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Report on Integration of Data and Publications Grant Agreement no.: 261530 0. INTRODUCTION Science is changing. The massive volume and variety of data pouring out of publicly funded science are transforming the face of research. These data belong to everyone. If we manage these precious resources properly, we may tackle the Grand Challenges of our times – even as budgets become more restricted. It is easy to take for granted that data in the public domain will be protected and remain both available and accessible. Researchers, publishers, policymakers and funders – among many others – have started to appreciate that a robust, sustainably funded infrastructure is absolutely necessary to protect the hard-earned fruits of publicly funded research. Opportunities for Data Exchange (ODE) 1 , a project funded by the European Commission (FP7) with Grant Agreement number 261530, is gathering evidence to support and promote data sharing, re-use and preservation. ODE partners are members of the Alliance for Permanent Access (APA) and represent stakeholders with significant influence within their communities. ODE is identifying, collating, interpreting and delivering evidence for emerging best practice in sharing, re-using, safeguarding and citing data. ODE is also documenting drivers of change, and barriers to progress in this important area. The transition from science to e-Science is happening: a data deluge emerges from publicly-funded research facilities; a massive investment of public funds into the potential answer to thegrand challenges of our times. This potential can only be realised by adding an interoperable data sharing, re-use and preservation layer to the emerging eco-system of e-Infrastructures. The importance of this layer, on top of emerging connectivity and computational layers, has not yet been addressed coherently at ERA or global level. All stakeholders in the scientific process must be involved in its design this layer: policy makers, funders, infrastructure operators, data centres, data providers and users, libraries and publishers. They need evidence to base their decisions and shape the design of this layer. The ODE partners are: • European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) • Alliance for Permanent Access (APA) • CSC – IT Centre for Science • Helmholtz Association • Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) • The British Library • Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNB) • International Association of STM Publishers (STM) • Stichting LIBER Foundation) All of them are members of the Alliance for Permanent, which collectively represent all these stakeholder groups and have a significant sphere of influence within those communities. The project will identify, collate, interpret and deliver evidence of 1 www.ode-project.eu Opportunities for Data Exchange (ODE) –www.ode-project.eu 10
Report on Integration of Data and Publications Grant Agreement no.: 261530 emerging best practices in sharing, re-using, preserving and citing data, the drivers for these changes and barriers impeding progress, in forms suited to each audience. ODE will: • Enable operators, funders, designers and users of national and pan-european e- Infrastructures to compare their vision and explore shared opportunities • Provide projections of potential data re-use within research and educational communities in and beyond the ERA, their needs and differences • Demonstrate and improve understanding of best practices in the design of e- Infrastructures leading to more coherent national policies • Document success stories in data sharing, visionary policies to enable data re-use, and the needs and opportunities for interoperability of data layers to fully enable e-Science • Make that information available in readiness for FP8 This report sought to coalesce current though and opinions from numerous and diverse sources to reveal opportunities for supporting a more connected and integrated scholarly record. Four perspectives were considered, those of the Researcher who generates or reuses primary data, Publishers who provide the mechanisms to communicate research activities and Libraries & Data enters who maintain and preserve the evidence that underpins scholarly communication and the published record. Opportunities for Data Exchange (ODE) –www.ode-project.eu 11
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