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Role for Libraries in Data Curation & Preservation

Sabine Schrimpf, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek

A result of ODE WP 4 “Data enters scholarly communication”

7 Criteria for data

– Availability

– Findability

– Interpretability

– Re-Useability

– Citability

– Curation/Peservation

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What makes data so special to handle?

– There is no universal definition of „research data“

– Often: Dynamic aggregations of individual data points

– Often: Formats are uncomplicated (.txt, .csv), but semantics are crucial

– Variable level of granularity

– Software (often: proprietary!) needed to analyze data

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Representations of a data file

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„Traditional“ roles

Data Centres

Data creation, access, storage and preservation

Data protection, privacy regulations, research ethic issues

Discipline specific expertise

Libraries

Collect, organize, describe, preserve and make available knowledge and information

Bibliographic services

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Publishers

Aggregate, appraise, publish knowledge and information

Identify (persistently)

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Libraries‘ role – rationales for evolution

– Increasing demand from funders that data is made publicly available

– Increasing demand from researchers for data management support

– Increasingly sophisticated publication outputs

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Implications for libraries

Level of integration Implication for library

Data contained within the article

Data published in supplementary files to articles

Datasets referenced from the articles

Data published independently from written publications (“data publication”)

Data in drawers and on disks at the institute

Prepare for adequate preservation strategies.

Presentation and preservation mechanisms

Persistent link

Citability of dataset Persistent link Perpetual access to dataset

Support publication process Curation of datasets Metadata and documentation

Engage in data management planning

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Survey: Responsibility / Cooperation I

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Results of survey among LIBER members, 2011 (110 responses received)

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Survey: Responsibility / Cooperation II

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Results of survey among LIBER members, 2011 (110 responses received)

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Survey: Strategies I

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Results of survey among LIBER members, 2011 (110 responses received)

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Survey: Strategies II

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Results of survey among LIBER members, 2011 (110 responses received)

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– Policies and strategies for data handling

– Transparency about curation of submitted data

– Collaborate with data creators (researcher, institute, data centre)

– Promote good data management practice

– Instruct researchers on discipline specific best practices in data creation (preservation formats, documentation of experiment,…)

Challenges & Opportunities

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Thank you!

Sabine SchrimpfDeutsche NationalbibliothekInformationstechnikAdickesallee 1D-60322 Frankfurt am MainTel.: 069 / 15 25 17 61Fax: 069 / 15 25 17 99s.schrimpf@dnb.de

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