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e-Science: Understanding Research Data
Malcolm Atkinson & David De Roure
[email protected] & [email protected]
20 October 2009
RCUK fact-finding mission
Reporting Back
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Data Quest: 7-30 Sept. 2009
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http://blog.openwetware.org/deroure/http://wikis.nesc.ac.uk/escienvoy/Main_Page#Fact-finding_mission_to_the_USA_-_September_2009
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Preview: Digital Revolution
• Abundant data• Intense activity• All forms of data• All disciplines• Range of maturity• From raw numbers in
files to linked data sites in RDF
• No boundary between documents and data
• New architectures
• Beacons of good practice
• Trusted centres• New “instruments”• Intellectual “ramps”• Going the “last mile”• Niches in a digital
ecosystem• Co-evolution• Multiple large
investments• Software & data
projects
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Data’s time has comeData’s time has come
‘twas ever thusdata + algorithm= computationNiklaus Wirth
‘twas ever thusdata + algorithm= computationNiklaus Wirth
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Data data everywhere
• Digital data key to global communication• Between people• Between machines• Between software components• The universal connecting glue
• 1.8 Zetta bytes by 2011 (1.8×1021)• in 20×1015 data containers
• Research data a small part• in a much bigger ecosystem
• Triggering the Digital-Data Revolution• higher stress than the previous revolutions• because simultaneous impact on every nation
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Technology & Researchers
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Co-evolution
Tech. display
Researcherschoose?
Niches?
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Access ramp for the mind
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Easy and low risk to startProgress to advanced skillsFor research data users
Bringing re
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speed
safe
lyBringing re
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speed
safe
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Leading to specialised data use
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Ride a professionally delivered data service
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and routin
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New “instruments”
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NRAO/AUI/NSF
To reveal to the “naked mind”information it cannot see unaided
Datato Information
Changed our place in the universe
to Knowledgeto Wisdom
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PresentPublishEmbedArchiveEvidenceOn Demand
The ‘whole mile’ from data to influence
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Globalcloud
of existing data
Globalcloud
of existing data
FindAcquirePrepareAccessData
CleanFilterTransformCombineData
NormaliseAnalyseReviewCompareData andModels
Raw dataRaw dataSelected & cleaned dataSelected & cleaned dataAnalysis
resultsAnalysis resultsEvidenc
eEvidenceInsight + scholarly
publicationInsight + scholarly publicationPresentati
onPresentationImpact = behavioural
changeImpact = behavioural change
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All enrich pool of data
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Globalcloud
of existing data
Globalcloud
of existing data
PresentPublishEmbedArchiveEvidenceOn Demand
FindAcquirePrepareAccessData
CleanFilterTransformCombineData
NormaliseAnalyseReviewCompareData andModels
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Data-Intensive Research: The UK played a leading role; what will it do now?
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Principles
• Research data support should be in harmony with evolving digital ecosystem
• Increase investment in using data to balance investment in collecting it
• Co-evolve research practices, new methods and their supporting software
• Democratise research by improving education and access
• Align foundational research, pioneering and support
• Users of data need to be aware of costs and environmental impact
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Recommendations
• Stimulate new thinking in next generation of researchers
• Invest in creating and sharing methods and software for exploiting data
• Increase access and use by building ‘intellectual ramps’ and improved education
• Invest in foundational research into data-intensive methods linked with the ‘field’ experience of use and support
• Support an innovation to pioneering to supported facility life cycle
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Possible DIR Actions
• Run summer school/”bootcamp” on data-intensive research (DIR)
• Open discussion workshop on UK DIR requirements, including UK ESFRI projects
• Sandpit (cross RCUK & charities) initiating foundational research programme
• Inject DIR into current Doctoral programmes + new ones – trickle down into rest of HEIs
• Ensure that a proportion of UK research infrastructure is in services with Amdahl number ~1 or better
• Establish broad coordination body to plan UK DIR software, service and international activity
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Take home message
Survival in the digital-data revolution
depends on speed and appropriateness
of adaptation
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ADMIRE – Framework 7 ICT 215024
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Picture compositionbyLuke Humphrybased on prior art by Frans Hals
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