eResearch and the KAREN network

http://www.karen.net.nz/assets/Uploads/Documents/eResearchAustralasiaNeilJ.pdf

eResearch and Advanced Networking Meetings
Trip report from Neil James
24 July, 2007
eResearch Australasia Conference
26-28 June

this was a discussion about the several tools available for eResearchers, web 2.0 applications, but more notably, technology such as access grids and how they will enable greater communication and collaboration. Also a very interesting segment of this paper was Philip Bourne of the University of California discussing implications these technologies will have on publication and whether the publication of data will go hand-in-hand with the publication of a particular paper or article. Other speakers at this conference remarked on the potential and advantages to allowing the publication of data, provided it was clearly attributed and cited.

Methodology focus

While I have made a small start on the second assignment, I need to decide what specific area I should focus on. I'm not sure whether to take a very broad look at what researchers (academic, governmental, commercial?) are doing, or narrow it down to specific types of researchers and subjects. I will be meeting with the biodiversity co-ordinator at my work to discuss how that project has been going, but from what I understand, their focus has been largely life sciences (and some physical sciences?) but I will have to find out more.

The literature review turned up a lot of information about what social science researchers are also doing as well as the fact they are seeking to utilise institutional repositories to organise and store data they find as well. This might (and only maybe) more relevant in a LIS setting. I think you could probably go a bit mad with this though...

Report of a workshop on research and development priorities to support research data curation.

Sponsored by the Andrew J Mellon Foundation and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC).
Held in Washington DC, 14 December 2007
Report by Neil Jacobs (JISC)

http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/files/2008/05/datacurationwshop20071214.pdf

Introduction and Notes

This is the beginning of my INFO 580 project for completion of my MLIS.

I am very interested in exploring the possibility of New Zealand researchers data curation practices.

ROUGH NOTES:
Although there are many repositories established within academic institutions, I am intrigued by the amount of data researchers must have to manage as well as the possibilities which might exist, not only for data curation, but how researchers might share or collaborate on these.

"New Zealand researchers' data curation practices

Institutional repositories have become popular in the tertiary sector as a way of making academic research more widely available, and also preserving it for the future. There is growing interest in making research data available in a similar fashion, but we currently know little about how New Zealand researchers manage their data, and what data curation services may be needed." - SUPERVISOR

Questions:

Do researchers want to make academic research data more widely available? how do they want to preserve data? Issues involved?
How will this be done? Methods of data curation?
What would be the implications for collaboration?
Use of academic research data by students? Implications?