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Amy West

Developing the Capability and Skills to Support eResearch - 0 views

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  • Of particular concern to this article is the need for improved levels of data stewardship to enable good data management for long-term sustainability, both at national and institutional levels.
  • researchers, particularly those engaged in data-intensive research; systems developers, data scientists and other technical staff; data managers of institutional repositories, data archives and discipline-based data centres and their support staff, with those who liaise between depositors and the repository as being of particular interest; and those who are engaged in high-level policy formulation, either in government or research institutions.
  • Interviews were conducted with twelve key established researchers in six Australian institutions, with a focus on academics engaged in data-intensive research. Interviews were conducted also with the manager of a large data centre, and a repository administrator. The institutions concerned were the Australian National University, the University of Melbourne, the University of Tasmania, the University of Queensland, the University of Sydney and one area of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).
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  • There was wide agreement that there are three types of skills required for practitioners of eResearch, their support staff and repository staff. Not surprisingly, there was a strong need for technical skills. Perhaps not as obvious was the identification of a wide range of non-technical skills. Less obvious again was mention of an assortment of personal qualities, which, while not skills in the formal sense of the term, were singled out as being important.
  • The surveys indicated that not everyone needs the same level of technical skills to conduct or support eResearch.
  • So you need a basic literacy level to look after your computers where you’re storing your data, and then in order to access, like a remote repository, you need to know something about how to connect to that remote repository, what the format of the data should be to go in it, how to convert your data to that required format
  • included skills related to high-performance computing (HPC) and the access grid, data (and database) management, data curation, information engineering, information modelling, software development, remote communications, distributed processing, informatics, portal design, computational fluid dynamics, database integration, visualisation and programming of all kinds.
  • Some of these skills are tightly connected to specific disciplines, especially informatics.
  • The need for technical skills is allied to the ability to understand end-to-end workflows, especially for repository managers and developers who need to be able to think like the researcher and to apply that understanding to developing the repository. By workflows, I mean the many software applications, processing operations and interactions required for research tasks to be carried through to completion.
  • The group of librarians at ‘The Researcher Librarian Nexus’ workshop identified a need for further development of their technical skills, mentioning in particular metadata, something which did not feature among any of the other responses, other than by implication.
  • These vary from skills in data analysis (including the use of statistical packages and other techniques such as data mining) through information seeking to a broader range of general skills. Project management, business analysis, communications, negotiation, intellectual property, team building and train the trainer were mentioned specifically. Another was generic problem solving, because, as one researcher aptly put it, the kinds of problems which arise when undertaking eResearch mean that ‘There’s never going to be someone who has done it before.’
  • The librarians involved with the Researcher/Librarian Nexus workshop also identified it as being of high priority for repository managers, along with marketing, advocacy, copyright, metadata, educational outreach and grant submission writing. They also singled out the intriguing skill of ‘researcher management’ while not specifying precisely what this might entail.
  • A good grasp of copyright and intellectual property issues was seen as essential,
  • These were listed as: open-mindedness, patience and an ‘ability to cooperate and collaborate rather than compete’
  • For example, one researcher, in the field of finance told me of his need for programmers who have a high level of expertise in economics, econometrics, statistics, maths and programming; ‘otherwise all the programming expertise doesn’t really help because then they make strange assumptions in their coding that just result in nonsense output.’
  • One solution to the need to bridge the disciplinary gap is to use graduate students to help with the technical aspects, where those students have an interest and aptitude for this kind of work. In some cases this might be done by providing scholarships, the students then graduating with a PhD on the basis their contribution to the research project has been of sufficient originality to warrant the degree.
  • The barrier to research most often mentioned was the difficulty in assembling all the skills required to conduct a project, particularly in relation to data management and stewardship. In some cases the gap is organisational, as happens for example when the researcher is either unaware of or unable to tap into the skills of a central IT unit. More often the gap was in a lack of understanding of what each group needs, what each has to offer and where responsibilities lie. Examples of this can be seen in comments like the following:
  • For instance if you’ve got data in say NetCDF file formats and the repository wants it in TIFF format, well you need to know something about the technicality of getting your data from NetCDF format into TIFF format.
  • The humanities and social sciences are notable areas where the take-up rate of eResearch has been slower than, for example, in the hard sciences, and where there have been calls for exemplars to be publicised. Many practitioners in the humanities and social sciences find it difficult to envisage where their work might fit into the concept of eResearch.
  • Few researchers are aware that there are such things as repositories, so it is important that the repository is seen as (and indeed is) ‘a good repository – that it’s good in the sense of its high quality but also good in that it adds value for [the researcher].’
  • If research institutions are to minimise the gap between the ideals and realities of eResearch, there is some way to go in providing both institutional capacity and appropriately qualified individuals. While eResearch is dependent on good ICT infrastructure, this is not sufficient in itself. The results of the survey outlined here show that capacity in information technology skills is important but must be accompanied by a range of non-technical skills in such areas as project management. Equally important is the creation of research environments which are covered by well-propagated and understood policies, which are appropriately organised into structures with clearly delineated roles and responsibilities and which minimise the current barriers experienced by many researchers.
David Govoni

European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics | ERCIM - 0 views

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    ERCIM aims to foster collaborative work within the European research community and to increase co-operation with European industry. Leading research institutes from twenty European countries are members of ERCIM.
David Govoni

Earth System Grid (ESG) - 0 views

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    "The Earth System Grid (ESG) integrates supercomputers with large-scale data and analysis servers located at numerous national labs and research centers to create a powerful environment for next generation climate research. This portal is the primary poin
Lisa Johnston

Open science at web-scale: Optimising participation and predictive potential : JISC - 0 views

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  • Lisa Johnston on 12 Jan 10
     
    This report has attempted to draw together and synthesise evidence and opinion associated with data-intensive open science from a wide range of sources. The potential impact of data-intensive open science on research practice and research outcomes, is both substantive and far-reaching. There are implications for funding organisations, for research and information communities and for higher education institutions.
Lisa Johnston

Digital Curation Centre: DCC SCARP Project - 0 views

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  • Lisa Johnston on 25 Jan 10
     
    18 January 2010 | Key perspectives | Type: report The Digital Curation Centre is pleased to announce the report "Data Dimensions: Disciplinary Differences in Research Data Sharing, Reuse and Long term Viability" by Key Perspectives, as one of the final outputs of the DCC SCARP project. The project investigated attitudes and approaches to data deposit, sharing and reuse, curation and preservation, over a range of research fields in differing disciplines. The synthesis report (which drew on the SCARP case studies plus a number of others, identified in the Appendix), identifies factors that help understand how curation practices in research groups differ in disciplinary terms. This provides a backdrop to different digital curation approaches.
Amy West

Open access to research data a lot tougher than you think - 2 views

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  • It means that researchers need to deal with the formatting and deposition of data, an annoying step when they would rather be focusing on their next project. Given the time lag, it's also difficult to associate the correct metadata with the material that's being a
  • According to the commentary, scientists view data deposition as a burden due to the extra work it involves. Research data is usually not in the correct format for submission to repositories when the project is completed, and so the scientist must take the time to convert it.
  • The authors here propose a new approach to data management, where each research institution should employ data managers to work with scientists and administer local, structured data storage. Local storage and support is the preference of most scientists, who would rather not hand off control of their data to remote strangers.
Amy West

Liveblog: BRDI: Author Deposit Mandates for Federal Research Grantees : Gavin Baker - 0 views

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  • DC Principles Coalition: We believe in free access to science, within the constraints of our business models.
  • The public doesn’t need access to the full articles
  • The problem is that consumers want everything for free.
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  • Repositories can do all the functions of journals except quality control, and we don’t want government doing that.
  • Social sciences often left out of discussions about data curation, open access, etc.
  • We could argue that taxpayers paid for the research in general, not necessarily each publication.
  • But the Public Access Policy requires the peer-reviewed manuscript, not the one after which the publishers add value. The America COMPETES model, for un-peer-reviewed grant proposals, is almost useless to the public. In health, you want the refereed results, not the grantee’s report to the agency.
  • If journals can’t survive, from an economic perspective, that’s not harm — it’s just a failure to adapt.
  • Journal growth trends with funding for researchers. As universities want to be more prestigious, they aim to publish more. Trying to have access to everything requires too much money — you have to prioritize.
David Govoni

Cyberinfrastructure Technology Watch | CTWatch | CIP - 0 views

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    "... an online venue designed to engage the science and engineering research community in the news, ideas, and information surrounding the emergence of cyberinfrastructure as the essential foundation for advanced scientific inquiry."
David Govoni

Scratchpads | Biodiversity Online - 0 views

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    "Scratchpads are an easy to use, social networking application that enable communities of researchers to manage, share and publish taxonomic data online. Sites are hosted at the Natural History Museum London, and offered free to any scientist that complet
Amy West

DOE DATA EXPLORER - 0 views

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    Use the DOE Data Explorer (DDE) to find scientific research data - such as computer simulations, numeric data files, figures and plots, interactive maps, multimedia, and scientific images - generated in the course of DOE-sponsored research in various science disciplines.
David Govoni

Open Science Grid Home page - 0 views

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    "A national, distributed computing grid for data-intensive research."
David Govoni

iSGTW - International Science Grid This Week - 0 views

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    "A weekly newsletter promoting grid computing, iSGTW shares stories of grid-empowered research, scientific discoveries, and grid technology from around the world. The iSGTW weekly e-newsletter is emailed free to subscribers and is also available via RSS."
David Govoni

Science Environment for Ecological Knowledge (SEEK) - 0 views

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    "The Science Environment for Ecological Knowledge (SEEK) is a five year initiative designed to create cyberinfrastructure for ecological, environmental, and biodiversity research and to educate the ecological community about ecoinformatics. SEEK participa
David Govoni

CTWatch Quarterly | CIP - 0 views

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    "CTWatch Quarterly is an online journal that focuses on cyberinfrastructure related research critical to collaboration and information dissemination within the science community as a whole. Each issue of CTWatch centers on a topic with currency and import
Lisa Johnston

Chronopolis -- Digital Preservation Program -- Long-Term Mass-Scale Federated Digital P... - 0 views

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    The Chronopolis Digital Preservation Demonstration Project, one of the Library of Congress' latest efforts to collect and preserve at-risk digital information, has been officially launched as a multi-member partnership to meet the archival needs of a wide range of cultural and social domains. Chronopolis is a digital preservation data grid framework being developed by the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego , the UC San Diego Libraries (UCSDL) , and their partners at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Colorado and the University of Maryland's Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) . A key goal of the Chronopolis project is to provide cross-domain collection sharing for long-term preservation. Using existing high-speed educational and research networks and mass-scale storage infrastructure investments, the partnership is designed to leverage the data storage capabilities at SDSC, NCAR, and UMIACS to provide a preservation data grid that emphasizes heterogeneous and highly redundant data storage systems.
umgeoglib

Project MUSE - Library Trends - Volume 57, Number 2, Fall 2008 - 0 views

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    4 Articles related to data curation/data management: At the Watershed: Preparing for Research Data Management and Stewardship at the University of Minnesota Libraries Case Study in Data Curation at Johns Hopkins University Shedding Light on the Dark Data in the Long Tail of Science Institutional Repositories and Research Data Curation in a Distributed Environment
David Govoni

SciVee | Make Your Research Known Through Videos, Pubcasts and Postercasts - 0 views

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    Science education-oriented multimedia pubcasting, postercasting, and videocasting service.
Amy West

2011AGUworkshop - Federation of Earth Science Information Partners - 1 views

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earth science data management training

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  • Amy West on 12 Dec 11
     
    All the presentations are good, but I found the Data formats, Creating documentation & metadata, working w/an archive & preservation strategies particularly good. Solid examples of formats, metadata, and real-life preservation. Plus, as mgs of UDC/AgEcon, hopefully more archives over time, I think we should look hard at what they tell researchers to look for in an archive.
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