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Research Data Management. Recommended s ervices for a small academic library ACCOLEDS – November 29, 2018. Background. Sabbatical leave taken September 2017-February 2018
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Research Data Management Recommended services for a small academic library ACCOLEDS – November 29, 2018
Background • Sabbatical leave taken September 2017-February 2018 • Purpose: to research RDM services and recommend services that Athabasca University Library should provide to support research data management activity at Athabasca University. • Received financial support from the Research Centre in case I needed to travel.
Process – part 1 • Looked at the Portage site and read documents • Did some basic research into RDM. • Sent e-mail to various people including ACCOLEDS contacts and other DLI members to find out what other libraries were doing to support research data management at their institutions. • Had a number of responses with very useful information.
Process – part 2 • Talked with librarians and other staff who provide RDM services at various locations in Canada and looked at a few places in the United States and the UK. • Had some discussions with James Doiron and Jane Fry relating to Portage • They provided me with training on DMP and Portage • Took a course in RDM from Library Juice Academy. Course expected us to create a RDM plan and work with a staff member who was doing research. • The staff member wasn’t able to complete the process, but he did look at the RDM process and used the DMP Assistant on the Portage site.
Process part 3 • Attended a 1 day symposium in Toronto about research data management in January 2018. • Read various articles and publications about research data management including a very good report from OCLC. • There is a good report from OCLC: “Building Blocks: laying the foundation for a Research Data Management Program.” • JISC in the UK has some good information as well.
Process – Part 4 • Used the DMP Assistant to create my own small RDM plan. • James allowed me to access Dataverse through the U of Alberta
Recommendations -1 • Create a full time Research Data Management Librarian position Provide a suite of research data management services. These services should consist of the following at a minimum: • Provide information about recommended research data management practices and why data management is important. • Assist researchers with the creation of data management plans to support their research. This includes helping them understand the value and benefits of having a data management plan. • Provide access to the DMP Assistant software and assistance with using it.
Recommendations - 2 • Provide access to a Dataverse instance. • Provide options for the storage and curation of data. • Assist with connecting AU Space documents to data and/or connect research data to AU Space. • Work with the AU Research Centre to be the resource for data management information at AU. • Suggest options for data archiving.
Recommendations – 3 • Work with Research Centre and Faculty of Graduate Studies to ensure that AU develops an institutional research data management plan and policies. • The university needs to be ready to implement the requirements of the Tri-Council policy on Research Data Management
Discussion Talk with a small group: • What RDM services are you providing at the moment, if any? • Assuming you had the resources you need, what RDM services would you like to provide that is reasonable for your size of library? • What resources do you need to provide these? • Report back to group • Next 2 slides are the summary of each group from their discussion.
Group 1 (Chris Burns) • Group from with people from very large institutions and from some medium and some small. • Still haven’t done much at institution despite it being on radar for a while.. • Tri Agency policy coming along create impetus to move forward and take action • Form a committee in the library with data librarian, scholarly communications librarian, university librarian to start to strategize and decide on level of service and outreach. • Developing an institutional strategy. • Small institutions it’s not a big priority - reflects the fact that less tri agency researching is going on. • Other institutions are already close to capacity for what they can support. • Huge stumbling block is lack of infrastructure to host locally. This limits the scope of the outreach you can do. You can promote DMPs and good RDM practices, but you can’t provide the storage solution.
Group 2 (Will Meredith) • Did lots of comparing notes on who is doing what and not doing other things. • Discussed who should hold responsibility for RDM? Partnership between library, research office and maybe others. • Discussed technical infrastructure needs. • Group 3 (Anna Bombak) • Same variety of institution size in their group as with group 1. • UofA has an embedded data culture that is long standing so they are quite far along with RDM services. • Smaller institutions are just starting and trying to cope with meeting TriAgency requirements. • Important to outline scope of what the library will and will not over (make limits on services clear, ie. won't clean data for you). • Last words • Don’t limit yourself to a single platform - keep services platform agnostic. It’s about curation not specific software.
Questions/Comments Thank you! Doug Kariel Athabasca University Library dougk@athabascau.ca
