Carly Strasser
Data Curation Specialist
California Digital Library

There is a large gap between the data management skills needed by modern researchers and their current abilities, and there is not yet a clear way to bridge this gap. In an effort to address this lack of skills, several institutions collaborated to create the DMPTool. Collaborators included the California Digital Library, DataONE, the Digital Curation Centre, the Smithsonian Institution, the University of California at Los Angeles Library, the University of California at San Diego Libraries, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library and Office of Cyberinfrastructure, and the University of Virginia Library. The result is a freely available web service with two principal goals: 1) allow researchers to quickly and easily produce a quality data management plan, and 2) inform researchers of relevant resources and support services across the community and within their institution. The tool clearly identifies what funders want grant applicants to address, and it allows users to edit, save, share, print and download their data management plans.

Following on prior Coalition for Networked Information briefings, this presentation will begin with an overview of data management planning for newcomers, with emphasis on the DMPTool. The session will include an update on current data management policies and, and it will also include discussion of the present landscape of data management planning. The history of the project will be described (a collaborative effort of eight institutions), its uptake and success, and plans for new functionality, grant funding, and governance. A brief demonstration of the DMPTool will be provided to seed a facilitated discussion on the future of the DMPTool, what services it could and should provide, and how these services and materials will better enable good data stewardship practices among researchers.

 http://dmp.cdlib.org/

James Shulman
President
ARTstor

Bill Ying
CIO and Vice President of Technology
ARTstor

This session will describe the inter-organizational collaboration of Columbia’s Avery Library, ARTstor, and the Getty Research Institute towards building the Built Works Registry (BWR), an open, shareable data resource for architectural works and the built environment. In 2010, the Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded a three-year grant to develop BWR. The project brings together these three institutions (each experienced in doing big data projects and each with separate and unique strengths) to collaborate on policies, standards, content aggregation, technical infrastructure, geo-location, and data exchange protocols. As a networked, distributed environment, BWR will allow contributors to participate in development and maintenance of this community-generated data resource. This large-scale inter-institutional collaboration is a model for how organizations can do more together now and in the future. By investing collective efforts and resources on common problems, we participate in crafting a future data system that will more efficiently and effectively meet community-wide needs.

 http://builtworksregistry.wordpress.com/

Gary Strong
University Librarian
University of California, Los Angeles

Valorie Hollister
Director of Community Programs
DuraSpace

Last year the Association of Research Libraries/Digital Library Federation (DLF) E-Science Institute was created to help research libraries develop strategic agendas for e-research support, with a particular focus on the sciences. The Institute consisted of a series of interactive modules that took small teams of individuals from academic institutions through a dynamic learning process to strengthen and advance their strategy for supporting digitally dependent research, such as e-science or computational linguistics. The coursework included a series of exercises for teams to complete at their institutions, and culminated with an in-person workshop. Local institution assignments helped staff establish a high level understanding of research support background needs and issues. The first cohort of the Institute included seventy institutions and was well received.
Demand has continued to grow, so the DuraSpace organization is partnering with DLF to continue the Institute into the future. The second cohort is now underway, concluding with a Capstone event immediately following this Coalition for Networked Information meeting. The Institute has been improved based on feedback from the first cohort and is poised to help libraries of all types (large academic, college, corporate, public, government, etc.) develop approaches to digital research support, individually and collectively.

This presentation will include an overview of the challenges facing universities and libraries in dealing with digital research and especially data, the E-Science Institute approach of Strategic Agendas, a case study from a member of the Institute’s first cohort (University of California, Los Angeles), and an overview of the current Institute managed by DuraSpace.

http://www.arl.org/rtl/eresearch/escien/escieninstitute/index.shtml
http://duraspace.org/e-science-institute

Carly Strasser
Data Curation Specialist, University of California Curation Center (UC3)
California Digital Library

John Kunze
Associate Director, University of California Curation Center (UC3)
California Digital Library

Three new data-centric developments that support scientists throughout the research data life cycle are highlighted in this session: the DMPTool, DataUp, and DataONE. The DMPTool is an online “wizard” that helps scientists and data librarians create comprehensive data management plans that meet sponsor requirements for well-documented, high-quality, sharable, and interpretable data. The DataUp tool enables the protection of the long-tail distribution of data (those data that all too frequently become orphaned) by helping scientists organize their tabular data (i.e. Microsoft® Excel), document it with standard metadata, and archive the data in a repository. Finally, DataONE, which became operational in July 2012, provides mechanisms to search data repositories worldwide for relevant biological, ecological, environmental and Earth science data (over 200,000 data products and growing weekly), as well as access to tools that support all aspects of the data life cycle and that are integrated with the data resources. In combination, the three new tools can greatly increase the nature and pace of science as will be demonstrated via several relevant examples.

 http://dataone.org
http://dataup.cdlib.org
http://dmptool.org

Fran Berman
Professor
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

The Research Data Alliance (RDA) is to global data infrastructure what the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is to the Internet. The RDA vision (paraphrased here) is “research data exchange for everyone” and its mission is to “use voluntary cooperation and consensus to run an open, global research data infrastructure.” The RDA Secretariat has been established through Australian Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education (IISRTE) support of the Australian National Data Service (ANDS), European Commission support for International Collaboration on Research Data Infrastructure (iCORDI), and US National Science Foundation support to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. This session will focus on RDA structure and planning for an interoperable, global data infrastructure.

http://rd-alliance.org/
Presentation

Introduction by DFG (Effertz)
Presentation (Effertz)

Christian Willmes
Research Scientist
University of Cologne

Constanze Curdt
Research Scientist
University of Cologne

Data Management in Interdisciplinary Research Projects: Case Studies CRC/TR 32 and CRC 806 (Constanze Curdt and Christian Willmes)

Managing and archiving research data in a well-organized framework is essential in every interdisciplinary, long-term research project. All data created or collected have to be stored and backed up along with accurate descriptive information. In addition, the data should be easily accessible by and exchangeable among the project participants. DFG-funded Collaborative Research Centers (CRC) should apply for a data management project. These sub-projects are responsible for the development and implementation of a research data management system.

This presentation will feature two CRC data management case studies: (i) the Transregional CRC 32 “Patterns in Soil-Vegetation-Atmosphere-Systems: Monitoring, Modeling and Data Assimilation” (CRC/TR32,) and (ii) CRC 806 “Our Way to Europe: Culture-Environment Interaction and Human Mobility in the Late Quaternary.” A web-based data management system, a so-called CRC project database, was implemented for both projects, to handle all relevant research data. Both CRC databases are physically located at the Regional Computing Center of the University of Cologne (RRZK). Secure, sustainable archives and back-ups are provided within this environment.

http://www.tr32db.de
http://www.crc806db.de

Presentation (Curdt, Willmes)

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Associate Director, Digital Library Programmes and IT, Bodleian Libraries
Oxford University

Neil Jefferies
Research & Development Project Manager, Bodleian Libraries
Oxford University

Research data are at the heart of scholarly advancement. They are increasingly made available on the Internet as underpinnings of research publications or directly exposed as primary research outputs. These emerging trends in scholarly communication are now backed by policy: The UK government is committed to opening up public sector data. The Research Councils UK (RCUK) Common Principles on Data Policy state that “Publicly funded research data are a public good, produced in the public interest, which should be made openly available with as few restrictions as possible in a timely and responsible manner that does not harm intellectual property.”

The challenge for institutions is that research methodologies and the consequent data management practices vary widely across academic subjects and departments. As a consequence, supporting services for researchers have to be generic enough to scale but take into account subject specific requirements.

Support services at Oxford University have been thoroughly studied and prepared in a series of projects, most notably funded by JISC and the University Modernisation Fund. The service family is designed to support researchers in applying best practice and providing e-infrastructure to store and subsequently curate research data, consistent with the University’s research data policy.

The service family at Oxford University foresees a multi-agency approach with the University’s Research Services, IT Services and the Bodleian Libraries working in partnership with the academic divisions. It defines ‘help-not-hinder’ services for different parts of the research life cycle:
•    Inform: The Data Management Hub website is the center of information and support. It links to personal help, policies and subject specific training (including through Oxford’s Doctoral Training Centers).
•    Plan: Data management plans, as increasingly required by funders, can
be generated with DMPonline, a widely used tool that is adapted to Oxford’s needs and integrated with other services.
•    Work: The actual work with data during a research project is the area showing the most diverse use of services inside and outside of the University. Generic tools at Oxford include an easily deployable database (ViDaaS) and the drop-box like DataStage. These are available for embedding in the local research context.
•    Archive: DataBank provides a durable home for research data that is produced and to be held at the University of Oxford. DataBank supports various formats, including software, and different access conditions, ranging from a dark archive to publishing data with a locally minted digital object identifier (DOI).
•    Find: DataFinder enables data generated at Oxford to be discoverable. DataFinder also keeps records of externally available data that represent Oxford’s research results.

Researchers will have a seamless experience when using the research data services at Oxford University. For example, information provided in DMPonline reappears in DataFinder and DataStage automatically transfers data into DataBank, when a durable version is required. Most services are operational individually and the launch of the complete service family is planned for 2013.

Contributors to this work include Paul Jeffreys, Sally Rumsey, Neil Jefferies, David Shotton, Glenn Swafford, James Wilson, Wolfram Horstmann, and others.

 http://cdn.hm-treasury.gov.uk/autumn_statement.pdf
http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/Pages/DataPolicy.aspx
http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/rdm/
http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/rdm/managedata/policy/
http://damaro.oucs.ox.ac.uk/
http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/rdm/

Driek Heesakkers
Project Manager
University of Amsterdam

Modern universities are becoming loose conglomerates of (inter)disciplinary expertise that have a high degree of connectedness with society in the broader sense. 21st century universities may also be regarded as ‘knowledge servers’ in which a number of communities create, share, publish and apply knowledge. Learning and research, in other words, is becoming a community-wide activity. For the University of Amsterdam, SURFconext, a nationwide Dutch initiative by SURFnet (the Dutch National Research and Education Network), has many of the key features for next generation collaboration infrastructure that create new opportunities for online collaboration. SURFconext combines several key infrastructures based on open standards for federated identity and group management (e.g. saml, grouper), Open Social as widget library, and access to collaboration services. The University of Amsterdam is working on examples of institutional implementation (UvAConext) as a way to set up virtual research environments for researchers by opening up the UvA Sakai and Uportal-based collaboration tools. In this session, topics discussed will include organizational, political and financial as well as technical issues.

http://www.surfnet.nl/en/Thema/coin/Pages/default.aspx
Presentation

Robert Horton
Associate Deputy Director for Library Services
Institute of Museum and Library Services

Kathleen Williams
Executive Director
National Historic Records and Publications Commission

Joel Wurl
Senior Program Officer
National Endowment for the Humanities

Representatives of four funding agencies will initiate a conversation on trends and priorities in their fields. The goals are to identify the opportunities librarians, archivists and museum professionals could address in the near future; how they might better collaborate; and what attendees of the session feel the agencies should consider.

Introduction by DFG (Eckelmann)
Presentation (Eckelmann PDF)

Steffen Vogt
Department of Physical Geography
University of Freiburg

Yvonne Rommelfanger
Research Associate
University of Trier

Tambora.org as a New Tool for Collaborative Work in Historical Climatology and Environmental History (Vogt)

Tambora.org is a virtual research environment (VRE) enabling collaborative work on the interpretation of climate and environmental information derived from historical sources. The open access VRE facilitates the sustainable storage and exchange of data among researchers. Furthermore it stimulates analysis, comparison and synthesis to derive new insights from raw data. The key information to be stored within the system is the original text quotation together with a bibliographic reference, place, time and coded information on climate and environment derived from the quote. To ensure the acknowledgment of the scientific work, all integrated data collections are citable by a DOI (digital object identifier).

http://www.tambora.org

Presentation (Vogt)

FuD: A Virtual Research Environment for the Humanities (Rommelfanger)

The FuD system integrates collecting, analyzing, publishing and archiving components to a virtual research environment for the humanities. Since 2004, the FuD system has been developed as a joint project of Humanities and Computer Sciences at the University of Trier (Collaborative Research Center 600 “Strangers and Poor People,” Trier Center for Digital Humanities). It has supported interdisciplinary cooperation in up to 30 research projects from various disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. The system and its development have incorporated their respective analytical methods as well as their special data requirements. Several projects at universities and research institutions throughout Europe are currently using the FuD research environment for their scientific work processes.

http://www.fud.uni-trier.de/

Presentation (Rommelfanger PPTX)