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 - Jun 26 2008 | repositories, research data, e-research, project
DReSNet proposes to increase the interaction and cooperation between researchers and practitioners in e-Science and Digital Repositories. Activities, aims and objectives are clearly articulated.
- DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 11 2008 | repositories, web2.0
Andy Powell's slides describing how Web 2.0 could integrate with and enhance the repository environment
- DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 24 2008 | Open Archiving Initiative, metadata, repositories
ORE will develop specifications that allow distributed repositories to exchange information about their constituent digital objects. These specifications will include approaches for representing digital objects and repository services that facilitate access and ingest of these representations. The specifications will enable a new generation of cross-repository services that leverage the intrinsic value of digital objects beyond the borders of hosting repositories. Software developers used OAI-ORE at the recent Open Repositories Conference to move digital objects to and from different repository software platforms as proof of concept
- DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 11 2008 | blogs, DSpace, repositories, research data
Chris Rusbridge examining whether repositories add value to data in terms of search engines.
- DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 04 2008 | jisc, open access, preservation, repositories, blogs
A new blog from the JISC team that manages a number of programmes including ours - the Repositories and Preservation Programme.
- DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 22 2008 | research data, repositories, e-research, Oxford, blogs
Quoted: This blog aims to serve as a tool to both record the progress of the Scoping Digital Repository Services for Research Data Management project and to disseminate outputs and information about relevant activities in the converging domains of data curation, institutional repositories and e-Research.
(Luis Martinez Uribe was a DISC-UK member at LSE until this year and has contributed deliverables to the DataShare project. We will keep in contact with him and wish him well with his project at Oxford.)
- DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 19 2008 | data management, repositories, project, data curation, Australia, articles
This article describes the work currently underway at Monash University to rethink the role of repositories in supporting data management. It first describes the context within which the work has taken place and some of the local factors that have contributed to the inception and continuation of this work. It then introduces the idea of a Data Curation Continuum and describes the various continua that might be applicable in a repository data management context. The article then discusses some of the implications of this approach, before reviewing related work.
- DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 21 2007 | repositories, website, JISC
Repositories Support Project (RSP) Wiki, where repository staff can record details and news of their repositories, and where repository software providers can summarise their wares.
- DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 08 2007 | open data, paper, repositories
Peter Murray-Rust paper entitled Data-driven Science - A scientist's view - presented at the NSF/JISC Repositories Workshop
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