DanValen,figshare2.2017

Metadata and the [Data] Repository

Whyresearchdatarepositories?•  FunderMandates•  PublisherMandates•  FACTS(aka,dataoritdidn’thappen)

Source:hJp://datasharing.sparcopen.org/data

Drivers:Governmentsaligningtosupportpublicaccessofresearch

  OSTPMemo

  NIH,NSF,NOAA,SI,andmore…

  Tri-AgencyOpenAccessPolicy

  FASTR

  OtherAgency/FunderPolicies

ie:Gates,Moore,Sloan,NEH,HowardHughes

  ConcordatonOpenResearchData(HEFCE,RCUK,UUK,WellcomeTrust),EPSRC,andmore

  Horizon20/20

OpenAIRE

NorthAmerica

UK/Europe

Australia  ARC–datamanagementplanexpecta^onfromresearchers

  AustraliaNa^onalDataService–suppor^ngthesector,Ins^tu^onalDataManagementFrameworks

Drivers:Nudgethesystemtowardspromo^ngresearchintegrity

Source:hJp://www.dlib.org/dlib/january15/01guest_editorial.html

Drivers:Dataasa“first-classci^zen”,Transparency,andthe3Rs

Source:hJps://www.rd-alliance.org/sites/default/files/aJachment/The%20Data%20Harvest%20Final.pdf

Sowhatisthecommunitydoingtomakedatadiscoverable?

Source:hJp://www.niso.org/apps/group_public/download.php/15375/PrimerRDM-2015-0727.pdf

Standardsandthecommunity

Source:hJp://rd-alliance.github.io/metadata-directory/standards/+hJp://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/subject-areas/physical-science

AdheringtoForce11JointDeclara^onofDataCita^onprinciples

(fordiscovery)…

Source:hJps://www.force11.org/group/joint-declara^on-data-cita^on-principles-finalSource:hJps://thlibrary.wordpress.com/2013/08/13/spotlight-on-data-cita^on-index/

PREAMBLESound,reproduciblescholarshiprestsuponafounda^onofrobust,accessibledata.Forthistobesoinprac^ceaswellastheory,datamustbeaccordeddueimportanceintheprac^ceofscholarshipandintheenduringscholarlyrecord.Inotherwords,datashouldbeconsideredlegi^mate,citableproductsofresearch.Datacita^on,likethecita^onofotherevidenceandsources,isgoodresearchprac^ceandispartofthescholarlyecosystemsuppor^ngdatareuse.Insupportofthisasser^on,andtoencouragegoodprac^ce,weofferasetofguidingprinciplesfordatawithinscholarlyliterature,anotherdataset,oranyotherresearchobject.

DataFAIRport.N.p.,n.d.Web.20June2016.

What’soutthere?

TheGeneralistRepository

Alookatthegeneralistdatarepo

Source:hJps://zenodo.org/dev#harvest-metadata

MetadataatZenodo:behindthescenes

MetadataatZenodo:the“finished”product

Source:hJps://zenodo.org/record/313122

Metadataatfigshare:OAI-PMH

Metadataatfigshare:behindthescenes

Metadataatfigshare:the“finished”product

Source:hJps://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.104616.v4

Datarepos,metadata,anddiscovery

Source:hJp://www.makeuseof.com/tag/technology-explained-what-is-a-meta-search-engine/

IndexcontentfordiscoveryinGoogle+GoogleScholarCanexposehiddencontentwithinpublishedar^cles

GoogleandDatasets(tabulardataandbeyond)

Source:hJps://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/datasets

Addi^onalwaystodiscovercontent:SHARE

hJps://share.osf.io/discover?sources=figshare

Addi^onalwaystodiscovercontent:DataCite+theimportanceofmetadata

Source:hJps://search.datacite.org

Mappingtodifferentmetadatastandardsistough…

Source:hJp://jennriley.com/metadatamap/

Fromadatamodelperspec^ve,thisproblemhasatleastonesolu^on•  RDF(machinereadableformattodescribe

anything)•  Ontology(amachinereadabledic^onaryfor

gepngmeaningfromRDF)

Challengesandnextsteps

•  ExposemetadataasRDForLDandallowfolkstobuildextensionsormappingsbetweenwhatcommunityhasandotherformats

•  Commonmetadatastandards•  (ie:fromCRIS/RIM->paperrepo->datarepo->throughto)

•  OAI-PMH-doesn’tsupportversioning/wasn’tdesignedwiththatinmind&lacksinforma^onontheactualfilesrelatedtometadatarecordsandthatmightbeofuseforsomepeople…soJSON-LDviatheAPI?

•  Automatedmetadatacaptureandgenera^onuponupload

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Thankyousomuchforyour^me

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