February 18 2015 NISO Virtual Conference Scientific Data Management: Caring for Your Institution and its Intellectual Wealth Network Effects: RMap Project Sheila M. Morrissey, Senior Researcher, ITHAKA

1. Network Effects: The RMap Project
NISO Virtual Conference
Scientific Data Management: Caring for Your Institution
and its Intellectual Wealth
18 February 2015
Sheila M. Morrissey
Portico

2. The Challenge

3. “Because none of us are really
working alone.” - Christine L. Borgman
http://stanford-ppl.github.io/Delite/optigraph/

4. Scholarly communication isn’t
just the article any more

5. http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2014/oclcresearch-evolving-
scholarly-record-2014.pdf

6. The article isn’t just the article
any more

8. DiSCO (Distributed Complex
Scholarly Object)
C-2
A-2
creator
D-2
cites
C-1
D-1
Publisher
Data
Repository
Software
Repository
S-1
creator
creator
source
outputOf
C-2
creator
C-2
A-2
creator
Identity
Provider
creator
D-2
S-1
creator
SA Article D DatasetC Creator Software

9. The Project

10. Partnership
Data Conservancy
(Johns Hopkins University)
Expertise in management of large data
data archives from multiple disciplines
disciplines
PI: Sayeed Choudhury
IEEE Expertise in content management and
and publishing systems
PI: Gerry Grenier
Portico Expertise in digital preservation,
publisher workflow requirements, and
and existing relationships with 240
publishers
PI: Kate Wittenberg

11. Funded by Alfred P.
Sloan foundation
A two-year project supported by a $602,000
grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Develop prototype services that build, store,
update, and retrieve the connections among
publications and data, and preserve those
connections over the long-term

12. Work Plan & Deliverables
Year One
June 2014-March 2015
Planning Phase:
• Gather requirements
• create use cases
• hold workshop (October 22,
2014 NYC) with stakeholders
• refine use scenarios based on
community feedback
Year Two
March 2015-June 2016
Prototype Development: Create
system to identify, store, update,
and retrieve relationships among
publications and their data

13. The Approach

14. Uses
Impact
Curation
Validation
Connection

15. Many to Many
Connections

16. RMap
Preservation
Services
Researcher
s
Funders
Academic
Institutions
Data
Repositorie
s
Registries
Publishers

17. RMap
Preservation
Services
Researcher
s
Funders
Academic
Institutions
Data
Repositorie
s
Registries
Publishers

18. Data Model

19. Linked data
<subject>
URI
<predicate>
URI
<object>
URI or
Literal
<
DOI:10.1109/ACCESS.2014.2332453>
<dc:title>
“Toward Scalable Systems for Big
Data Analytics: A Technology
Tutorial”

20. Statement
(triple)
Resource
(URI)
Scholarly
agent
Agent
profile
System
agent
EventDiSCO
Subject
is a
Created via
Aggregate of
Described
by
Created
by
Is a
Scholarly
artifact e.g.
article, dataset
Is a
Described byfunded by,
authored by
etc.
Object
can be
a

21. Statement
(triple)
Resource
(URI)
Scholarly
agent
Agent
profile
System
agent
DiSCO
Subject
is a
Created via
Aggregate of
Described
by
Created
by
Is a
Scholarly
artifact e.g.
article, dataset
Is a
Described byfunded by,
authored by
etc.
Object
can be
a
Event

22. Statement
(triple)
Resource
(URI)
Scholarly
agent
Agent
profile
System
agent
EventDiSCO
Subject
is a
Created via
Aggregate of
Described
by
Created
by
Is a
RDF
DCOAI-ORE
FOAF
PROV-O
Scholarly
artifact e.g.
article, dataset
Is a
Described byfunded by,
authored by
etc.
Object
can be
a

23. API:
RESTful Services

24. rmap:Statement https://rmap-
project.atlassian.net/
wiki/
Function HTTP API Path
Explain stmt API OPTIONS /api/{version}/stmt
Get stmt API status HEAD /api/{version}/stmt
Get stmt API info GET /api/{version}/stmt
Create stmt POST /api/{version}/stmt
Get stmt status HEAD /api/{version}/stmt/{stmtId}
Get stmt GET /api/{version}/stmt/{stmtId}
Update stmt PUT /api/{version}/stmt/{stmtId}
Delete stmt DELETE /api/{version}/stmt/{stmtId}
Read multiple stmts POST /api/{version}/stmt/list
Get related events GET /api/{version}/stmt/{stmtId}/events

25. “Because none of us are really
working alone.” - Christine L. Borgman
• Sayeed Choudhury, Tim DiLauro: Data Conservancy, Johns Hopkins
• Mark Donoghue, Gerry Grenier, Renny Guida, Ken Rawson: IEEE
• Vinay Cheruku, Karen Hanson, Amy Kirchhoff, John Meyer, Sheila
Morrissey, Stephanie Orphan, Jabin White, Kate Wittenberg: Portico
This research project is made possible through generous support from the
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
We thank our workshop participants for their valuable feedback

26. http://www.rmap-project.com
https://rmap-project.atlassian.net/wiki/
@rmapproject
rmap.project@gmail.com
Many thanks to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.