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Sharing the load – librarians and research data support services Stephen Grace, Research Services Librarian M25 Conference, Wellcome Collection, 23 April
Sharing the load librarians and research data support services
Stephen Grace, Research Services Librarian M25 Conference, Wellcome
Collection, 23 April 2013
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Outline 1.Context at UEL 2.Why librarians, and the skills gap
3.Learning resource supportDM 4.Setting up an RDM support
service
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UEL and data management Identified RDM as issue in 2009
following Keeping Research Data Safe report Recruited Research
Services Librarian with prior expertise in digital curation
Responded to EPSRC letter by drafting a policy adopted March 2012
Bespoke support under DCCs Institutional Engagement
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UEL and data management - 2 Training covered in Jisc-funded
project called TraD Training for Data Management at UEL with four
strands: Reuse MANTRA for Psychology profdocs Create a course for
Geoinformatics MSc Run workshops on good RDM practice Devise
supportDM course for those supporting researchers, tested with
subject librarians at UEL
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Why are libraries leading RDM? Most of the Jisc RDM projects
are library- led not all, and often working in conjunction with IT
and/or Research Office Close to researchers as library users Data
are a form of information and who is better at managing
information? Libraries are trusted partners committed to long-term
scientific/scholarly endeavour
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Sheila Corrall, Univ. of Pittsburgh Powerful synergies exist
between the longstanding library commitment to open access and the
philosophy of open science, between the principles underpinning
library collection management and emerging protocols for curating
digital data, between the track record of libraries in technology
adoption and systems development and the complex demands for
integrated infrastructure and novel workflows, and between the
teaching mission of librarians and the educational agenda for
e-research. Corrall, Sheila (2012), "Roles and responsibilities:
libraries, librarians and data", In: Pryor, G. (ed.), Managing
research data. Facet Publishing, ISBN 978-1-85604-756-2.
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Skills gap for librarians Ability to advise on preserving
research outputs Knowledge to advise on data management and
curation, including ingest, discovery, access, dissemination,
preservation, and portability Knowledge to support researchers in
complying with the various mandates of funders, including open
access requirements Knowledge to advise on potential data
manipulation tools used in the discipline/ subject Knowledge to
advise on data mining Knowledge to advocate, and advise on, the use
of metadata Ability to advise on the preservation of project
records e.g. correspondence Knowledge of sources of research
funding to assist researchers to identify potential funders Skills
to develop metadata schema, and advise on discipline/subject
standards and practices, for individual research projects Taken
from Auckland, Mary (2012), Reskilling for Research.
RLUK.Reskilling for Research
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Help yourself with supportDM Xerte training course of 5 modules
1.Introduction to RDM 2.Guidance and support to researchers 3.Data
Management Plans 4.What data to keep, and why 5.Cataloguing and
sharing data Supporting materials presentations, exercises, tasks,
videos, Xerte modules for blended or self-learning
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Online: Roles and players
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Exercise: Matching data
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RDM Website review University of Leicester supportDM Module 2
Task: Review an RDM website
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What the site covers The site is split into the following
sections: Data management support Creating data Organising data
Keeping data Finding and sharing data Training Advice, support and
feedback
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The tone, language, look Tone and language Formal approach but
easily understandable Layout and presentation Very clear sections
which follow logically the data management process As the sections
are clear it is easy to go straight to the required part of the
process Contact details visible on the front page
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What we could use/copy at UEL All of it!
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Beg, steal or borrow Other support websites Existing university
RDM policies DCC publications Tools and techniques from Jisc-funded
MRD projects Training material for librarians from supportDM,
RDMRose and MANTRA supportDMRDMRoseMANTRA Videos
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Websites
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RDM policies
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DCC publications
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Tools and techniques
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Training materials
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Exercise 1.Offer research data management support 2.Provide
metadata services for research data 3.Develop professional staff
skills for data librarianship 4.Institutional research data policy
5.Interoperable infrastructure for data access, discovery and
sharing 6.Services for storage, discovery and permanent access
7.Promote research data citation by applying persistent identifiers
to research data 8.Provide an institutional Data Catalogue or
Repository 9.Get involved in subject- specific data management
practice 10.Storage for dynamic and static research data in co-
operation with IT LIBER (2012), Ten recommendations for libraries
to get started with research data management.
http://www.libereurope.eu/sites/default/files/The%20research%20data%20group%202012%20
v7%20final.pdf
http://www.libereurope.eu/sites/default/files/The%20research%20data%20group%202012%20
v7%20final.pdf
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Feedback from exercise Things we could doThings we cant or
shouldnt
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Summary Libraries are ideal partners to share the data load of
researchers Plenty of existing material will help you get started,
and gain researchers confidence Your university needs data curators
(data managers, data librarians) And so does the one down the
road
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TraD is a Jisc-funded project of Library and Learning Services
at the University of East London. The supportDM course was
developed by UEL and the Digital Curation Centre. Stephen Grace
Email [email protected]@uel.ac.uk Web
www.uel.ac.uk/trad/www.uel.ac.uk/trad/ Blog
datamanagementuel.wordpress.comdatamanagementuel.wordpress.com
Thank you