VUWs Sam Searle writes about the KAREN network

researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10063/264/article.pdf?sequence=2

KAREN: Opportunities and Challenges for New
Zealand Libraries
Sam Searle
E-Research Development Coordinator
Victoria University of Wellington
sam.searle@vuw.ac.nz

eResearch at Otago

a powerpoint presentation given by Barbara Taylor and Judith Clark of the University of otago library

eresearch.wiki.otago.ac.nz/images/7/77/ERO07-Taylor&Clark.pps

much of this points toward data curation and the role libraries can play

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.

Some examples of scientific cyberinfrastructure

World protein data bank http://www.wwpdb.org/ This has been established to enable researchers to utilise data on protein which has been gathered over the years, replicating much of this information is expensive and can take considerable time to do in some cases...

http://www.geongrid.org/ The Geosciences Network is another example of a portal where numerous institutions have collaborated to establish access to data...

http://www.ppdg.net/ Particle physics data grid, physicists and computer scientists collaborating to share data...

http://www.us-vo.org/ US National Virtual Observatory enables researchers to utilise stored experimental data

Sloan digital sky survey http://www.sdss.org/ As stated on the website, a most ambitious project conducted to survey the sky, this website records what has been covered as well as news related to the survey...

http://www.nbirn.net/ Biomedical informatics research network is another case of cyberinfatructure being established to store and enable access to considerable amounts of experiements and data

Although all of the above websites deal with data collected across physical and life science disciplines, some articles within the literature point toward these kinds of approaches being suitable for social sciences and humanities.

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?