Open Science and Research - Services for Research Data Management presentation slides

1. Open Science and Research –
Services for Research Data Management
© 2014 OKM ATT 2014–2017 initiative www.avointiede.fi
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2. Open Science and Research Initiative 2014-
2017
 Ministry of Education and Culture initiative for the promotion of
information availability and open science
 Goal to make Finland a leading country in openness of science and
research
 Scope of the initiative includes publications, research data, and
methods
 Provides researchers with practical knowledge in how they as
individuals can implement open science
 Several services offered by the Ministry to researchers

3. Benefits of open science
 Gaining funding in accordance to funder’s rules and suggestions
 The Academy of Finland encourages researchers to publish open
access and make their data available, funding may be applied for this
 EU Horizon2020 has open access as underlying principle, including
open access publishing and a pilot for open research data
 Merit through citations to open access publications and open data
 Curriculum vitae (e.g. TENK) gather merits related to open data
 Data repositories and OA publications can gather more citations
 Increased interaction and new possibilities for collaboration

4. Why manage research data?
Researchers and research groups can
 Reduce the risk that data is lost or misused
 Organize data for your own reuse and citation
 Get private or shared access to data within your research group
 Facilitate joint use of resources with collaborators at other universities
 Enable service continuity regardless of possible changes in your affiliation
 Document your activities in data collection and dissemination
 Receive a permanent identifier for your data
 Increase the visibility of your research profile and make new connections
 Gain merit through citation and re-use of data

5. Why manage research data?
Researcher organizations can:
 Take up a ready service portfolio in your organization
 Enhance the visibility and discoverability of research in your organization
 Reduce risks in storing data and maintaining access to it
 Increase compliance with funder requirements related to open science
 Benefit from centralized system administration and support structure
 Avoid cost as services are funded by the Ministry of Education and Culture
 Demonstrate commitment to being a university of influence
 Inform the development of national research support infrastructures

6. Open Science and Research services
 Open Science and Research Handbook, Data management guide
 Services
 Etsin research data finder
 IDA research data storage service
 AVAA open data publishing platform
 Aila data service portal
 Language Bank of Finland
 Doria & Theseus publication archives
 FINTO ontology service

7. Open Science and Research services
 Services offered by MINEDU
 Services free of charge to end-users
 Services provided by various partners
 Developed under direction from the initiative
 Recommended by e.g. by the Academy of Finland
 Existing services developed continuously and new services
piloted within the initiative

8. Planning
Impleme
ntation
Storage
Publishing
Discovery
Reuse
Research lifecycle and Open Science services
Open
Science and
Research
Handbook
Data
management
guide and
checklist

9.  Etsin is a research data finder service
 Etsin forms a metadata catalogue for research data
 Provides an URN identifier for data sets
 Enables meriting researchers based on datasets
 Independent of storage services, contains only metadata
 Offers information on possibility of reuse of data
etsin.avointiede.fi

10.  Research data storage for projects in Finnish universities,
universities of applied sciences and the Academy of Finland
 Secure storage procedures with data replication
 Open source iRODS technology, several user interfaces
 Data owner decides on the openness and data usage policy
 Will form part of the long-term preservation system of data
avointiede.fi/ida

11.  AVAA is a platform for publishing open research data
 Enhances accessibility of research data in a reusable format
 Offers generic and specialized applications for utilizing data,
e.g. download, analysis and visualizations
 Independent of data storage location
 Pilot cases of research data sets and related access tools
under devopment in the portal
avointiede.fi/avaa

12.  Aila provides access to datasets archived at the Finnish
Social Science Data Archive and their study descriptions in
Finnish and English
 All users can browse and search data, read study
descriptions and download open access data
 By registering, users can download data which have access
conditions, free of charge
 Haka authentication possible
services.fsd.uta.fi
Aila

13.  Language Bank of Finland is a collection of services for
language research by the FIN-CLARIN consortium
 The services consist of an extensive array of text and speech
corpora as well as applications to study them in a potent
computational environment
 Research units deposit their data in the Language Bank for
maintenance and distribution to researchers around the
country
www.kielipankki.fi
Language Bank of Finland

14.  Technical platform for the preservation, cataloguing and
distribution of digital collections, for publication archive use
 Doria is a multi-institutional repository including records
from universities and the National Library
 Theseus is an institutional repository platform for the
Finnish universities of applied sciences
 Based on open source DSpace software
www.doria.fi www.theseus.fi
Publication archive services

15.  Finto is a Finnish thesaurus and ontology service
maintained by the National Library
 The service enables both the publication and browsing of
vocabularies
 The service also offers interfaces for integrating the
thesauri and ontologies into other applications and systems
finto.fi
api.finto.fi
FINTO

16. Promoting openness
 Utilize the service infrastructure
 Agree on credit, ownership and copyright issues
 Take care of licencing the research results
 Choose right publishing and storage venues
 Use open source, standards and interfaces

17. More information and contacts
 Service websites
 Service overview
 openscience.fi/services
 Open science contact address
 avointiede@postit.csc.fi