Slides to accompany a conference paper on the use of CKAN for Research Data Management. See http://orbital.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/?p=1060 for more information.

1. #CKAN4RDM paper:
lncn.eu/ckan4rdm
Project website:
orbital.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk
Joss Winn
Centre for Educational
Research and Development
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2. Joss Winn
Centre for Educational
Research and Development
‘Research Data Management’:
Virtual Research Environment,
Digital Asset Management, Digital
Curation, Archiving, Publishing?
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3. Joss Winn
Centre for Educational
Research and Development
CKAN is a Catalogue (2007)
CKAN is a Repository (2011)
CKAN is a Datastore (2012)
CKAN is a ? (2013)
Emphasis so far as been on publishing, discovery,
re-use. Not curation, not preservation.
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4. Joss Winn
Centre for Educational
Research and Development
• CKAN is the de facto standard for publishing open data. US,
UK, EU, etc. Large community, high profile projects, mature
software = Low risk option.
• Open source, APIs, extensions = versatile, flexible,
extensible ‘technology platform’. How can it fit with OAIS?
• Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) works in the interests of
higher education = Funders, institutions: support it.
• ‘Research Data Management’ is new, but data curation,
preservation, publishing is not new.
• Academic community has decades of experience to
offer the CKAN community. e.g. curation, preservation.
• CKAN for RDM must be led by the academic community.
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