The document summarizes the management of research data at the University of PEI (UPEI). It discusses UPEI's Virtual Research Environments (VREs) which provide data collection, mapping, and sharing capabilities for various research projects. Examples include goat anatomy images, fox and coyote sightings, climate data, and chemical molecule files. It outlines challenges around preserving and providing open access to research data as required by funders. UPEI addresses this through Islandora-based VREs and registering Digital Object Identifiers for research data.

1. Goats in the Garden:
Managing Data
Mark Leggott & Donald Moses, University of PEI
APLA Conference, May 2013

7. Challenge of Research Data
● Researchers almost all create digital data
● Funders are starting to require preservation
and open access to funded research + data
○ CIHR Mandate
○ March/13 meeting of Tri-Councils re Open Access
○ OSTP Memo of February 22, 2013
● No longer a choice to steward
● No longer a choice re article AND data

8. Examples from UPEI
● Running VREs for 5 years
● Stewardship of research data increasing
○ Bioassay data from pharmaceutical research
○ Survey data from surveys of teenagers
○ Sightings of fox and coyote on the Island
○ Climate change data/image sets
○ Chemical molecule files
○ Goat Anatomy atlas
○ Digital collections used in research

9. Goat in the Garden
● Internally funded project to build annotation
tool for anatomy images
● Built on existing Islandora modules designed
for the Digital Humanities by Alan Stanley
and discoverygarden
● Enhancements made by UPEI staff (PP &
DM) to accommodate specific needs
○ Finer line sizes, colour selector
○ Integration with Drupal taxonomies
○ MADS and MODS records

18. Fox and the Coyote
● Two different research groups tracking fox
and coyote individuals on the Island
● VRE are essentially data collection/mapping
sites
● Popular, provides alternative data collection
as well as citizen scientist opportunities

26. Feels Like Rain
● PARCA: Partnership For Canada-caribbean
Community Climate Change Adaptation
● New VRE associated with Climate Change
unit on campus
● Will contain wide range of data, goal is to
provide access to all of PEI's mapping anf
climate change data from all sources

34. Quantum Chemistry
● Provides a collaborative space for chemists
to share chemical models and data
● Starting a phase 2 project in near future,
which will release a Chemistry Solution Pack
● Provides functionality of expensive
proprietary systems like SciFinder
○ Simple 1 element ingest form
○ Enrichment of record via Internet databases
○ Records for researchers as well
○ RSS Feeds, support for Latex, embedded code
● Using OpenBabel, Indigo, Checkmol,
ChemDoodle

45. VRE Service
● Any researcher can request a VRE
● Working on a standard VRE theme and
modules to ease maintenance
● VREs used in Admin (e.g. Senate, Board),
Learning (e.g. Library Collections) and of
course Research
● UPEI is now able to register DOIs so will
soon be assigning DOIs to data

46. VRE Management Team
● 4 Librarians from 4 major areas
● Meets weekly to review requests/projects
● Reviews new requests and hands projects
off to Systems team
● Recent challenges include 2 staff positions
that were not filled until recently
● A challenge to keep up with demand
● Charge researchers when possible

49. Islandora System
● Provides the foundation for RLs digital
collections and VRE service
● Open source project, used all over the world,
growing every month
● Version 7 latest, support for major digital
library collections, management functions
● VRE functions are more custom, but will be
a generic solution pack in late 2013 from
discoverygarden

52. Buy-In
● VRE plan is part of the UPEI Strategic
Research Plan
● Has the support of the Research office and
is deployed across campus
● Main issue is resources to maintain 150+
● Working on a more sustainable approach
● Hiring staff and contractors to help
● Strategic research grants = more staff

53. Regional Scene
● Support for research data from libraries is
still mostly confined to open access articles
● MUN providing service with ePrints
● Some institutions (UNB, Dal) starting to look
at how to support research data
● CAIRN project would be one way to provide
services as need emerges
● Emergence of VIVO and new research
platforms gives libraries opportunity

54. National Scene
● National scene not much different, a few
institutions providing data stewardship
○ SFU has received internal funding for a pilot
○ 5 out of 21 OCUL institutions working with data,
most popular listed choice for an upcoming service
● Still mostly taking a "library focused"
approach, with DSpace and Archivematica
the commonly mentioned tools

55. International Scene
● OSTP has galvanized US organization to
action - meeting mid May to discuss
● CDL (California Digital Library), UCSD and
various institutions across the country have
developed or developing programs
● Australia has invested 10s of millions in last
year to build infrastructure
● UK has taken a step back with loss of
funding for JISC and UKOLN
● Scape and other projects in Europe

56. Kevin Schurer, Director of the U.K. Data
Archive
“Canada can’t get its act together [regarding
research data].”