The Dutch Approach to Research Data InfrastructurePeter Doorn (DANS), Marc Dupuis (SURF), Maurice Vanderfeesten (SURF)

ANDS Invitational Research Data Infrastructure Workshop, Prato, April 11-13, 2011

Data Archiving and Networked Services

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Overview

- The context: Dutch research data infrastructures and policies

- The role of SURF and DANS: achievements- SURF- DANS

- Future plans and requirements

Dutch research data infrastructures and policies

- Recent attempts to formulate a coherent government policy failed

- Nevertheless, strong building blocks do exist:- National Roadmap for Large-scale Research Facilities (first version 2008)

- Netherlands Coalition for Digital Preservation (since 2008)

- Big Grid (2008-2012)- 3TU.Datacentrum (since 2008)- Netherlands eScience Center (started 2011)- SURF (since 1986)- DANS (since 2005)

National Roadmap

- Connected to ESFRI Roadmap- First version: 2008- 25 facilities in five research domains- Six funded so far, others on the way (M€ 20

p.yr.)- Data (management, storage, quality,

standards, linking, metadata) issues play an important role in the majority of the infrastructures

- Update next summer/autumn (additional M€ 80)

Netherlands Coalition for Digital Preservation (NCDD)

Public sector organisations whose remit includes long-term access to digital data:

- Royal Library- DANS- National Archives- Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision- Museum/cultural sector

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Big Grid

- Collaboration between NCF, Nikhef and NBIC- Nation-wide grid-based e-Science research

infrastructure to manage the distributed data explosion- Grid-enabled data storage and processing facilities

- Human support for many scientific disciplines, ranging from particle physics and life sciences to social sciences and humanities

3TU.Datacentrum

- Center of Exellence of the 3TU.Federation (3 Technical

Universities

- Data archive specific for technical-scientific research

- Mission: permanent accessibility of technical-scientific

research data. Engaging data storage during research

programs and projects. And provide access to data stored

elsewhere in the world.

- Store: Long-term Sustainability provides Research

Reliability; Long term data management

- Access: Search and Reuse; access rights management

- Cite: DOI and DataCite ; labeling with a familiar brand

- Impact: connecting datasets to publications with Enhanced

Publications increases impact: info:doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000308

- http://datacentrum.3tu.nl

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Netherlands eScience Center

- Initiative by SURF and NWO (Research Funding Organisation for Dutch HE)

- Focus on multi-disciplinary and data-intensive scientific and scholarly research

- Stimulate innovation of research using ICT

- Link to eHumanities Group of KNAW (Royal Dutch Academy of Arts & Sciences)

- Budget is 6 M€ per year

SURF

- Dutch organisation for ICT in higher education and research (age: 25 years!)

- Membership organisation with over 60 members paying an annual fee

- Latest strategic plan covers the years 2011-2014- Main pillars of SURF:

- SURFfoundation (general innovation department)- SURFnet (high capacity academic network provider)

- SURFdiensten (services and licensing)- SURFfoundation’s three main programmes:

- e-Research- e-Learning- e-Administration

SURF e-Research data activities

SURF facilitates/supports/chairs/manages- Working group of repository managers- Research Data Forum

- Guidelines for storing and preserving data

- DiPPP (Data in Publicly Private Projects)- Explores implications of Open Access for research data and usage rights

- CARDS project- Supports researchers in storing and managing data

SURF and e-Research

- e-Research programme has its own multi-year programme

- Current SURFshare programme ends 31/12/11- Main fields of interest:

- Enhanced publications- Collaboratories- Infrastructure and architecture- Data management

Data Archiving and Networked Services

- Mission: providing permanent access to research data

- Founded in 2005 by the KNAW and NWO, but roots go back to 1964

- Focus area: humanities and social sciences (sociology, political science, geography, history, archaeology, language and literature studies)

- Discipline-independent activities and services: Data Seal of Approval, persistent identifiers, etc.

Online archiving system

NARCIS.nl: Research Information

www.volkstellingen.nl

Shipping logs in the Golden Century

5 Criteria16 guidelines

The research data:- can be found on the

Internet- are accessible (clear

rights and licenses)- are in a usable format- are reliable- can be referred to

(persistent identifier)

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Data Seal of Approval

Joint SURF-DANS activities

- Persistent Identifier Infrastructure (URN - PERSID)

- Knowledge Exchange - OpenAire- Research Data Forum- Several “Enhanced Publication” projects- Several studies & reports about aspects of

data infrastructure- Legal issues & data licenses- CARDS (Controlled Access to Research

Data Stored securely) project to find solutions for “orphaned data”

Challenges and policy priorities for the future

SURF:- Support researchers with enhanced publications

- Bring research data management (storage, preservation, access, sharing) in the centre of the focus

- Help HEIs to make appropriate use of cloud solutions

- Encourage further collaboration between HEIs in the national context

- Collaborate with international (primarily European) partners, in particular the Knowledge Exchange consortium (NL, DE, DK, UK)

Challenges and policy priorities for the future

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DANS strategic goals 2011-2015:- Connecting content and community: data, publications, research informa-tion (researchers, projects, institutes)

- Expanding services to domains outsideof SSH (eg. technical universi-ties, healthcare research)

- Research into Data Life Cycle (creating, enriching, processing, storing, accessing)

- International collaboration in European & World Wide Research Infrastructures

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Thank you for your attention!

Peter.Doorn@dans.knaw.nlDupuis@surf.nlVanderfeesten@surf.nl

www.dans.knaw.nlwww.surf.nl