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This document discusses SHARE (Shared Access Research Ecosystem), an initiative to advance the preservation, access, and reuse of research outputs. SHARE aims to make the inventory of research assets more discoverable and accessible to enable creative reuse. It discusses the current fragmented state of research outputs across individual projects and repositories. The document also presents a historical perspective on challenges of organizing information in the digital age. Finally, it outlines SHARE's goals of creating an interconnected system through components like a notification service, registry and discovery tools to benefit the research community.

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SHARE: Shared Access Research Ecosystem Elliott Shore
A talk in five parts 1. Quick introduction to SHARE 2. A surfeit of individual projects 3. An historical interlude 4. Searching for Coherence 5. Back to SHARE
1. Introducing SHARE SHARE is a higher education and research community initiative to advance the preservation of, access to, and reuse of research outputs.
SHARE will develop solutions that address the compelling interest shared by researchers, libraries, universities, funding agencies, and other key stakeholders to maximize research impact, today and in the future.
SHARE aims to make the inventory of research assets more discoverable and more accessible and to enable the research community to build upon these assets in creative and productive ways.
SHARE Partnership
Center for Open Science SHARE Development Partner
Building open scholarship infrastructure • Open Science Framework • Reproducibility Projects • Badges for Open Practices centerforopenscience.org Center for Open Science
What Is The Goal of SHARE? – Creating robust ecosystem of repositories – Leveraging existing research environment – Capturing and exposing research outputs – Enabling and enhancing discovery, access, reuse, preservation
Current Situation • Difficulty in keeping abreast of release of publications, datasets, other research outputs • No single, structured way to report research output releases in timely and ubiquitous manner • Emphasis on publications = data silos, data version control morass, incomplete contextualization 2. A surfeit of individual projects
SHARE: Shared Access Research Ecosystem – Jisc and CNI conference 10 July 2014
Here is a subset of another space That also cries out for coherence
3. An historical interlude
Continuities: Legacy Thinking • The library is the institution that bears the deepest marks of the thinking of the last century and a half. • It was a time when many thought that the increasingly complex world that was emerging in the mid-to-late 19th century could be managed through reducing each problem to discrete parts and tasks. • The legacy of 19th century thinking can perhaps be seen most clearly our organizational structures.
Change: Digital Disruption • The penetration of the dynamic, changeable nature of digital, Web-based, linked information technologies to universities and to research libraries has shown the fissures and exposed the assumptions in some of the fixed structures into which we have organized ourselves and how we think about our work. • Then: Discrete Now: Fluid • Then: Contained Now: Ubiquitous • Then: One profession Now: Many professions • Then: Hierarchal and rigid Now: Collaborative
Finding a Middle Ground • Old ways of thinking effect how we tackle new problems. • Can we weigh our older ideas of order against the new realities we face? • Can we get beyond binary oppositions: – centralization versus decentralization – control versus openness – fixed versus shifting categories
4. Searching for Coherence “The inherited norms, customs, traditions, and institutions that have structured research and teaching now need to be constructively challenged, redefined, and subsequently reassembled. The next two decades could witness an extraordinary fluorescence of activity among universities and colleges focused on repositioning, consolidation, and convergence.” - Charles Henry, “Higher Ground.”
The Opportunities • We are a long way down the path of experimentation. • We have many of the parts of the puzzle in our hands. • We have sympathetic funders. • We have a need to reduce the cost of higher education. • We have a tradition of cooperation and collaboration.
How Coherence at Scale could work Discovery Curation Access and Reuse Preservation Instead of every institution recreating the cycle alone… … can we connect existing large-scale digital initiatives into a coherent system?
The Concerns • We take pride in our own projects and want to see them grow and prosper, tend them, and protect them. • We compete with one another for funding these projects – in the US its called the $20,000 person – securing each individual project rather than the whole field. • We are subject to our own local issues which usually trump the larger good. • We are both goaded on by commercial interests and often take cheaper immediate measures rather than looking towards long-term solutions. • Crisis moments often lead to institutional rather than collective decision-making processes.
5. Back to SHARE
SHARE: Shared Access Research Ecosystem – Jisc and CNI conference 10 July 2014
Notification Service
Research Release Events (Source)
Research Release Events (Consumer)
Registry
Registry and Discovery
Who Benefits? Researchers Universities Funding Agencies Industry General Public
SHARE and Other Researcher Initiatives CHORUS ORCID CrossRef/FundRef International
What about … Data? Author rights? Institutional rights? Text- and data-mining? Sharing? Reuse? Interoperability?
Final Thoughts • “The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.” James Baldwin • “…collaboration, diversity, the exchange of ideas, and building on other people's achievements are at the heart of the creative process. An education that focuses only on the individual in isolation is bound to frustrate some of those possibilities.” Sir Ken Robinson
Web: www.arl.org/share E-mail: share@arl.org Twitter: @SHARE_research Knowledge Base: bit.ly/TTE6jt
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SHARE: Shared Access Research Ecosystem – Jisc and CNI conference 10 July 2014

  • 2. A talk in five parts 1. Quick introduction to SHARE 2. A surfeit of individual projects 3. An historical interlude 4. Searching for Coherence 5. Back to SHARE
  • 3. 1. Introducing SHARE SHARE is a higher education and research community initiative to advance the preservation of, access to, and reuse of research outputs.
  • 4. SHARE will develop solutions that address the compelling interest shared by researchers, libraries, universities, funding agencies, and other key stakeholders to maximize research impact, today and in the future.
  • 5. SHARE aims to make the inventory of research assets more discoverable and more accessible and to enable the research community to build upon these assets in creative and productive ways.
  • 7. Center for Open Science SHARE Development Partner
  • 8. Building open scholarship infrastructure • Open Science Framework • Reproducibility Projects • Badges for Open Practices centerforopenscience.org Center for Open Science
  • 9. What Is The Goal of SHARE? – Creating robust ecosystem of repositories – Leveraging existing research environment – Capturing and exposing research outputs – Enabling and enhancing discovery, access, reuse, preservation
  • 10. Current Situation • Difficulty in keeping abreast of release of publications, datasets, other research outputs • No single, structured way to report research output releases in timely and ubiquitous manner • Emphasis on publications = data silos, data version control morass, incomplete contextualization 2. A surfeit of individual projects
  • 12. Here is a subset of another space That also cries out for coherence
  • 13. 3. An historical interlude
  • 14. Continuities: Legacy Thinking • The library is the institution that bears the deepest marks of the thinking of the last century and a half. • It was a time when many thought that the increasingly complex world that was emerging in the mid-to-late 19th century could be managed through reducing each problem to discrete parts and tasks. • The legacy of 19th century thinking can perhaps be seen most clearly our organizational structures.
  • 15. Change: Digital Disruption • The penetration of the dynamic, changeable nature of digital, Web-based, linked information technologies to universities and to research libraries has shown the fissures and exposed the assumptions in some of the fixed structures into which we have organized ourselves and how we think about our work. • Then: Discrete Now: Fluid • Then: Contained Now: Ubiquitous • Then: One profession Now: Many professions • Then: Hierarchal and rigid Now: Collaborative
  • 16. Finding a Middle Ground • Old ways of thinking effect how we tackle new problems. • Can we weigh our older ideas of order against the new realities we face? • Can we get beyond binary oppositions: – centralization versus decentralization – control versus openness – fixed versus shifting categories
  • 17. 4. Searching for Coherence “The inherited norms, customs, traditions, and institutions that have structured research and teaching now need to be constructively challenged, redefined, and subsequently reassembled. The next two decades could witness an extraordinary fluorescence of activity among universities and colleges focused on repositioning, consolidation, and convergence.” - Charles Henry, “Higher Ground.”
  • 18. The Opportunities • We are a long way down the path of experimentation. • We have many of the parts of the puzzle in our hands. • We have sympathetic funders. • We have a need to reduce the cost of higher education. • We have a tradition of cooperation and collaboration.
  • 19. How Coherence at Scale could work Discovery Curation Access and Reuse Preservation Instead of every institution recreating the cycle alone… … can we connect existing large-scale digital initiatives into a coherent system?
  • 20. The Concerns • We take pride in our own projects and want to see them grow and prosper, tend them, and protect them. • We compete with one another for funding these projects – in the US its called the $20,000 person – securing each individual project rather than the whole field. • We are subject to our own local issues which usually trump the larger good. • We are both goaded on by commercial interests and often take cheaper immediate measures rather than looking towards long-term solutions. • Crisis moments often lead to institutional rather than collective decision-making processes.
  • 21. 5. Back to SHARE
  • 29. SHARE and Other Researcher Initiatives CHORUS ORCID CrossRef/FundRef International
  • 30. What about … Data? Author rights? Institutional rights? Text- and data-mining? Sharing? Reuse? Interoperability?
  • 31. Final Thoughts • “The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.” James Baldwin • “…collaboration, diversity, the exchange of ideas, and building on other people's achievements are at the heart of the creative process. An education that focuses only on the individual in isolation is bound to frustrate some of those possibilities.” Sir Ken Robinson
  • 32. Web: www.arl.org/share E-mail: share@arl.org Twitter: @SHARE_research Knowledge Base: bit.ly/TTE6jt

Editor's Notes

  1. So before we talk more about SHARE, I want to talk about a larger concept, Coherence at Scale