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SOPHIA KRZYS ACORD, PH.D. Associate Director, Center For The Humanities And The Public Sphere Lecturer, Department Of Sociology And Criminology & Law University Of Florida [email protected] Data Curation: Faculty Barriers and Library Opportunities

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Data Curation: Faculty Barriers and Library Opportunities. Sophia Krzys acord , ph.d . Associate Director, Center For The Humanities And The Public Sphere Lecturer, Department Of Sociology And Criminology & Law University Of Florida [email protected]. The Future of Scholarly Communication. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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SOPHIA KRZYS ACORD, PH.D.Associate Director, Center For The Humanit ies And The Publ ic Sphere

Lecturer, Department Of Sociology And Criminology & Law

University Of [email protected]

Data Curation: Faculty Barriers and Library Opportunities

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The Future of Scholarly Communication

Peer Review In Academic Promotion And Publishing: Its Meaning, Locus, And Future. A Project Report And Associated

Recommendations, Proceedings From A Meeting, And Background Papers.

Diane Harley And Sophia Krzys Acord (March 2011)

Assessing The Future Landscape Of Scholarly Communication: An Exploration Of Faculty Values And Needs In Seven Disciplines. Diane Harley, Sophia Krzys Acord, Sarah Earl-Novell, Shannon

Lawrence, C. Judson King(January 2010)

Project Website and Associated Document Links: http://cshe.berkeley.edu/research/scholarlycommunication

* Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation *

Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of California, Berkeley

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Data Sharing Across Disciplines

It depends where I publish data. If it’s a little table, it goes in a journal, and if it’s a bigger table, it goes on

a website. If it’s a huge data set, it’s in an arXiv server, and then maybe we’ll write a paper saying,

“This is the first data release of our digital sky survey. This is what we’ve done, here are the tests, and here

is the URL where you can actually get the data.” (Astrophysicist)

Journal/funding body mandates in sciences and quantitative social sciences

Pre-publication sharing: Who’s asking? For what?

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Why Curate Data?

Research transparency Return on funders’ investmentsPreservationRe-use, new queries/associations, longitudinal

studyComputational researchNew genres of data-rich publication

Borgman CL (2012) The conundrum of sharing research data. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(6): 1059-1078. Waters DJ (2009) Archives, edition-making, and the future of scholarly communication. http://msc.mellon.org/staff-papers/ EditionMakingPaper

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Data Police?

NIH (2003) data management plans (DMP) > $500,000NSF (2010) formal requirement of DMPNEH (2011) ODH requires DMP

“NIH has a soft policy for all but the really big projects” (Political Scientist).

¼ of NSF/NIH grantees ‘lost’ data, and only 14% archived them (Pienta, et al., 2009).

Pienta A, Gutmann M & Lyle J. (2009.)“Research Data in The Social Sciences: How Much is Being Shared?” Research Conference on Research Integrity, Niagara Falls, NY.

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Barriers to Sharing Data

Social sciences — proprietary data, human subjects, multi-method research

Health sciences – anonymity, human subjects, commercial interests

Archaeology — GPS coordinates can lead pot hunters to protected sites. Heterogeneity of data

Engineering — Commercial impediments

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Systematic Barriers to Sharing Data

CreditTime (is money)Personality

Acord SK & Harley D. (2012) “Credit, Time and Personality: The Human Barriers to Sharing Using Web 2.0.” Submitted to New Media & Society. http://nms-theme.ehumanities.nl

Harley, D. (forthcoming 2012) “Socio-cultural barriers and affordances for data sharing and citation standards and practices.” Developing Data Attribution and Citation Practices and Standards. August 22-23, 2011. National Academy of Sciences: US CODATA and the Board on Research Data and Information.

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The protein database is an incredible thing in biology, where now, when people learn about the structure of a protein, it gets stored there and everybody can have it and so forth, and so on…But, Oh, my gosh, this depends upon the kindness of strangers to some extent.

(Molecular Biologist)

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So, Who Can and Should Curate Data?

Not Academic ResearchersNot Publishers

“Journal publishers have neither expertise nor financial incentives to redistribute scientific data in forms that will be most useful to the research community…Publishers also have no obligation to preserve data to provide long-term access for future researchers.” [ICPSR note to OSTP info. call]

Specialist Librarians?

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Towards Collaborative Data Curation

Begin conversing early in the research process, continuing throughout.

Minimize the status differential.Build mechanisms to peer review and

reward data curation, maximize faculty time, and respect individual proclivities.

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The DataVerse Network Project (IQSS, Harvard University)

http://thedata.org/book/about-project

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EVIA Digital Archive(Indiana University)

www. http://www.eviada.org/

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Library Enhancement Grants (University of Florida)

www.dloc.com

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Librarian Research Expertise

Match materials with archives Liaise with national data initiativesInterpret relevant standards and

metadata schemesDevelop new documentation schemes

as neededSet curation priorities (fragility, value,

etc.)Negotiate provenance, IP, legal

questionsPreservation and perpetual access

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The Vodou Archive(University of Florida)

Prof. Ben Hebblethwaite,Linguistics, P.I.Dr. Richard Freeman, Anthropology Librarian

http://ufdc.ufl.edu/vodou

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CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship (Funded by The A.P. Sloan Foundation)

(Thanks to: Dr. Christa Williford, CLIR; Mr. Dale Askey, McMaster University)

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Specialist Librarian Research Expertise

What compromises the research record?

What kinds of research methods can be relevant to a scholarly question?

How does this research project connect to other research questions or subdisciplines?

What are the needs and possible uses of these data in a field?

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Towards Closer Working Relationships

Andrew Abbott. “Library Research Infrastructure for Humanistic and Social Scientific Scholarship in the Twentieth Century” (43-88)Divergence between

narrowing academic researcher and broadening librarian practices.

Scholars want a “view from somewhere”.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2011.

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Some Spaces to Follow

Are specialist research librarians the new methodologists?

How can librarians contribute more to graduate education?

How can librarians work with research computing specialists, legal experts, etc. across a campus?

Is the nature of ‘interpretation’ in data curation qualitatively different from that in research?