{"id":60,"date":"2008-07-08T07:21:20","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T14:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/?p=60"},"modified":"2008-07-08T07:21:20","modified_gmt":"2008-07-08T14:21:20","slug":"overlay-journal-infrastructure-for-meteorological-science-ojims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/2008\/07\/overlay-journal-infrastructure-for-meteorological-science-ojims\/","title":{"rendered":"Overlay Journal infrastructure for Meteorological Science (OJIMS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This presentation (the last of the day) by Sam Pepler from a data centre.<\/p>\n<p>The OJIMS project is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Overlay Journal Infrastructure for Meteorological Science\n<li>JISC and NERC funded\n<li>Looking specifically at a &#8216;data journal&#8217; rather than traditional publication\n<li>Looking to evaluate business models for overlay journals\n<li>Creating an open access subject based repository for meteorology etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The University of Leeds will lead development of a dataset review policy with the Royal Meteorological Socitey (RMetS).<\/p>\n<p>A &#8216;data journal&#8217; is a journal that links published documents with the data that the publication uses &#8211; cf CLADDIER another JISC funded project.<\/p>\n<p>What are the benefits of a data journal?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Extend the value of peer-review from papers to data, to provide assurance that data documentation meets the necessary scientific standards\n<ul>\n<li>Metadata standards\n<li>Independently understandable\n<li>Re-useable\n<li>N.B. about quality of data documentation &#8211; not about quality of data set (i.e. &#8220;can you use it&#8221;, not &#8220;is it useful&#8221;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Provide an overview of the quality and applications of data, enabling it to be used more easily and appropriately in research and applications\n<ul>\n<li>adding independent quality statements about usefulness<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Provide recognition of the work of collecting and describing data\n<ul>\n<li>High quality, reusable data is not presently a citable resources\n<li>The writers of papers do not necessarily acknowledge those who collected the data<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Why make an overlay journal?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Data already in &#8216;a repository&#8217; &#8211; just needs some independent review\n<li>Because data is bulky, compound and complex &#8211; not easy to copy (possibly not as &#8216;self contained&#8217; as traditional published paper?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>MetRep is a subject based repository for meteorological sciences. This was seen as filling a gap in the market &#8211; there is no store for some of the items they want to store. Examples of MetRep items are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Paper from &#8216;Weather&#8217;\n<li>Set of pictures illustrating cloud forms (e.g. teaching aid)\n<li>Report documenting a file format for climate models\n<li>Weather balloon data\n<li>Recording of a interview with ministers about climate change\n<li>IPCC reports\n<li>Logo for a research programme<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Although some of these could sit in existing repositories &#8211; Institutional Repository, JORUM, websites, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps MetRep should be an overlay repository? What does it mean to say an item is &#8216;in the repository&#8217;?<\/p>\n<p>So &#8211; what is proposed is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Establishing a &#8216;Overlay document&#8217;\n<ul>\n<li>Metadata about the overlay document\n<li>Review process information\n<li>Discovery metadata for the reference document\n<li>Reference to document (referenceable via a resolvable id in a trusted repository)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>The &#8216;review process information&#8217; consists of\n<ul>\n<li>Version of document in review cycle\n<ul>\n<li>Submitted\n<li>In review\n<li>Published<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Public comments\n<li>Description of review process\n<li>Digital signature?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Metadata about the overlay document would contain\n<ul>\n<li>Author (of overlay no the referenced document)\n<li>Other DC (Dublin Core) fields<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Discovery metadata for the referenced document and Reference to document\n<ul>\n<li>DC metadata harvested from document (not sure if he means from the document, or from the metadata associated with the document?)\n<li>Resolvable reference to document\n<li>Other identifiers for document<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The overlay repository would have overlay documents pointing to both documents or data<\/p>\n<p>The advantages he sees in this approach:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Clear the &#8216;overlay&#8217; is a document about another document &#8211; the two items are distinct self contained\n<li>Authorship for the referenced and referencing document are allowed to be different &#8211; others can submit a document for review\n<li>The overlay document has the same meaning as a stand alone item &#8211; you can take it out of the repository context, and is still meaningful\n<li>Review mechanisms and repositories do not need adapting to deal with these items\n<li>You can review a private document\/data set &#8211; answers the &#8216;is thing worth buying?&#8217; question<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Disadvantages:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Authentication issues &#8211; might be able to &#8216;fake&#8217; items?\n<li>What if the author does not wish for document to be reviewed?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Implementation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Atom XML representation (mention of OAI-ORE here)\n<li>Already a popular format with many tools\n<li>Need a tool to create the records\n<li>Need a web rendering method<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Trusting repositories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More than resolvable identifiers &#8211; need to believe the object is preserved\n<li>Need to know what preservation means for complex objects\n<li>Repositories need to have sound footing &#8211; but there are no absolute guarantees<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Somewhere along the line I&#8217;ve lost the point of what we are trying to achieve with this approach &#8211; Sam is now summarising, so hopefully this will help:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>OJIMS is about widening review processes beyond papers\n<li>This means storing a wider range of objects &#8211; hence MetRep\n<li>Data is a good e.g. of valued stuff which is not recognised in formal manner &#8211; hence &#8216;data journal&#8217;\n<li>Lots of repositories are already storing the things &#8211; hence &#8216;overlay repository&#8217;\n<li>&#8230; didn&#8217;t get the last couple of points<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Overall seems to be about a way of recording the &#8216;review process&#8217; alongside the actual object being reviewed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This presentation (the last of the day) by Sam Pepler from a data centre. 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