Nick Smale's presentation at eRA 2017 workshop on Research Integrity and Ethics in the Cloud

1. Nick Smale
Research Ethics
and Integrity
The sky is always falling

2. Principles
• Retained
• Accessible
• Secured
• Ownership is identified
• Shared responsibly and confidentiality is maintained
where required
• Clear and accurate to allow verification and replication
or reproduction

3. Increasing Deviation/Departure/Breach
Research
Misconduct
Not Research
Misconduct
Responsible
conduct Questionable Research Practices
Excellent
conduct
Excellent
management of
data and records honest mistakes
Inadequate record keeping Loss,
destruction,
inappropriate
use of data
Acknowledgment: Paul Taylor and Dan Barr

4. The cloud as a disruptor

5. Increasing Deviation/Departure/Breach
Excellent
management of
data and records honest mistakes
Inadequate record keeping
Mismanagement,
Misuse of data

6. So is the sky falling?

7. Pacific and Regional
Archive for Digital
Sources in Endangered
Cultures (PARADISEC)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn3lBvLCWp8
Acknowledgment: Nick Thieberger

8. http://catalog.paradisec.org.au/coll
ections/search?direction=asc&langu
age_code=ace&sort=created_at
Managed,
findable,
connected

9. 1,103 languages
99 countries
409 collections
18,286 items
162,335 files
7,595 hours audio
750 hours video
31.4 TB of files
As of 22/8/17

10. API, metadata feeds picked up by ANDS, OAI
services, Open Language Archives Community
(OLAC), TROVE, etc
https://researchdata.ands.org.au/contributors/paradisec

11. How can we have impact?

12. Sexiness = utility + relevance + communications
Framework: Demand curve

13. ↑ utility
• Create tools that improve research efficiency
• Help researchers meet compliance obligations

14. ↑ relevance
• Create services that researchers want
• Be inclusive of all researchers

15. ↑ communications
• Invest in marketing
• Be bold, embrace risk
• Always measure success

16. Roadblocks
• Lack of clear guidance for long-tail researchers
• Lack of cloud provider policies
• Too much focus on decision trees, not enough about
the principles of ethical decision-making

17. Increasing Deviation/Departure/Breach
Research
Misconduct
Not Research
Misconduct
Responsible
conduct Questionable Research Practices
Excellent
conduct
Excellent
management of
data and records honest mistakes
Inadequate record keeping Loss,
destruction,
inappropriate
use of data

18. Acknowledgements
Dan Barr (RMIT)
Paul Taylor (RMIT)
Catherine Nie (UoM)
Kate Murphy (UoM)
Nick Thieberger (UoM)
Elise Grosser (UoM)