Edinburgh DataShare

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Edinburgh DataShare A DSpace Data Repository
Achievements and Aspirations

• Stuart Macdonald
• EDINA National Data Centre Edinburgh University
  Data Library
• Fedora-UKIEU Meeting,
• Oxford, 8 December

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• EDINA and Data Library (EDL) together are a
  division within Information Services of the
  University of Edinburgh.
• EDINA is a JISC-funded National Data Centre
  providing national online resources for education
  and research.
• The Data Library service (established in 1983)
  assists Edinburgh University users in the
  discovery, access, use and management of research
  data assets.
• Building relationships with researchers via
  postgraduate teaching activities, IS Skills
  workshops, Research Data Management training and
  through traditional reference interviews.
• Edinburgh Datashare is a digital repository of
  multi-disciplinary research datasets produced at
  the University of Edinburgh, hosted by the Data
  Library

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• DISC-UK DataShare
• Project
• DISC-UK DataShare Project funded by JISC
  (March 2007 March 2009) - a collaborative
  project which investigated the legal, cultural
  and technical issues surrounding research data
  sharing within UK tertiary education community
• Explore new pathways to assist academics wishing
  to share their data over the Internet via
  Institutional Repositories (IRs)
• Policy-Making for Research Data in Repositories
  A Guide - Green, A., Macdonald, S. and R. Rice,
  (2009).
• Edinburgh DataShare digital repository post
  project output embedded into University
  Information Services policy

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Edinburgh Repository Landscape
Launch Jan. 2010
Namedentity recognition
EDINA repository projects
Repository Junction
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• Edinburgh Datashare technical development
• DSpace v.1.51 with new theme aligned with
  University corporate style
• Embargo option - coded to restrict full data
  download with open metadata until specified date
• Open Data Commons License option (PDDL)
• Dynamically queries Geonames, a community
  generated
• spatial database to ensure consistency in
  metadata entry for
• Spatial Coverage field
• Extension to DSpace to record bitstream
  downloads in usage
• statistics
• Implementation of JACS for assigning keyword to
  content
• Download All option (zip file of all item
  components)

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• Potential Next Steps
• Semantification of content OpenLinkedData
  MITs SIMILIE project (which aims to leverage and
  extend DSpace by supporting semantic web
  techniques)
• Visualisation tools APIs that can be utilised
  within repository environment (Timeplot,
  Timeline) unlike existing open utilities
• Spatial analysis using open geo-browsers and
  mapping utilities
• Annotation, tagging, data citation
• Implementation of Deposit tool(s) SWORD
• Streaming viewing heterogeneous content

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Research Data Management Training Developed on
the back of the Data Audit Framework lead by
HATII (Edinburgh being one of the pilot
implementation projects) developing online
tools and methodologies which enable information
specialists to engage and build relationships
with researchers in order to ascertain the data
holdings in a research school / department /
group
Developing online and F-2F modules in conjunction
with the Postgraduate Transferable Skills Unit -
http//www.transkills.ed.ac.uk/ and PG Essentials
- http//www.transkills.ed.ac.uk/pgessentials.htm
Research data management guidance Data
sharing and preservation http//www.ed.ac.uk/is/
data-management
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Engaging researchers through RDM exercises,
teaching, reference interviews funded-projects
are crucial to the bottom-up development of
tools, services and infrastructures meant to
serve them and which ultimately improve both the
efficiency and effectiveness of their research.
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• Engaging with the Research Community (1)
• Human Geography (Professor Jane Jacobs)
• High Rise project - an interdisciplinary
  research programme involving architects and
  geographers
• It investigates two cases that encapsulate the
  varied fortunes
• of the highrise experience the UK, where the
  form is routinely
• condemned, even demolished and Singapore, where
  it is
• embraced enthusiastically and continues to be
  built at greater
• heights and densities - http//www.ace.ed.ac.uk/hi
  ghrise/
• Content of the High Rise Digital Archive
  includes images, sound recordings, video,
  transcripts, architectural drawings
• Customise DataShare to allow streaming or
  embedded player
• functionality, ingest heterogeneous content,
  employ multi-media
• metadata standards
• Develop customised learning and teaching
  materials for deposit in JORUM Open

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• Engaging with the research community (2)
• Centre for Earth System Dynamics (Dr Mike
  Mineter, Dr Magnus
• Hagdorn)
• The aim of the CESD is to develop climate
  models across SAGES
• and other multi-disciplinary and international
  partners to quantify and predict climate and
  environmental change
• Use DataShare to provide federated access via
  shibboleth for international partners for
  working datasets (e.g. from the Arctic
  Biosphere Atmosphere Coupling at Multiple Scales
  (ABACUS) programme)
• Store data via DataShare but also link to large
  datasets (c.1TB) stored on remote storage (Andrew
  File Systems, ECDF SAN)
• Content for ingestion includes large climate
  models/simulations, fieldwork and experimental
  output in proprietary formats
• Employ discipline-specific metadata standards to
  describe content

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END Thank You

• stuart.macdonald_at_ed.ac.uk
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