Metadata Reporting from the Funder’s Perspective SFI Presentation: Dr. Peter Clifford

RIAN OpenAIRE Day & Workshop

27/11/2015

About SFI

Founded in

2000Officially established in

2003€2.3bnCommitment

by SFI since 2001 in

> 4,200 awards

As at 30 June 2015

752 Active Awards with future commitments totaling

€447m

What SFI delivers -

A research engine of 2,851 people including over 460 leading scientists

752 Active Research awards

World leading SFI Research Centres spanning several HEIs and industry

12

Generated in 2014

2,029 scientific papers

1200 collaborations with industry(650 MNCs, 561 SMEs)

18 license agreements

31 patent

filings, 13 patents awarded

1,843 international collaborations in over

57 countries

€117m in leveragednon-SFI funding

Why funders care about publication metadata

• SFI funded research needs to be easily identifiable as such; demonstrating impactful research outputs is important in persuading stakeholders (taxpayer, government) to continue funding

• Correct metadata rapidly and uniquely identifies the source of funding

• SFI has published an open access policy and is a signatory of the national policy• Using metadata to monitor compliance with open access policies (and other funder policies)

• The taxpayer / public is funding the research; easy and open access to the research outputs is required

• High quality metadata facilitates access / discoverability

• Publications associated with the funder enable citation analysis which can demonstrate excellence, scientific impact, and value

• Metadata enables and improves monitoring and reporting

• Interoperability confers numerous benefits: automated de-duplication, cleaning, facilitating compliance, reducing reporting workload, ….

• Quality metadata reduces barriers to interoperability

SFI Open Access Policy

• Where a research publication arises in whole or in part from SFI funded research, the SFI Open Access Availability of Published Research Policy must be adhered to.

• The effectiveness and progress of the research community will be enhanced where the community has access to as wide a range of shared findings as possible. There is a need to ensure the advancement of scientific research and innovation in the interests of society and the economy, without unnecessary duplication of research effort.

• This publication policy confirms the freedom of researchers to publish first wherever they feel is the most appropriate.

SFI Open Access Policy

• 12 conditions to which recipients funding are expected to adhere

• Publication metadata can assist with monitoring compliance

• http://www.sfi.ie/assets/files/downloads/Funding/grant_policies/open%20access%20dec%2010.pdf

SFI reporting

SFI asks its funded researchers to report annually on Publications• 6 types: refereed original articles; refereed reviews; reviewed

conference proceedings; edited conference proceedings; books; book chapters

• PIs may also report on technical documents• Data includes:

• International co-authors, industry co-authors

• Document Object Identifiers or DOIs (if available).

• Whether the article has been deposited in an Open Access Repository (can include PubMed, ArXiv etc. as well as HEI specific repositories)

• ORCID integration (currently being introduced)

Publication details,

SESAME:

Publication input: example.

ORCID links to be added this year.

SFI attributions and acknowledgements

What we need HEIs & researchers to do when publishing:• Include the SFI grant ID in the acknowledgements section of their article.

• Currently in SFI award T&Cs

• FunderID as soon as possible

• Include accurate metadata in submission of that article to the HEI CRIS system

• If the HEI repository is OpenAire compliant, the article will be automatically attributed to SFI when deposited with OpenAire from the HEI repository

SFI Interactions / collaborations• SFI has provided project information to OpenAire, which has been

integrated into their database

• The UCD Digital Library currently exposes SFI funding data in metadata, but full interoperability not yet achieved.

• Other data-providers are not including SFI metadata yet

• Text mining reveals 1,917 records attributed to SFI in OpenAire

• SFI has provided project information to Uber Research

• Incorporated in Uber’s Dimensions platform

• Which interoperates with ORCID

• Which facilitates SFI researchers bringing their grant metadata into ORCID

Grant metadata

• SFI maintain a dataset of its awards, with associated metadata

• Sample metadata:

• Title, amount funded, start date, Award ID, awardee, abstract, …

• Not “dynamic” (live from SESAME), but maintained and available

• Does not include any information around applications (pre-award)

• No plans currently to extend grant metadata structure and fields but open to feedback

Research data metadata, reproducibility and intellectual

property• Funders expect research to be accompanied by standardised, structured metadata that

provides information on research data; why, when and how it was generated, and how to access it. Although the fields, structure, and vocabulary are provided by the repository or archive accepting the data, the content is provided by the researcher.

• Members of Research Councils UK adopted a common principle that "sufficient metadata should be recorded and made openly available to enable other researchers to understand the research and re-use potential of the data". Reproducibility is becoming increasingly more important.

• Good metadata can help others discover, comprehend, and evaluate data across time and distance without having to access the data itself. Good researcher generated metadata enhances a collection, but its absence destroys it.

• However, the requirements of confidentiality around intellectual property can mean that contributory data cannot always be released with the relevant publication. This is recognized by the EU. Conversely, release can aid reproducibility.

Why funders care about publication metadata

• Monitoring, accessing, complying, reporting, justifying, interoperating, ….

• How to get there?

• Standardised fields• ORCID, FunderID, DOI, ….

• Rapidly evolving landscape• Not close to e.g. JIOXX, CASRAI, Cerif

• High quality metadata• Checks and balances

• Investing in maintaining the data

• Automation within reason

Thank youwww.sfi.ie

@scienceirel

Tuesday 14th October 2014