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

Joint Information Systems Committee JISC in the UK Higher Education Context Fund Funds

Joint Information Systems Committee JISC Support for Research Programmes JISC Strategic ThemeProgramme Activities People Research Communities Engagement e-Research Roadshows e-Research Events/Conferences Institutional ICT Support Models Requirements and “Evidence Base” Collaboration Virtual Research Environments VRE Status Review VRE Community Support VRE Innovation Projects e-Lab Notebook Review Research Project Resource Modelling Research Data Research Data Management Defining Strategy and Policy Building Infrastructure and Improving Processes Planning Tools and Methodologies Demonstrating Benefits Building Capacity and Skills Infrastructure Research Infrastructures National Grid Service ESFRI Workshops Cloud Computing and Virtualisation NaCTeM e-InfraNet Access Access and Identity Management Identity Management Toolkit Identity Management Landscape Studies Future look Innovation Projects

Joint Information Systems Committee Data Digitization Virtual Environments for Research in Archaeology

Joint Information Systems Committee Data Digitization VRE for Study of Ancient Documents and Manuscripts: e-Science and Ancient Documents:

Joint Information Systems Committee 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:

Joint Information Systems Committee 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: –Good: Example mashups: –JISC Rapid Innovation Projects: –VRERI:

Joint Information Systems Committee 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. –Open Science/Citizen Science allow public participation in the process e.g. Galaxy Zoo

Joint Information Systems Committee 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 -

Joint Information Systems Committee Changing Behaviour – JISC Research Data Management Programme Building support capacity within Universities –PegBoard ( Building support capacity within Research Groups Incentives –Data Publication and accreditation Overlay Journal Infrastructure for Meteorological Sciences (OJIMS) - DataCite - CODATA - Current funding call –Strand A: Citing, Linking and Integrating Research Data –Strand B: Innovative Publications for Research Data Digital Curation Centre – promoting good practice between Universities and Research Communities

Joint Information Systems Committee 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

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