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UPData
A data curation experiment at the University of Porto
using DSpace
João Rocha da Silva FEUP
Cristina Ribeiro DEI- FEUP / INESC-Porto
João Correia Lopes DEI- FEUP / INESC-Porto
Eugénia Matos Fernandes U.PORTO Reitoria (Central Services)
Contents
• Motivation– Goals of the experiment
• Our users, the researchers– Researcher concerns & needs– Adding data curation to the research workflow
• Building a repository– Using DSpace for research data curation
• Conclusions
MOTIVATION
The “standard” research workflow
However…
GOALS
Evaluating the research data management effort
• Interviewing researchers in several areas• Collecting data samples• Documenting use cases for research data• Identifying data curation practices
Project Phases
Phase 1 : Interviews
Our users, the researchers
• …are not data preservation experts
• ...use many document formats
• ...create and gather data from many sources
Researcher concerns and needs
• Repositories cannot be “graveyards for data”, they have to provide effective ways to access the stored data
• Data has to be well annotated or else cannot be reused (experiment contexts, meanings of variables…)
• Better ways to find data (e.g. domain-specific restrictions and not just generic metadata)
Researcher concerns and needs
• Easy sharing of data (e.g. sending a link to the place where a user can find a specific dataset)
• Researchers can be cited by their peers through the datasets that they offer
• Ensuring reproducibility of scientific findings
Project Phases
Phase 2 : Determine
changes to current workflow
ADDING A DATA CURATION STEP TO THE RESEARCH WORKFLOW
The role of the “Data Curator”
Data curation meeting
Annotating data
After the meeting
Data+Metadata in Excel format
How other researchers will see it
• Explore• Filter• Download just what you need
Project Phases
Phase 3 : Build tools to
support the workflow
Project Phases
Phase 4 : Test tool
using real world
data
DATA DEPOSIT- DEMO
VIDEO 1
DATA EXPLORING AND DOWNLOAD- DEMO
VIDEO 2
FIND DATASETS- DEMO
VIDEO 3
Conclusions + Future Work
• Some data management requirements of the researchers at U.Porto have been analysed and approached
• Dspace has been successfully customized to include Data Exploration capabilities for tabular data
• Future Work• Gather feedback on the data repository extension from the
group of researchers who have been interviewed
Thank you
João Rocha da Silva [email protected]
Cristina Ribeiro [email protected]
João Correia Lopes [email protected]