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Navigating Data Science Challenges for NERC Research

Explore the implications, challenges, and strategic approaches for NERC in curating scientific data. Learn about open science trends, preservation choices, and the role of social networks in data sharing.

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Navigating Data Science Challenges for NERC Research

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  1. Curating the Scientific Record: The Challenges Ahead Dr Liz Lyon, Director, UKOLN Associate Director, UK Digital Curation Centre NERC Data Management Workshop, October 2007. UKOLN is supported by: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons LicenceAttribution-ShareAlike 2.0

  2. Overview • Open science: trends and drivers. • Preservation and curation choices for the scientist. • Implications & challenges for NERC?

  3. Open science: trends and drivers

  4. Open data: in the public domain…. ?

  5. Data usability: presentation and visualisation

  6. Sharing data: Uploads and Ratings…. ?

  7. Social networks for scientists

  8. “Big science”: data services beyond the discipline:multi-disciplinaryand public

  9. At the coalface: tagging & sharing workflows Astronomy, Bioinformatics, Chemistry, Social Science pilots. Universities of Manchester & Southampton

  10. Dr Cameron Neylon, STFC / Univ. Soton “Small science”: chemistry exemplar

  11. “Open Notebook Science” - Jean-Claude Bradley, Drexel Univ.

  12. New cohorts of postgraduates: millennials / Google generation

  13. Social networks mediating data-sharing User feeds or scraping data from your hard disk…. How far can this go?

  14. Preservation & curation choices for the scientist

  15. 8 Preservation / Curation choices? • Disciplinary data centre • Institutional / departmental / lab repository • Repository federation or network • Public repository • Web archiving service • Commercial data store - Amazon S3 service • Ecosystem of hosted lifebits services (Jon Udell) • None of these?

  16. Disciplinary model?

  17. Institutional model? Crystallography repositories at the University of Southampton

  18. Funder Data centres / aggregator services Advisory Scientist CreateDeposit Scientist IR Federation Curate Preserve Standards Policy AdvocacyTraining Harvest Collaborate Share Link Discover Re-use Link Publishers User eCrystals Federation Data Deposit Model Link

  19. Web archiving services

  20. Commercial data store?

  21. Microsoft Research SenseCam : life-logging Gordon Bell, Microsoft Research, MyLifeBits Project Hosted lifebits service for datacasts?

  22. Implications & Challenges for NERC?

  23. Strategic approaches & policy UKOLN Liz Lyon June 2007 35 Recs for JISC Roles, Rights, Responsibilities, Relationships:scientist, institution, data centre, user, funder, publisher What does this mean for NERC? RIN April 2007 5 Principles: Roles & responsibilities, standards & QA, access, usage & credit, benefits & cost-effectiveness, preservation & sustainability

  24. Data Strategy, Policy & Practice • “Strategic co-ordination with other research funding organisations:joint strategy development” • What is the NERC position on open science? • Is NERC-funded data published on scientific social networks? • What is NERC policy on data sharing using social networks? • Do data centres link to open data sources elsewhere? • How are science social networks embedded in the end-to-end workflow and data capture? • Barriers? Resistance to change? NERC Culture?

  25. Data re-use “Evaluate re-purposing of datasets”: how much NERC data is re-used? “Identify the significant properties which facilitate re-use?” ROI implications

  26. Sustainability and planning • “Commission a cost-benefit study of data curation & preservation infrastructure” • JISC Study on Research data preservation costs (by Feb 2008) • RIN study on Economics in the life-cycle of scholarly communications (Aug07-Jan08) • NSF / Mellon Blue Ribbon Task Force on economic sustainability of digital preservation Co-chairs, Fran Berman (SDSC) & Brian Lavoie (OCLC) over 2 years • NERC investment in data infrastructure should be linked to programme planning ? 5 year horizon ?

  27. Advocacy, Training and Skills • “Messages need to be clear and consistent” • NERC advocacy programmes? • The researcher has some curatorial responsibility • “A study is needed to examine the role & career development of data scientists” • NERC responsibility for training, skills and professional development • Community proxy role of the data curator? • Enhance data handling skills within the under-graduate curriculum • Millennials as native data scientists?

  28. Digital Curation Centrehttp://www.dcc.ac.uk/ • NERC partnerships: working with the DCC • SCARP project addressing disciplinary requirements • Data Centres Forum: exchange of experience • Advocacy programmes targeted at disciplines • Co-ordinating training to build workforce capacity • New science, new knowledge: data is the key

  29. Questions?Slides will be available at :http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/e.j.lyon/presentations.html

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