V Międzynarodowa Konferencja Naukowa Nauka o informacji (informacja naukowa) w okresie zmian Innowacyjne usługi informacyjne. Wydział Dziennikarstwa, Informacji i Bibliologii Katedra Informatologii, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Warszawa, 15 – 16 maja 2017

1. Toruń University’s Open
Access Data Project
– new role for university
libraries
Karolina Zawada

2. University Library in Toruń
e-books
e-journlas
audio, video files
raw research data
journals
books
1945
2001
now
manuscripts

4. The most valuable information in
modern world is the information to
which we have an instant and an
unrestricted access

5. SIMPLE = T / Fits standard
BITPIX = -32 / Bits per pixel
NAXIS = 3 / Number of axes
NAXIS1 = 2048 / Axis length
NAXIS2 = 2048 / Axis length
NAXIS3 = 1 / Axis length
EXTEND = T / File may contain extensions
ORIGIN = 'NOAO-IRAF FITS Image Kernel July 2003' /
FITS file originator DATE = '2016-07-10T10:34:11' /
Date FITS file was generated
IRAF-TLM= '2016-07-10T11:33:57' / Time of last modification
COMMENT FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) format
is defined in 'Astronomy
COMMENT and Astrophysics', volume 376, page 359;
bibcode: 2001A&A...376..359H
HEAD = 'DZ936_BV' / Head model
ACQMODE = 'Single Scan' / Acquisition mode
READMODE= 'Image ' / Readout mode
IMGRECT = '1, 2048, 2048, 1' / Image format
HBIN = 1 / Horizontal binning
VBIN = 1 / Vertical binning
SUBRECT = '1, 2048, 2048, 1' / Subimage format
XTYPE = 'Pixel number' / Calibration type
XUNIT = 0 / Calibration units
RAYWAVE = 422. / Rayleigh Wavelength
CALBWVNM= 1 / Wave calibration
TRIGGER = 'Internal' / Trigger mode
Raw research data:
● in a digital form
● with correct, comprehensive
and widely available metadata
● widely available or available
on request

6. How to read raw data set?
How to describe them?
Where to store them?

7. How to read raw data set?
How to describe them?
Where to store them?
Should these questions
be addressed to librarians?

9. Toruń Centre for Astronomy
Nicolaus Copernicus University
www.ca.umk.pl
Photo: Andrzej Kus

10. Toruń University’s open access data project
●
partners: University Library and the Centre for
Astronomy, which has very broad digital knowledge
● the selected data is “safe” - project concerns
historical observations of the sky belonging to the
Centre for Astronomy
●
the data is archived – there is no embargo or other
form of access restriction in time and space

11. Repozytorium surowych danych
astronomicznych online –
Repository of raw astronomical
data online
● 348 000 zł (ca. 80 000 euro)
●
01.04.2016 – 30.12.2017
The publicly available photometric and
spectroscopic database derived from
observations conducted at Astronomical
Observatory in Piwnice from 1949 to 1993
Toruń

12. Astronomical
Observatory in Piwnice
founded in 1945
Credit: TCfA

13. LeonJeśmanowicz(1950)
Credit : TCfA

14. Henry Draper's telescope was brought
to Piwnice from the Harvard College
Observatory in 1947. Observer: Cecylia
Iwaniszewska
Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope
was constructed in the optical
factory in Jena and mounted in
1962 in Piwnice. The main mirror
has diameter of 90cm.
Credit:ToruńCentreforAstronomy

15. The plate CCS 0191 was taken
with Schmidt-Cassegrain
Telescope observing with a slit
spectrograph in 1975.
Plate 1625 taken with
Schmidt-Cassegrain
Telescope observing with
a prism in 1969
Credit: Toruń Centre for Astronomy
The paper sleeve for the storage of the plates

16. The whole collection contains 12,000 plates
taken between 1949 and 1993

17. ●
create initial metadata
● verification of the data and metadata
● standards in astronomy – European Virtual Observatory
http://www.euro-vo.org/ and International Virtual Observatory
Alliance http://www.ivoa.net/ creates the standards
●
saving images and format – astronomical images are store in FITS
format. The present scanned images are in tiff format
● the data will be available via an access server on Virtual
Observatory and stored on dedicated server at Toruń Center for
Astronomy and also at AstroGrid-PL platform (Polish project) and
Virtual Observatory platform (European project)
Work in progress

20. ●
create initial metadata
● verification of the data and metadata
● standards in astronomy – European Virtual Observatory
http://www.euro-vo.org/ and International Virtual Observatory
Alliance http://www.ivoa.net/ creates the standards
●
saving images and format – astronomical images are store in FITS
format. The present scanned images are in tiff format
● the data will be available via an access server on Virtual
Observatory and stored on dedicated server at Toruń Center for
Astronomy and also at AstroGrid-PL platform (Polish project) and
Virtual Observatory platform (European project)
Work in progress

21. Is it worth doing?

22. 1917 photographic plate
spectrum of van Maanen star
Plate sleeve with handwritten notes
by observer W. S. Adams
The historical records were supplied
by Carnegie Observatories, who
maintains the Mt. Wilson archives.
Credit: Carnegie Institution for Science -
carnegiescience.edu

23. Is there a place here for library?

24. Project team
Toruń Centre for Astronomy
●
Michał Hanasz – project manager
●
Dominik Wóltańsk – astronomer, member of AstroGrid.pl team
●
Bogdan Wikierski – observer, technician at TCfA
●
PhD students from TcfA
●
University Library
● Bożena Bednarek-Michalska – project manager
●
Liliana Lewandowska – project administration
●
Conservation Departement
●
Elżbieta Milkiewicz – preservation
●
Karolina Zawada – project promotion

25. Library can help in projects of raw
research data
●
serve as an information center for authors of the
raw data and potential customers who look for this
type of data,
●
coordinate such projects,
●
show hesitant researchers the meaning of the
dissemination activities,
●
suggest to the researchers possibilities and
benefits of widely accessible form of their research
data, and show them how to process it.

26. How to start?
● check who gathers and collects research data
●
contact researchers and ask if they need the help of
librarians
●
discuss what researchers expect. How a library can
help them?
● start the collaboration and take the first steps towards
the realization of their needs for raw research data

27. How exactly libraries can help?
● prepare the project of raw research data together with researchers, determine
whether this type of data already exists, where they are stored, what the availability
conditions are,
● show or find repository (global or local) to storage special kind of data,
● consider what is a better solution: own new local repository, or a ready-made
solution e.g. global repositories which allow to join the international community.
Perhaps the existing repositories are not ideal, but it is ready and we do not have to
create another one, which is a rather expensive task,
● create and implement a new platform for raw data (with a support of IT section),
● check if any standards exist (metadata description, form of data),
● take into account recommendations of the European Union – some EU projects
suggest or require that raw date should be available,
● take into account tests of data sharing in Horizon 2020,
● define the range of availability conditions – take into account regulations, contracts,
law issue, special kind of agreement, protection of personal data (typical problem
for sociologists), perhaps a private company sponsors research, perhaps an
embargo is in force, etc.
● if the data is not born-digital, take into account preservation of analogue forms of
data (astronomical glass plates, maps, images, research reports, etc.). Have the
institutions got enough good storage condition, enough room? Maybe the material
should be passed to a library, to a museum, to archives?

28. Thank you
Karolina Zawada
kz@umk.pl