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BoF: Adopting Outputs from the Research Data Alliance
Stefanie Kethers, Andrew Treloar, Lesley Wyborn, Natasha Simons andAndrew Bowness
BoF at eResearch Australasia 2016
Adopting Outputs from the Research Data Alliance
Stefanie Kethers, Andrew Treloar, Lesley Wyborn, Natasha Simons,Andrew Bowness
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Outline● Introduction - 10 minutes
▪ The Research Data Alliance (RDA)▪ Adoptable RDA Outputs
● Adoption Stories - 5 minutes each▪ The Research Data Switchboard (Lesley Wyborn)▪ 23 Things: Libraries for Research Data (Natasha Simons)
● An Organisational Perspective and Analysis of RDA Outputs (Andrew Bowness) - 10 minutes
● Discussion - 25 minutes: What are your needs with regards to e.g.▪ Finding out about RDA Outputs▪ Adopting RDA Outputs
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Research Data Alliance (RDA)● Vision
Researchers and innovators openly share data across technologies, disciplines, and countries to address the grand challenges of society.
● MissionRDA builds the social and technical bridges that enable open sharing of data.
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Research Data Alliance (RDA)● Membership
▪ > 4,300 members from 111 countries▪ 45 organisational members, 6 affiliates
● WGs / IGs● 28 Working Groups● 44 Interest Groups● Group Topics include:
▪ Discipline-specific (Agriculture, Chemistry, Marine, …)▪ Basic Infrastructure (Persistent Identifiers, Data Type Registries, …)▪ Socio-technical (Legal Interoperability, Archives & Records
Professionals, Education, Ethics & Social Aspects of Data, …)
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Adoptable RDA Outputs● RDA WGs have produced 12 Recommendations so far, 8 of which have
already been endorsed by the RDA.▪ Recommendations undergo a review process, including a community
review▪ Endorsement depends on adoptability
● Recommendations / Outputs include: ▪ Basic infrastructure / technology (e.g. Data Type Model and Registry,
Persistent Identifier Type Registry)▪ Discipline-specific (e.g. Wheat Data Interoperability Guidelines,
Ontologies and User Cases)▪ Socio-technical (e.g. Legal Interoperability of Research Data: Principles
and Implementation Guidelines, 23 Things)
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Adoptable Outputs: Examples● RDA/CODATA Summer Schools in Data Science and Cloud
Computing in the Developing World WG:A framework to run a series of Summer Schools in Data Science and data sharing in low and middle income countries (LMICs).
● Basic Vocabulary of Foundational Terminology, Query Tool: Ensures researchers use a common terminology when referring to data
Recent / Upcoming RDA Outputs ● RDA / CODATA Legal Interoperability of Research Data IG: Principles
and Implementation Guidelines● Libraries For Research Data IG: 23 Things in 11 languages● Brokering Governance WG Recommendations● RDA / CODATA Summer School WG Recommendations● RDA / WDS Publishing Data Services WG Recommendations: Scholix
Framework
Coming in April 2017:
● Biosharing Registry WG Recommendations● Metadata Standards Catalog WG Recommendations
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Adoption Stories ● The Research Data Switchboard - Lesley Wyborn
● 23 Things: Libraries for Research Data - Natasha Simons
● More adoption stories can be found at: https://rd-alliance.org/recommendations-outputs/adoption-recommendations
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The Research Data Switchboard
Lesley Wyborn
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No of people accessing/downloading a data set is not true indicator of impact...
NCI would like to know the Research Impact of each of its Data Collections● How many datasets published at NCI has being referenced in research journal
articles, which articles and what is their impact?
● How many researchers and institutes are connected to a given dataset?
● What are connections between the derived data products and source reference data at NCI
● Who generates those derived data products and who uses them?
Driver: Assessing the Research Impact of NCI Data Collections
CMIP5
3PB
Astronomy
(Optical)
200 TB
Water
Ocean
1.5 PB
Atmosphere
2.4 PBEarth
Observ.
2 PB
Marine
Videos 10
TBGeophysics
300 TB
Weather
340 TB
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Focus: Connecting datasets on the basis of co-authorship or joint funding
and grants.
Data Description Registry Interoperability (DDRI)
Working Group
Leveraging the modern publication process
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nci.org.au
Each individual catalogue record describes a linear relationship among entities:
Current NCI catalogue research record status
Researcher Ause
Data 1Supported
by Grant a Paper I, IIGenerate
Researcher B Data 1Supported
by Grant b Paper II, IIIuse Generate
Researcher B Data 2Supported
by Grant b Paper IVuse Generate
nci.org.au
Relational database is converted and presented in graph database using
Research Data Switchboard (RD-Switchboard):
GrapProposed Graph Database viewh database
structure
Researcher A
use Supported
by
Grant a Paper IGenerate
Researcher B
Data 1
Supported
byGrant b Paper IIIuse
Generate
Data 2
Supported
by
Paper IV
use Generate
Paper IIGenerate
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More information: http://researchgraph.org/schema
IDMM Immunome Database for Marsupials
and Monotremes
http://sydney.edu.au/vetscience/about/staff/pr
ofiles/kathy.belov.php
Live Demo: http://rd-switchboard.net/idmm-immunome-database-marsupials-
monotremes/79633/?refer_q=class=collection/rows=15/sort=score%20desc/p=1/q=idm
m/
Prof. Katherine
Belov
Dr Emily Wong
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Screen shot of NCI’s current database
What RD-Switchboard can do for us?
How many datasets published at NCI are being referenced in the research journal articles?
How many researchers/institutes are connected to the datasets?
Finding connections between NCI datasets and international repositories such as CERN and ORCID -- data discovery.
What is the usage of NCI’s datasets?
What is the awareness of the available datasets within the research community?
If I would like to know more about this dataset, who should I contact?What is the previous research done using this dataset?
User question: RD-switchboard query:
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Summary
• RD-Switchboard is a great tool to see linkages among researchers, datasets and publications.
• The graphic view is eye-catching and straightforward to understand complex interconnections within the research community.
• It demonstrates that data management is a joint effort by the whole research and librarian community.
Further information• Source code: www.github.com/rd-switchboard• DDRI WG: https://rd-alliance.org/groups/data-description-registry-
interoperability.html• Technical lead: [email protected]
SUMMARY
Natasha Simons
23 Things: Libraries for Research Data
Senior Data Management Specialist
eResearch Australasia
11-13 October, 2016
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23 Things: Libraries for Research Data (Supporting Output) International Release at RDA Plenary 8 in Denver, Oct 2016
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23T Re-purpose Toolkit + Top 10 RD
Things for
medical &
health!
Licensed CC-
BY so you can
reuse and
repack
Tw: @n_simons
Natasha Simons
With the exception of logos, third party images or where otherwise indicated, this
work is licensed under the Creative Commons Australia Attribution 3.0 Licence.
ANDS is supported by the Australian
Government through the National Collaborative
Research Infrastructure Strategy Program.
Monash University leads the partnership with
the Australian National University and CSIRO.
ands.org.au/23things
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An Organisational Perspective and Analysis of RDA Outputs
Andrew Bowness (Griffith University)
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Discussion / Questions ● What are your needs with regards to e.g.
▪ Finding out about RDA Outputs?
▪ Adopting RDA Outputs?
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Thank you very much for attending!
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Further Information● New to RDA? https://rd-alliance.org/rda-newcomers-some-notes● List of all RDA groups: https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups● List of all RDA Outputs: https://rd-alliance.org/recommendations-and-
outputs/all-recommendations-and-outputs● Adoption stories: https://www.rd-alliance.org/recommendations-
outputs/adoption-recommendations
● Please contact [email protected] if you have any further questions or comments
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With the exception of third party images or where otherwise indicated, this work
is licensed under the Creative Commons 4.0 International Attribution Licence.
ANDS is supported by the Australian Government through the
National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy Program.
Monash University leads the partnership with the Australian
National University and CSIRO.