Managing a (Different) Data DelugeCameron Neylon – SPARC OA Meeting

Kansas City – 4 March 2014

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Growth of Open Access Publishing

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Wellcome Trust Funded Research Papers

Scale of PLOS ONE

100 papers

Scale of PLOS ONE

100 papers a day

Scholarly Communication

Services

Traditional Subscription

Business

Readers/Institutions

APC-funded Open Access

Business

Funders/Infrastructure

Authors/Institutions

Readers/Institutions

You used to buy content…

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You now buy services…

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Do you know what you’re buying?

What did your institution publish

last year?

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…and how confident of that number are you?

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Who funded them?

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…and can the publisher guarantee

compliance?

Is it in the right repositories?

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Quality of service...

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…how much did you pay?

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How much of this can you

measure?

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Your ad hoc systems…

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Your manual systems…

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Will not scale to 100%

Will not scale to 50%

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Will not scale to 10%

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What.

Where.

Funder.

…compliance guarantees

…repository deposit…

Volume matters…

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Share infrastructure…

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SHARE infrastructure…?

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Identifiers, systems, transfer protocols

…capturing up front

…at the core of your systems

A spreadsheet is a sign of impending doom…

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…but all that…

…is still not enough

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Shared systems, ids, infrastructure…which can

be updated over time

Scholarly Communication

Services

Scholarly Communication

Services

You now buy services…

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Data and the ability to share it is core to your success

A question of architecture…

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…which needs foundations

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Author as customer changes the balance…

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Institution as customer changes the balance…

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Know your workflows…

Use common identifiers…

Share data through standard and public APIs

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