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Hi all,
As Chris has highlighted this has been an exciting little development which is now supporting work between the Digital Curation Centre DCC and the equipment.data team. This Jisc RDS sponsored project, is exploring utilising the filtered http://opd.data.ac.uk/dataset/linkingyou aggregation along with identifying additional data with the aim to extend the OPD data capture to cover Research Data Management (RDM). By filtering the OPD information by “data profile” it has allowed the project to identify 12 additional Linking you terms to cover RDM requirements of funders.
Some of the questions the project aims to explore are:
1.As a member of the Research Office, I want to be able to easily signpost RDM infrastructure and support available at my institution to researchers.
2.As a member of research support staff, I want to develop a business case for sustaining RDM infrastructure and support services.
3.As a research funder, I want to see what RDM infrastructure and support the institution offers its researchers.
4.As a provider of RDM directories or catalogues, I want to use the OPD to automatically retrieve details of an institution's RDM infrastructure and support.
Being able to autodiscover these additional “Linking you” terms is enabling these questions to be explored offering future opportunities to build an information portal displaying a range of RDM details. Imagine linking this data with open access repository details (also captured on the OPD under Research Outputs) - Services using this data could be developed providing aggregated access to research data repositories which include additional information for the browser detailing institutional open access policies and secure data access requirements.
Further information, explaining the additional linking you terms and participating in the project, is available on the DCC website http://www.dcc.ac.uk/sites/default/files/documents/Developing%20an%20organisational%20profile%20for%20RDM%20services_1.pdf
Kindest regards,
Adrian
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From: data.ac.uk community discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Christopher Gutteridge
Sent: 03 December 2015 16:26
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Subject: [DATA-AC-UK] Something new and nifty at opd.data.ac.uk
Hi, everyone. It's been a while since I've done any updates about data.ac.uk, so here's a little one which makes me very excited.
A good number of universities have now produced auto-discoverable profiles which include the "Linking You" terms. This is now on the way to being a very useful resource. <http://opd.data.ac.uk/docs/key-pages>
Let me give you two new views of the data you've made available.
BROWSE BY TERM
Our developer, Andrew Milsted, has added a new section to the website which lets you turn things on their head and list all the pages for a term, from all participating organisations:
<http://opd.data.ac.uk/dataset/linkingyou>
And also the core terms <http://opd.data.ac.uk/dataset/core> and social media accounts <http://opd.data.ac.uk/dataset/social> .
We have a wider range of social media account data available from the open data on <http://observatory.data.ac.uk/> but this data is scraped, and non authoritative. The data on the OPD site is from an authoritative statement.
For many years I worked closely with communications staff who needed to keep tabs on what our peers are doing. I'm sure every other comms dept.
does that too. If nothing else, these pages might help streamline a chore and save us all repeating the same task of looking up key pages on each other's sites again and again!
USING THE OPD AS A SEMANTIC SITEMAP
This is a very hacky demo I've produced, which could easily be refined or recoded for your purposes. Code available on request, but given a couple of libraries you could easily reimplement this in house.
<http://lemur.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~cjg/OPDLib/examples/resolve.php>
This little demo takes the homepage of an organisation and a linking-you term. It then looks up the OPD on the fly and links you to the page if it exists. Long term this could be a powerful way of linking within the sector and beyond without fear of broken links. You could either have your own system which downloaded and cached OPDs so knew when pages moved at other universities, or we could maybe run a .ac.uk semantic linking service. Either or both.
I'm excited to share this concept with the community as I'm hoping it gets people's imaginations going and they come up with novel ideas which we'd never have dreamed up by ourselves.
Here's a bunch of examples:
http://lemur.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~cjg/OPDLib/examples/resolve.php?term=research&homepage=http://www.aber.ac.uk/
http://lemur.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~cjg/OPDLib/examples/resolve.php?term=research&homepage=http://www.bbk.ac.uk/
http://lemur.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~cjg/OPDLib/examples/resolve.php?term=research&homepage=http://www.bristol.ac.uk/
http://lemur.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~cjg/OPDLib/examples/resolve.php?term=research&homepage=http://www.bucks.ac.uk/
http://lemur.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~cjg/OPDLib/examples/resolve.php?term=research&homepage=http://www.cam.ac.uk/
http://lemur.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~cjg/OPDLib/examples/resolve.php?term=research&homepage=http://www.exeter.ac.uk/
http://lemur.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~cjg/OPDLib/examples/resolve.php?term=research&homepage=http://www.liv.ac.uk/
http://lemur.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~cjg/OPDLib/examples/resolve.php?term=research&homepage=http://www.nerc.ac.uk/
http://lemur.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~cjg/OPDLib/examples/resolve.php?term=research&homepage=http://www.southampton.ac.uk/
http://lemur.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~cjg/OPDLib/examples/resolve.php?term=contact&homepage=http://www.aber.ac.uk/
http://lemur.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~cjg/OPDLib/examples/resolve.php?term=contact&homepage=http://www.bbk.ac.uk/
http://lemur.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~cjg/OPDLib/examples/resolve.php?term=contact&homepage=http://www.bristol.ac.uk/
http://lemur.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~cjg/OPDLib/examples/resolve.php?term=contact&homepage=http://www.bucks.ac.uk/
http://lemur.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~cjg/OPDLib/examples/resolve.php?term=contact&homepage=http://www.cam.ac.uk/
http://lemur.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~cjg/OPDLib/examples/resolve.php?term=contact&homepage=http://www.exeter.ac.uk/
http://lemur.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~cjg/OPDLib/examples/resolve.php?term=contact&homepage=http://www.liv.ac.uk/
http://lemur.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~cjg/OPDLib/examples/resolve.php?term=contact&homepage=http://www.nerc.ac.uk/
http://lemur.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~cjg/OPDLib/examples/resolve.php?term=contact&homepage=http://www.southampton.ac.uk/
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