250 likes | 347 Views
A spectrum of scale Support for data needs in the sciences & social sciences . Jen Ferguson June 19, 2013. http:// www.sxc.hu /photo/690846. What’s the plan? Highlight several approaches, with examples Sticking points, scalability, & risk Nagging questions & discussion.
E N D
A spectrum of scale Support for data needs in the sciences & social sciences Jen Ferguson June 19, 2013 http://www.sxc.hu/photo/690846
What’s the plan? • Highlight several approaches, with examples • Sticking points, scalability, & risk • Nagging questions& discussion
Reference & Instruction • Data: reference & instruction • Information management: consultations &instruction • plans
Data Management Workshops: MIT http://libraries.mit.edu/guides/subjects/data-management/index.html
Frameworks for a Data Management Curriculum: UMass Medical & partners http://library.umassmed.edu/data_management_frameworks.pdf
Data as Collection • Data is a resource, as well as a product • plans
Data as Collection: UIUC • Researchers request data • Data Services Committee vets requests • Data purchased with collections budget • Researchers speak at library brownbag http://www.library.illinois.edu/sc/datagis/purchase/description2012.html
Data as Collection: UIUC • Purchases to date include: • Rat gene sequencing data – Food Science/Nutrition • Satellite imagery – Plant Biology • Village coordinates in India – Geography • Income tax data by zip code – Labor Relations
Liaison Relationships • Connecting expertise / Bridge building • Data management plansplans
Data management plan support • (to name a few!)
Connecting expertise: • Research Ambassadors, VU http://guides.library.vu.edu.au/content.php?pid=239245&sid=1978855
Subject Specialists • Informationists • ‘Covert Ops’pl • a
Informationists • NLM funded supplement to NIH grants • Johns Hopkins – Radiology • UMass Medical – Breast cancer screening • NYU – Auditory research and cancer research • U Rochester – Tobacco intervention • http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/vol2/iss1/
‘Covert Ops’ http://dx.doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.2012.1019
Library Expertise • Scholarly communications • Metadata • Archives & special collections
Metadata Consults: Northeastern Early Caribbean Digital Archive New schema – ASL interpreter videos
Local Infrastructure • Repository building & hosting • Providing resources for data-driven work
Data-friendly institutional repositories Seat-of-pants survey: In place? In process? Someday? Not likely?
A continuum of scalability… R & I Data Collections Liaison Subject Specialist Library Expertise Infrastructure
What do you have to lose? Infrastructure Data Collections Liaison R & I Library Expertise Subject Specialist
Scalability & risk for your institution: • Research & instruction • Data as collection • Liaison relationships (campus partners, DMPs) • Subject specialist • Library expertise (scholcomm, metadata) • Infrastructure (repositories etc.) What do you think?
Some Nagging Questions • Library role • Fine line between toe-stepping & bridge-building • Big hairy projects vs. incessant activity • And, of course: $
None of us can do everything (certainly not well!) • Choose options that play to your strengths Parting thoughts
http://dx.doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.2012.1002 Want more?
Thank you! j.ferguson@neu.edu http://www.sxc.hu/photo/690846