Questions, by Valerie Everett on flickr. (CC-BY-SA)
- What software should be used/considered for the Data Asset Registry? (Would an instance of CKAN be suitable? It is the software used for open data catalogues such as data.gov.uk.)
- What vocabularies should be used? Which ontologies are suitable for our purposes and would we have to create any of our own?
- Which metadata fields are sufficient and necessary for a University DAR?
- How can we support and get mileage from an effort to set up a data.ed.ac.uk domain and set of university open linked data corporate datasets?
- What are other universities doing?
- How can we seed the repository using the DSpace data repository records?
- How can we leverage other information systems – from ERI and Publications Database – to help populate records? Can data management plans be leveraged?
- What incentives are there for researchers or school administrators to provide records?
- What incentives or drivers do the new University research data policy or the EU INSPIRE directive supply?
- How should we handle persistent identifiers for dataset records and datasets?