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On Behalf Of Clifford Lynch
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 10:55 AM
To: CNI-ANNOUNCE -- News from the Coalition
Subject: [CNI-ANNOUNCE] JISC Report: "Dealing with
Data: Roles, Rights,
Responsibilities, Relationships"
Dr. Liz Lyon, who is well known to many in the CNI community
for her
work on the EBank project and her roles at UKOLN and the UK
Digital
Curation Center, has just done a new report for the JISC
dealing with
data curation roles and responsibilities that should be
extremely
timely not just for the UK but for those elsewhere
struggling with
similar questions. Below, I reproduce Neil Jacobs'
announcement of
her report and the report's URL.
Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
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The data deluge is upon us, and now is the right time to be
taking
action to ensure that we are not overwhelmed. A new report
"Dealing
with Data" charts a practical path forward and will
help all
stakeholders plan the next steps in data curation. The
report, by Dr
Liz Lyon, Director, UKOLN and Associate Director, DCC, is
strategically positioned to provide a bridge between the
Research
Information Network's high-level Framework of Principles and
Guidelines for the stewardship of research data, and
practitioner-focussed technical development work.
Why is data such a big challenge? Whereas articles or books
have,
until recently, been fairly standard formats across
disciplines, data
has always been diverse, with some disciplines using rich
textual
sources, others using massive petabyte datasets, and still
others
using data that changes by the second. The range of
stakeholders
involved is wide, too, with important roles for funders,
institutions, JISC and others if the aim - well managed and
usable
data - is to be achieved.
The report reviews the variety of data, and arrangements for
its
curation and use, across disciplines.The work of funders,
national
data centres, institutional repositories, learned societies
and the
Digital Curation Centre are all documented, with a view to
identifying (as the report's subtitle says) the "roles,
rights,
responsibilities and relationships", that are emerging
as important.
The report's recommendations offer a practical way forward
in this
area, where the sheer scale of the task can be daunting.
JISC and
others are already taking forward work in a number of the
areas
highlighted, such as the costs and benefits of data
preservation, and
offering discipline-specific guidance to the sector. Further
work is
planned, including the development of a 'Data Audit
Framework' to
enable all universities and colleges to carry out an audit
of
departmental data collections, awareness, policies and
practice for
data curation and preservation.
We are moving rapidly into an era of data-driven research
and
scholarship, across the broad range of academic disciplines.
If the
currency of that work, the data itself, is not to be
debased, then it
needs to be well managed, so that researchers can use it
both now and
into the future.
The final report is available at: