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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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nci.org.au© National Computational

Infrastructure 2015

Amazon AWS Infrastructure

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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: amir.aryani@ands.org.au

SUMMARY

Natasha Simons

23 Things: Libraries for Research Data

Senior Data Management Specialist

eResearch Australasia

11-13 October, 2016

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https://www.rd-alliance.org/system/files/documents/23Things_Libraries_For_Data_RDA.pdf

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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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Embraced by a global community

Members of the 600 strong meetup community

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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

E: Natasha.Simons@ands.org.au

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 stefanie.kethers@ands.org.au 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.