Cyberinfrastructure, data, and libraries, part 1: A cyberinfrastructure primer for librarians

D-Lib Magazine

Volumn 13, Issue 9-10, 2007, Pages

  Gold, Anna ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 35449004484     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10829873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1045/september2007-gold-pt1     Document Type: Review

References (49)

1. "2020 Future of computing," Nature, March 23, 2006, 〈http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/futurecomputing/index. html〉. In this article I use the terms E-Science and cyberinfrastructure more or less interchangeably. Ann Zimmerman suggests that a more exact equivalent of "cyberinfrastructure" would be "eScience applications"
2. (Ann Zimmerman, "Not by metadata alone: The use of diverse forms of knowledge to locate data for reuse," International Journal on Digital Libraries, May 1, 2007 〈http://www.springerlink.com/content/ p42u8177421u1477/fulltext.pdf〉. Accessed 9/12/07). Zimmerman acknowledges Clifford Lynch for pointing out that the UK usage of the term "eScience" encompasses not only infrastructure, but also related changes in scientific practice.
3. See, Clifford Lynch, "Research libraries engage the digital world: A US-UK comparative examination of recent history and future prospects," Ariadne, issue 46, February 2006 〈http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/ issue46/lynch/〉 Accessed 9/12/07. My thanks to Karen Baker for pointing this out. Current usage of the two terms overlaps broadly, and may have evolved from the definitions for E-Science and cyberinfrastructure as articulated by John Taylor and Dan Atkins, respectively.
4. See "Defining eScience" 〈http://www.nesc.ac.uk/nesc/ define.html〉 for the former (Accessed 9/12/07),
5. and Report of the National Science Foundation Blue-Ribbon Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure, 〈http://www.nsf.gov/od/oci/reports/ atkins.pdf〉 for the latter (Accessed 9/12/07). Still another variant, used by Peter Murray-Rust, is "cyberscience." 〈http://wwmm.ch. cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?cat=16〉 Accessed 9/12/07.
6. ARL Joint Task Force on Library Support for E-Science: Charge & Roster, 〈http://www.arl.org/rtl/escience/escicharge.shtml〉 Accessed 9/12/07.
7. ARL Bimonthly Report No. 249, December 2006, 〈http://www. arl.org/bm~doc/arlbr249datasteward.pdf〉. Accessed 9/12/07.
8. Another important document on the subject was published by the UK Library community (JISC) in 2007 - a "snapshot" on rights, roles and responsibilities of various stakeholders regarding scientific data. This 65-page report, by Liz Lyon, Dealing with Data, offers useful insights particularly into the UK perspective on these issues. 〈http://www.jisc. ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/digital_repositories/dealing_with_data_report- final.pdf〉. Accessed 9/12/07.
9. The Human Genome Project Completion: Frequently Asked Questions, National Human Genome Research Institute (NIH), 〈http://www.genome.gov/ 11006943〉. Accessed 9/12/07.
10. See GridCafe, 〈 http://gridcafe.web.cern.ch/gridcafe/〉 for an amusing and accessible introduction. Accessed 9/12/07.
11. Report of the National Science Foundation Blue-Ribbon Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure, 〈http://www. nsf.gov/od/oci/reports/atkins. pdf〉. Accessed 9/12/07.
12. Ibid, p. 5.
13. The final version of this report was issued in March 2007. See 〈http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf0728/index.jsp〉. Accessed 9/12/07.
14. Towards 2020 Science, 2020 Science Group (Microsoft Research), 〈http://research.microsoft.com/towards2020science/background_overview. htm〉 Accessed 9/12/07.
15. Brand, "Escaping the digital dark age," Library Journal v. 124. n. 2, p46-49, 〈http://www.rense.com/general38/escap. htm〉. Accessed 9/12/07;
16. see also Danny Hillis in MacLean and Davis, Time and Bits: Managing Digital Continuity, Getty, 1998;
17. and Steward Brand, The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility, 1999.
18. Whether digital preservation is as expensive or difficult as is widely believed, is questioned by Chris Rusbridge of the UK Digital Curation Center in a 2006 article published in Ariadne, "Excuse me....Some digital preservation fallacies," 〈http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue46/ rusbridge/〉. Accessed 9/12/07.
19. Preserving Access to Digital Information, National Library of Australia, 〈http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/〉. Accessed 9/12/07.
20. UNESCO Charter on the Preservation of the Digital Heritage, 〈http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=13366&URL_DO= DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html〉. Accessed 9/12/07.
21. Philip Lord and Alison Macdonald , E-Science Curation Report, JISC Committee for the Support of Research, 2003, 〈http://www.jisc.ac.uk/ uploaded_documents/e-ScienceReportFinal.pdf〉. Accessed 9/12/07.
22. National Consultation on Access to Scientific Research Data (NCASRD), Final Report, 〈http://ncasrd-cnadrs.scitech.gc.ca/home_e. shtml〉. Accessed 9/12/07.
23. Workshop on Research Challenges in Digital Archiving: Towards a National Infrastructure for Long-Term Preservation of Digital Information, April 12-13, 2002, 〈http://www.si.umich.edu/digarch/〉. Accessed 9/12/07.
24. ERA, or Electronic Records Archive, 〈http://www.archives.gov/ era〉. Accessed 9/12/07.
25. stCentury, 〈http://www. nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsb0540/〉. Accessed 9/12/07.
26. To Stand the Test of Time: Long-term Stewardship of Digital Data Sets in Science and Engineering A Report to the National Science Foundation from the ARL Workshop on New Collaborative Relationships: The Role of Academic Libraries in the Digital Data Universe, September 26-27, 2006, Arlington, VA, Association of Research Libraries, 〈http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/ digdatarpt.pdf〉. Accessed 9/12/07.
27. Digital Curation Center, About the DCC, 〈http://www.dcc. ac.uk/about/〉. Accessed 9/12/07.
28. Eric Miller, "The Semantic Web," 〈http://www.w3.org/ 2002/Talks/www2002-w3ct-swintro-em/Overview-6. html〉. Accessed 9/12/07.
29. Jane Hunter, University of Queensland, 2006, "Scientific models - A user-oriented approach to the integration of scientific data and digital libraries." 〈http://www.valaconf.org.au/vala2006/papers2006/ 55_Hunter_Final.pdf〉 Accessed 9/12/07.
30. See also Figure 7, "e-Research Life Cycle and data curation," in Liz Lyon, 2007, Dealing with Data, op. cit.
31. NIH, Office of Extramural Research, NIH Data Sharing Policy and Implementation Guidance, 〈http://grants. nih.gov/grants/policy/data sharing/data_sharing_guidance.htm〉 Accessed 9/12/07.
32. "Conceptualizing the digital life cycle," IASSIST Communique, 〈http://iassistblog.org/?p=26〉. Accessed 9/12/07.
33. NIH, Office of Extramural Research, NIH Data Sharing Policy, 〈http://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/data sharing/〉 Accessed 9/12/07.
34. Data and Sample Policy, 〈http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2004/ nsf04004/start.htm〉. Accessed 9/12/07.
35. Also see 〈http://nsidc.org/arcss/protocol/protocol. html〉. Accessed 9/12/07.
36. See LTER Data Policy 〈http://www.lternet.edu/data/ netpolicy.html〉. Accessed 9/12/07;
37. Porter and Callahan, 1994, "Circumventing a dilemma: Historical approaches to data sharing in ecological research," in Environmental Information Management and Analysis: Ecosystem to Global Scales, Michener, Brunt, and Stafford (eds), p193-202.
38. See also Ann Zimmerman (forthcoming). "New knowledge from old data: The role of standards in the sharing and reuse of ecological data." Science, Technology, and Human Values. 〈http://www-personal.si. umich.edu/~asz/zimmerman_sthv_manuscript_accepted_april_2007.pdf〉 Accessed 9/12/07;
39. and Peter Arzberger et al., "Promoting access to public research data for scientific, economic, and social development," Science 3: 135-152. My thanks to Karen Baker for providing these references.
40. IWG Terms of Reference, January 2007, 〈http://iwg.cfa. harvard.edu/twiki4/pub/IWGDD/IwgddTermsOfReference/〉 Accessed 9/12/07.
41. Chuck Humphrey, "Secondary data analysis," 〈http:// datalib.library.ualberta.ca/nphs/SecondaryDataAnalysis.ppt〉 Accessed 9/12/07.
42. AGU, Policy on Referencing Data in and Archiving Data for AGU Publications, 〈http://www.agu.org/pubs/data policy.html〉 Accessed 9/12/07.
43. Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, founded 1962, 〈http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/〉. Accessed 9/12/07.
44. E-Bank UK, Data Citation, 〈http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ proiects/ebank-uk/data-citation/〉. Accessed 9/12/07.
45. Publication and Citation of Scientific Primary Data (STD-DOI) 〈http://www.std-doi.de/front_content.php〉 Accessed 9/12/07.
46. See for example the NIH policy posted at 〈http://grants.nih.gov/ grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-04-042. html〉 on sharing of model organisms. Accessed 9/12/07.
47. ARL Bimonthly Report No. 249, December 2006, p. 5, 〈http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/arlbr249datasteward.pdf〉 Accessed 9/12/07.
48. Conversation with MacKenzie Smith, June 2007. Indeed Google has begun to get into the data act, with its beta database repository and indexing service, Google Base, 〈http://base.google.com/〉. Accessed 9/12/07.
49. Karen S. Baker and Florence Millerand, "Scientific infrastructure design: Information environments and knowledge processes, to appear October 2007 in Proceedings of the American Society of Information Science and Technology. Preprint at 〈http://interoperability.ucsd.edu/docs/ 07BakerMillerand 07asist KnowledgeProvinces. pdf〉 Accessed 9/12/07.