Open Access Research Data Repository for Corpus Linguistic Data – A Modular Approach

Presentation at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

Rising to the impossible challenge: the storage of all research data, forever?

Presentation at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

Open research data policies, what makes the difference?

Poster at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

‘Just how (re)usable is Research Data? A legal perspective’ - A poster summarizing the recommendations of the OpenAIRE legal and licensing study.

Poster at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

Issues with Fedora & Hydra, experiences from a research-data-driven implementation

Presentation at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

From KAPTUR to VADS4R: Exploring Research Data Management in the Visual Arts

Presentation at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

Developing sustainable research data management services: an institutional collaboration

Presentation at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

ReShare and ReCollect: EPrints data repository solutions developed at the UK Data Archive

Presentation at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

Design and implementation of a multisite data repository for pediatric epilepsy

This dissertation established a software-hardware integrated design for a multisite data repository in pediatric epilepsy. A total of 16 institutions formed a consortium for this web-based application. This innovative fully operational web application allows users to upload and retrieve information through a unique human-computer graphical interface that is remotely accessible to all users of the consortium. A solution based on a Linux platform with My-SQL and Personal Home Page scripts (PHP) has been selected. Research was conducted to evaluate mechanisms to electronically transfer diverse datasets from different hospitals and collect the clinical data in concert with their related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). What was unique in the approach considered is that all pertinent clinical information about patients is synthesized with input from clinical experts into 4 different forms, which were: Clinical, fMRI scoring, Image information, and Neuropsychological data entry forms. A first contribution of this dissertation was in proposing an integrated processing platform that was site and scanner independent in order to uniformly process the varied fMRI datasets and to generate comparative brain activation patterns. The data collection from the consortium complied with the IRB requirements and provides all the safeguards for security and confidentiality requirements. An 1-MR1-based software library was used to perform data processing and statistical analysis to obtain the brain activation maps. Lateralization Index (LI) of healthy control (HC) subjects in contrast to localization-related epilepsy (LRE) subjects were evaluated. Over 110 activation maps were generated, and their respective LIs were computed yielding the following groups: (a) strong right lateralization: (HC=0%, LRE=18%), (b) right lateralization: (HC=2%, LRE=10%), (c) bilateral: (HC=20%, LRE=15%), (d) left lateralization: (HC=42%, LRE=26%), e) strong left lateralization: (HC=36%, LRE=31%). Moreover, nonlinear-multidimensional decision functions were used to seek an optimal separation between typical and atypical brain activations on the basis of the demographics as well as the extent and intensity of these brain activations. The intent was not to seek the highest output measures given the inherent overlap of the data, but rather to assess which of the many dimensions were critical in the overall assessment of typical and atypical language activations with the freedom to select any number of dimensions and impose any degree of complexity in the nonlinearity of the decision space.

Analysis of Federal Policy on Public Access to Scientific Research Data

Presentation from the MARAC conference in Pittsburgh, PA on April 14–16, 2016. S13 - Student Poster Session; Analysis of Federal Policy on Public Access to Scientific Research Data

KE & Science Europe briefing paper: Funding Research Data Management and related infrastructures

Responsible Research Data Management (RDM) is a pillar of quality research. In practice good RDM requires the support of a well-functioning Research Data Infrastructure (RDI). One of the challenges the research community is facing is how to fund the management of research data and the required infrastructure. Knowledge Exchange and Science Europe have both defined activities to explore how RDM/RDI are, or can be, funded. Independently they each planned to survey users and providers of data services and on becoming aware of the similar objectives and approaches, the Science Europe Working Group on Research Data and the Knowledge Exchange Research Data expert group joined forces and devised a joint activity to to inform the discussion on the funding of RDM/RDI in Europe.

ODiSEA: International Registry on Research Data

El artículo revisa los temas principales en la preservación y reuso de los datos de investigación (beneficios, ciclo de vida, proyectos, normativas ) e identifica la falta de un registro mundial de bancos, repositorios y bibliotecas de datos. Expone la creación de una herramienta web que recoja este tipo de depósitos y los clasifique por áreas disciplinares: ODiSEA International Registry on Research Data. Ofrecemos resultados sobre número y tipología temática de este tipo de depósitos a escala mundial. Esta aportación facilita el descubrimiento de nuevos conjuntos de datos cuya recombinación desde una perspectiva multidisciplinar fomentará la innovación y la rentabilidad de la inversión en ciencia.

El plan de lengua y cohesión social en Catañunya: primeros datos de una investigación = Language and Social Cohesion Plan in Catalonia: Initial research data

Los programas de inmersión lingüística han constituido y constituyen dentro del Sistema Educativo catalánla principal forma para que el alumnado de lengua familiar no-catalana aprenda una nueva lengua, el catalán,sin que, en su proceso de aprendizaje, vea mermado ni el desarrollo de su propia lengua ni su rendimientoacadémico. El éxito de la inmersión lingüística en las décadas anteriores ha sido frecuentemente utilizado comouno de los argumentos orientativos para justificar la política lingüística que se sigue en la escolarización de lainfancia extranjera. Sin embargo, los resultados obtenidos por investigaciones recientes parece que no avalanempíricamente dicho argumento. Este artículo analiza dichos resultados y expone, a partir del Plan para laLengua y Cohesión Social puesto en marcha por el Departamento de Educación de la Generalitat de Cataluña,cuáles son los retos que se presentan a su Sistema Educativo dentro del nuevo marco que supone el aumento de ladiversidad cultural y lingüística en la actual sociedad catalana

Recent research data on the removal of pharmaceuticals from sewage treatment plants (STP)

Pharmaceutical compounds have been detected in sewage treatment plant (STP) effluents, surface waters and, less frequently, in groundwater and drinking water, all over the world. Different sources are responsible for their appearance in the aquatic environment, however, it is widely accepted that the main sources of this type of pollutant are STP effluents. The adverse effects of pharmaceuticals in the environment include aquatic toxicity, development of resistance in pathogenic bacteria, genotoxicity and endocrine disruption. Thus, the discharge of these compounds to the environment in STP effluents should be minimized.

Sukupolvenvaihdos yrityskauppana Case: Global Research & Data Services

Sukupolvenvaihdoksella tarkoitetaan yrityksen omistajasuhteiden muutoksia. Siinä yritys siirretään omistajan elinaikana tai se siirtyy hänen kuoltuaan henkilölle, joka jatkaa yrityksen toimintaa. Suomessa on lähivuosina odotettavissa 60–80.000 sukupolvenvaihdosta. Vaihdosten onnistuminen ei ole itsestäänselvyys, sillä yleinen ongelma näyttäisi olevan, että sukupolvenvaihdosta tarvitsevia yrityksiä on enemmän kuin sopivia jatkajia. Sukupolvenvaihdosten onnistuminen on merkittävä lähivuosien yhteiskunnallinen kysymys sekä yritysten liiketoiminnan jatkuvuuden että työpaikkojen säilymisen kannalta. Tällä hetkellä epäonnistuneet sukupolvenvaihdokset maksavat valtiolle noin 1,25 miljardia euroa eikä Suomella ole varaa menettää yhtään yritystä. Sukupolvenvaihdos on ajankohtainen asia myös tämän tutkimuksen case-yrityksessä, Global Research & Data Services:ssa. Yrityksen toimialana on markkinatutkimus. Tutkimuksia tehdään eri toimialoilta ja eri maista. Vaihdos on tarkoitus suorittaa kevään/kesän 2010 aikana ja se on tarkoitus toteuttaa yrityskauppana. Tässä tutkimuksessa on tarkoituksena selvittää mm., mitä eri vaihtoehtoja yrityksellä on toteuttaa sukupolvenvaihdos yrityskauppana, mitä tulee ottaa huomioon, miten kauppaa tulisi valmistella ja mitkä ovat mahdolliset rahoituslähteet. Tutkimuksen laatimisessa käytettiin apuna valmiina olevaa materiaalia, niin kirjoja kuin Internet-lähteitäkin. Tutkimuksen toisessa luvussa on käsitelty sukupolvenvaihdosta yleisesti käsitteenä sekä tämän hetkistä tilannetta Suomessa. Kolmannessa luvussa on esitelty tutkimuksen case-yritys. Neljännessä luvussa on esitelty sukupolvenvaihdoksen juridiset toteutusmallit lyhyesti. Tutkimuksen viidennessä luvussa on keskitytty tutkimuksen ydinasiaan eli sukupolvenvaihdoksen suorittamiseen yrityskauppana. Käsiteltyjä aiheita ovat mm. yrityksen valmistaminen vaihdosta varten, yrityksen arvon määritys ja yrityskaupan rahoitusvaihtoehdot. Asioita on käsitelty niin yleisesti kuin case-yrityksen tilanne huomioiden. Viimeisessä luvussa on tutkimuksen yhteenveto.