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What does it take to add datato my repository?

Ryan Scherle

Open Repositories 2015

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The rise of data at OR

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What’s all the fuss about?

• DSpace used to be a place to put articles, but now many institutions are adding data.

• Researchers are getting pressure to archive it.• Are the IRs ready?

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Can’t I just put it in my IR?

Maybe. What was your IR designed to hold?

Data archiving landscape

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Policy issues for data

• Determining what to accept• Determining the correct granularity of data to

archive• Licensing issues• Software associated with data• Storing directly vs. referencing external

repositories

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Determining what to accept

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Determining the granularity of data to archive

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Licensing issues

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Software associated with data

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Storing directly vs. external references

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Ensuring data is ready for ingest

• Educating users• Viruses• Human subjects and other sensitive data• Copyright notices• Recommended file formats• File names• Is metadata adequate to find it? Even outside the

IR?• Is metadata adequate to understand it?

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Educating users

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Viruses

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Human subjects and other sensitive data

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Copyright notices

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File formats

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File names

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Is metadata adequate to find it? Outside the IR?

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Is metadata adequate to understand it?

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Technical capabilities of the repository

• Version control and maintaining citability• Transferring large files• Maintaining storage for large content• APIs for data access by external tools• Relationship management for data, software, and

documentation

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Version control and maintaining citability

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Transferring and managing large files

A little example

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APIs for data access by external tools

searchForStuff() giveMeAccess()

getTheThing() showMeTheMetadata()

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Relationships for data, software, documentation

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Thanks!

Ryan Scherle@ryscherryan@datadryad.org

http://datadryad.orghttp://datadryad.org/pages/faqhttp://wiki.datadryad.org

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Photo credits

• Cry baby, TheGiantVermin, https://flic.kr/p/u7t5Q• square-peg-round-hole-21, Yoel Ben-Avraham, https://flic.kr/p/6pmtQL• Easy!, Robert Hruzek, https://flic.kr/p/bF5tB6• Lex Macho Inc., Dan DeChiaro, https://flic.kr/p/7tRkDE• Current county courthouse, Snohomish County, https://flic.kr/p/i5GdBg• Linking Open Data cloud diagram 2014, by Max Schmachtenberg, Christian Bizer,

Anja Jentzsch and Richard Cyganiak. http://lod-cloud.net• The Web is Agreement, Paul Downey, https://flic.kr/p/3KyJpy• confused Bush, a-birdie, https://flic.kr/p/2BK1nH• 40+296 Hello?, bark, https://flic.kr/p/8uh4rn• Keep Searching, Margot Trudell, https://flic.kr/p/aSUSGM• I SHOOT RAW!!, Jared Polin, https://flic.kr/p/8iQNV9• Copyright reasons, gaelx, https://flic.kr/p/bx59Gn• Diagnosing the dummy, Ano Lobb, https://flic.kr/p/83Rkit• Bio_Hazard_Virus_Matrix_by_Robbert_van_der_Steeg, Robbert van der Steeg,

https://flic.kr/p/dBKoa7• Trashing old software, jm3 on Flickr, https://flic.kr/p/vb8QT• Mount Airy Arrow, Zyada Follow, https://flic.kr/p/3enSSY• Old License plate Map, Josh Kellogg, https://flic.kr/p/CYHv9• rocks, erika dot net, https://flic.kr/p/3npF8k• Reject or Accept?, Simon Lieschke, https://flic.kr/p/pipBB