A spectrum of scale Support for data needs in the sciences & social sciences Jen Ferguson June...

A spectrum of scale

Support for data needs in the sciences & social sciences

Jen FergusonJune 19, 2013

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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

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Informationists

NLM funded supplement to NIH grants

Johns Hopkins – RadiologyUMass Medical – Breast cancer screeningNYU – Auditory research and cancer researchU 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…

Library Expertise

Liaison

Subject Specialist

Data Collections

R & I

Infrastructure

What do you have to lose?

Library Expertise

Liaison

Subject Specialist

Data Collections

R & I

Infrastructure

Scalability & risk for your institution:

Research & instructionData as collectionLiaison relationships (campus partners, DMPs)Subject specialistLibrary expertise (schol comm, 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!

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j.ferguson@neu.edu