Info Grid 2005 - Tuesday 27th, 09:00 - Developing e-infrastructure to support new research and learning paradigms

09:00
Welcome

continuing Service-Oriented theme

Developing e-infrastructure to support new research and learning paradigms
Dr Liz Lyon
Director, UKOLN

Presentation: ppt (5.6M); pdf (5.8M);

focus on research
focus on eBank UK

1. e-Research: a changing landscape

data overload!
how do we disseminate?

diverse types of data

think about how data collections evolve over time

Recommendations from "Large scale data sharing in the life sciences" UK report June 2005
- standards, metadata
- data management
- vocab
- archiving

RCUK open access to data
"should be made available as widely and rapidly as possible"

[diagram of the scholarly knowledge cycle]

2. Developing repositories

Developing models

http://www.e-framework.org/

"service-oriented technical framework... for research and learning"

* reference models
* service definitions

[diagram of JISC Information Environment Architecture - predates e-framework]

[diagram positioning eBank in scholarly knowledge cycle]

eBank UK Project
- open access to datasets
- linking research data to publications and to learning
- JISC funded from Sept 2003: now in phase 2

Exemplar: e-science testbed 'Combechem'
- grid-enabled combinatorial chemisty / crystallography
- national crystallography service

PSIgate (physical sciences info gateway) at Manchester

[diagram of data flow in eBank UK]

[diagram of combechem]

[crystallography workflow diagram]

Crystal Structure Data Reports

http://ecrystals.chem.soton.ac.uk/

data is harvested (OAI), and then aggregated by eBank service

"proof of concept demonstrator project"

*** Linking data to publications ***

done in eBank UK portal

eBank also embedded into PSIgate portal

Issue: Ontologies for discovery in an interdisciplinary world

Issue: Persistent identifiers for data citation

- working on use cases
- various schemes: DOI, handle, ARK, PURL
- there are some identifiers within domains

Publication and Citation of Scientific Primary Data Project

National Library for Science and Technology (TIB)
University of Hanover, Germany

DOI for datasets
http://www.std-doi.de/

can cite data using DOIs

Integration into crystallographic publishing practices

working with IUCr journals

Integration into chemistry research workflows

* R4L - Repository for the Laboratory
* SMART TEA electronic lab notebook + annotations, myTea project

* How does this fit with research assessment (RAE) process?  (UK process)

Integration into the curriculum and e-Learning workflows

* MChem course
* assess role in undergrad chem courses
* introducing school children to e-research?

Knowledge extraction and post-processing

* mining (data, text, structures)
* modelling
* analysis
* presentation (visualisation, rendering)
* in federated repositories: digital libraries, datasets, learning materials
* role of Google??

Repositories and digital curation

data preservation is in conflict with data curation (active use)

http://www.dcc.ac.uk/

upcoming DCC conference September 29-30, Bath, UK

http://www.dcc.ac.uk/training/dcc-2005/

more info
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/

Q: How are you making the links between the publications and the datasets
A: we're looking for identifiers to identify the datasets to enable linking
who does that? publishers? institutions (within repository)?

currently in the demonstrator, they have a schema,
but they are looking at automated ways

Comment: Germany - subject-oriented information nets - initiative from the researchers themselves
They choose and organize the info they way they want.  Not that well-structured, but they answer a
bit more the needs of the researchers