Bloomsbury Conference, London

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C21st Scholarship Data as an Agent for
Change Dr Liz Lyon, Director, UKOLN, University
of Bath, UK Associate Director, UK Digital
Curation Centre 3rd Bloomsbury Conference,
London, June 2009 .
UKOLN is supported by
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Perspectives

• The 21stC Scholar Team Science in the
  Cloud
• Chemical Crystallography Data Publishing
  Showcase
• The Future a Transformational Agenda

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The 21stC Scholar Team Science in the Cloud
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What does the C21st research(er) look like?

• From users to choosers (Yanosky)
• Pro-sumers (Toffler)
• Digital nomads
• Work on the Webtop

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• Multi-scale complex
• Highly data-intensive
• Increasingly open

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Continuum of Openness?
OPEN
CLOSED
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What do we mean by Team Science?

• Science as a social activity
• Tweet
• Blog
• Comment
• Rate
• Vote
• Recommend
• Tag
• Share
• Mash

• Trust is key
• Inter-institutional collaboration better science
  (Brian Uzzi, 2008)

• Highly collaborative
• Multi-disciplinary
• Core team skills

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A new digital economy?

• Data is
• On demand
• A utility
• Commoditised
• Un-differentiated
• Publish then filter (Shirky)
• Traded
• Cloud model?
• Brokers aggregators are key roles
• Free, pay per use, pay as you grow..

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• Economies of scale
• Network effects
• New data publishing business models

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Chemical Crystallography Data Publishing
Showcase
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8485/sizes/l/
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Data Deluge
Slide Dr Simon Coles, Univ Soton
40 years ago a PhD student would determine about
3 crystal structures for their thesis this can
now be easily achieved in a day
0.5 million
Few thousand
2.5 million
35 million
A bottleneck the primary cause is the current
data publication process, which is tied to
journal articles and peer review
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Multi-scale from Diamond Light Source ..
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..to the Laboratory bench
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eCrystals Team

• Simon Coles, Mike Hursthouse, Jeremy Frey,
  Cameron Neylon, Andrew Milsted, Richard
  Stephenson, Jamie Robinson, Steven Wilson, Andrew
  Bailey, Mark Borkum
• Dave DeRoure, Les Carr, Monica Schraefel, Chris
  Gutteridge, Tim Myles-Board, Arouna Woukei, Dave
  Tarrant, Stuart Middleton
• Liz Lyon, Manjula Patel, Rachel Heery, Monica
  Duke, Michael Day, Traugott Koch, Pete Cliff

Domain (Chemists)
Computer science
Informatics
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eCrystals Data Repository

• Quick simple to deposit
• Software tools
• Laboratory archive
• Community involvement
• Embargo facility
• Structured foundations
• Discoverable harvestable

http//ecrystals.chem.soton.ac.uk
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Data sustainability

• Trust
• Standards
• Audit and certification tools
• TRAC
• DRAMBORA
• PLATTER
• NESTOR
• Data Seal of Approval

• eCrystals Curation Reports (3)
• Preservation metadata
• PREMIS Data Dictionary
• OAIS
• Representation Information
• Registry/Repository RRORI

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Data Discovery Access

• Community Criteria for Interoperability
  (Scaling Up Report 2008)
• Domain data format standard CIF
• Domain data validation standard CheckCIF
• Metadata schema eCrystals Application Profile
• http//www.ukoln.ac.uk/projects/ebank-uk/schemas/
• Crystallography Data Commons
  TIDCC Data Model in development
• Embargo Rights http//ecrystals.chem.soton.ac.u
  k/rights.html
• Domain identifier International Chemical
  Identifier
• Citation linking DOI http//dx.doi.org/10.1594/
  ecrystals.chem.soton.ac.uk/145

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Paris, March 2009
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Memorandum of Understanding


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Dr Simon Coles, Univ Southampton
http//wiki.ecrystals.chem.soton.ac.uk/index.php/M
ain_Page
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Slide of data services CrystalEye, Crystal Web,
Chemxseer etc search structures check PMR stuff
aggregate, syndiucate, filter etc.
New Web service to aggregate published
crystallography data...
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... federated search.....
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structure search...
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Data casts Lab Blogs
Original slide Dr Simon Coles, Univ Soton
Tools
Machines
Sensors
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Publishing and sharing methodologies ...
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... and workflows ...
... data for re-use, mash-ups, mining,
computation, models, simulations ...
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Slide Dr Simon Coles, Univ Soton
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The Future a Transformational Agenda?
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• We need to understand the value and benefits of
  data publishing and associated data curation /
  management.... and articulate them clearly
• Values benefits may be
• political
• economic
• societal...
• DCC Research Data Management Forum 3
• Some issues and challenges.....

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1. Research quality

• Publications based on closed peer review
• Maintain reputation
• Demonstrate provenance
• Open pilots Nature
• Use collective intelligence
• Ratings, polls, recommender systems
• Data publishing policy?

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2. Research sustainability

• Ensure curation preservation of long term
  scientific record including the data
• Requires significant investment in infrastructure
• Assure data security
• Demonstrate resilience robustness
• Establish trust
• New business models
• Understand full costs

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3. Research capacity capability

• Multi-disciplinary team
• Hybrid skills
• New field - data informatics
• New roles for information professionals?

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IJDC 2009 (in press)
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Take homes

• Team science is a social activity
• We need to advocate the value benefits of data
  publishing
• Data informatics underpins C21st scholarship

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Moving to Multi-Scale Science Managing
Complexity Diversity
Thank you Slides will be available at
http//www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/e.j.lyon/pres
entations.htmlhttp//www.dcc.ac.uk/