Data Infrastructure and the Scholarly Ecosystem of the Future

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Data Archiving and Networked Services Data Infrastructure and the Scholarly Ecosystem of the Future (actually, the other way around…) Dr Andrew Treloar DANS Visiting Fellow/ANDS Director of Technology 2-Oct-13, SURF, Utrecht #disef

Structure presentation

•  Ecosystems vs. ecosystems •  Scholarship and scholarly communications •  Role of underpinning infrastructure •  ANDS as a national infrastructure provider •  RDA as an international infrastructure coordinator

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Ecosystems vs ecosystems


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Thoughts on ecosystems from Jason Priem (emphasis added) •  “The peer-reviewed journal is the product of some 350

years of selective breeding, a thoroughbred exquisitely tuned to wring the best possible performance from the paper-based world of its creation. But the Web has irrevocably changed our information environment — it is no longer the habitat the journal evolved in…

•  The next decade will see a dramatic dieback in journals and a Cambrian explosion of communication species evolved for the Web- and network-centric world. Most of these will be failures. … Similarly, we can expect the intense selection pressure generated by scholars' hunger for relevant information to drive rapid evolution in systems for certification, recommendation and assessment.”

–  Jason Priem, Scholarship: Beyond the paper, Nature 495, 437–440 (28 March 2013) doi:10.1038/495437a


Elements of scholarly ‘eco’system

•  Creating Knowledge - activities •  Sharing Knowledge - functions •  Information components •  Underpinning Social/Political Infrastructure •  Underpinning Technical Infrastructure


•  Capture •  Combine •  Generate •  Analyse •  Synthesise •  Write

Creating Knowledge – Scholarly Activities


Sharing Knowledge – Scholarly Communication Functions Roosendaal & Geurts (1997) •  Registration •  Certification •  Awareness •  Archiving •  Rewarding

Rowland (2002) •  Registration •  Certification •  Dissemination •  Archiving

And what about Commentary?

Priem and Hemminger (2012)


Creating vs. Sharing? Really?

•  Distinction is an artefact of the ‘previous’ system of scholarship

•  The evolving system of scholarship is blurring the boundary

•  “The Web opens the workshop windows to disseminate scholarship as it happens, erasing the artificial distinction between process and product.” (emphasis added) –  Jason Priem, Scholarship: Beyond the paper, Nature 495, 437–

440 (28 March 2013) doi:10.1038/495437a


Information components

Ex: researchdata.ands.org.au/five-‐human-‐breast-‐cancer-‐microarray-‐gene-‐expression-‐datasets Ex: www.elsevier.com/physical-‐sciences/computer-‐science/executable-‐papers


Social/Political Infrastructures

•  Reward Systems •  Research Funding •  Disciplines •  Institutions


Technical Infrastructure

•  Storage •  Network •  Compute •  Authenticate? •  Collaborate? •  …


Actors •  Creating knowledge

–  Researchers –  Public

•  Sharing knowledge –  Researchers –  Publishers –  Public

•  Social/Political Infrastructure –  Scholarly societies –  Research administration –  Ministries/Funders

•  Technical Infrastructure –  Infrastructure providers –  Institutions –  Ministries/Funders



Questions/Comments?


Infrastructure examples

•  National provider –  Australian National Data Service –  ands.org.au

•  International coordinator –  Research Data Alliance –  rd-alliance.org


ANDS enables transformaTon of: From Data: " Unmanaged " Disconnected " Invisible " Single use

To Structured CollecTons: " Managed " Connected " Findable " Reusable

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so that Australian researchers can easily publish, discover, access and use/re-‐use research data.

NaTonal Policy Context

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Questions/Comments?


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§  Formed in 2012 by research funders from §  EU (500M) §  US (300M) §  AU (23M)

§  Members in every continent except Antarctica §  But strongly biased towards US, Europe

§  Plenary 2 took place in Washington DC in September 2013 §  https://www.rd-alliance.org/future-events

§  Plenary 4 taking place in Netherlands in September/October 2014

Research Data Alliance Overview

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§  Interest Groups §  people concerned with a particular class of problems (by

discipline or by kind) §  may have ongoing existence §  will probably spin off series of working groups

§  Working Groups §  focussed on a particular problem §  will run for 12-18 months §  will produce a piece of infrastructure (broadly interpreted) for

deployment §  should lead to more data being exchanged

Working Groups and Interest Groups

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Questions/Comments?


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