Towards a Swiss Open Research Data Platform

Within the framework of the project Open Research Data Platform Switzerland (ORD@CH), FORS (lead institution), the Digital Humanities Lab of the University of Basel, and the ETH Scientific IT Services / SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics are developing a publication platform for open research data in Switzerland. The platform will be operational as a pilot project in spring 2015. It will essentially offer a metadata catalogue of the data available at the participating institutions. The ORD@CH project is part of the program „Scientific information: access, processing and safeguarding“, initiated by the Rectors‘ Conference of Swiss Universities (Program SUC 2013-2016 P-2), and runs from July 2014 to December 2015. From 2016 onwards, the platform is planned to be continued as a permanent metadata infrastructure for open research data in Switzerland. More info: http://openresearchdata.ch

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1. ORD@CH l October 2014
2. Agenda Initial situation and specific needs Profile and objectives Approach and functionalities CKAN as technical platform Federal architecture Subprojects ORD@CH Project organization and rough planning Questions and contact 2 ORD@CH l October 2014
3. Initial situation and specific needs «Data Silos»: Research data generally remain confined in closed domain- specific environments. Usage of data: Basically no secondary usage beyond the research project that has produced the data. Need for action (SUK programme 2013-2016 P-2): Development of a metadata infrastructure («Metadata Hub») that spans across institutes and projects in order to make research data more broadly visible and accessible. Requirements for the metadata hub: Harvesting, indexing and querying (plain text search) of the metadata Access to the research data (primary data) of the institutes via URL Usage according to the conditions of the research projects and institutes 3 ORD@CH l October 2014
4. Profile of the ORD@CH project Development and pilot operation (9 months) of a metadata based publication platform for research data from the social sciences, the humanities, and the life sciences. Participating institutions: FORS (Lead) Digital Humanities Lab of the University of Basel Scientific IT Services / SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics of the ETH Zurich Milestones: Start of the project: July 2014 Start of the pilot operation: spring 2015 End of the project: December 2015 Continued operation and extension of the platform as an extensive metadata hub for Swiss research data in 2016. ORD@CH l October 2014 4
5. 5 Objectives Promotion of secondary analysis of research data. Performance indicator for publicly funded research programs. Promotion of interdisciplinary approaches in research and teaching. Access to publicly funded research data for the general public. Increased visibility of research teams and institutes. Simplified publication of data linked to publications. Progressive integration of additional databases to build an extensive metadata infrastructure for research data in Switzerland. ORD@CH l October 2014
6. Approach: Metadata Hub ORD@CH l October 2014 6 Fachspezifische Forschungs- institution (-projekt): - recording - analyzing - processing - storing Fachspezifische Forschungs- institution (-projekt): - recording - analyzing - processing - storing Primärdaten Metadata Fachspezifische Forschungs- institution (-projekt): - recording - analyzing - processing - storing Fachspezifische Forschungs- institution (-projekt): - recording - analyzing - processing - storing Primärdaten Metadata Domain specific research institution/project): - recording - analyzing - processing - storing Domain specific research institution/project): - recording - analyzing - processing - storing Primary data Metadata Open Research Metadata Hub Open Research Metadata Hub Search Service Feedback Linked Data Services ... Metadata catalogue (with link to the primary data) Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH, REST, LOD etc.) Institute/Project website Institute/Project website User API’s openresearchdata.ch openresearchdata.ch
7. Main functionalities Registration of the primary datasets in a central metadata catalogue («Metadata Harvesting») Full text search of the metadata catalogue through a user friendly web interface. Access to the research data («primary data» in the repositories of the data producers) via URL or contact address. Communication between data producers and data users (forum, feedback concerning specific datasets, etc.) Additional services for the use of the research data (e.g. API’s or Linked Data Services) ORD@CH l October 2014 7
8. CKAN as technical platform Open Source Framework of the Open Knowledge Foundation for the publication of Open Data (de facto standard) References: data.gov (US), data.gov.uk (UK), opendata.admin.ch (CH) and over 100 more examples (for research data as well) Main functionalities of CKAN: Harvesting, publishing and managing metadata Search and discovery Web frontends (flexible CMS integration) Federation (of different CKAN instances) Extensions, API’s, Visualisation Community building ORD@CH l October 2014 8
9. CKAN Demo ORD@CH l October 2014 9
10. ORD@CH l October 2014 10
11. CKAN Class Diagram 11 ORD@CH l October 2014
12. ORD – CKAN Mapping 12 ORD@CH l October 2014
13. 13 Federal architecture ORD@CH ORD@CH l October 2014 Public User Open Reserach Metadata Hub Open Reserach Metadata Hub CKAN openresearchdata.ch openresearchdata.ch OpenBIS OpenBIS OpenBIS OpenBIS (other) (other) User Life Sciences systemsx.ch/data systemsx.ch/data CKAN instance for the life sciences CKAN CKAN CKAN instance for the life sciences CKAN SALSAH Linked Open Data SALSAH Linked Open Data (other) (other) CKAN instance for the humanities CKAN CKAN CKAN instance for the humanities CKAN User Humanities dhlab.unibas.ch/data dhlab.unibas.ch/data DARIS DARIS NESSTAR NESSTAR CKAN instance for the social sciences CKAN CKAN CKAN instance for the social sciences CKAN SHP and others SHP and others User Social Sciences unil.ch/fors.ch/data unil.ch/fors.ch/data ETH Data Archive ETH Data Archive ZORA (UZH) ZORA (UZH) (other) (other) (other) (other)
14. Subproject Social Sciences (FORS) Data sources FORS NESSTAR (http://fors-nesstar.unil.ch/) SHP COMPASS DARIS FORSbase … ORD@CH l October 2014 14
15. CKAN – Local Instance Social Sciences 15 Inventory Metadata Archive Metadata Contacts and Users Data FORSbase User Interface BFS Data SMT light Project Inventory Metadata and Primary Data Data Archive Survey Metadata Compass User Interace SHP User Interface SMT light User Interface Metadata on BFS Data Data Archive Common Functions Users Contacts Messages Im-/Export FORSbase NESSTAR User Interface Respository and Metadata CKAN (local insnace social sciences) ORD@CH l October 2014
16. Subproject Humanities (DHLab) Data sources DHLab SALSAH (http://www.salsah.org/) … ORD@CH l October 2014 16
17. CKAN – Local Instance Humanities 17 CKAN (local insnace social sciences) ORD@CH l October 2014
18. Subproject Life Sciences (ETH SIS) Data sources ETH SIS OpenBIS (http://sybit.net/software/openBIS/) … ORD@CH l October 2014 18
19. CKAN – Local Instance Life Sciences 19 ORD@CH l October 2014
20. 20 IT Development Support, Operation Andreas Amsler (TPL) Stefan Oderbolz Philipp Küng Thomas Wüst (TPL) Humanities (DHLab) Life Sciences (ETH SIS) Henry Lütcke (TPL) Chandrasekhar Ramakrishnan Thomas Wüst Social Sciences (FORS) Public Access Claudia Hochstrasser (TPL) Subprojects Stefan Buerli (TPL) Ivan Subotic (TPL) Overall project Project monitoring Project management PM-Team Steering committee Expert committee tbd André Golliez Stefan Buerli (Stv) Claudia Hochstrasser Andreas Amsler Stefan Oderbolz Peter Farago (FORS, Leitung) Lukas Rosenthaler (DH Lab) Bernd Rinn (ETH SIS) Martin Walder (SUK P-2) Project organization ORD@CH l October 2014
21. April Mai June 2Q 2015 Jan. Feb. March 1Q 2015 Aug July Sep Oct. Dec. Nov. 3Q 2014 4Q 2014 July Aug. Sept. 3Q 2015 Oct. Nov. Dec. 4Q 2015 • End Pilot ORD@CH • End Pilot ORD@CH Test operation today • Start • Start Rough planning 21 ORD@CH l October 2014 • Start Pilot operation • Start Pilot operation Implementation Implementation II Implementation III Pilot operation Evaluation, Final report • Approval Implementation • Approval Implementation Concept Open Research Data Hackdays (5./6. June) Open Research Data Hackdays (5./6. June)
22. Thank you for your attention! Any questions?… ORD@CH l October 2014 22
23. Last but not least: ORD@CH l October 2014 23 Visit our homepage: www.openresearchdata.ch … and save the date: 5./6. June 2015 Open Research Data Hackdays in Lausanne and Basel
24. 24 Contracting authority: Peter Farago, Director FORS peter.farago@fors.unil.ch Direct: +41 21 692 37 31 Project management: André Golliez, Managing Partner itopia ag andre.golliez@itopia.ch Direct: +41 44 355 56 24 Stefan Buerli, Research Inventory administrator FORS stefan.buerli@fors.unil.ch Direct: +41 21 692 37 29 Andreas Amsler, Product Owner, Liip Andreas.amsler@liip.ch Direct: +41 43 501 40 05 Contact ORD@CH l October 2014