Increasing visibility, improving discoverability, enabling reuse potential

1. Research data spring
Unlocking thesis data through persistent identifers27/2/2015
Increasing visibility
Improving discoverability
Enabling reuse potential

2. Team
» University of East London
» University of Southampton
» London School of
Economics
» University of St Andrew’s
» University of Bristol
» University of the Arts
London
» EThOS, British Library
» Support and interest from
c.40 institutions at two
community meetings Nov
14 and Jan 15
» Support from DataCite UK
and ORCiD
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3. Scope and Gap
»Introducing students to the new norm of data sharing
and identifiers
»Students – Institutions – Funders
»Enhancing national scale thesis discovery to make space
for data/software
»Tracking student careers via ORCiD
»Better tracking of theses/data through citations and
metrics
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4. Impact and Benefits
»For students: bridge to norms of being a career
researcher, visibility and citations
»For funders: value for money, impact reporting
»For institutions: profile of doctoral research
»For researchers: availability of valuable research content,
replication, building on previous research, repurposing
data/software, cross-discipline
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5. Sustainability
»Not a problem to fix, but an opportunity to embrace the
inevitable world of identifiers and data sharing at a
national scale
»This will become the new business-as-usual for HEIs
across the EThOS network
»Existing and agreed standards, matching with other
developments like RIOXX, Casrai, Jisc Pathfinders etc
»Leveraging sustainability of ORCiD and DOI systems
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6. Outputs, milestones and indicators of success
»Phase 1: survey results, 5 case studies with PID overlay,
synthesis and recommendations for next steps
»Phase 2: draft recommendations to HEIs, proof of
concept in 3 HEIs, clinics to work through institutional
implementation, solution for smaller institutions
»Phase 3: final metadata requirements, software
development of Eprints,Dspace, EThOS itself, toolkit and
guidance for implementing across national network
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7. Funding
»Phase 1: £19k
»Phase 2: £39k
»Phase 3: £59k
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