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Title: We Must All Be Curators Now from Ingest to Service Delivery, in Data Library

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We Must All Be Curators Nowfrom Ingest to
Service Delivery, in Data Library National
Data Centre
Roles Responsibilities

Peter Burnhill
Director, EDINA
JISC National Data Centre, University of
Edinburgh, Scotland UK
10 October 2006

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Three different voices / roles

Director, EDINA National Data Centre
serving researchers, lecturers and students
across the UK
so something about what EDINA is what EDINA
does
EDINA is funded by the JISC
so something about the JISC the JISC IE
A time-served data person fellow professional,
from the University of Edinburgh
building on the past, planning for the future
A substitute for another guy
trying to make sense of what is going on
working towards shared understanding
proposing a framework of verbs nouns

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Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)

of all the UK funding councils for higher and
further education
Mission
world-class leadership in the innovative use of
ICT for support of education research
Information Communication Technology
Income mix of top-slice recurrent funding
capital grants

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Funding Councils, the JISC and EDINA
Higher Ed funding councils
Research Councils as Partners
UK National Data Centres
NDCs are now HEFCE-related bodies
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organisational infrastructure for JISC Services

UKERNA runs Joint Academic Network (JANET)
EDINA MIMAS national data centres
Arts Humanities Data Service (AHDS)
Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS)
UKOLN Centre for Educational Technology
Interoperability Standards (CETIS) Digital
Curation Centre (DCC) British Universities Film
Video Council (BUFVC) Technical Advisory
Service on Images (TASI) Open Source Advisory
Service Nat. Centre for Text Mining Plagiarism
Advisory Service
JISC Legal/Monitoring/TechDis Regional Support
Centres UK Access Management / Athens
most located in universities across UK

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What is EDINA?

A National Data Centre, designated by the JISC in
1995/96
based on Edinburgh University Data Library, est.
1983/84
Mission to enhance productivity of research,
learning teaching in UK higher and further
education
part of JISC Information Environment
Keywords have been Accessibility/Outreach/Inter-wo
rking/Inter-operability
range of development projects and 24/7 services
Geo-spatial, about which more later ..
Scholarly communication Multimedia
films images spoken word
Infrastructure for Digital Library
certificates rights middleware
SDSS -gt UK Access Management Federation
And the name, whats that stand for?
Edinburgh Data Information Access
Edina is the poetic name for Edinburgh

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Delivering online services, 24/7

http//edina.ac.uk
http//edina.ac.uk/

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Biog as data person these past 25 years

Moved to the University of Edinburgh in 1979
formerly science staff at Social Science Research
Council (ESRC), 1974/77
then medical statistician at Queen Charlottes
Maternity Hospital, 1978/79
first as statistician researcher ( senior
lecturer)
with Scottish Education Data Archive, from 1979
making survey data at Govt-funded research centre
(CES)
from design, data creation and documentation,
onto analysis
as survey methodologist in Edinburgh Survey
Methodology Group
then recruited to do RD for service delivery
setting up managing Edinburgh University Data
Library, 1984 -
Co-director, ESRC Regional Research Laboratory,
Scotland 1986/90
early days of Geographical Information Systems
(GIS)
member of Data Task Force, Inter-Agency Global
Env. Change
European Secretary (1993/95) President
(1996/2001) of IASSIST
international assoc. for (social science) data
librarians and archivists
Now EDINA IS Directorate at Univ. of Edinburgh
Was Set-up Director for Digital Curation Centre,
2003/4 to 2004/5

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maybe Ive been a data curator all along

Scottish Education Data Archive, late 1970s mid
80s
Database of surveys of school leavers cohorts
of young people (16-19)
derived data, trend datasets over time, changing
classifiers (eg Social Class)
integrating data from different sources, eg
census small area statistics
made available online but under privileged not
open access
Edinburgh University Data Library, mid- 80s on
Wider variety of datasets, obtained from others,
often via others
A local library of datasets
Easing access to data held elsewhere (eg UKDA)
made available online across ERCC wide area
network and beyond
building databases, sometimes with special
software,
ESRC Regional Research Laboratory, Scotland
1986/90
early days of Geographical Information Systems
(GIS)
Integrating large-scale data, much geographic
or geo-spatial
EDINA national data centre, mid-1990s on
National online access to wider range of
reference and source data
obtained under licence
required value-added curation
Digimap as but one example

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one example of data curation
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0000000 2100000010001055810075820 0 15000156
0321 0901103 0000000 210000001000105713007669
0 0 15000157 0321 0901103
0000000 2100000010001060110075460 0 15000158
0321 0901103 0000000 210000001000106326007465
0 0 15000159 0321 8010619
0000000 2100000010001063370071760 0 15000160
0321 0901103 0000000 210000001000106673007670
0 0 15000161 0321 0901103
0000000 2100000010001058910068550 0 15000162
0321 0901103 0000000 210000001000106449006904
0 0 15000164 0321 0901103
0000000 2100000010001055710052730 0 15000173
0321 0901103 0000000 210000001000105873005039
0 0 15000174 0321 0901103
0000000 2100000010001059520050430 0 15000175
0321 0901103 0000000 210000001000105643004921
0 0 15000176 0321 0901103 0000000
OS digital data
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maybe Ive been a data curator all along

Scottish Education Data Archive, late 1970s mid
80s
Database of surveys of school leavers cohorts
of young people (16-19)
derived data, trend datasets over time, changing
classifiers (eg Social Class)
integrating data from different sources, eg
census small area statistics
made available online but under privileged not
open access
Edinburgh University Data Library, mid- 80s on
Wider variety of datasets, obtained from others,
often via others
A local library of datasets
Easing access to data held elsewhere (eg UKDA)
ESRC Regional Research Laboratory, Scotland
1986/90
early days of Geographical Information Systems
(GIS)
Integrating large-scale data, much geographic
or geo-spatial
EDINA national data centre, mid-1990s on
National online access to wider range of
reference and source data
obtained under licence
required value-added curation
Digimap as but one example
national repositories of digital content Jorum,
GRADE, TheDepot
Digital Curation Centre, 2004 2005

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Authorising Institutions for free-at-point of use
HE FE funding councils
Data Provider e.g. Ordnance Survey
Licensing Agent (JISC Collections)

Value-added Service Provider
Key role for Authentication (is-member of
Institution) and Authorisation (is-licensed
Institution)
end user (staff/student) access
Institution (Licence)
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EDINA as national data centre

http//edina.ac.uk
50 direct funding from JISC for delivering
services
Good reputation for helpdesk, user interfaces,
FAQs etc
24/7, 99 uptime
50 is extra awarded for Development activity
Developing services developing JISC IE working
with Researchers
Acknowledged project competence for RD
Strategic role as Geographic Data Centre
For JISC (Digimap etc), for ESRC (UKBORDERS)
Building Spatial Data Infrastructure with NERC
and internationally (OGC)

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Existing Geo-data Services
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Where are we with GIS?

University of Edinburgh its Data Library have
long run interest experience
Geography Department (Coppock/Hotson
Waugh/GIMMS) PLU
first MSc GIS course, and much else
ESRC Regional Research Laboratory for Scotland,
1987-
Launch of UKBORDERS in 1994
EDINA has continued and extended that for
geo-spatial data
JISC eLib project access to Ordnance Survey
mapping, 1996-
Launch of Digimap service, 2000 -
Extension of UKBORDERS, 2001 -
Shared Services provision
Go-Geo! (geo-data portal)
geoXwalk
GRADE Geospatial Repositor for Academic Deposit
and Extraction
Not all (only a fraction) of geo-referenced data
at EDINA
Strategic importance of interoperability
GI web services
Interested in furthering the use of GI data
across disciplines
Geo-parsing mark-up geo-finding geoXwalk
(vocabularies)

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Somethings special about the spatial
EDINA role as Geographic Data Centre?
Slide borrowed from Liz Lyon, curated ..
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2. Getting back to Problem Statement

roles responsibilities
Some Thoughts, and Questions
What resources, and how should we share?
What are scholarly resources?
What is special about scholarship?
What is different about digital?
Who should do what?
A division of labour that leverages
responsibility and expertise for curation
Means of service delivery
Find our place in old and new geography
words, numbers, pictures, sounds
all to be digital accessed from afar

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Scholarship Services and Stewardship

Services, in support of scholarship,
Libraries have traditionally focussed on the
formal part of scholarly communication
Relevance searching strategies
new challenges how to cope with digital
everything?
Stewardship
Was Special Collections, now Collections, inc.
the digital
Ensuring provenance continuing access
Digital curation, preservation archiving
Sharing with future scholarship
Sharing with wider world
Research
What do researchers do, and what do they
want/need?
eScience, Data, and scholar workstation and the
VRE
Learning and Teaching
What do students need?
What do teachers/lecturers need?
e-learning and the VLE (virtual learning
environment)

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Infrastructure to support four demand-side verbs

discover information object of interest
e.g. article referenced in database, AI, eToC,
etc
locate organisation offering service
e.g. library (union catalogue/OPAC)
or document delivery service
request use of service
via payment of money or privilege of membership
access object of interest
via personal visit, document delivery, online
access
based on MODELS workshops (UKOLN/JISC eLib)

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Simplified workflow
Discover
Fit for purpose?
Locate
Access
Curate
Use
Publish
Issue
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Dataset publishing

Re examine concept of Dataset Publishing
(Callahan, Johnson, and Shelley 1996)
analogous to publishing papers
rewards for publishing datasets (e.g. promotion,
RAE)
procedures (e.g. standards to use, peer review)
resources to manage procedures
Should minimise time and effort required
need tools to assist in creation, maintenance and
dissemination of dataset descriptions
Means of putting into a public/community
Deposit and Share are too cosy
to publicate, to issue
Terms of access and use
Open?
Privilege of membership
Payment of money

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Repositories of digital content

So what is a digital repository?
I like (user) verbs, not (supply-side) nouns
A repository is a noun that meets a set of (user)
verbs/tasks, by supporting delivery of services
for a given/designated client community
Put ingest service
Keep-safe storage service
Get access service
Motivation
for the record? preservation prospect of access
for re-use? curation current access
Can we say, Behind every great service, there is
a wonderful managed repository?
No, not if access service does not have
corresponding ingest service.

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Repositories OAIS Reference Model?? In a
classic Repository, the DIP is the same as the
SIP ?? In a data centre, and many data
libraries, it rarely is.
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Support for Research research-led learning

Data, software and facilities
Data as evidence
Data curation and digital preservation
continuing access
Data Archives and Data Libraries
Social surveys, and much more
IASSIST
International Association for data professionals
(1972 -)
Members in Philippines and Vietnam
Census Programme
Small area statistics MIMAS
UKBORDERS (boundaries for thematic mapping)
EDINA
EDINA Digimap Collection
Topographic mapping data, from national mapping
agency
Marine Geological mapping data
then there is the challenge of scientific
visualisation, and observational images and
documentary films!

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Scholarly Communication

Access to commercial services resources
Consortium licensing
local hosting licensed data at National Data
Centres (NDCs)
Focus on community-generated resources
Union catalogues ( links to ILL/docdel) - SUNCAT
digital library developments
Open Access repositories
Put it in The Depot (www.depot.ac.uk)
Need for Access Control as Middleware development
Shibboleth framework, developed as part of
Internet2
UK Access Management Federation for Education
Research
Managed by UKERNA, based on work by EDINA SDSS
replacing vendors UserID password with
community scheme

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Scholarly Communication
Author
writes to be recognised by peer community for
institutional Research Assessment Excersise
(RAE) purposes perhaps to be read
(content of) article is the information object
of desire
Key User (Reader) Verbs Discover article of
interestLocate service on those
articlesRequest permission to use
serviceAccess to service/article
Reader
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Scholarly Communication(simple model focus on
articlelength work published in journals)
Author (article)
Publisher article serial issue
Licence
Libraries and Publishers provide framework
the traditional middleware/infrastructure
... with Licence(s) for electronic (online) and
print (on-shelf)

Library (serial)
Reader (article)
P.Burnhill, EDINA/JISC, 2005
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Scholarly Communication Open Access(Access to
articlelength work)
Forma economy
Digital Preservation
Open Access
Author (article)
repositories
peer review
Publisher article serial issue
Licensed Online Access
learned society
ILL/docdel
Licence
peer exchange
Institutional arrangement
E-prints
free2web access

Library (serial)
Reader (article)
Informal invisible college and the gift
economy
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Research Data
Creator
Generates (curates) data for own purpose, or as
part of team wants/has to put it
somewhere for use by others (perhaps to be
recognised by a peer community)
Key User (Researcher) Verbs Discover data of
interestLocate service on that data with
documentation on provenance etc Request
permission to use serviceAccess to
service/data,
Evidential value of data in analysis as object of
desire
Researcher
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Data (simple model)
Creator (dataset)
Data Centre (database)
Licence
... with what kind of Licence(s) for access?
??
(Data) Library
who provides framework? the middleware/infras
tructure
Researcher (data)
P.Burnhill, EDINA/JISC, 2006
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Doing Data
Forma economy
Digital Preservation
Open Access
Creator (dataset)
repositories
peer review
Data Centre
Authorised Online Access
Institutional arrangement
learned society
Licence
peer exchange
datasets
free2web access

Institution
Researcher
Informal invisible college and the gift
economy
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All Curators Now

Thank you
p.burnhill_at_ed.ac.uk
http//edina.ac.uk
http//jisc.ac.uk

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JISC Information Environment Architecture
(Idealised) Technical Infrastructure for
ServicesAndy Powell, 2005
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Somethings special about the spatial
EDINA has role as Geographic Data Centre
Slide borrowed from Liz Lyon, curated ..
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Support for Research research-led learning