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Enabling Information Access: JISC's Role in Research and Data Management in Higher Education

This workshop led by Matthew J. Dovey, JISC Programme Director (e-Research), explores innovative approaches to enhancing access to research information in the UK higher education context. Focusing on funding support for digital data and virtual research environments, it discusses key projects such as data digitization in archaeology, social networking for researchers, and the integration of research data management practices. Participants will learn about tools and frameworks that facilitate open data access, collaborative research, and the importance of documenting data provenance for enhanced trust and usability in research.

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Enabling Information Access: JISC's Role in Research and Data Management in Higher Education

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  1. WIS Workshop on Information Access Enablers Matthew J. Dovey JISC Programme Director (e-Research)

  2. JISC in the UK Higher Education Context Funds Fund Fund

  3. JISC Support for Research Programmes

  4. Data Digitization Virtual Environments for Research in Archaeology http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/vre2/vera.aspx

  5. Data Digitization • VRE for Study of Ancient Documents and Manuscripts: http://bvreh.humanities.ox.ac.uk/VRE-SDM • e-Science and Ancient Documents: http://www.ahessc.ac.uk/image-text-interpretation

  6. Opening up systems - JISC/RLUK Resource Discovery Task Vision • UK students and researchers will have easy, flexible access to content and services through a collaborative, aggregated and integrated resource discovery and delivery framework which is comprehensive, open and sustainable Graphics courtesy of the JISC web2practice project: http://www.netskills.ac.uk/content/projects/2008/JISC-web2practice/index.html

  7. Opening Up Systems – Mash-Ups • Deconstruct process into task focused modules • Simple interfaces “just do enough” • Documented interfaces and formats • Allow access points rather than force user interface • Allow users to do stuff with your data/metadata (Open Data; Linked Data) • Persistence of reference (Smart URLs) • Bad: http://search.gov/sru2xml.php? • Good: http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79737 • Example mashups: • JISC Rapid Innovation Projects: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/inf11/jiscri.aspx • VRERI: http://code.google.com/p/vreri/

  8. Opening Participation • Social Networking for Researchers • MyExperiment and NeISS allow researchers to shared data, workflow, processes, simulations, visualisations, etc. ala MySpace/Facebook/ManyEyes/NetVibes etc. • www.myexperiment.org/ • www.neiss.org.uk • Open Science/Citizen Science allow public participation in the process e.g. Galaxy Zoo • www.galaxyzoo.org

  9. Trust – Document, Document, Document! • What the data is • How to interpret the data • Provenance of data • How the data collected/created • Why the data collected/created • Analysis and process • What analysis applied, how data was selected, when data selected, what software, what software version, what platform • Access restrictions • CLARIAN project – Embargo Manager - http://clarionproject.wordpress.com/

  10. Changing Behaviour – JISC Research Data Management Programme • Building support capacity within Universities • PegBoard (http://www.paleo.bris.ac.uk/projects/peg-board/blog/) • Building support capacity within Research Groups • Incentives • Data Publication and accreditation • Overlay Journal Infrastructure for Meteorological Sciences (OJIMS) -http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/reppres/sue/ojims.aspx • DataCite - www.datacite.org • CODATA - www.codata.org • Current funding call • Strand A: Citing, Linking and Integrating Research Data • Strand B: Innovative Publications for Research Data http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2009/12/1409researchdata.aspx • Digital CurationCentre – promoting good practice between Universities and Research Communities

  11. Some Key Messages • Linking data and publication – data as publication • Enable end users and intermediaries by providing simple documented task-focused persistent interfaces/access points to data and process • Deliver “just enough” quickly rather than “perfection never” • Document all points (interfaces, data formats, provenance, assumptions, etc) in the data supply chain

  12. Questions?

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