Research data ecosystem
David Groenewegen
Director, Research, University
Library
monash.edu
Monash context
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Big university
Research intensive
Global
“Young and hungry”
Resources-challenged
Stepping outside
 New roles
 Knowledge management
 Transforming scholarly communication
– Repository
– Publishing
– Research data management
– ARROW, DART, ARCHER, ANDS
 It’s all about partnering
Monash University Research Repository
 Over 140,000 records
 Publications required for
government reporting
 Journal collections
 Research data
 Student newspaper
 Patents
 Rare Books material
 PhD theses
 Faculty of Business and
Economics working papers
 Open Access material
Open Access: a dead end
 The journal war is lost
 Gold OA will win
 There is no role for the library in Gold OA other
than as agent of APC payments
 Or as a repository owner of Green versions that
most people don’t want
 This is a waste of our skills and experience.
 But...
Research data management
Mainstreamed through:
 Incorporation into teaching and engagement
 Infrastructure for all researchers
– Advice
– Tools
– Storage
– Publication
 Collaboration between Researchers,
Faculties, Library, eSolutions, MeRC, MIGR
and Research Office
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Ecosystem: software solutions
Funding application
and approval
Ethics approval
Data collection and
processing
Data analysis, storage
and management
Instrument
integration
Desktop labs
Publication of results
and data
Published data
retention and disposal
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Massive
Pure
MyTardis
Pure
(solution under
consideration)
Research Data
Storage Monash
(RDSM)
Research Data
Storage Monash
(RDSM)
LabArchives
LabArchives
GitHub
GitHub
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Archiving and
preservation
solution
(currently under
investigation)
Assumptions
 Monash researchers create an unknown but
substantial amount of research data every year
 The vast bulk of this data is stored and managed
in locations that do not enable easy discovery,
sharing or re-use
 Our researchers want to be able to manage their
data in methods that they control that make sense
with their workflows and disciplinary expectations
 Monash does not have enough people to hold
everyone’s hands in this
 We should provide people, tools and services that
enable Research Data Management (RDM)
Storage as entry point to RDM
 Key for researchers is ability to manage and
control how they
– store
– share
 Then use the same tool to
– publish
 Underpinned by the Data Curation Continuum
We need tools that are:
 Convenient and easy to use
 Obviously better than what researchers were
already doing
 Able to create metadata at points when it is
relevant
 Allowing researcher control
 Making publishing of data a one click process
 The flexibility of the cloud with the confidence of
ongoing institutional storage
Research data ecosystem
Storage
Where possible all data should be stored in essentially
the same place, the Research Data Store (R@CMon),
which offers a variety of different gateways and brands to
the same underlying service.
Management, collecting and sorting
A variety of tools which
where possible point to
R@CMon in a manner
that is invisible to the user
Connect to other
University tools, such as
ORCID, Monash DOI
service, Pure Research
Management service, or
to external services
Publication
Should a researcher choose to make some of
their data available, Monash will again offer a
variety of gateways and connections,
designed to maximise discovery and impact.
Typical user
researcher
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web interface
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web interface
Data and
metadata
Data and
Metadata
Metadata
and DOI
Data only
Monash data
storage
Data only
Monash data
Archives
Monash
publications
repository
Research Data
Australia
Metadata
and DOI
Laboratory user
Laboratory
user
Data and
metadata
labarchives
@ monash
web interface
Data only
labarchives
data
storage
Data only
labarchives
data
archives
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web interface
Data and
Metadata
Metadata
and DOI
Data only
Monash data
storage
Data only
Monash data
Archives
Monash
publications
repository
Research Data
Australia
Metadata
and DOI
Advantages for researchers
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Manage and control their research data
Private and collaborative storage spaces
Securely stored in Monash storage
Accessible from anywhere
Make research outputs citable, sharable,
discoverable
 Data can be discoverable without being open
Building the future
 How does this contribute to:
– The University’s effectiveness?
– Our rankings and reputation?
– A desire to collaborate with, work at or
study at Monash?
 How do we know?
– The courage of our convictions, combined
with evidence-based decision-making
Thank you
[email protected]
@groenewegendave
orcid.org/0000-0003-2523-1676