The presentation titled "Open Research Data Frameworks: Lessons for the Global South" was delivered in the National Symposium on Improving eGovernance using Big Data Analytics, held at Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India, on 28th February 2017. The symposium was a run up event of ICEGOV2017 (10th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance), held at New Delhi. I briefly discussed the global initiatives such as UNESCO's Global Open Access Portal (GOAP), Re3Data.org (Registry of Research Data Repositories), GODAN (Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition), Research Data Alliance (RDA), ICSSR Data Service, and self-archiving of scientific data on data repositories.

1. Open Research Data Frameworks:
Lessons for the Global South
Anup Kumar Das
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
http://anupkumardas.blogspot.in

2. Open Science: Importance
• To overcome the knowledge divides, we need
more cooperation across disciplines and across
borders to help governments develop more
effective and inclusive policies, North and South.
International networks, open data sources, co-
creation of knowledge, open access to publishing
and software – these are all vital to achieving
this.
Irina Bokova | Director-General of UNESCO
World Social Science Report 2016: Challenging
Inequalities: Pathways to a Just World

3. What is Open Science
• Open Science is the movement to make scientific research and data
accessible to all.
• It includes practices such as:
– Publishing Open Scientific Research,
– Campaigning for Open Access & Generally Making It Easier to
Publish, and
– Communicate Scientific Knowledge.
– Other Ways to Make Science More Transparent and Accessible
during the Research Process. This includes
• Open Science Notebook,
• Citizen Science,
• Aspects of Open Source Software,
• Crowdfunded Research Projects.
Source: Global Open Access Portal, UNESCO

4. Open Science Movement
• The many advantages of Open Science Movement include:
– Greater availability and accessibility of publicly funded
scientific research outputs;
– Possibility for rigorous peer-review processes;
– Greater reproducibility and transparency of scientific
works;
– Greater impact of scientific research.
Source: Global Open Access Portal (GOAP), UNESCO

5. Open Science Proliferation in Emerging
Economies/ BRICS Nations
Open
Science
Channel/
Country
No. of items in
Directory of
Open Access
Journals (DOAJ)
No. of items in
Directory of
Open Access
Scholarly
Resources
(ROAD)
No. of items in
Directory of
Open Access
Repositories
(OpenDOAR)
No. of items in
Registry of
Research Data
Repositories
(RE3Data.org)
Brazil 934 1142 92 6
Russia 163 533 28 19
India 265 1855 76 30
China 68 4 39 32
South Africa 62 135 32 5
Total 1492 3669 267 92
Data as on 27 February 2017.

6. Re3Data.org is a
global Registry of
Research Data
Repositories. The
registry covers
research data
repositories from
different academic
disciplines. It presents
repositories for the
permanent storage
and access of data
sets to researchers,
funding bodies,
publishers and
scholarly institutions.
It aims to promote a
culture of sharing,
increased access and
better visibility of
research data.

7. http://www.internationaldataweek.org/
Theme: From Big Data to Open Data: Mobilising the Data Revolution. IDW brings together
data scientists, researchers, industry leaders, entrepreneurs, policy makers and data stewards
to explore how best to exploit the data revolution to improve our knowledge and benefit
society through data-driven research and innovation.

8. The Research Data Alliance (RDA) (Rd-alliance.org) is an international organization focused
on the development of infrastructure and community activities aimed to reduce barriers to
data sharing and exchange, and promote the acceleration of data driven innovation
worldwide. RDA builds the social and technical bridges that enable global open sharing of
data.

9. GODAN.info (Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition): Challenging global
poverty and promoting food security through opening up data in agriculture and
nutrition for everyone. #OpenData #ICT4AG .
#GODAN is a rapidly growing network of over 363 partners from government,
international and private sector organisations all committed to making data relevant to
agriculture and nutrition available, accessible and usable worldwide.

10. • 15 Success Stories
from the Global
South

11. National Initiatives

12. ICSSR Data Service (ICSSRDataService.in) is culmination of signing of Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) between Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) and
Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI). The MoU provides for
setting-up of “ICSSR Data Service: Social Science Data Repository” and host NSS and ASI
datasets generated by MoSPI.

13. • Objectives
• To provide seamless and integrated access to a wide range of datasets generated
by the MoSPI, Social Science Institutions under direct purview of ICSSR, and other
Government organizations, to researchers who are looking for high quality social
and economic research datasets;
• To serve as a national data service for promoting powerful research environment
through sharing and reuse of data among social science community in India;
• To acquire, process, organize, preserve and host research data and its metadata
along with ETL (extract, transform and load) facilities of raw data in social sciences
and related domains collected from diverse sources for easy sharing and access;
• To facilitate online submission, access, search, browse, discovery, conversion,
analysis and visualization of data through intuitive interfaces;
• To impart training and spread awareness about benefits of data sharing and reuse
amongst social science research community in India; and
• Interact, cooperate and collaborate with other national and international data
services and repositories for data and resource sharing and improved
management of data services.

14. Data Portal of
India
• Data Portal of India (Data.Gov.In) was created to fulfil the
mandates of the National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy,
2012 (NDSAP).
• Aim of NDSAP
• To provide an enabling provision and platform for proactive and
open access to the data generated by various Government of India
entities.
• Objective of NDSAP
• To facilitate access to Government of India owned shareable data
(along with its usage information) in machine readable form
through a wide area network all over the country in a periodically
updatable manner, within the framework of various related policies,
acts and rules of Government of India, thereby permitting a wider
accessibility and usage by public.

15. Self-Archiving of Scientific Data in
Data Repositories

16. Figshare (Figshare.com) securely stores and manages your research outputs in
the cloud, or makes them openly available and citable (with a DOI) for free.
Research Data Management.

17. Dryad (DataDryad.org) is a Curated Repository that Makes the Data Underlying
Scientific Publications Discoverable, Freely Reusable, & Citable.

18. Dataverse.org
(Dataverse Project) is
a Web Application
for Sharing, Citing,
Analyzing and
Preserving Research
Data, created by
@IQSS, Harvard
University.

19. DataCite is a leading global non-profit organisation that provides persistent identifiers
(DOIs) for research data. Our goal is to help the research community Locate, Identify, and
Cite research data with confidence.
DataCite.org is a member-based organization that helps make data & other research
outputs more accessible by developing/supporting methods to locate & cite them.

20. Recommendations
• Research outcomes of the public funded research should be made
available:
– Open Access publications with Open licensing
– Open Research Data
• Encouraging Researchers to share/ publish their research data .
• Establishment of Open Data Repositories, both at the institutional and
funders’ level, and also subject-specific.
• Research Data Literacy programmes for the Researchers and Research
Scientists.
• Science Academies should collaborate for proliferation of open
research data/ open science initiatives.
• Research Academies and Research Funders in the Global South should
collaborate to make use of published Research Data.
• Need to integrate Open Research Data with the public sector
management, good governance and achieving the Sustainable
Development Goals.

21. Thank you for your kind attention.
http://anupkumardas.blogspot.in