1. Open Data: projects, tools, initiatives Stuart Macdonald DISC-UK Datashare - http://www.disc-uk.org/datashare.html EDINA National Data Centre & Edinburgh University Data Library
Oxford and LSE both have data libraries, other orgs such as Warwick, Southampton, Strathclyde etc have in-depth statistical and data support roles embedded within library Support, access, troubleshoot, interpret documentation, merge users own data, match data with recognised sources using look-up tables etc
Sharing experience and expertise in our everyday work supporting researchers using, managing and accessing research data Builds on an international network with a tradition of data sharing and data archiving dating back to the 1960s in the social sciences The Skills, Role and Career Structure of Data Scientists and Curators – Alma Swan
Tony Hey and Anne Trefethen (‘The Data Deluge: An e-Science Perspective’ published 2003) What’s being said here is that due to rapid advances in ICT and in particular web technologies there’s more and more data (and I use the term fairly loosely) being produced both within academia So put in basic terms data is the engine that drives academic research
Funded by JISC Digital Repositories and Preservation Programme By working together across four universities and internally with colleagues already engaged in managing open access repositories for e-prints, New models, tools, mechanisms, methodologies
Continuum aims to ‘push’ data depositors/creators further up the ladder – to get them thinking about curation and preservation
move data to more cost effective storage, realise value through improved access and re-use Is scalable – research team / department / institution
Boundaries between websites and services are blurring – more and more content is remixable Tim O’reilly’s 7 principles of web 2.0 Jordan Hatcher’s Creative Commons and Open data Commons Embedding data librarianship / data science / data curation into the curriculum Alternative mechanisms for researchers to share data beyond the IR. Sharing and editing files, images, data, graphs, software, methodologies – this list is by no means exhaustive – just some examples (others include UsefulChem; SynapticLeap, the Orb project, OpenScienceGrid, eCrystals (at Southampton – Simon Coles)
Ostensibly consistent with the notions of Open Source, Open access and Open Data Advances in technologies, mergers, take overs, cease to exist histograms, scatter plots, regression, bar charts NGO/IGOs using utilities to upload their own data can create working groups, collaborative etc – Swivel/Data360 charge should users wish to impose restrictions on data
Entire system turning into both platform and global database - Twine / Freebase Swivel out performed others in terms of features, versatility and functionality with regards to depositing and analysing data Including data upload, data sharing, syndication, tagging, creative commons licence etc Downside – APIs not available
In addition to the geo-browsers such as Google earth, MS Virtual earth, NASA World Wind there are a whole range of standalone utilities Flickr – geo-reference Programmableweb – contains approx 1640 spatial mash-ups or APIs that utilise a range of web2.0 services and mapping products GEOCOMMONS Maker! enables you to create, publish and share maps. - see Platial / Mapbuilder / Mapufacture
Roll out KML along with ASCII 9CSV, tab delimited) research data for researchers SRON – satellite images of air pollution/greenhouse gases/UV radiation etc Track icebergs, glaciers onto a virtual globe Display real-time earthquakes and plate boundaries in Google Earth
Combining National Statistics geodemographic classifications (OACs) with ethnicity, deprivation, health data and Google Maps - ‘open geodemographics’ of urban areas Using the GMap Creator designed to make thematic mapping on the web. Remotely search for maps created using GMapCreator using MapTube
Pompeu Fabra – based on time, explicit locations and people’s descriptions of their photos - geovisualisations reveal patterns of tourists and indigenous population ‘consuming a city’ – such as the flow of people between attractions, the monuments area of influence, what is happening with day/night and working/weekend periodicity Choropleth maps, dot maps, cartograms, animated maps (temporal) A project (initialised by a master's thesis in GIS at University of Edinburgh) to investigate the use of geobrowsers for thematic mapping including temporal thematic mapping
MapGeneration Project – aim to collect data that people have recorded using their GPS-receivers from all over the world and combine it to create a digital road map that is freely available to all.