tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89251162163023574672024-02-06T19:35:59.000-08:00JISC EIDCSR BlogLuis Martinez Uribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537007264260786165noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925116216302357467.post-14066080243837936552010-11-13T03:59:00.000-08:002010-11-18T01:38:01.542-08:00Oxford Research Data Management PagesThe University of Oxford has launched the <a href="http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/rdm/">Research Data Management Website</a>. This thematic site has been developed by Research Services in collaboration with OUCS and OULS as part of the EIDCSR Project.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7OE-2_vSDY7rD7BvxzMpSGX-CMHVNbaz2KYl9VFLZKdmG2mRG9k690G2cZbLX4NnGTIFjAlNTe0WKGFbfaxPlQ-wuH0dwfl_8k3Txim9VGYABR9sQa5Xm8ahmnMMLzxyWyARJW3WjIalD/s1600/OxfordRDMWebsite.png"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 306px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7OE-2_vSDY7rD7BvxzMpSGX-CMHVNbaz2KYl9VFLZKdmG2mRG9k690G2cZbLX4NnGTIFjAlNTe0WKGFbfaxPlQ-wuH0dwfl_8k3Txim9VGYABR9sQa5Xm8ahmnMMLzxyWyARJW3WjIalD/s320/OxfordRDMWebsite.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5540821592346664210" border="0" /></a><br />The RDM website is designed to support researchers with their research data management activities and includes information about:<br /><br /><ul><li>research funder requirements in the area of research data management</li><li>services available within the University to assist researchers in this area</li><li>guidance on how to produce a data management plan as part of a funding application </li><li>further sources of advice and online guidance, updates and news, and tools and training available to help. </li></ul><br />Previously, web-based information about research data management was available from a number of sites across the University but it was felt that a single source of `signposting’ information would be a valuable resource for researchers from all subject disciplines at differing stages of the research cycle, increasing understanding of the benefits of improved research data management, as well as communicating the range of services available.Luis Martinez Uribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537007264260786165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925116216302357467.post-56332938640043358912010-09-27T05:22:00.000-07:002010-09-30T03:49:05.631-07:00Databases in Quantum Chemistry<div>Last week I attended the workshop "<a href="http://neptuno.unizar.es/events/qcdatabases2010/">Databases in Quantum Chemistry: Validation of methods and software, and repositories of reference computational results</a>" taking place at the ZCAM in Zaragoza.<br /><blockquote><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"The workshop is devoted to address the issues related to databasing in Quantum Chemistry. A number of international experts has been invited to discuss the more relevant points in a flexible set up, with the objective of reaching a consensus view about the degree of necessity of organized repositories of high-level quantum chemical data, as well as the technical problems associated to their design, construction and maintenance"</span></blockquote>The workshop started with talks dealing with the needs in quantum chemistry. Although the disussions seemed to indicate that these were many and diverse, there was a general agreement that calculations at the time of publication could benefit from a space to be shared openly.<br /><br />The following talks described current initiatives and experiences. My presentation "<a href="http://neptuno.unizar.es/events/qcdatabases2010/files/Luis_Martinez-Uribe.pdf">Implementing data repository services: issues and lessons learned from case studies</a>" aimed to share some of the experiences from projects like EIDCSR or Sudamih.<br /><br />Peter Murray-Rust has nicely described the workshop on a <a href="http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=2619">blog post</a>. The main outcome is the set-up of the <a href="http://quixote.wikispot.org/">Quixote Project</a> and the aim of having a prototype repository in one month. Very exciting!<br /><br /><br /></div>Luis Martinez Uribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537007264260786165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925116216302357467.post-17046915597933009932010-07-13T09:40:00.000-07:002010-07-13T11:22:57.244-07:00Open Repositories 2010 in Madrid<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSaAjPJtE741TlSLwDlIJopA6ndsZ7a3Zuv-0U-zH41HLab2Xn3V9SmRFGpyJ_aD5OWZ7PoceflXhu_Djs0fBLIr-7253S2phDbLIwff7SFGv2hDnu-peUmaQSUBf-hnO1tJCy1j07KEQe/s1600/Picture+2.png"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 137px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSaAjPJtE741TlSLwDlIJopA6ndsZ7a3Zuv-0U-zH41HLab2Xn3V9SmRFGpyJ_aD5OWZ7PoceflXhu_Djs0fBLIr-7253S2phDbLIwff7SFGv2hDnu-peUmaQSUBf-hnO1tJCy1j07KEQe/s400/Picture+2.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493457523872888850" border="0" /></a><br /><br />This years the <a href="http://or2010.fecyt.es/Publico/Home/index.aspx">Open Repository Conference 2010</a> was held in Madrid organised by the he Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology <a href="http://www.fecyt.es/">FECYT</a> and <a href="http://uned.es/">UNED</a>, a Spanish public university that provides distance education.<br /><br />Many of the talks discussed issues around research data and digital repositories. In the initial keynote, Prof. David de Roure emphasized the importance of capturing the research data but also the methods behind the data. In the future repositories will have a role in managing <span style="font-style: italic;">knowledge packs</span> made of data, metadata, workflows, articles, presentations, results, etc.<br /><br />The conference had a strong pressence from activities using the <a href="https://www.escidoc.org/">eSciDoc</a> repository system based on <a href="http://www.fedora-commons.org/">Fedora</a>. The <a href="http://or2010.fecyt.es/Resources/documentos/GSabstracts/ResearchDataManagamentIinTheLab.pdf">BW eLab project</a> uses this infrastructure to provide access to remote laboratory instruments as well as to manage the experimental data generated in the labs. During the workflow process<span style="font-style: italic;"> eSync Daemon</span> is used to monitor the file system of the computer connected to the instruments . The daemon replicates the new files and sends to a deposit where metadata is extracted to them deposit data and metadata in eSciDoc. A similar synchronization is used in the <a href="http://mykcl.com/iss/cerch/projects/portfolio/bril.html">BRIL Project</a> to monitor researcher's own desktop to capture as much data and metadata as possible.<br /><br />Another interesting talk presented an open source repository for medical scientific research known as <a href="http://www.kitware.com/products/midas.html">MIDAS</a>. The system is used for the <a href="http://www.insight-journal.org/">Insight Journal</a><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span>which provides <strong style="font-weight: normal;">open-access to articles, data, code, and reviews with an <a href="http://www.insight-journal.org/midas/">archive</a> which hosts public collections of image datasets such as MRIs.</strong><br /><br />Other repository frameworks included <a href="https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/hydra/The+Hydra+Project">Hydra</a>, a collaboration between the Universities of Hull, Stanford and Virginia, that uses a technical architecture based on Fedora with a toolkit of reusable components that can assist with a range of content management, access and preservation. The <a href="https://edocs.hull.ac.uk/muradora/">University of Hull IR</a> provides a Hydra use case.<br /><br />Microsoft announced the release of v2.0 of their repository platform <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/zentity/">Zentity</a> which makes use of the <a href="http://www.odata.org/">Open Data Protocol </a>and uses <a href="http://www.getpivot.com/">Pivot</a> for visualising and organising the data (see this example of <a href="http://memorabilia.hardrock.com/">pivot in action</a>). The installation support services such as OAI-ORE and SWORD.<br /><br />In the national approaches session the <a href="http://or2010.fecyt.es/Resources/documentos/GSabstracts/ReadyOrNotHereItComes.pdf">results of the Australian institutional research repository data readiness surveys</a> 2010 were presented. Although repository managers are aware of <a href="http://ands.org.au/">ANDS</a> and its services, there is little use of them and less than half of respondents were planning to incoorporate data in their repositories.<br /><br />This has truly been a rewarding and stimulating conference.Luis Martinez Uribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537007264260786165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925116216302357467.post-81551187259849350272010-05-28T06:04:00.000-07:002010-05-28T08:41:02.963-07:00The DCC´s Data Management Planning Tool<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3k7nT5vkS5hsn8cK3agqYcs423EbCWkDiYqzYZiua4vV3g1sflj-5W0PKi7gyTIJeXoGVcKM7rxnc1YWAR0rADgAiSoIUT_GHgOBQfUsz_RUuoL2nN3asgL3dIWnUvtDrIIvGmD6VDpye/s1600/DMP.gif"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 331px; height: 106px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3k7nT5vkS5hsn8cK3agqYcs423EbCWkDiYqzYZiua4vV3g1sflj-5W0PKi7gyTIJeXoGVcKM7rxnc1YWAR0rADgAiSoIUT_GHgOBQfUsz_RUuoL2nN3asgL3dIWnUvtDrIIvGmD6VDpye/s400/DMP.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5476307739055391634" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The Digital Curation Centre has developed a <a href="http://dmponline.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/">web-based data management planning tool</a> to assist with the preparation of basic Data Management Plans (DMP) at the funding application stage as well as to help building and maintain a more detailed DMP during the project's lifetime.<br /><br /><br />Back in July 2009, <a href="http://eidcsr.blogspot.com/2009/07/response-to-dcc-data-management-plan.html">the EIDCSR project responded to the proposed DCC Data Management Plan Content Checklist</a>. This test version of the DMP tool seems to have taken into account the comments made:<br /><ul><li>The objective of the tool i.e. assisting with the production and maintenance of DMPs is clear and pertinent.</li><li>The plans can be exported into PDF and HTML so they can easily be included in funding applications, websites, etc. Moreover, the plans incorporate the DMP Online logo showing that the tool has been used which should show the evaluators that the creators have taken the time and interest to use this tool.</li><li>The plans can be easily edited and adjusted as required if circumstances change. This makes the DMPs a living document helping to ensure its usefulness throughout the lifecycle of the project.</li></ul>Some other aspects are still unclear or could be enhanced:<br /><ul><li>In terms of encouraging researchers to use the tool, is there any effort towards convincing RCUKs to recommend their bidders using it?</li><li>It is still unclear whether the DMP team provides support for using the tool only or they can also help with the preparation of the DMPS. In cases where there data centres are in place, some might already provide this support and therefore this could be included in the guidance element of the tool. </li><li>Some of the information collected in the DMPs can be of great help to later on the lifecycle document the datasets that will be produced. Hence it would be convenient if these data could be exported into more reusable formats.</li><li>Creating a data management plan from scratch can be an arduous task that could be eased off by providing examples of plans in particular areas that can help guiding and inspiring those creating new ones.</li><li>In some cases researchers will want to create a DMP without necessarily having, or planning to have, funding from one of the research councils in the UK. This does not seem to be possible with this tool at the moment. A generic DMP that is not specific to any funding agency could be extremely useful.</li></ul><br />Overall, this test version of the DCC´s Data Management Planning tool is shaping up nicely and there is a clear need for it. Bringing together the RCUK statements on data management, the DCC´s generic DMP clauses and guidance from a variety of reputable sources can help researchers immensely.Luis Martinez Uribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537007264260786165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925116216302357467.post-34682714586777353702010-05-27T09:56:00.000-07:002010-05-27T10:00:33.328-07:00Digital Curation Centre Workshop at Oxford on the 16th June, 2010 – How to Manage Research Data<p>I am very pleased to announce that the <a href="http://www.dcc.ac.uk/">Digital Curation Centre</a> will be paying a visit to Oxford on the 16th June to present a workshop on managing research data. The workshop is aimed primarily at researchers interested in bidding for funding for projects with a data output, although it should also appeal to those who assist and support research activities and who would like to find out more about the challenges of data curation.</p> <p>Although the workshop will obviously be of relevance to those interested in either the <a href="http://sudamih.oucs.ox.ac.uk/">Sudamih</a> or <a href="http://eidcsr.oucs.ox.ac.uk/">EIDCSR</a> projects, it will not focus exclusively on a particular academic discipline but should be useful across the board. Sessions will include: the roles and responsibilities associated with conceptualising, creating and managing research data during the life of a project; the responsibilities associated with the longer-term management of research data after a project has ended; developing a data management plan; and preparing data for long-term curation and re-use.</p> <p>The workshop is free for members of the University of Oxford, £50 for non-members.</p> Anyone interested in attending the workshop should register at <a href="http://www.dcc.ac.uk/training/digital-curation-101/digital-curation-101-lite-oxford" mce_href="http://www.dcc.ac.uk/training/digital-curation-101/digital-curation-101-lite-oxford">http://www.dcc.ac.uk/training/digital-curation-101/digital-curation-101-lite-oxford</a>James A J Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10956487555332539561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925116216302357467.post-32160119399557339832010-05-19T07:48:00.000-07:002010-05-20T03:47:48.952-07:00Data management and curation cost modelling<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWa_3EM9qeJbf7ZKncyP9CWZiTWlY2DgPGrfyFHNDEEEmGyNVMd-jp41hWi4XJ5QhadgJ30LGL_IA_haiChCOXXfHGFdPYofx_wpWrMjsAC11PGxNm7drk2mJg3RmaOIzUXENV_PtjbMTu/s1600/money.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWa_3EM9qeJbf7ZKncyP9CWZiTWlY2DgPGrfyFHNDEEEmGyNVMd-jp41hWi4XJ5QhadgJ30LGL_IA_haiChCOXXfHGFdPYofx_wpWrMjsAC11PGxNm7drk2mJg3RmaOIzUXENV_PtjbMTu/s320/money.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473004534193087986" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The final report of the <a href="http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/reports/2010/keepingresearchdatasafe2.aspx#downloads">Keeping Research Data Safe 2 (KRDS2)</a> project has now been published delivering a survey of data preservation costs, an enhanced curation activity model, four in-depth case studies and a benefits framework .<br /><br />Oxford, and in particular the research groups participating in EIDCSR, participated as one of the case studies. For this exercise cost information was gathered on activities related to generation of data, local data management as well as the curatorial activities undertaken as part of EIDCSR such as metadata management and long-term archiving.<br /><br />It is hard to make any inferences from these costs as they represent a snapshoot in time of one particular research project. Nonetheless, the Oxford costs information revealed that:<br /><br /><ul><li>generating research data can be extremely expensive, </li><li>local data management may be modestly resourced in comparison with the value of the data,</li><li>start-up curation services, i.e. curation services in the process of development, can also be expensive,</li><li>the cost of established data management services, such as the long-term filestore, can be be rather low in comparison to those services in the process of development.</li></ul>The <a href="http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/publications/reports/2010/keepingresearchdatasafe2.pdf">report </a>contains more detailed information about the Oxford case study as well as the others including the UK Data Archive, the Archaeology Data Service and the National Digital Archive of Datasets.Luis Martinez Uribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537007264260786165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925116216302357467.post-40519327192332351332010-05-07T04:16:00.000-07:002010-05-07T04:47:39.426-07:00A new interesting project: Data Management for Bio-Imaging<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbtbNk3GwuLP_XcIiRI16fpbnuEdvMdwzTCiimBBhyphenhyphen4lSOIHnsVKUtVocs_xDloG0oCI1llDjcS1y-DI2CPh346DiiXTeZhB8coevo1HqVMpMOuHfov7QpWIT0V04A2JMVf2EfVpKuydpS/s1600/EIDCSRBlog.gif"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 162px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbtbNk3GwuLP_XcIiRI16fpbnuEdvMdwzTCiimBBhyphenhyphen4lSOIHnsVKUtVocs_xDloG0oCI1llDjcS1y-DI2CPh346DiiXTeZhB8coevo1HqVMpMOuHfov7QpWIT0V04A2JMVf2EfVpKuydpS/s400/EIDCSRBlog.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468492654306355874" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />A new data management project funded by JISC known as Data Management for Bio-Imaging has just created a <a href="http://dmbi.nbi.bbsrc.ac.uk/index.php/Main_Page">wiki</a> that will contain relevant information about the project.<br /><br /><br /><blockquote> <span style="font-style: italic;">The aim of the project is to generate better understanding and planning of data management for bio-imaging within the </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.jic.ac.uk/" class="external text" title="http://www.jic.ac.uk/" rel="nofollow">John Innes Centre</a></blockquote><br />The project plans to document the data flows and infrastructure in the <a href="http://rico-coen.jic.ac.uk/index.php/Main_Page">Coen Lab</a> and the <a href="http://www.jic.ac.uk/microscopy/">JISC Bio-Imaging service</a>. In both cases they use sophisticated instruments such as light microscopy, CCD systems and confocal microscopy generating terabytes of imaging data.<br /><br />To address their data management needs they are deploying an Open Microscopy Environment known as <a href="http://openmicroscopy.org/site">OMERO</a> which features like:<br /><br />- Managing and organizing<br />- Search&Browsing<br />- 3D Projection<br />- Metadata, annotation, tagging<br />- Share, Export, Import<br /><br />In addition to this, they will train users, including post-docs, to use the system as well as defining strategies to handle user acceptance and encourage image processing.<br /><br />This is an extremely interesting activity and we´ll surely keep a close eye.Luis Martinez Uribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537007264260786165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925116216302357467.post-35853574910857878742010-04-23T09:25:00.000-07:002010-04-23T09:46:34.848-07:00Report on the 'Institutional Policy and Guidance for Research Data' Workshop<p style="font-family: arial;" face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">'How to share expertise? Where to get advice'? Just two of the questions institutions need to address in their research data management policies according to Paul Taylor of Melbourne University. On the 29<sup>th</sup> March 2010, the place for advice and sharing expertise was the <a href="http://eidcsr.oucs.ox.ac.uk/policy_workshop.xml">EIDCSR Institutional Policy Workshop in Oxford</a>.</p> <p style="font-family: arial;" face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">A significant part of the <a href="http://eidcsr.oucs.ox.ac.uk/">‘Embedding Institutional Data Curation Services in Research’ Project</a> has been to start developing an Institutional research data management policy for the University of Oxford, so this workshop offered us a chance both to say how things were going and find out the lessons learnt from others farther down the road. </p> <p style="font-family: arial;" face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">The University of Melbourne has been grappling with the issues for some time already, and we were lucky enough to be joined by several of their representatives via videoconference. Indeed, given how close we were to not being joined by their representatives due to the videoconferencing equipment, ‘lucky’ is the operative word. <a href="http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/2009/11/25/data-management-policy-an-interview-with-paul-taylor/">Paul Taylor</a> stressed that any effective policy needs to be implementable. This involves getting the researchers themselves involved in the development process and offering somewhere where people can go for information and advice. Compliance becomes easier the more central services exist, leaving researchers to do the research.</p> <p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal">Another university which has already done a lot of work on data curation is Southampton, and Kenji Takeda <span style=""> </span>introduced their long-term ambitions. The unfortunate incident a few years back when <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/4390048.stm">Southhampton’s Mountbatton building burnt down</a> led to claims against the lost research data, so this has perhaps focussed minds more there than in other institutions. A cost-benefits analysis is now being undertaken which should help institutions better appreciate the value of their data outputs. Furthermore, they are looking to make data management courses compulsory. Herding academics into classrooms sounds ambitious, but there was a general sense from the workshop that without training there was little chance of persuading researchers to adopt best practices.</p> <p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal">Jeff Hayward, from the University of Edinburgh emphasised that when it comes to data curation it is better to identify the opportunities than enumerate the problems, but then failed to ignore the various ‘inhibitors’ to good data management. “Researchers want data management, but don’t want to do it.” Quite. Nevertheless, Edinburgh are bravely forging ahead, setting up an experimental <a href="http://datashare.is.ed.ac.uk/dspace/">‘DataShare’</a> service and adapting the <a href="http://www.dcc.ac.uk/">Digital Curation Centre</a>’s 101 training, with the intention of making it compulsory for doctoral students.</p> <p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal">Finally, David McAllister of the <a href="http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/">BBSRC</a> explained data management policies from a Research Council’s point of few – clearly a key driver for institutional policies.</p> <p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal">Perhaps the last word should go to Jeff Hayward who concluded the panel questions session by indicating that the world would actually be a happier place if there were fewer data repositories. Individual universities should really act as repositories of last resort, but the onus must be on them to guarantee that research data is not lost or rendered inaccessible.</p> <p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal">For a more complete report on the workshop, plus the various sets of slides used by the presenters, go to the EIDCSR Project website: <a href="http://eidcsr.oucs.ox.ac.uk/policy_workshop.xml">http://eidcsr.oucs.ox.ac.uk/policy_workshop.xml</a></p>James A J Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10956487555332539561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925116216302357467.post-72016724988837485522010-02-17T12:37:00.000-08:002010-03-16T00:53:31.757-07:002nd EIDCSR Workshop "Institutional Policy and Guidance for Research Data" on 29th March 2010<span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">The <a href="http://eidcsr.oucs.ox.ac.uk/policy_workshop.xml">second EIDCSR Workshop</a> will take place on 29th of March at the <a href="http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/about_us/contact.php">Rewley House</a> in Oxford. Following the <a href="http://eidcsr.blogspot.com/2009/11/data-management-policy-in-university-of.html">policy development work </a>undertaken at the University as part of the project, the event will focus on </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">issues around the development and implementation of institutional policy and guidance for research data.</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"> A fantastic group of speakers from Oxford, Southampton, Edinburgh, Melbourne and the BBSRC will discuss:<br /><br /></span></span><ul><li class="item"><span style="font-size:85%;">data management and sharing policy at different levels such as research council, HEI institutions and research departments; </span></li><li class="item"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span id="id180988"><!--anchor--></span>how research records and data management policy and guidance can be useful to researchers and how to involve researchers in their development;</span></li><li class="item"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span id="id180993"><!--anchor--></span>how to encourage implementation of institutional policy at a local or departmental level;</span></li><li class="item"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span id="id181296"><!--anchor--></span>how to encourage across the institution the sharing of best practice in research records and data management.</span></li></ul><span style="font-size:85%;">To book a place please email <a href="mailto:eidcsr@oucs.ox.ac.uk">eidcsr@oucs.ox.ac.uk</a></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><br /></span>Luis Martinez Uribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537007264260786165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925116216302357467.post-58260112391786806282009-12-18T03:51:00.000-08:002009-12-18T04:09:45.380-08:00Scientific data repositories workshop in Barcelona<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivlcBwAopmbi43GlPLJHN3NEIxBsgNVVeEjx7V1Qz52a1m87GzovTTUKwXeeohkfd7ZoWqyxwB6Ku0mwjE1FOzY3-Hu8ej1B037zSQUk1Ba1UeDeNJUtftcKCie-P6xq41ZKF2qIbLRXxE/s1600-h/JOCS+manxeta.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 36px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivlcBwAopmbi43GlPLJHN3NEIxBsgNVVeEjx7V1Qz52a1m87GzovTTUKwXeeohkfd7ZoWqyxwB6Ku0mwjE1FOzY3-Hu8ej1B037zSQUk1Ba1UeDeNJUtftcKCie-P6xq41ZKF2qIbLRXxE/s400/JOCS+manxeta.gif" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416547104504385554" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">A</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> couple of weeks ago I was invited to talk at an incredibly inspiring event organized by the Centre de Supercomputació de Catalunya titled "Repositorios de datos cientificos" under their Jornadas Catalanas de Supercomputació. </span></span></i></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">We had an extraordinary day with a fantastic group of speakers that discussed issues around supporting researchers with their data management as well as disciplinary perspectives provided by real researchers.<br /><br />The whole event was filmed and is available </span><a href="http://uab.cat/servlet/Satellite/videos/reproduccio-1192707516892.html?param1=20institucional&param2=45commemoracions&url_video=1260343218227"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">online</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> (for those who speak spanish!) and I also got interviewed and filmed for online publication known as Global Talent, you can also see this </span><a href="http://www.es.globaltalentfcri.com/articles/1657/El-poder-de-los-datos-y-el-reto-por-gestionarlos.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">video</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> (again in spanish!). </span></span><br /></i></span></span></div>Luis Martinez Uribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537007264260786165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925116216302357467.post-48450378252707373982009-11-26T02:55:00.000-08:002009-11-26T03:09:11.756-08:00Data management policy in the University of Oxford<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO3xEbdyxSMwytPR9nCzGj3TN2S0oNzBkrmCajzUuLWiwCchUiR0tdbmpt-dXpLxuqYWGwChMRap1r0h8mqUTsvbgj4oGGMrcdpzxGLz-Q-oFLritShAQK6gazyfMKp9CHc75u6TMVgKqv/s1600/policy.png"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO3xEbdyxSMwytPR9nCzGj3TN2S0oNzBkrmCajzUuLWiwCchUiR0tdbmpt-dXpLxuqYWGwChMRap1r0h8mqUTsvbgj4oGGMrcdpzxGLz-Q-oFLritShAQK6gazyfMKp9CHc75u6TMVgKqv/s320/policy.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5408367437615611186" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Neil Grindley, our JISC Programme Manager, has just posted</span></span><a href="http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/2009/11/25/data-management-policy-an-interview-with-paul-taylor/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> "Data Management Policy: An Interview with Paul Taylor"</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> in the JISC Information Environment Team blog.</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Dr. Paul Taylor from the University of Melbourne is now finishing a secondment in the University of Oxford as part of the EIDCSR Project. He was instrumental in the development of </span></span><a href="http://www.unimelb.edu.au/records/research.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">University of Melbourne's data management polic</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">y and his work in Oxford will help producing a draft research records and data management policy together with a plan of action to implement it. </span></span></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Image from: </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(107, 107, 107); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">http://www.flickr.com/photos/28481088@N00/3352123533/</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, serif;font-size:130%;color:#6B6B6B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></div></div>Luis Martinez Uribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537007264260786165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925116216302357467.post-64068264188816451112009-10-23T03:50:00.000-07:002009-10-23T04:17:07.538-07:00EIDCSR technical analysis: from soft to hard<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">After having conducted the </span><a href="http://eidcsr.oucs.ox.ac.uk/docs/EIDCSR_AnalysisFindings_v2.1.pdf"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">EIDCSR audit and requirements analysis exercise</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, we have started converting the high level requirements gathered into technical requirements. The idea is to produce a systems design document for a Systems Developer to start with the implementation. Howard Noble, from Computing Services, is leading this exercise for the next two months.</span></span></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">To start with the technical analysis, Howard and I have had a very fruitful meeting this morning. We have brainstormed ideas for a high level system design trying to identify the practical things that can be done to support the data management workflows of the research groups taking part in EIDCSR.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 158px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkdTa-moV2PqGYU7gEUIQuGISNJtiXeEi841MAeSYSkV1Z06gnTmTYpDtZ1hSFkxdfh5CB3FpazzyswsAUqx_QhATZ6vOEjgL2EhJ8odrs8gDafJAz65Re9CKxpALoXzhPHkDOYltaFeaw/s200/EIDCSR-Technical+Analysis+23-10-09.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395749536968405810" /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Using a board to produce a "rich picture" recording the processes we have encountered and our thoughts was extremely useful. We will now produce a "cleaner" version of this picture and bring it forward to key people in the research groups in a workshop. This will hopefully helps us to communicate what the project aims to achieve as well as getting feedback on the design so that researchers requirements drive any development . </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS-nrHSUvYG2ilUuDT2I9_JOaU6NTfneWdeoS4-eFGEiS40AXwbCkwfrNPXQm2JD5AIKdQRMaolMQX8alh4BlL2ky8GKODaAhC3cXnLaKONc7aFfkU4SnYHytJmUKubqipy5FJPcu8Ezi6/s1600-h/EIDCSR-Technical+Analysis+23-10-09.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><br /></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></div></div>Luis Martinez Uribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537007264260786165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925116216302357467.post-56342977481985964182009-10-15T08:18:00.000-07:002009-10-23T04:17:40.258-07:00First EIDCSR workshop and executive board meeting<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Yesterday was a busy day for the EIDCSR Project. </span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">In the morning, the first project event took place at Rewley House in Oxford with an exciting group of speakers brought together under the theme of "Data curation: from lab to reuse".</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> Their presentations are now available on the </span><a href="http://eidcsr.oucs.ox.ac.uk/workshop.xml"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">project website</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> and a report will be produced shortly.</span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">The afternoon served to held the first EIDCSR Executive Board meeting where progress and next steps for the project </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">were discussed with the extraordinary helpful and encouraging members of the board.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Overall, a great day providing loads of food for thought.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;font-size:small;"><br /></span></div></div>Luis Martinez Uribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537007264260786165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925116216302357467.post-46475659709246666322009-10-12T00:55:00.000-07:002009-10-12T01:18:28.167-07:00"Science these days has basically turned into a data-management problem"The New York Times has an article about future scientists' ability to manage the large amounts of digital data being generated and how the likes of IBM or Google are trying to help, "Training to Climb an Everest of Digital Data", <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/technology/12data.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/technology/12data.html</a>. IBM and Google are contributing tools, computational power and access to large-scale datasets. It was actually two years ago this month that Google and IBM announced their partnership to provide universities with dedicated cluster computing resources, open source software, a dedicated website for collaboration, and a Creative Commons-licensed curriculum. In April this year the NSF funded projects at 14 US universities to take advantage of the IBM/Google Cloud Computing University Initiative. The New York Times article highlights some of these projects. The emphasis is certainly on the massive -- big compute clusters, big datasets -- and on data analysis. Not much though on the ongoing management of, access to, and preservation of data, even if Professor Jimmy Lin (University of Maryland) is quoted as saying, “Science these days has basically turned into a data-management problem”.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925116216302357467.post-23930579179902122352009-09-23T05:55:00.000-07:002009-10-07T01:53:02.980-07:00EIDCSR workshop on 14 October<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The first EIDCSR project workshop is taking place on 14 October, more details below:</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b><br /></b></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b></b></p><blockquote><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Date and location</b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">14 October at Rewley House, 1 Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JA</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">The event will start at 10.30 and will finish with lunch at 13.00</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Description</b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">This workshop is organized as part of the dissemination activities of the JISC-funded <a href="http://eidcsr.oucs.ox.ac.uk/">EIDCSR Project</a>. The aim of the workshop is to hear about proven practice in selected data management areas identified as challenging for researchers through the <a href="http://eidcsr.blogspot.com/2009/09/data-audit-and-requirements-analysis.html">EIDCSR audit and requirements analysis exercise</a>. Whilst the EIDCSR Project is addressing the requirements of researchers working within medical and life sciences, the event is likely to be of interest to those working in, or supporting, other disciplinary areas.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"> </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">The expected audience includes researchers who generate data in labs and computing simulations and staff from service units with an interest in research data management and curation issues.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Outcomes</b> </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Participants in the workshop will have the opportunity to learn about, and contribute to discussion of, the different approaches to the ensuring the flow of data between laboratory and in silico experimentation. In particular, the workshop will discuss: </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"> * methods for the capture, storage and reuse of metadata in the laboratory;</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"> * lifecycles integrating wet lab and in silico experimental data;</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"> * for delivery and visualisation of large-scale data.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"> </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Programme</b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Some of the speakers will include:</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b><i>Alan Garny, Oxford Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics</i></b> - Alan will discuss his research group data management workflow and challenges.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b><i>Brian Brooks, Unilever Cambridge Centre for Molecular Informatics</i></b> - Brian will talk about their Chemical Laboratory Repository In/Organic Notebooks (CLARION) Project.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b><i>Angus Whyte, Digital Curation Centre</i></b> - Angus will share the experiences from the DCC SCARP Project on data management best practice.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"> </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Booking</b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">To book a place please email <a href="mailto:eidcsr@oucs.ox.ac.uk%20?subject=data%20curation%20event%20booking">eidcsr@oucs.ox.ac.uk </a></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"></p>Luis Martinez Uribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537007264260786165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925116216302357467.post-6023963833195340452009-09-09T06:52:00.001-07:002009-09-15T02:09:06.207-07:00Data audit and requirements analysis<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">One of the initial exercises to be conducted as part of the EIDCSR project was the audit and requirements analysis based on </span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.data-audit.eu/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">DAF</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> to document the data practices and assets as well as to capture the requirements for tools and services of the research groups participating in the project. This exercise took place throughout the summer and the report describing the results will be available soon. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">As I explained on a previous </span></span><a href="http://eidcsr.blogspot.com/2009/07/provenance-metadata-what-and-how-to.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">post</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">, these research groups collaborate as part of a </span></span><a href="http://oasis.bbsrc.ac.uk/netans-bin/gate.exe?f=doc&state=dsb398.1.1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">BBSRC grant</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> to conduct research on ventricular architecture by using novel techniques such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">(MRI) and Diffusion Tensor MRI (DTMRI) and combine them with traditional histological techniques as well as with image processing with data registration and computational models for bio-mathematical simulation.</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Their research workflow is well described by Gernot et. all (2009)* in the diagram bel</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">ow. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">It starts with the generation of complementary images stacks that are then processed in different ways to generate meshes that can be used for computational modelling of the heart. </span></span></span></div><!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> <div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 244px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXw21pYoVmOhQq1_AUJPhqcATfoZKe6cXFJeMA87dndnJVlSkEl8NqjhRfbHMxsO5TxUdNWNBRFojLolfNZfxm7yBJVQ-v22sd6TkmhYnCEcEohHQbgVeo0pOm9Oc-nr8wcc167v0_k2Zj/s400/Picture+1.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379793706506037122" /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The result of this complex process produces the following data outputs:</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Histology data</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">: large high resolution images produced by microscopes in the lab representing sections of a heart. </span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">MRI and DTMRI data</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">: stack of tiff images resulting from the raw data produced by the magnet in a lab.</span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Segmentation data</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">: outputs resulting from applying </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmentation_(image_processing)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">image segmentation </span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">techniques to the histology and MRI data.</span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Mesh data</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">: volumetric model produced from segmented data in a mesh generator. </span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Simulations</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">: electrophysiological simulation using the mesh data and other input files that define the models and the parameters.</span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">3D heart atla</span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">s</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">: representing an average representation of a heart ventricles obtained from the histology and MRI data.</span></span></span></li></ul></div><!--StartFragment--> <!--EndFragment--> <div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">And the research group requirements can be grouped under three themes:</span></span></div><div><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Secure storage: all the data outputs presented above are stored on a combination of desktop computers and a project </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network-attached_storage"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">NAS system</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> and researchers realize the need to keep the data safe by having appropriate and resilient back-up procedures.</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Data transfer: the histology data are large and needs to be accessed by researchers within the groups and others.</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Metadata: currently the provenance metadata for some of the data presented above is recorded in printed lab-books. This information is crucial when making the data available to others and it is required when publishing articles based on the data. In addition to this, it may be helpful to improve searching within the NAS system.</span></span></li></ul><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">*</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Gernot Plank, Rebecca A.B. Burton, Patrick Hales, Martin Bishop, Tahir Mansoori, Miguel O. Bernabeu, Alan Garny, Anton J. Prassl, Christian Bollensdorff, Fleur Mason, Fahd Mahmood, Blanca Rodriguez, Vicente Grau, Jürgen E. Schneider, David Gavaghan, and Peter Kohl </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Generation of histo-anatomically representative models of the individual heart: tools and application </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Phil Trans R Soc A 2009 367: 2257-2292. </span></span></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left"><o:p></o:p></p> <!--EndFragment--> </div>Luis Martinez Uribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537007264260786165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925116216302357467.post-25777854203924320422009-07-28T19:59:00.000-07:002009-09-03T04:02:59.682-07:00Provenance metadata: what and how to record it?<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">To effectively curate the research data produced by the two research groups participating in the EIDCSR project, it is crucial to capture provenance metadata that explains how the data was generated in the first place. This information enables validation and increases the value of the data.<br /></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The research groups in our case, collaborate as part of a BBSRC funded project and generate MRIs and histology data in laboratories using a variety of instruments and techniques, these datasets are then manipulated through process such </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmentation_(image_processing)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">segmentation</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> to create 3D meshes, volumetric elements, that will serve to run computational simulations.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">So what provenance metadata should be recorded and are there any subject specific metadata standards appropriate for these datasets?</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Interviews with the researchers involved in the generation of data have shown that they well versed in recording information about their experiments on their lab-notebooks. When writing research articles they go back to these notebooks in order to document their methodologies. Therefore, I believe it is fair to assume that researchers know what information needs to be recorded about their experiments and simulations. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 121px; height: 128px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgepLtZF2jkr7yC1xlAxW-Yw_flxebD6QWJTSdcpdO5M6FqaYs4zZ5LefjK4CmDVYy6uUIEb4K7SQVeI6NPwQGkM3f4AsLCmN-CaaDF0jOf5EAc0-HZVJC7gbIC2ezKTvlWMOTFpXmm-1EE/s200/Picture+2.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377177853550932930" /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Discussions with the person responsible for the BBSRC Data Sharing Policy around metadata standards pointed us to the </span></span><a href="http://www.mibbi.org/index.php/Main_Page"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Minimum Information for Biological and Biomedical Investigations (MIBBI) portal</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. This resource provides minimum information guidelines for diverse bioscience domains and provides a registry of projects developing those guidelines.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">A metadata standard used for experimental data widely used internationally is the</span></span><a href="http://epubs.cclrc.ac.uk/work-details?w=30324"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> Scientific Metadata Model </span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">developed by CCLRC (now STFC).</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The model includes information at the top level describing the study and the set of investigations i.e. experiment, measurement, simulation etc involved in this study. Then for each investigation it records specific information about the data:</span></span></div><!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:2.0pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:56.0pt 84.0pt 99.25pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span lang="EN-US"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Data holding</span></span></b></span><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> - A logical hierarchy of the Data Collections and Atomic Data Objects and their directory style grouping. The Data Holding can be considered as the ‘root’ of the data file/object system.</span></span></span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:2.0pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:56.0pt 84.0pt 99.25pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:1.0cm;text-indent:-7.05pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 1.0cm left 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">§</span></span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Data description </span></span></b></span><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">- A description of the data kept in this data holding from the data archive perspective. Including information like name, type, status, quality and software.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:2.0cm;text-indent:-14.15pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1;tab-stops:28.0pt list 2.0cm left 84.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 212.65pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt 360.0pt 396.0pt right 470.2pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">-</span></span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Logical description - </span></span></b></span><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Reference to a set of logical description fields such as parameter [Name, id, class, units, value, facilities used, range], time period or facility used.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:1.0cm;text-indent:-7.05pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 1.0cm left 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">§</span></span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Data collection - </span></span></b></span><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Data Collections in the hierarchy of data organisation used in this Investigation; much like directories in a file system and they can be nested.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:1.0cm;text-indent:-7.05pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 1.0cm left 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">§</span></span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Atomic data object</span></span></b></span><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> - Atomic Data Objects (files, blobs, named selects etc) </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:1.0cm;text-indent:-7.05pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 1.0cm left 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">§</span></span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Related reference</span></span></b></span><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> - Other Studies/Investigations related to this Data Holding and their type or relationship; e.g. derived from or used by </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:1.0cm;text-indent:-7.05pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 1.0cm left 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">§</span></span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Data holding locator</span></span></b></span><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> - A locator for addressing the overall Data Holding. (URI of top level directory or data)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> <div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></i></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">How can this complex workflow process that involves several research groups with specialists skills and a variety of tools and techniques be recorded?</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">An answer to this question may be obtained by looking at the work of our colleagues in Southampton. Some weeks ago Simon Coles and Jeremy Frey visited the OeRC to tell us about their work on electronic lab notebooks. They have been involved in projects such as </span></span><a href="http://www.smarttea.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Smart Tea</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> and </span></span><a href="http://www.combechem.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">CombeChem</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> that deal with the management of laboratory information. Initially they had explored the idea of replicating printed lab-notebooks using tablet interfaces that would capture structured information. These have the benefits of good semantic information. In addition to this, they have experimented with the idea of </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">laboratory blogs </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">that allow recording step by step the process followed allowing discussing the data and providing flexibility and the power of web 2.0 technologies.</span></span><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div></div></div>Luis Martinez Uribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537007264260786165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925116216302357467.post-40543173123707668652009-07-13T06:40:00.000-07:002009-07-13T07:26:10.448-07:00EIDCSR website launched<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSyo614tax88XArOlLUNBjY5gtm1juj3QzEZWPbjznNmelmA1l0-gwpmjzeA9KZDNnKzjTpEa-FOEZ_ImqClW9d7qRAYntA855XzuSLVx-qJnwaCazG0SmYGz654NYSqFpJxHJC_W8CjpJ/s1600-h/Picture+1.png"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 132px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSyo614tax88XArOlLUNBjY5gtm1juj3QzEZWPbjznNmelmA1l0-gwpmjzeA9KZDNnKzjTpEa-FOEZ_ImqClW9d7qRAYntA855XzuSLVx-qJnwaCazG0SmYGz654NYSqFpJxHJC_W8CjpJ/s320/Picture+1.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357949329273312130" /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The EIDCSR website was launched last week at </span><a href="http://eidcsr.oucs.ox.ac.uk/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">http://eidcsr.oucs.ox.ac.uk</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">This new site will contain information about this JISC funded project including background and methodology, it will aggregate posts from this blog, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><a href="http://www.diigo.com/profile/eidcsr">project bookmark</a>s</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> and will link to different reports, presentations and papers resulting from project activities.</span></div>Luis Martinez Uribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537007264260786165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925116216302357467.post-83497377762612027942009-07-03T03:03:00.000-07:002009-07-03T06:04:43.623-07:00Response to the DCC Data Management Plan Content Checklist<!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:2.85pt;line-height:150%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) circulated a draft template for consultation of a<a href="www.dcc.ac.uk/docs/templates/DMP_checklist.pdf"> Data Management Plan Content Checklist</a> in mid-June. This checklist was intended to act as an aide for researchers when producing data management plans (DMPs). The aim of the public consultation was to obtain feedback about the draft checklist as well as desired functionality for an online tool to be developed.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:2.85pt;line-height:150%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The following response has been gathered from internal discussions in the University of Oxford amongst members of the JISC funded Embedding Institutional Data Curation Services in Research (EIDCSR) project.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:2.85pt;line-height:150%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Members of the EIDCSR project consider that the draft template represents a significant step-forward towards the support and standardization of data management plans as an integral part of an application for funding. The document covers many of the issues required to be thought of at the outset of a research project and the web-based tool might be of real benefit to researchers and those supporting the application process within Universities. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:2.85pt"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:2.85pt;line-height:150%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Below feedback is organized into two sections covering the checklist and the desired functionality for the online tool.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:150%"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Specific feedback about the checklist</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:37.4pt;text-indent:-18.7pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 37.4pt"></p><ul><li><span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">More than a checklist where researchers can tick boxes, this seems to be a form to gather qualitative information about the research project, the plans and intentions for managing research data as well as researchers’ perceptions on issues like anticipated volumes or foreseeable uses of their data.</span></span></li><li><span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In order for the sections in the document to follow the DCC lifecycle model, section 3 on access and data sharing should be placed after section 6 on short-term storage.</span></span></li><li><span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Section 6.2 deals with where the data will be stored and the section is not marked bold. The media storage chosen it is a crucial aspect of data management and needs to be a core section.</span></span></li><li><span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">It may be worth starting this exercise from the another perspective, if such plan is going to be peer-reviewed, what practice would be accepted and what practice would fail a peer-review process?</span></span></li><li><span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Some of the sections need to be unfolded to become more comprehensive. Section 2.3 could include questions about whether the data will contain personal or health information and whether consent forms will be used.</span></span></li><li><span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Section 4 on data collection should be asking about who will be creating/capturing the data and in what country will this happen (different countries will have different laws for data collection and sharing).</span></span></li><li><span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Section 7 should ask who will take responsibility over time for making decisions about the data when the original participants have gone and whether there is a process in place for transferring responsibility.</span></span></li><li><span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Section 3 could mention access and re-use of metadata (eg harvesting) as separate to access and re-use of the actual data.</span></span></li><li><span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Quality of data. Needs to be addressed too. Will the data be peer-reviewed? Is there some sort of kite-mark or indicator that data has been peer-reviewed?</span></span></li><li><span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Issues such as the closure of the data store and the responsibilities should also be covered on this checklist.</span></span></li></ul><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:36.05pt;text-indent:-24.7pt;line-height:150%"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Desired functionality for online tool</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:37.4pt;text-indent:-18.7pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 37.4pt"></p><ul><li><span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">It is crucial to define clearly what the aim of this interactive web-based tool will be and what it will do for researchers and those supporting them in the application process. It may be worth to discuss the functionality with researchers that currently need to provide a DMP with their applications to understand better their need as well as those from other staff involved in the application process.</span></span></li><li><span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">It may be worth thinking how to encourage researchers to use this online tool to generate a DMP to then include it in their application. Could they be getting a sort of “seal of approval” from DCC saying that they have use their tool and guidance to develop their DMP?</span></span></li><li><span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Acceptability of the resulting checklist with funding agencies – if a funding agency supported, encouraged, or required its use there would be more chance of it being taken up</span></span></li><li><span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Apart from the examples of best practice how can researchers get guidance to develop these plans if they don’ have the required expertise to fill in one of the sections? Would DCC provide the support required?</span></span></li><li><span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Particular areas of functionality that such a system may need to have include:</span></span></li></ul><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, -webkit-fantasy; font-size: small; "><div style="text-align: left;"><ol><li>The capacity to export the data so that the information can be included with the actual funding application proposal. Could it also be adapted to be used as a reporting mechanism later in the project as some of the data management actions take place. Plans may have to change because of circumstances- that sort of situation should be able to be included.</li><li>Examples of best practice in data management across several and distinct research disciplines.</li><li>Advice on: legal and ethical issues for collecting and sharing data, standards for file and metadata <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>formats, storage options, back-up, secure archives for long-term curation, etc</li></ol></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, -webkit-fantasy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><ol></ol><ol></ol><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /><br /></span><br /><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:46.75pt;text-indent:-18.7pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo2;tab-stops:list 46.75pt"><o:p></o:p></p> <!--EndFragment--> </div>Luis Martinez Uribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537007264260786165noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925116216302357467.post-40685655433927500412009-06-29T01:09:00.000-07:002009-07-02T08:51:40.109-07:00Update on recent data related activities<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTO74uPvLo4WCREUpBLpbsZYbt3CdBuuzO7e-5Ii0MQSs7Up8wEL-jcoXxtWzaxQSWMoKCcs68iaaw-tnSHALdK6NKeMEevBh9d7ETZlZolK5wSpwC1EhTZUmAOONoa-rABXMjgZ_tlsbt/s1600-h/Picture+2.png"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 174px; height: 77px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTO74uPvLo4WCREUpBLpbsZYbt3CdBuuzO7e-5Ii0MQSs7Up8wEL-jcoXxtWzaxQSWMoKCcs68iaaw-tnSHALdK6NKeMEevBh9d7ETZlZolK5wSpwC1EhTZUmAOONoa-rABXMjgZ_tlsbt/s320/Picture+2.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353887243082170482" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The Australian National Data Service (</span><a href="http://ands.org.au/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">ANDS</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">) has recently launched two new services: </span><a href="http://ands.org.au/services/register-my-data.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">register my data</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> and </span><a href="http://ands.org.au/services/identify-my-data.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">identify my data</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. These services allow researchers to upload descriptions of their datasets for these to be published and to have persistent identifiers for their datasets to enable continuity of access.</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">ANDS also advertises on their website that they will be working with a number of research </span><a href="http://ands.org.au/neat-activities.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">projects</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> to assist them with their data management. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><div><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 263px; height: 83px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMrUXAkCAXoxKJ5LIgCQa39SgEkrTuZunwde3-4g0_TvUoPC7RZujIhxJbaAKCS0Rf4Pwr8ssCad3a2UCjxVTf4n1atU8uCNlJw6HFVJpe3S64RZw2JmwHuwW8IDYTk36zkDpUINShnHCj/s320/Picture+3.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353887799950218370" /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The </span><a href="http://www.opendatacommons.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Open Data Commons</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, a project from the </span><a href="http://www.okfn.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Open Knowledge Foundation</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">(OKF), has just released v1.0 of their </span><a href="http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Open Database licence</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, an open share alike licence for data and databases. It allows users to freely share, edit and use a database while maintaining freedom from other. The licence only governs the rights of the database and not the contents which in some case can be covered by other rights.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 41px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisMffTiKRKgDENtYLM1sZgqluL1IKsg3NAJVZHCHMnLrTziu2t5V-Etav7ZpVc52po2HOjdjwpxMBJkfQ8ArpxH0zGJLqfr37tFflhS-M_4szhQUlL6ND8lXAm_ObTcvg-1gXlOZdvM5wj/s400/Picture+4.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353890361233442738" /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The OKF has also started a project for distributed storage called </span><a href="http://grid.okfn.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Open Data Grid</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> for an open distributed grid for open data.</span></div><div><br /></div></div></div>Luis Martinez Uribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537007264260786165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925116216302357467.post-82947285610324030622009-06-05T07:07:00.000-07:002009-07-01T03:41:01.822-07:00Data imperative event<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The </span><a href="http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/events/the-data-imperative-libraries-and-research-data"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">data imperative</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> event organized the </span><a href="http://www.rluk.ac.uk/e-research"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">RLUK/SCONUL Task Force on e-Research</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> was held on Wednesday 3 June in Oxford with support from the </span><a href="http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Oxford e-Research Centre</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">, </span><a href="http://www.rluk.ac.uk/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">RLUK</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">, </span><a href="http://www.sconul.ac.uk/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">SCONUL</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> and </span><a href="http://rin.ac.uk/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">RIN</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">.<br /><br /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">This was an excellent opportunity to confirm the extraordinary interest of librarians in this area as well as the difficulty to clarify their role and where the necessary funding comes from to allow addressing the challenge. Chris Keene shares his notes of the event from his </span><a href="http://www.nostuff.org/words/2009/event-the-data-imperative-libraries-and-research-data/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">blog</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> and RLUK will be shortly making the presentations available. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">In the mean time you can access </span><a href="http://www.ict.ox.ac.uk/odit/projects/digitalrepository/docs/DataImp030609-PaulJeffreys.pdf"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Prof. Paul Jeffrey's introduction</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> to the workshop and </span><a href="http://www.ict.ox.ac.uk/odit/projects/digitalrepository/docs/DataImp030609-LuisMartinez.pdf"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">my talk</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> describing Oxford's recent work in this area.</span></div><div><div style="width:425px;text-align:left" id="__ss_1522306"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;font-family:Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="width:425px;text-align:left" id="__ss_1522306"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;font-family:Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div></div>Luis Martinez Uribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537007264260786165noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925116216302357467.post-21155601940030934322009-06-02T02:57:00.000-07:002009-07-01T03:40:13.031-07:00Welcome to the EIDCSR blog<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 16px;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Welcome to this new blog where the JISC funded Embedding Institutional Data Curation Services for Research (EIDCSR) will be reporting on project outputs and other initiatives of interest.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 16px;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The EIDCSR project is an institutional collaboration in Oxford aiming to a</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">ddr</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">ess the preservation requirements of two collaborating research groups in Oxford. Their data management and curation requirements will be scoped and selected elements of the digital curation lifecycle will be embedded, including policy, workflow, and sustainability solutions within the research process at an early stage</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">. By joining up existing institutional and departmental services, as shown in the figure below, the project expects to use an approach that can scale up to address the data preservation challenges of research groups in Oxford. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 16px;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 16px;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; font-family:arial;"><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/39547510@N05/3637984827/" target="_blank"><br /><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiogWJUJXGF6ZUjBBQdws7V4QpOFXWnCLegB5LllQavNa9uX0KcjSzaAnc6sxwP00s7m_EWRG_XyCp6NVqQHiTm9a0YJuP_dSElO_dg-XHdRRk9nzL74t1M7uRKi16dnUUIQdRcOur9TiU/s400/Figure1-JISCBID.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330127792895530690" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 275px; " /><br /><br /></a><br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 16px;font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; font-family:arial;"></span></div>Luis Martinez Uribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537007264260786165noreply@blogger.com0