The Now and Future of Data Publication 2013#nfdp13 - http://nfdp13.jiscinvolve.org/wp/

Simon Hodson - Jisc

Housekeeping, Practicalities

No fire drill scheduled – if fire alarm sounds, it is real!

Exits clearly signed

We are at capacity, please use all available seats!

Breaks, lunch and reception in Ruth Deech Building

Parallel sessions 2 and 4 in the Tzuzuki Lecture Theatre, in the Ruth Deech Building

Webex

1. The presentation is being recorded

2. The remote participants are muted so that background noise and conversation does not interrupt the presentations.

3. Remote participants are welcome to submit questions on the chat window at any time. These will be addressed during the question and answer sessions.

4. We will post the URL for panel 2 of the parallel panel session before the panels begin at 14:00. Participants who wish to attend panel 1 should remain connected to the main Webex meeting and participants who wish to attend panel 2 should join the Webex meeting at alternate URL.

Royal SocietyScience as an Open Enterprise Report, 2012

‘how the conduct and communication of science needs to adapt to this new era of information technology’.

‘As a first step towards this intelligent openness, data that underpin a journal article should be made concurrently available in an accessible database. We are now on the brink of an achievable aim: for all science literature to be online, for all of the data to be online and for the two to be interoperable.’

Royal Society June 2012, Science as an Open Enterprise, http://royalsociety.org/policy/projects/science-public-enterprise/report/

Data and Research Practice

‘publishing an article without at the same time making the data/evidence available is

scientific malpractice’

[Geoffrey Boulton at KE Workshop, ‘Making Data Count’

http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/Default.aspx?ID=576

]

‘Publishing research without data is advertising, not science’

[Twitter, #solo12data]

Reasons for research data availability?

We want research data to be available for many good reasons…– Verification of research findings / Deterrence of fraud

– Reproducibility of research / Science as a self-correcting process

– Benefits of data reuse: asking new questions of old data: return on investment

– Metastudies/systematic review: greater statistical value of integrated results.

– Integration of data in interdisciplinary research: the grand challenges require multiple data sets

– Analysis over vast quantities of data, at ‘webscale’

Visions of Future Research Practice

http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/rdm/

Lincoln Orbital Project: Joining up Institutional Systems: http://orbital.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/2012/12/06/orbital-deposit-of-dataset-records-to-the-lincoln-repository-workflow/

So what is stopping us?

Barriers?

Why data publishing?

Promising Signs…

575 data repositories listed on DataBib http://databib.org/

Data repository initiatives; data sharing protocols, agreements, standards.

Data papers and data journals being launched.

JorD project http://jordproject.wordpress.com/ reports that nearly 50% of journals sampled have a data availability policy of some sort (though only 25% of these can be characterised as ‘strong’).

Why are new data publishing initiatives emerging and what are the benefits?

How may we ensure that current initiatives are sustainable, and what policy and funding measures are necessary?

If data publishing is to promote good research, what metrics and rewards should be in place?How do we ensure quality and trust in data publishing?

How do we achieve the benefits of making data available at scale for machine processing (might the analogy with publishing hamper this objective)?

What are the challenges facing data publication? Are the right partners involved?

What is the optimal future of data publication?

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