1. May the Source and its Outputs be with you! Graham Pryor & Ken Miller
StORe Wars
May the Source and its Outputs be with you!
Graham Pryor & Ken Miller

2. May the Source and its Outputs be with you! Graham Pryor & Ken Miller
StORe Wars
May the Source and its Outputs be with you!
Graham Pryor & Ken Miller

3. StORe Log, May 16 2007 The mission Explorations and discoveries
A charted course
Into the Web
Secure and control
Bi-directional transports
A new hope

4. Mission
Seamless transport from research data to research publications and vice versa
Bi-directional links proven in social science e-research
Capable of export to other domains

5. Explorations and discoveries
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Questionnaire and interviews
Self sufficiency
Risky data management practices
Recognition of the value and demands of metadata
Support for open access principle
Caution over data access and ownership
Personal networking

6. Explorations and discoveries
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Opportunities to
Explore a deeper level of detail
Validate experiments (viz Chang’s nightmare)
Track the use and improvement of research output
Identify collaborators
Confirm completeness of information searches
Supplement published papers
Potential risks from
Uncertainty of peer review
Premature dissemination
Subversion of scholarly paper
Scavenging
Lack of interpretative data

7. Explorations and discoveries
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Sufficient consensus to proceed with design
Two-way links endorsed as advantageous (85%)
Need to avoid bureaucratic structures and rules
Sharing of data a fundamental principle but usually conducted on an individual basis
Need simplicity and standards for metadata
Simple Google-type searching preferred
Self-management preferred to intermediation

8. A charted course
Web 2.0 approach, similar to services like Flickr or MySpace, gives control to the researcher
Researchers determine which items are public / private
Researchers form collaborations with colleagues / ‘friends’
Researchers select items for deposit and for publication
Permanent links created between publications and underlying data
Based on federations of institutional repositories and data archives
Simple process for assignment of metadata
Searchable metadata assigned at collection level inherited by items within the collection
Collection owners add individual items plus minimum additional metadata (e.g. titles)

9. Into the Web

10. The Institutional Repository
Into the Web
The Federation
The Institutional Repository
The Source Repository
The Output Repository

11. Secure and control

12. Secure and control

13. Bi-directional transports

14. Bi-directional transports

15. A new hope
KISS
KISS
KISS
KISS
Keep It Simple Stupid

16. Thank you – Any questions?