1. Joint Information Systems Committee ‘UK national approaches to research data infrastructure’ ANDS Invitational RDI Workshop, Prato, 11 April 2011 Simon Hodson, s.hodson@jisc.ac.uk

2. Joint Information Systems Committee ‘UK national approaches to research data infrastructure’ The UK research data ‘ecology’ is necessarily hybrid and complex. Researchers. The Universities and other institutions in which they work. Computing services, academic libraries. Research Councils. National, International and Discipline data centres. Publishers, scholarly societies… JISC. HEFCE. Etc…

3. Joint Information Systems Committee ‘UK national approaches to research data infrastructure’ Funders’ policies. National data centres. JISC: University Modernisation Fund, Digital Curation Centre and Managing Research Data Programme. Rough gap analysis / state of play using ANDS Verbs.

4. Joint Information Systems Committee Infrastructure Drivers: Funders’ Policies Research funders’ policies form an important part of the research data ecology. In common with international developments requirements are becoming increasingly exacting. Many policy statements reference the OECD Principles and Guidelines for Access to Research Data from Public Funding: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/9/61/38500813.pdfhttp://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/9/61/38500813.pdf EPSRC shortly to release Policy Framework stating expectations concerning the Management of and Access to EPSRC-funded Research Data. Appears to place responsibility primarily with departments and centres to show they can manage and preserve data to adequate standards. New MRC policies on research data management and sharing being prepared. Joint RCUK policy to be released very soon.

5. Joint Information Systems Committee Joint RCUK Policy To be released in May… Outline provided by Juan Bicarregui at JISCMRD Workshop… Described as highest common factor rather than lowest common demominator… 1.Research data are a common public good; 2.Important to follow relevant best practice and community standards; 3.Importance of discovery and availability of metadata; 4.Policy recognising appropriate constraints, ensure research process is not damaged by inappropriate release; 5.Recognition and ‘reward’ for managing and sharing research data are essential; 6.Importance to acknowledgement and abide by terms and conditions for sharing and reuse; 7.Costs: it is appropriate to use public research funding for the management and archiving of research data. Infrastructure implications to be inferred rather than directly stated?

6. Joint Information Systems Committee New ESRC Research Data Policy, released Sept 2010, comes into force spring 2011: http://www.esrc.ac.uk/about-esrc/information/data-policy.aspx http://www.esrc.ac.uk/about-esrc/information/data-policy.aspx Introduces the requirement of a data management and sharing statement (J-eS) and a data management and sharing plan as part of the grant submission. Summary of requirements in new policy: –applicants must submit a statement on data sharing in the Je-S application form or provide explicit reasons why data sharing is not possible or appropriate; –applicants must provide a data management and sharing plan as part of their application; –the data management and sharing plan, and associated costs, will be reviewed as an integral part of the funding decision; –grant holders must make research data available for archiving with ‘the ESRC data service providers’ within three months of the end of the award; –ESRC will withhold the final payment of an award if data have not been offered for archiving to the required standard within three months of the end of the award; –waivers to this requirement will be granted only where sufficient evidence has been given demonstrating that data cannot be archived; –through its data service providers, ESRC will be responsible for post-award data management and preservation.

7. Joint Information Systems Committee BBSRC Statement, April 2007, updated June 2010: http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/web/FILES/Policies/data-sharing-policy.pdf http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/web/FILES/Policies/data-sharing-policy.pdf Principal change was explicitly to include systems biology ‘(specifically the models arising from systems approaches) as one of 3 areas where there is a particularly strong scientific case for sharing’. High throughput experiments and time series / cumulative or longitudinal studies being the other two. BBSRC requires applicants to submit a statement on data sharing, including concise plans for data management and sharing; or provide explicit reasons why data sharing is not possible or appropriate. Data to be made available with as few restrictions as possible in a timely and responsible manner; at the time of publication of major findings, and, in general, within three years of the end of grant. Research data should also be retained for a period of ten years after completion of a project. Costs of data management, preparation and sharing may be requested ‘as part of the full economic cost of a research project’. BBSRC funds/co-funds a number of resources for data preservation and sharing: http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/funding/facilities/resources.aspx http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/funding/facilities/resources.aspx

8. Joint Information Systems Committee National (and International) Data Centres

9. Joint Information Systems Committee JISC Activities HEFCE/JISC University Modernisation Fund Investment in Research Data Management DCC JISC Managing Research Data Programme

10. Joint Information Systems Committee UMF c.6.5M University Modernisation Fund (UMF) investment in research data infrastructure: –c.1.5M to JANET for brokerage of cloud environment; Eduserv providing test. –c.1.5M to expand DCC activity. –c.3.5M for Research Data Management tools (SaaS) to work with the cloud offer.

11. Because good research needs good data Funded by: Digital Curation Centre, JISC-funded centre of expertise in digital curation, providing guidance, national coordination: http://www.dcc.ac.ukhttp://www.dcc.ac.uk DCC Tools (more later) How-To Guides, ‘Appraisal’ and ‘Licensing’ so far: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/how- guideshttp://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/how- guides Outreach: Roadshows, Research Data Management Forum and International Digital Curation Conference (Bristol, Bristol, 5-7 Dec 2011): http://www.dcc.ac.uk/eventshttp://www.dcc.ac.uk/events Training: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/traininghttp://www.dcc.ac.uk/training

12. Joint Information Systems Committee JISC Managing Research Data Programme First set of projects started 18 months ago, October 2009 Total of 30 projects. Total investment of c.£4M from JISC. Some are projects are ending imminently; the remainder will finish between now and July. Most of the activity upstream of where the Data Centres operate; supporting researchers, Universities with RDM before deposit.

13. Joint Information Systems Committee JISCMRD Challenges Planning: There is little institutional support for funders requirements: how do I create an effective data management plan and how do I put it into action? Infrastructure: There is little effective infrastructure: storage, sharing and management tools are ad hoc. Support and Training: How well are researchers being prepared for data sharing? Help in meeting funders, institutions requirements? Incentives and Benefits: Why should I put effort into the data? What recognition and reward will I get for publishing 'my' data? Effective links between publications and data? Effective citation for data and inclusion in metrics?

14. Data Infrastructure Research Data Management Motivation Recognition Institutional Research Data Support Institutional Tools and Analysis National Co-ordination and Consultancy

15. Data Infrastructure Research Data Management Programme Motivation Recognition Institutional Research Data Support Institutional Tools and Analysis National Co-ordination and Consultancy RDMP CLIP IDMP/RDMTrain RDMI DCC

16. Joint Information Systems Committee JISCMRD Programme Structure Need to improve (and make a case for) data management planning. –Six projects producing case studies, guidance and model data management plans Need to develop RDM infrastructure in institutions, build evidence, provide examples to stimulate change. –Eight projects gathering requirements, designing infrastructure in the broad sense and implementing; also obtaining cost and benefits information; preparing business cases for project continuity. –Two support projects providing help with requirements gathering, obtaining cost-benefits evidence, business cases. Need to promote open publication of data and develop mechanisms for this. –Eight projects exploring means of citing, linking, integrating and publishing data, and demonstrating the benefits. Need to develop training materials to improve capacity and skills in the sector. –Five project designing discipline focussed data management training units for PG courses –One support project, guidance and stakeholder engagement.

17. Data Sharing Verbs for Discovery and Reuse ands.org.au

18. Joint Information Systems Committee Infrastructure Elements (view from JISC) Planning Tools [Plan] Systems and tools for data capture, data management [Create/Capture, Describe] Data storage [Store] Discovery infrastructure [Describe, Identify, Register] Long term preservation [Preserve]

19. Joint Information Systems Committee Planning Tools [Plan] Guidance from JISCMRD Projects –Sudamih: http://sudamih.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ ; http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/rdm/http://sudamih.oucs.ox.ac.uk/http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/rdm/ –Incremental: http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/preservation/incremental/index.html (see Cambridge and Glasgow websites)http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/preservation/incremental/index.html DCC Tools: –DMPonline, planning tool incorporating funders’ requirements: http://dmponline.dcc.ac.uk/http://dmponline.dcc.ac.uk/ –CARDIO (Collaborative Assessment of Research Data Infrastructure and Objectives), institutional/departmental self assessment tool, designed for research data managers: http://cardio.dcc.ac.uk http://cardio.dcc.ac.uk KRDS Costing Framework: http://www.beagrie.com/krds.phphttp://www.beagrie.com/krds.php UKDA Data Management Costing Tool (ESRC Centres and Programmes): http://www.data- archive.ac.uk/media/257647/ukda_jiscdmcosting.pdfhttp://www.data- archive.ac.uk/media/257647/ukda_jiscdmcosting.pdf More work on planning and costing for Universities required.

20. Joint Information Systems Committee Data Capture / Data Management Infrastructure [Create/Capture, Describe] JISC Managing Research Data RDM Infrastructure Projects: e.g. –ADMIRAL: http://imageweb.zoo.ox.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/ADMIRALhttp://imageweb.zoo.ox.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/ADMIRAL –I2S2: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/projects/I2S2/http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/projects/I2S2/ –FISHnet: http://www.fishnetonline.org/homehttp://www.fishnetonline.org/home –MaDAM: http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/projects/madam/http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/projects/madam/ Open Source Projects: e.g. OMERO http://openmicroscopy.org/site/products/omerohttp://openmicroscopy.org/site/products/omero –See Data Management for Bio-Imaging Project: http://dmbi.nbi.bbsrc.ac.uk/index.php/Main_Pagehttp://dmbi.nbi.bbsrc.ac.uk/index.php/Main_Page UMF Funding for national SaaS Tools… A lot of work still to be done…

21. Joint Information Systems Committee Data Storage UMF Funding for national cloud storage provision: c.1.5M for JANET/Eduserv brokerage service. Some Universities looking at providing more competitively priced storage, hosting, as a central service, e.g.: Leicester, UCL, Bristol. But… how much capacity, how competitive…? Competitive advantage vs national shared service? Still need to think seriously about selection and appraisal; online / offline etc. Relates to costing work…

22. Joint Information Systems Committee Discovery Infrastructure (1) Data Centre / Archive catalogues e.g.: –NERC Data Discovery Service (cross-searching NERC data centres): http://data-search.nerc.ac.uk/http://data-search.nerc.ac.uk/ –UKDA / ESDS Catalogue: http://www.esds.ac.uk/Lucene/Search.aspxhttp://www.esds.ac.uk/Lucene/Search.aspx DCC Registry of Data Management Plans (part of UMF programme). DCC scoping Metadata Registry/Data Discovery Service on the lines of Research Data Australia (part of UMF programme). Currently not particularly well addressed by JISC; area where scoping and coordination is required in the UK…

23. Joint Information Systems Committee Discovery Infrastructure (2) Data Citation: –Guidelines, UKDA: http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/conditions/citing-data ; Incremental: http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/dataman/pages/citations.html - don’t mention DOIs.http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/conditions/citing-data http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/dataman/pages/citations.html –BL DataCite User Groups; JISC to collaborate on workshops and guidance. Identifiers: –Object/Data Identifiers: e.g. DataCite DOIs –Person / Party Identifiers: e.g. ORCID –Various JISC projects and collaborations exploring these: SageCite, ACRID, Data publications: –DRYAD(-UK); XYZ; DataBlogs… Discovery through semantic relationships, linking… –Citation Typing Ontology: http://purl.org/spar/cito/ ; Semantic Publishing and Referencing (SPAR) Ontologies: http://purl.org/spar/http://purl.org/spar/cito/http://purl.org/spar/ –Mons et al. ‘Value of Data…’, Nanopublications’, Nature Genetics http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v43/n4/full/ng0411-281.html http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v43/n4/full/ng0411-281.html An area particularly dependent on international developments… To what extent can we learn from lessons of research infrastructure for publications?

24. Joint Information Systems Committee Long term preservation [Preserve] National Data Centres, of course. *Some* role for institutions, but what capacity, skills are there, are required? JISC Preservation Programme JISC needs to work with National Data Centres; exchanging knowledge between centres of excellence and HEIs

25. Joint Information Systems Committee JISCMRD Programme Communications JISC Website: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/mrd.aspxhttp://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/mrd.aspx Programme Netvibes: http://www.netvibes.com/jiscmrd#Generalhttp://www.netvibes.com/jiscmrd#General Programme Blog: http://researchdata.jiscinvolve.org/http://researchdata.jiscinvolve.org/ Community discussion list: RESEARCH-DATAMAN@JISCMAIL.AC.UKRESEARCH-DATAMAN@JISCMAIL.AC.UK List for programme management information, message to/between projects: JISCMRD@JISCMAIL.AC.UK JISCMRD@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Tag: #jiscmrd