Digital Data and the DataNet initiative funded by the NSF, as well as recent commercial activities by Sun, Google, and Microsoft. Institutions within the US mentioned for moving forward the state of the art include the San Diego Supercomputer Centre (for SRB, iRODS, and Data Central), Purdue University (for its Distributed Data Curation Centre, D2C2), University of Washington and Johns Hopkins University.
Four US universities are named as pursuing educational opportunities in data curation – Indiana University’s School of Informatics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Syracuse University.
A section on data curation issues covers financial sustainability, appraisal and selection, digital preservation, intellectual property, confidentiality and privacy, and participation by data owners. The recommendations made by the group include the need to seek out and cultivate partnerships, and the need to develop new services for Cornell researchers.
- DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 10 2007 | open data, policy, blogs
This is a collection of pages and links about the new Open Data Commons draft licence. There are two principal licences, the database licence and the factual information licence. Both are collected here.
- DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 30 2007 | research data, MRC, data sharing, policy, RIN
Presentations and a summary written by John MacColl from this event in December 2006 held by RIN which considered roles and responsibilities of funders and others for data preservation and access.
- DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 26 2007 | MRC, data sharing, data management, policy, guidelines, preservation
MRC's Data Sharing Initiative: policy and guidance for grant-holders
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