Digital repositories as research infrastructure a UK perspective

Digital repositories as research infrastructure: a UK perspective Dr Liz Lyon Director UKOLN is supported by: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Licence Attribution-Share. Alike 2. 0 www. ukoln. ac. uk A centre of expertise in digital information management

Presentation services: subject, media-specific, data, commercial portals Data creation / capture / gathering: laboratory experiments, Grids, fieldwork, surveys, media Resource discovery, linking, embedding Data analysis, transformation, mining, modelling Searching , harvesting, embedding Aggregator services: national, commercial Resource discovery, linking, embedding Learning object creation, re-use Harvesting metadata Research & e-Science workflows Deposit / selfarchiving Learning & Teaching workflows Repositories : institutional, e-prints, subject, data, learning objects Validation Deposit / selfarchiving Publication The scholarly knowledge cycle. Liz Lyon, Ariadne, July 2003. Resource discovery, linking, embedding Institutional presentation services: portals, Learning Management Systems, u/g, p/g courses, modules Validation www. ukoln. ac. uk Peer-reviewed publications: journals, conference © Liz Lyon (UKOLN, University of Bath), 2005 A centre of expertise in digital information management proceedings This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License Attribution-Share. Alike 2. 0 Quality assurance bodies

“JISC Vision”: a global landscape of federated repositories • Multi-disciplinary, crosssectoral • e-Framework and Information Environment context • National, institutional • Define common + domainspecific + repository “services” • Different platforms • Many format types: data, eprints, images, geospatial heterogeneous - metadata formats, content formats, identifiers, packaging standards homogeneous - metadata formats, content formats, identifiers, packaging standards www. ukoln. ac. uk repository • Interoperability based on open standards, software tools From Andy Powell: http: //www. ukoln. ac. uk/distributed-systems/jiscie/arch/presentations/jiie-jcs-2005/ repository fusion layer ‘repository federator’ portal A centre of expertise in digital information management portal

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Update on JISC DR activity 1 • Commissioned reports: Review (Feb 2005), Roadmap (April 2006), Linking UK Repositories (June 2006) • £ 4 M DR Programme 2005 – 21 Projects: some working with data, VERSIONS (of eprints) • DR support at UKOLN : wiki http: //www. ukoln. ac. uk/repositories/digirep/index/JISC_Digital_Repository_Wiki – Advocacy Package (autumn 2006) – Project synthesis, collecting user scenarios, developing use cases, scoping/evaluating reference models: OAIS? – Standards (and harmonisation) – e. Prints Dublin Core Application Profile Working Group – “Remote deposit” API Working Group (Mellon New York meeting) • UK IR cross search service (eprints) www. ukoln. ac. uk A centre of expertise in digital information management

e-Research: understanding business process • Project St. ORe: Source-to-Output Repositories (Edinburgh) – primary data : research publications – Survey questionnaire • Repo. MMan: Repository Metadata and Management (Hull) – Survey questionnaire and interviews – Activity diagram • R 4 L Repository for the Laboratory (Southampton) – Crystallography workflow analysis, automated data capture, user deposit scenarios RAW DATA DERIVED DATA RESULTS DATA www. ukoln. ac. uk A centre of expertise in digital information management

e. Bank UK Project http: //www. ukoln. ac. uk/projects/ebank-uk/ • Promote open access crystallography data • Aggregator service harvests OAI metadata from institutional data repository (e-Crystals archive) • Service linking from data to derived research publication • Embedding e. Bank service in learning workflows: pedagogy • Future federation plans for crystallography data repositories UKOLN (lead), University of Southampton, University of Manchester www. ukoln. ac. uk A centre of expertise in digital information management

e. Bank Metadata Publication • Using simple Dublin Core • Crystal structure • Title (Systematic IUPAC Name) • Authors • Affiliation • Creation Date • Additional chemical information through Qualified Dublin Core • Empirical formula • International Chemical Identifier In. Ch. I • Compound Class & Keywords • Specifies which ‘datasets’ are present in an entry • Application Profile http: //www. ukoln. ac. uk/projects/ebank-uk/schemas/ • DOIs, data citation http: //dx. doi. org/10. 1594/ecrystals. chem. soton. ac. uk/145 www. ukoln. ac. uk A centre of expertise in digital information management

Discovering data: • Domain identifier: International Chemical Identifier (INCh. I) code • Google molecule using INCh. I Slide from Simon Coles, S. J. , Day, N. E. , Murray-Rust, P. , Rzepa, H. S. , Zhang, Y. , Org. Biomol. Chem. , 2005, (10), 1832 -1834. DOI: 10. 1039/b 502828 k www. ukoln. ac. uk A centre of expertise in digital information management

Data descriptions • Validation, publication & discovery of data models & schema • Metadata packaging standards – METS – MPEG 21 DIDL – Complex object model? • Semantic descriptions – Formal controlled vocabularies – High-level and domain ontologies – Inter-disciplinary discovery • Informal social network approaches “folksonomies” www. ukoln. ac. uk A centre of expertise in digital information management

Adding value: repository services • Tools: for deposit, normalisation, manipulation, transformation…. . • Linking, annotation, visualisation • Aggregators: generic, (sub -) disciplinary • Knowledge extraction: q Mining (data, text, structures) National Centre for Text Mining Na. CTe. M q Modelling (economic, climate, mathematical, biological…) q Analysis (statistical, lexical, gene…. ) www. ukoln. ac. uk A centre of expertise in digital information management

JISC DR update 2 • Open. DOAR Directory of Open Access repositories: Universities of Nottingham and Lund • “Interim” Repository • Access management systems integration: Shibboleth • New funding 2006: Capital Programme Roadmap, Repositories & Preservation Programme – – £ 14 M over 3 years but current Call: Repositories Support Project Tools & Innovation Strand Discovery to Delivery Strand • Data Curation and Preservation www. ukoln. ac. uk A centre of expertise in digital information management

Digital repositories, OA & preservation • Long-term access: trust, responsibility, policy • Trusted DR Audit Checklist for Certification Draft Research Libraries Group-NARA Taskforce • Defined criteria under 4 categories – – Organisation Functions, processes & procedures Designated community & usability Technologies & technical infrastructure • UK Digital Curation Centre: advice, tools & services • Rep. Info Registry http: //www. dcc. ac. uk/ • CASPAR Preservation Framework www. ukoln. ac. uk A centre of expertise in digital information management

Political, cultural, socio-legal, IPR • Funding bodies position on OA: Research Councils RCUK statement, Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), IRRA • Institutional OA position: – Business drivers? University of Southampton Self-Archiving Policy and a mandate (not a recommendation) – Legal responsibilities as publisher, IPR, Trust. DR, licences, automated Digital Rights Management DRM • Culture & human factors: – “Sharing culture? ” – Multidisciplinary teams: computer scientists, domain scientists, digital library experts, statisticians/modellers e. g. e. Bank project – Lessons learnt: e-Science Human Factors Audit Report (to be published 2006) Roy Kawalsky, Loughborough www. ukoln. ac. uk A centre of expertise in digital information management