OpenAIREplus workshop - “Linking Open Access publications to data – policy development and implementation” (June 11, 2012)

1. Vision for Open Research Data
Oya Y. Rieger
Cornell University Library
rieger@cornell.edu
June 2012, Copenhagen

2. Research involves the systematic collection and analyses of information to
increase our understanding of the phenomenon under study
source: flicker.com

3. Scholarly communication involves the creation, exchange,
and dissemination of knowledge within the context of
academic discourse.
Analysis
Interpretation
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Authoring
Presenting
Research
Data Collection
KNOWLEDGE
CREATION
Sharing
Networking
Archiving
Preservation
Publishing
Dissemination

4. Access to Research Data
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support open scientific inquiry
encourage diversity of hypotheses & data analysis
encourage interdisciplinary research
provide greater returns for public investment in
research
facilitate the education of new researchers
foster downstream commercialization of outputs
support studies on data collection & analysis methods
engage public in science
Arzberger et al., “Promoting Access to Public Research Data for Scientific,
Economic, and Social Development.” Data Science Journal, 3/29, 2004

6. http://data.research.cornell.edu

7. http://data.research.cornell.edu

8. Steinhart et al., Journal of eScience Librarianship, 2012; 1(2)

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Steinhart et al., Journal of eScience Librarianship, 2012; 1(2)

10. What might prevent you from sharing the data you have produced or
intend to produce for this project?
Steinhart et al., Journal of eScience Librarianship, 2012; 1(2)

11. The Loon Project (Funded by NSF)

12. flickr.com

13. http://www1.chapman.edu/~wpiper/index.html

15. http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu/handle/1813/13098

16. http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu/handle/1813/13098

17. Carrol
http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu/handle/1813/17040

18. http://www.cornell.edu/video/index.cfm?VideoID=1166

19. Loon Project

20. technical
informational
usability
organizational
sociocultural

21. technical infrastructure
• scalable and flexible systems to store,
discover, access, and archive content
• interoperability standards to link related
information objects and various types of
repositories
• metadata standards to facilitate discovery,
access, archiving, and repurposing

22. sociocultural issues
• community-based standards for deposit, use,
and maintenance of data
• different access provisions in support of
academic, and entrepreneurial requirements
• incentives and rewards for scientists to share
the outputs of their research endeavors

23. information policies
• information policies to support:
– IPR
– privacy
– confidentiality
– institutional ownership
– security
– access limitations
– retention and deaccessioning

24. organizational infrastructure
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business and sustainability plans
governance models
recognition and engagement of stakeholders
collaboration strategies
communication and marketing strategies

25. usability
• data quality standards
• ease of deposit to encourage end-users
• tools to support analytics, mining, integration,
and visualization
• digital identifiers to persistently locate
• citation standards to reference resources
• metrics to track and communicate impact

26. technical
informational
usability
organizational
sociocultural