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Title: Edinburgh DataShare


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Edinburgh DataShare A DSpace Data Repository
Achievements and Aspirations
  • Stuart Macdonald
  • EDINA National Data Centre Edinburgh University
    Data Library
  • Fedora-UKIEU Meeting,
  • Oxford, 8 December

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  • EDINA and Data Library (EDL) together are a
    division within Information Services of the
    University of Edinburgh.
  • EDINA is a JISC-funded National Data Centre
    providing national online resources for education
    and research.
  • The Data Library service (established in 1983)
    assists Edinburgh University users in the
    discovery, access, use and management of research
    data assets.
  • Building relationships with researchers via
    postgraduate teaching activities, IS Skills
    workshops, Research Data Management training and
    through traditional reference interviews.
  • Edinburgh Datashare is a digital repository of
    multi-disciplinary research datasets produced at
    the University of Edinburgh, hosted by the Data
    Library

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  • DISC-UK DataShare
  • Project
  • DISC-UK DataShare Project funded by JISC
    (March 2007 March 2009) - a collaborative
    project which investigated the legal, cultural
    and technical issues surrounding research data
    sharing within UK tertiary education community
  • Explore new pathways to assist academics wishing
    to share their data over the Internet via
    Institutional Repositories (IRs)
  • Policy-Making for Research Data in Repositories
    A Guide - Green, A., Macdonald, S. and R. Rice,
    (2009).
  • Edinburgh DataShare digital repository post
    project output embedded into University
    Information Services policy

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Edinburgh Repository Landscape
Launch Jan. 2010
Namedentity recognition
EDINA repository projects
Repository Junction
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  • Edinburgh Datashare technical development
  • DSpace v.1.51 with new theme aligned with
    University corporate style
  • Embargo option - coded to restrict full data
    download with open metadata until specified date
  • Open Data Commons License option (PDDL)
  • Dynamically queries Geonames, a community
    generated
  • spatial database to ensure consistency in
    metadata entry for
  • Spatial Coverage field
  • Extension to DSpace to record bitstream
    downloads in usage
  • statistics
  • Implementation of JACS for assigning keyword to
    content
  • Download All option (zip file of all item
    components)

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  • Potential Next Steps
  • Semantification of content OpenLinkedData
    MITs SIMILIE project (which aims to leverage and
    extend DSpace by supporting semantic web
    techniques)
  • Visualisation tools APIs that can be utilised
    within repository environment (Timeplot,
    Timeline) unlike existing open utilities
  • Spatial analysis using open geo-browsers and
    mapping utilities
  • Annotation, tagging, data citation
  • Implementation of Deposit tool(s) SWORD
  • Streaming viewing heterogeneous content

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Research Data Management Training Developed on
the back of the Data Audit Framework lead by
HATII (Edinburgh being one of the pilot
implementation projects) developing online
tools and methodologies which enable information
specialists to engage and build relationships
with researchers in order to ascertain the data
holdings in a research school / department /
group
Developing online and F-2F modules in conjunction
with the Postgraduate Transferable Skills Unit -
http//www.transkills.ed.ac.uk/ and PG Essentials
- http//www.transkills.ed.ac.uk/pgessentials.htm
Research data management guidance Data
sharing and preservation http//www.ed.ac.uk/is/
data-management
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Engaging researchers through RDM exercises,
teaching, reference interviews funded-projects
are crucial to the bottom-up development of
tools, services and infrastructures meant to
serve them and which ultimately improve both the
efficiency and effectiveness of their research.
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  • Engaging with the Research Community (1)
  • Human Geography (Professor Jane Jacobs)
  • High Rise project - an interdisciplinary
    research programme involving architects and
    geographers
  • It investigates two cases that encapsulate the
    varied fortunes
  • of the highrise experience the UK, where the
    form is routinely
  • condemned, even demolished and Singapore, where
    it is
  • embraced enthusiastically and continues to be
    built at greater
  • heights and densities - http//www.ace.ed.ac.uk/hi
    ghrise/
  • Content of the High Rise Digital Archive
    includes images, sound recordings, video,
    transcripts, architectural drawings
  • Customise DataShare to allow streaming or
    embedded player
  • functionality, ingest heterogeneous content,
    employ multi-media
  • metadata standards
  • Develop customised learning and teaching
    materials for deposit in JORUM Open

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  • Engaging with the research community (2)
  • Centre for Earth System Dynamics (Dr Mike
    Mineter, Dr Magnus
  • Hagdorn)
  • The aim of the CESD is to develop climate
    models across SAGES
  • and other multi-disciplinary and international
    partners to quantify and predict climate and
    environmental change
  • Use DataShare to provide federated access via
    shibboleth for international partners for
    working datasets (e.g. from the Arctic
    Biosphere Atmosphere Coupling at Multiple Scales
    (ABACUS) programme)
  • Store data via DataShare but also link to large
    datasets (c.1TB) stored on remote storage (Andrew
    File Systems, ECDF SAN)
  • Content for ingestion includes large climate
    models/simulations, fieldwork and experimental
    output in proprietary formats
  • Employ discipline-specific metadata standards to
    describe content

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END Thank You
  • stuart.macdonald_at_ed.ac.uk
  • Creative Commons images from Flickr (unless
    otherwise stated)

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