Collaboration for research enhancement by Active Metadata

1. Research data spring
Collaboration for Research Enhancement by Active
Metadata
27/2/2015

2. Team
»Southampton [Coordination & Digital Notebooks]
»NinebyNine [Research Objects; Standards; RDM tooling;
Annalist]
»STFC [Metadata modelling, capture, management; big
data applications/use cases]
»Edinburgh [GeosMeta prototype; User communities]
»UAL [Digital Documentation in Arts; Semantic Desktop]
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3. Scope and Gap
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» Gap = we have lego bricks but no assembly instructions
» Metadata tends to be used for discovery only…
› Use active metadata to make research more effective and
timely for researchers
› Packaging outputs to be self describing so that they can be
automatically processed
» Scope is use of active metadata across disciplines, enabling
reuse, reproduce, reinterpret, validate, curate…

4. Impact and Benefits
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»Enabling more agile research
»Generate more science from same facilities and same
research ie from reuse and repurpose
»Digital Notebook content sharing
»Automated validation / quality checking
»Facilitate curation

5. Sustainability
»Outputs = Specifications and Guidance notes
› Potential forW3C (or equivalent) formalisation
»On-going involvement in projects / facilities /
communities with an “independent lifespan”
»Seed for further work – consortium H2020 bid?
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6. Outputs, milestones and indicators of success
»Phase I SELECTION
› Requirements
› Existing & Emerging Solutions
› Mapping and Selections
› Concrete list technologies & successful mapping of
examples of active metadata deployment
»Phase IITRIALLING & DRAFTING
»Phase III PROVING & PUBLIC FEEDBACK
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7. Funding
»Phase I £18k
› Coordinator (Dr Colin Bird) £5k
› Partners £11.4k
› Workshop costs £1.6k
»Phase II £50k
»Phase III £75k
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Phase I
partners
Effort
required
Request
from RDS
Edinburgh £6.3k £3.8k
STFC £4k £0.5k
NinebyNine £6.5k £3.5k
UAL £1.4k £1k
Southampto
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£6.6k £2.6k