Data Management and the Changing Landscape of Research

DATA MANAGEMENTAND THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE

OF RESEARCH

Shea SwaugerData Management Librarian

DATA ARCHIVING MANDATES

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION(2011)

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH (2003)

OFFICE OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY POLICY(2013)

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/data_sharing/data_sharing_guidance.htm

http://www.nsf.gov/eng/general/dmp.jsp

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/02/22/expanding-public-access-results-federally-funded-research

THE FUNDER’S PERSPECTIVE

AN ALTERNATIVE

UNANTICIPATED DATA REUSEDryad Digital Repository

http://datadryad.org/

TRADITIONAL SCHOLARSHIP AND ASSESSMENT:

MEASURING THE IMPACT OF JOURNAL ARTICLES

• IMPACT FACTOR OF THE JOURNAL

• IMEDIACY INDEX

• NUMBER OF CITATIONS TO THE ARTICLE

• CITED HALF-LIFE

HOW CAN WE MEASURE THE IMPACT OF DATA?

ALTMETRICS (alternative

metrics)

http://www.plumanalytics.com/

http://readermeter.org/ http://impactstory.org/

BUILDING A CULTURE OF OPENNESS

REASONS FOR NOT SHARING DATA

DATA OWNERSHIP AND RIGHTS ISSUES

• ASK PERMISSION

• GIVE ATRIBUTION

• BE WILLING TO REMOVE THE DATA

REASONS FOR NOT SHARING DATA

RETAIN THE ABILITY TO PUBLISH FIRST

• EMBARGO THE DATA

• DON’T PUBLISH THE DATA UNTIL ARTICLE PUBLICATION

REASONS FOR NOT SHARING DATA

FEAR OF OTHERS FINDING ERRORS IN THE WORK

• PERFORM DATA CLEANING

• HAVE A PEER LOOK OVER THE DATA

REASONS FOR NOT SHARING DATA

FEAR OF OTHERS MISINTERPRETING THE DATA

• METADATA

• README FILES

• PROVIDE CURRENT CONTACT INFORMATION

REASONS FOR NOT SHARING DATA

DATA CONTAINS SENSITIVE OR PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION

• ANNONIMIZATION

• BREAKING APART DATA TABLES

• SELECTIVE SHARING

DATA REPOSITORIES:

INSTITUTIONAL OR DISCIPLINE-SPECIFIC?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

FIND A DISCIPLINE-SPECIFIC REPOSITORY

http://databib.org/

CSU’S INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY

http://digitool.library.colostate.edu

DATA MANAGEMENT PLAN WRITING

DATA MANAGEMENT SERVICES AT CSU:

https://dmp.cdlib.org/

DATA MANAGEMENT SERVICES AT CSU:

CURATION:DATA APPRAISAL, SELECTION, METADATA, STRUCTURING, FORMATING

DATA MANAGEMENT SERVICES AT CSU:

LONG-TERM DIGITAL PRESERVATION

DATA MANAGEMENT SERVICES AT CSU:

DATA ACCESSABILITY AND SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMZATION

DATA MANAGEMENT SERVICES AT CSU:

OPEN-ACCESS REPOSITORY MEETS GRANT FUNDER’S REQUIREMENTS

RESEARCH DATA AND THE TENURE AND PROMOTION PROCESS

SHOULD IT COUNT?

IF SO, HOW MUCH?

THE COMMODIFICATION OF DATA

BIG DATA

LARGE SCALE ANALYTICS

DATA BROKERING

RESEARCH DATA?

IF YOU HAVE DATA ISSUES

THE LIBRARY IS HERE TO HELP

QUESTIONS?

Shea SwaugerData Management LibrarianMorgan Library, 210 Eshea.swauger@colostate.edu

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