Open Science and Biomedical Research

Lisa Federer, MLIS, MA, AHIP

Research Data Informationist

Overview

• Big data and open science• Library services for data management and data

science• Looking ahead – what’s in store for data?

Big data – what is it?

Big data – the 4 V’s

Velocity

Volume Veracity

Variety

Faster & cheaper technology

Ubiquitous sensing

Increase in born digital data

Greater availability of data

Sharing mandates

Journals with Data Sharing Policies

Funders with Data Sharing Policies

….and many, many more

Feeling overwhelmed?

NIH data needs survey

Federer, L.M., Lu, Y-L, Joubert, D.J. Data Literacy Training Needs of Biomedical Researchers. Journal of the Medical Library Association: JMLA. In press.

We can help!

Research data life cycle

http://data.library.virginia.edu/data-management/lifecycle

Proposal/planning stage

Data management planning

http://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/dmp.jsp

DMPTool

http://www.dmptool.org

Data collection reuse

http://service.re3data.org/

New uses for existing data!

Finding data for re-use

http://service.re3data.org/

Data sharing

Benefits to data sharing

“Publicly available data was significantly (p = 0.006) associated with a 69% increase in citations.”

Piwowar HA, Day RS, Fridsma DB (2007) Sharing Detailed Research Data Is Associated with Increased Citation Rate. PLoS ONE 2(3): e308. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000308

Leveraging library expertise

What should we prepare for?

Data is only getting bigger

Leveraging unstructured data

Structured data

Unstructured data

Librarians can meet this need!

Thank you!

Lisa Federer, MLIS, MA, AHIP

Research Data Informationist

lisa.federer@nih.gov

@lisafederer

NIH Library Data Services resources: http://nihlibrary.campusguides.com/dataservices/