Long Tail of Research Data- ideas for topics at next meeting

27 Jun 2014

Hi all,

With the deadline rapidly approaching (July 1), I will be submitting a request for a time slot for the Long Tail group at the next RDA meetin in September.

I would very much to hear your ideas for topics of discussion at our next meeting. What would you like to know about what others are doing? Where are you having challenges?

A reminder that at the last meeting there were suggestions along these lines. Do any of these especially reasonate with you?

  • evidence to incentivize researchers to deposit
  • creating environments to make it easier for researchers to deposit their data,
  • sharing practices about discovery,
  • interoperability across repositories
  • preservation planning

Please let me know if one or more of these is of special interest to you, or if other topics come to mind so we can build an interesting and relevant agenda for the meeting.

Thanks!

Kathleen

  • Laura Molloy's picture

    Author: Laura Molloy

    Date: 27 Jun, 2014

    Thanks Kathleen. I am interested in all the suggested topics here, but particularly interested in the 3rd and 4th points in the list.
    Would it be worth considering addressing discipline-specific data practices in the humanities and arts (including the liberal arts and creative arts)? I always feel I could do with more information about current data practices in the non-science disciplines - but only if this was of interest to the group, of course.
    Best,
    Laura
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    Subject: [rda-tailresearchdata-ig] Long Tail of Research Data- ideas for topics at next meeting
    Hi all,
    With the deadline rapidly approaching (July 1), I will be submitting a request for a time slot for the Long Tail group at the next RDA meetin in September.
    I would very much to hear your ideas for topics of discussion at our next meeting. What would you like to know about what others are doing? Where are you having challenges?
    A reminder that at the last meeting there were suggestions along these lines. Do any of these especially reasonate with you?
    * evidence to incentivize researchers to deposit
    * creating environments to make it easier for researchers to deposit their data,
    * sharing practices about discovery,
    * interoperability across repositories
    * preservation planning
    Please let me know if one or more of these is of special interest to you, or if other topics come to mind so we can build an interesting and relevant agenda for the meeting.
    Thanks!
    Kathleen
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  • Dimitris Koureas's picture

    Author: Dimitris Koureas

    Date: 27 Jun, 2014

    Dear Kathleen,
    Thanks so much for organising this. As you know this is a critical period in Europe mostly because of the preparation of the EC Horizon 2020 proposals. As the mobilisation of long-tail research is more socio-cultural than technical, I think we should consider the incentivising methods that engage end-users as cornerstone activity. There are a lot of initiatives in this field that are related to peer-review publications, impact metrics etc.
    In this context I think that the second in your list is very relevant and could be included in an overarching incentivising environment discussion topic.
    Looking forward to this.
    Kind regards,
    Dimitris
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    Subject: [rda-tailresearchdata-ig] Long Tail of Research Data- ideas for topics at next meeting
    Hi all,
    With the deadline rapidly approaching (July 1), I will be submitting a request for a time slot for the Long Tail group at the next RDA meetin in September.
    I would very much to hear your ideas for topics of discussion at our next meeting. What would you like to know about what others are doing? Where are you having challenges?
    A reminder that at the last meeting there were suggestions along these lines. Do any of these especially reasonate with you?
    * evidence to incentivize researchers to deposit
    * creating environments to make it easier for researchers to deposit their data,
    * sharing practices about discovery,
    * interoperability across repositories
    * preservation planning
    Please let me know if one or more of these is of special interest to you, or if other topics come to mind so we can build an interesting and relevant agenda for the meeting.
    Thanks!
    Kathleen
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  • Anna Clements's picture

    Author: Anna Clements

    Date: 27 Jun, 2014

    Thanks, Kathleen - and all sound of interest.
    One additional area I'm very interested in is just what types of data are in this 'long tail'? Either evidence that people have or what we expect.
    I am still struggling with understanding just what we as an institution need to be prepared to cope with and what can and should be passed over to trusted external repositories/centres.
    All the best
    Anna
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    Sent: 27 June 2014 15:19
    To: Long tail of research data IG
    Subject: [rda-tailresearchdata-ig] Long Tail of Research Data- ideas for topics at next meeting
    Hi all,
    With the deadline rapidly approaching (July 1), I will be submitting a request for a time slot for the Long Tail group at the next RDA meetin in September.
    I would very much to hear your ideas for topics of discussion at our next meeting. What would you like to know about what others are doing? Where are you having challenges?
    A reminder that at the last meeting there were suggestions along these lines. Do any of these especially reasonate with you?
    * evidence to incentivize researchers to deposit
    * creating environments to make it easier for researchers to deposit their data,
    * sharing practices about discovery,
    * interoperability across repositories
    * preservation planning
    Please let me know if one or more of these is of special interest to you, or if other topics come to mind so we can build an interesting and relevant agenda for the meeting.
    Thanks!
    Kathleen
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  • Anne Thessen's picture

    Author: Anne Thessen

    Date: 27 Jun, 2014

    I think it might be worth including ways to improve metadata capture in
    addition to the below topics.
    I am also very interested in incentives, preservation planning and the
    practices in non-technical fields.
    Thank you!
    a

  • Robin Rice's picture

    Author: Robin Rice

    Date: 27 Jun, 2014

    Hi Kathleen,
    Thanks. I'm particularly interested in those last two bullet points -
    cheers,
    Robin

  • Francoise Genova's picture

    Author: Francoise Genova

    Date: 29 Jun, 2014

    Le 27/06/2014 16:46, annethessen a écrit :
    > I think it might be worth including ways to improve metadata capture
    > in addition to the below topics.
    I agree with that, since as we all know metadata are critical for reuse.
    There is a key point on how to find the metadata to use in a given
    disciplinary context...
    Cheers
    Francoise
    > I am also very interested in incentives, preservation planning and the
    > practices in non-technical fields.
    > Thank you!
    > a
    >
    > On 6/27/2014 10:19 AM, Kathleen Shearer wrote:
    >>
    >> Hi all,
    >>
    >> With the deadline rapidly approaching (July 1), I will be submitting
    >> a request for a time slot for the Long Tail group at the next RDA
    >> meetin in September.
    >>
    >> I would very much to hear your ideas for topics of discussion at our
    >> next meeting. What would you like to know about what others are
    >> doing? Where are you having challenges?
    >>
    >> A reminder that at the last meeting there were suggestions along
    >> these lines. Do any of these especially reasonate with you?
    >>
    >> * evidence to incentivize researchers to deposit
    >> * creating environments to make it easier for researchers to
    >> deposit their data,
    >> * sharing practices about discovery,
    >> * interoperability across repositories
    >> * preservation planning
    >>
    >> Please let me know if one or more of these is of special interest to
    >> you, or if other topics come to mind so we can build an interesting
    >> and relevant agenda for the meeting.
    >>
    >> Thanks!
    >>
    >> Kathleen
    >>
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    Le 27/06/2014 16:46, annethessen a écrit :
    > I think it might be worth including ways to improve metadata capture
    > in addition to the below topics.
    I agree with that, since as we all know metadata are critical for reuse.
    There is a key point on how to find the metadata to use in a given
    disciplinary context...
    Cheers

  • Arturo H. Ariño's picture

    Author: Arturo H. Ariño

    Date: 29 Jun, 2014

    Related to the incentives for deposit topic, perhaps one specific item that
    might be worth covering is the recent "data paper" trends.
    Regards
    Arturo
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    Science Committee | Lecturer, UNED

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    2014-06-29 12:12 GMT+02:00 Francoise Genova <
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  • Herman Stehouwer's picture

    Author: Herman Stehouwer

    Date: 29 Jun, 2014

    Hi Arturo,
    I fully agree that this is a trend that is worth discussing, especially
    wrt long tail data (i.e. not massive-volume
    worth-it-to-automatize-everything data).
    I personally think that though it is a move in the right direction, it
    is also a hack of the existing publication system, and it is not the end
    goal that we would all want.
    I would be happy to discuss this at the plenary with you all.
    Cheers,
    Herman

  • Jochen Schirrwagen's picture

    Author: Jochen Schirrwagen

    Date: 30 Jun, 2014

    Hi Kathleen, all,
    all mentioned topics are interesting and important.
    In addition (I know they might overlap with other RDA IG/WGs)
    * current practices to measure impact of datasets by quantitative and
    qualitative (wrt. formal quality of a dataset) indicators, e.g.
    http://stats.datacite.org/
    * comparing RDM implementation and policies specifically for the Long
    Tail data around the globe (at least Europe, North America, Australia),
    e.g. institutional research data infrastructures vs. national ones.
    Best,
    Jochen

  • Angus Whyte's picture

    Author: Angus Whyte

    Date: 30 Jun, 2014

    Hi Kathleen, all
    Yes these topics resonate with me, especially 1-3.
    Regarding #3 would it be worth adding "...and maximising discoverability"?
    best,
    Angus
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    Senior Institutional Support Officer
    Digital Curation Centre
    University of Edinburgh

  • Arturo H. Ariño's picture

    Author: Arturo H. Ariño

    Date: 30 Jun, 2014

    Good points. Related to indicators for impact measurement, perhaps it's too
    soon to get into analytics but further down the road some gap analysis
    (e.g. what types of RD seem to be flourishing vs obvious absences) might
    help in reaching to "obscure" communities. Thus an early discussion on how
    to use such indicators for gap discovery might be helpful.
    Regards
    Arturo
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    Professor, UNAV | Vice-Chair, GBIF
    Science Committee | Lecturer, UNED

    Head, Dept. Environmental Biology
    | Director, Museum of Natural Sciences
    University of Navarra , E-31080 Pamplona, Spain, EU
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    2014-06-30 16:16 GMT+02:00 jotschirr <***@***.***-bielefeld.de>:

  • Kathleen Shearer's picture

    Author: Kathleen Shearer

    Date: 30 Jun, 2014

    Hi Angus,
    I received your message through the list serve (see below and here: https://www.rd-alliance.org/group/long-tail-research-data-ig/post/long-t...).
    Maybe you just don't get a copy sent to you, when you send it?
    Can you double check your settings on the mailing list?
    Thanks (and thanks for your comments)!
    Kathleen

  • Angus Whyte's picture

    Author: Angus Whyte

    Date: 30 Jun, 2014

    I'll do that, thanks Kathleen.
    Angus

  • Matthew Viljoen's picture

    Author: Matthew Viljoen

    Date: 01 Jul, 2014

    Hello all,

    I am particularly insterested in identifying common requirements for preservation across different communities.  Especially for provisioning a domain-agnostic preservation solution to cater for the countless small communities which don't aready have a domain level repository.  Or are unlikely to ever have one.

    I think that identifying common requirements is crucial if we are to be successful in reaching out to the long tail of research data.

    All the best

    Matt

  • Amy Nurnberger's picture

    Author: Amy Nurnberger

    Date: 03 Jul, 2014

    Thank you, Kathleen.
    I am particularly interested in discoverability and interoperability,
    with the emphasis on metadata that Anne & Francoise mention.
    Best,
    Amy
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