Changing Service Relationship New Services

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Changing Service Relationship New Services

• Paul Sheehan
• Director of Library Services, DCU
• IUISC March 2009

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e-Science is about global collaboration in key
areas of science, and the next generation of
infrastructure that will enable it.
John Taylor
Director General of Research Councils
Office of Science and Technology, 2001
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E-Science
In next 5 years e-Science projects will produce
more scientific data than has been collected in
the whole of human history Tony Hey. Corporate
VP of External Research Microsoft. Formerly
Director of e-Science project
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E-Science

• Data Deluge from e-Science projects requires
  technologies to facilitate discovery, analysis,
  curation of data
• Volume of text published and new results
  appearing, is impossible for researchers to read
  and correlate text mining
• Effective automated processing required to
  research, locate, gather and make use of
  knowledge encoded electronically in available
  literature
• Dr A Trefethen, Oxford e-Research Centre

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E-Science

• Databases, notably in biology, are replacing
  publications as a medium of communication
• Borrow extensively from, and refer to, other
  databases
• Researchers are now judged by databases as well
  as publications
• Upwards of 1000 (public databases) in genetics
• Integration of literature and data analysis of
  increasing importance - linking bio-database to
  literature
• Dr A Trefethen, Oxford e-Research Centre

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• What is being done elsewhere?

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National data Infrastructure Policy USA

• NSF workshop 2006 To Stand the test of time
• Called for research to understand, model and
  prototype data preservation
• Called for change in research enterprise to
  ensure the preservation of data
• Envisaged collaboration among researchers, ICT
  groups, librarians
• Aim the preservation and re-use of digital data

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National Data Infrastructure Policy USA

• The NSF OCI (office for Cyberinfrastructure) will
  award up to five 20,000,000 grants over five
  years.

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NCRIS a National Collaborative
Research Infrastructure Strategy
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• UKRDS UK Research Data Service.
• Pathfinder feasibility study
• Bristol, Leeds, Leicester, Oxford (Edinburgh,
  Glasgow, Cardiff)
• Germany
• 2008 Alliance of German science organisations.
  National priority initiative Digital
  Information working group on primary research
  data
• http//www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/ukrds-2009/programme
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