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Libraries Will Be an Asset for Us: Emerging Roles for Academic Libraries

in Civic Data PartnershipsAaron Brenner, Bob Gradeck,

Michael Bolam and Eleanor MatternUniversity of Pittsburgh

Coalition for Networked Information Fall Membership MeetingDecember 15, 2015, Washington DC

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Hello!

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Commonalities across Open movements

Higher ed & scholarly communication

Cultural heritage sector (GLAM)

Civic and governmental sector

➔ Global institutional and organizational involvement➔ Shared values around access, engagement, participation, empowerment, community

development, data stewardship, data literacies, more (all resonate with libraries)➔ Moving towards data as a platform, understanding necessity of tending surrounding (social)

ecosystem

Scientific protocols and materials data

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Common strategies for engagement

We want communities to make meaning and solve problems with content we produce and steward

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While some public libraries have been involved in civic open data projects,

to our knowledge few academic libraries have (yet)

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Earlier this fall

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http://us-city.census.okfn.org/

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Open data is, right now, developing in ways that will provide more opportunities for higher ed (and its libraries) to get involved

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Community is key to the enterprise of the university:

At Pitt, one of five top-level strategic goals

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With similar values, similar goals, an obvious opportunity to work together

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Eleven Years Experience as a Data IntermediaryCommunity Profiles

Community Profiles GIS Server Projects

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Open Data in Other Cities Often Looks Like This

http://bit.ly/1YUL2ZD

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Five observations informed the structure of the project. So did the library.

http://hpwren.ucsd.edu/a_and_d.html

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1. Problems cross borders, data often doesn’t.

http://hpwren.ucsd.edu/a_and_d.html

Two-Page Data Deposit Agreement for New Publishers● Government● Non-Profit● Academic

2. Most data owners are not good at publishing.

http://hpwren.ucsd.edu/a_and_d.html

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Support to Publishers

https://www.flickr.com/photos/twm_news/19385280159/in/photolist-vx1Cqg-otpmtN-apx2SD-odWF4p-ovebPy-odWfXE-5FWddA-5jWDQ7-odWwti-ovecZ9-odXvhX-otpnK5-odWyLz-odWyjT-odWAc9-odWnFE-ove7cs-ovprG7-ovrjpa-oxc8bT-odWESH-odWGQk-ovreFc-ovpAGm-ovrer4-ov9Z3c-odWyT7-ie7mnw-5jWF7N-odyj6L-odzc58-oxUKB6-oxc58i-ove7Bf-ovefAm-odWACR-odWzTU-odWeFG-oxc9mi-otpg1o-odWz8r-ova1ge-odWBLm-odWvEp-ovricF-oerSHC-ov2jm9-odyihT-oeEizC-oeEqGy

● Loading data● Writing metadata● Protecting sensitive information● Prioritizing data releases● Adopting data standards● Data catalogs

3. Data is like bread. It gets stale over time.

http://hpwren.ucsd.edu/a_and_d.html

Automated Publishing of Key Data

Extract Transform Load

4. People don’t talk to each other about how they’re using data (or want to use it).

http://hpwren.ucsd.edu/a_and_d.html

Data User Groups

Data User Guides

Feedback Mechanisms

Make it Easier to Request Data

5. Information infrastructure is often an afterthought.

http://hpwren.ucsd.edu/a_and_d.html

Data Infrastructure: Open Data Portal

Legal Infrastructure

● Partnership Agreement● Data Deposit Agreement● Terms of Use● Data License or Public Domain Dedication

People Infrastructure

Pitt Digital Scholarship Team

Regional Data Center Staff

City of Pittsburgh Government Solutions

Engineering Team

Allegheny County Government Solutions Engineering Team

Carnegie Mellon Friends

UCSUR Staff

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Our Ecosystem

wprdc.org @wprdc

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Background from the library

➔ Research Data Management➔ Digital Humanities and Computational Social

Science➔ Data Visualization➔ GIS and Spatial Analysis➔ Digitization and Digital Collections➔ Open Access Publishing & Advocacy➔ Copyright and Licensing Consultation➔ External-facing Metadata Services➔ Digital Stewardship

Umbrella by Max Cougar Oswald & Nihir Shah from the Noun Project

Like many, consolidating, developing expertise and services under the umbrella of digital scholarship

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Education Advisory Board. (2011). Redefining the Academic Library: Managing the Migration to Digital Information Services.

And, like many, shifting towards more collaboration outside the library

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Where can academic libraries & open civic data projects build capacity together?

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Here, and here, and here, and here, and...

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A closer look: two mini case studies

Data management and curation Metadata schema & data cleaning

Drain Repair by Paulo Sá Ferreira from the Noun Projectbookcase by Sergey Patutin from the Noun Project

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Libraries and research data curation--

many of us are already thinking about and providing guidance for issues around privacy and research data

informed consent and data sharing

anonymization of research data

controlled access to sensitive data

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“information about a person that contains some unique identifier, including but not limited to name or Social Security Number, from which the identity of the person can be determined.” [GSA 2014]

GSA (General Services Administration). “Rules of Behavior for Handling Personally Identifiable Information (PII),” 2014.

Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and open data initiatives

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“information about a person that contains some unique identifier, including but not limited to name or Social Security Number, from which the identity of the person can be determined.” [GSA 2014]

GSA (General Services Administration). “Rules of Behavior for Handling Personally Identifiable Information (PII),” 2014.

Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and open data initiatives

From: Department of Homeland Security. “Handbook for Safeguarding Sensitive PII.” March 2012. https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/privacy/Guidance/handbookforsafeguardingsensitivePII_march_2012_webversion.pdf

Privacy Considerations and research data

Documentation from the University of Pittsburgh IRB

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Libraries and research data curation--

many of us are doing outreach with researchers about research data sharing and preparing data for deposit

libraries can help translate this and produce training and guidance for open data publishers

Licensing and data

“If information is to be truly public, and maximally re-usable, there should be no license-related barrier to the re-use of public information. To be completely “open,” public government information should be released completely into the worldwide public domain and clearly labeled as such.”

Sunlight Foundation, “Open Data Policy Guidelines,” accessed April 30, 2015. Available online: http://sunlightfoundation.com/opendataguidelines/#license-free

Available online: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/

Licensing and data

Available online: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/

From our RDM LibGuide

Whyte, A. & Wilson, A. (2010). "How to Appraise and Select Research Data for Curation". DCC How-to Guides. Edinburgh: Digital Curation Centre. Available online: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/how-guides/appraise-select-data

Considerations for what to keep when it comes to research data --

Relevance to organizational mission

Legal requirements

Uniqueness

Future historical/scientific value

Replicability

Costs

Excerpt from NYC’s Open Data Policy and Technical Standards Manual, September 2012. Available online: http://www.nyc.gov/html/doitt/downloads/pdf/nyc_open_data_tsm.pdf

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Metadata as a public service

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(c)2006 Derek Ramsey (Ram-Man) (from U.S. Census Bureau source) - Source image taken from the United States Census Bureau's website pa_cosub.pdf. Image was modified by Ram-Man. GFDL 1.2 File:Map of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.png

Dealing with civic data● timeliness of data● importance of geographic

information● rights and privacy issues● diversity of data types● diversity of data publishers

and users

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Digital Scholarship Workshop Series

#cni15f @abrennr @BobGradeck @nora_mattern @guttercultKissane, Erin. "Metadata is a love note to the future.” 2011-09-28. Online image of slide from presentation by Jason Scott. Accessed 2015-12-11. http://twitpic.com/6ry6ar

Caveat:Bob LOVES metadata!

Challenge:Most people do not love metadata.

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We are also collaborating towards➔ Open Educational Resources built around the

Data Center

➔ Development of tools for data validation and cleaning

➔ The library contributing historical and reference datasets

➔ Academics & students contributing datasets, linking publications that make use of WPRDC resources

Party by Piotrek Chuchla from the Noun Project

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And, next April in Texas...

Spring 2016 CNI Membership Meeting

San Antonio, TXApril 4-5, 2016

Spring 2016 NNIP Partnership Meeting

San Antonio, TXApril 6-8, 2016