Transcript Chuck Humphrey / Raymond Currie, Canada

Canadian RDC
Report
Where are we now?
Chuck Humphrey, Alberta Research Data Centre
Centres in first CFI application
Provincial funds leveraged by first CFI application
Outline
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RDC Project status
An e-Science framework for our RDC project
Information flow for managing RDC operations
Making metadata sustainable
RDC project status
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Phase I RFP is ready to go to bid
 Two
projects
 Production of metadata for 100 survey titles
 Develop tools to create metadata for virtual data
files
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Phase II RFP developed in Fall 2008
 One
project
 Develop metadata analysis tools for making
comparisons
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This includes instances of searching (1) for comparable
variables within ongoing surveys across multiple cycles, (2) for
similar variables across different surveys, (3) for variables
employing the use of thesauri and concept registers, and (4) for
varying ways of representing conceptual relationships among
variables.
Why use the e-science framework?
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U.S. (cyberinfrastructure) and European (escience) funding envelopes have been
established to provide access to global
science resources.
The e-science framework provides a reporting
structure to the Canadian Foundation for
Innovation on our progress.
The e-science framework positions the RDC
Network within the larger infrastructure of
other sciences.
Virtual
Community
Virtual
Community
Virtual
Community
Meetings,
experiments, etc.
Meetings,
experiments, etc.
Meetings,
experiments, etc.
Workspace
Workspace
Workspace
Virtual
Laboratories
Virtual
Laboratories
Virtual
Laboratories
Scientific Data
Scientific Data
Scientific Data
Grid
Grid
Grid
Network
Network
Network
Source: Ulf Dahlsten, “Building a global virtual research community,” at the
International Data Forum, Beijing, June 7, 2007
Efficiency
Gains
Economies
of Scale
Global virtual research community
RDC Infrastructural Architecture
RDC
Virtual
Project
RDC
Virtual
Project
Data & Metadata
RDC
Virtual
Project
RDC
Virtual
Project
Data & Metadata
RDC
Virtual
Project
RDC
Virtual
Project
Data & Metadata
DDI Foundation Tools
Middleware
RDC lightpath / APN
National Optical Research Network
RDC Infrastructural Architecture
RDC
Virtual
Project
RDC
Virtual
Project
Data & Metadata
RDC
Virtual
Project
RDC
Virtual
Project
Data & Metadata
RDC
Virtual
Project
RDC
Virtual
Project
Data & Metadata
DDI Foundation Tools
Middleware
RDC lightpath / APN
National Optical Research Network
Service-oriented information architecture
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See: Foster, Ian (2005). Service-oriented
information architecture. Science, 308: 814817.
This method is based on networks of loosely
coupled information services structured as a
system.
Fundamental to the interoperability of
services-oriented architecture are standards
and protocols.
Metadata enable the interoperability.
Metadata enabled interoperability
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The metadata in the RDC project serve as the source for
building services.
The metadata come from the stages in the life cycle of
RDC virtual projects.
Stages in
the life
cycle
Research
Communicatons
Project
Application
Project
Approval
Output
Disclosure
Analysis
Generate
Analysis
Files
Access to
Data
Project
Creation
Information package for managing
RDC projects
Managing RDC
Projects
Managing
Data
Managing
Research Outputs
Application processes
Master files
Disclosure process
Contract process
Work/analysis files
Publications
Project account process
File system backups
Knowledge management
Project
Application
Project
Approval
Project
Creation
Information package for managing
RDC data
Managing RDC
Projects
Managing
Data
Managing
Research Outputs
Application processes
Master files
Disclosure process
Contract process
Work/analysis files
Publications
Project account process
File system backups
Knowledge management
Access to
Data
Generate
Analysis
Files
Information package for managing
research outputs
Managing RDC
Projects
Managing
Data
Managing
Research Outputs
Application processes
Master files
Disclosure process
Contract process
Work/analysis files
Publications
Project account process
File system backups
Knowledge management
Output
Disclosure
Analysis
Research
Communicatons
Factors in Sustainability
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Persuade data producers to provide their metadata
in DDI 3.0
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Increase the widespread adoption of the metadata
in practice
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Statistics Canada has an internal working group exploring
the production of DDI metadata
Other Canadian initiatives producing DDI metadata, e.g.,
the Ontario College and University Libraries ODESI project
Expand the return on the costs of producing
metadata by generating new uses of the metadata
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International interest in developing tools for mining DDI
metadata for comparative purposes