dlf panel on rdm strategies in the library, oct 2015
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TRAINING UP AND REACHING OUT: LIBRARY STRATEGIES TO COORDINATE RESEARCH DATA MANAGEMENT ON CAMPUS
October 27, 2015
Morgan DanielsVanderbilt Universitymorgan.g.daniels@vanderbilt.edu@morgand
Ana Van GulickCarnegie Mellon Universityanavangulick@cmu.edu@anavangulick
Scout CalvertUCLAscout@library.ucla.edu@windloochie
Sarah PickleAssessment LibrarianThe Claremont Colleges Librarysarah_pickle@cuc.claremont.edu@sarahepickle
Stephanie SimmsResearch Data SpecialistCalifornia Digital Librarystephanie.simms@ucop.edu@stephrsimms
CLIR/DLF Postdoctoral Fellows in Data Curation
Morgan DanielsCLIR Postdoctoral Fellow
Vanderbilt University@morgand
One of Many Audiences (for a Balanced Communication Effort)
Spreading the Word
From the Inside Out
Librarians
Faculty
Students
Research groups
One View of
Information Flow
Meetings
Workshops
Unexpected Connections
Another Metaphor
IT TAKES A CAMPUS
Ana Van GulickCarnegie Mellon Universityanavangulick@cmu.edu@anavangulick
Collaboration across campus to support research data
Listen to your stakeholders, get their buy-in, build up your services accordingly
Teamwork and triage in the library
Campus Collaboration
Creating the RDMSC
Finding needs
Getting top-level buy-in
Roadmap for services and infrastructure
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Libraries
GraduateComputing
Services
UndergradVP of
Research
Faculty
RDMSC
RDM Steering Committee
Building out.Training up.
Needs Assessment
Infrastructure – In house, outside, support
Services – team and training
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2014 Survey Results
2014 Survey, Van Tuyl & Michalek
There is a LOT of data
Most projects produce small amounts of data, but a few produce very large amounts of data
Data storage and back-up could be improved
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Priorities
2014 Survey, Van Tuyl & Michalek
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Working through the data lifecycle
Teamwork & Triage
How do librarians and data staff get involved through the data lifecycle?
Triage
Carrot over Stick
Reaching out – grant awards as our introduction
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Triage
Data
Specialists
Data TeamMetadata & Repository
Specialists
Liaison LibrariansDMP’s, protocols, disciplinary repositories
and standards, best practices
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Carrots ONLY!Easy to implement, not adding burdens
Solve a existing pain point in the research workflow
Use a new grant award as a happy introduction opportunity
We’re working on that.
Work in progress
But we’re here!
Stay current and engaged with research culture
How is research data like a harmful algal bloom?:Getting the right metaphor for the job
Scout CalvertCLIR Postdoctoral Fellow
UCLA@windloochie
Pfiesteria piscicida
The Proverbial Elephant and Monks
Research Data Lifecycle?
Research Data Lifecycle?
Lifecycle Lessons
• Data move in a clockwise direction.
What we did
• 14 staff members, including librarians and library staff.
• Semi-structured interviews
• Walked through cycle stages to elicit specific skills, knowledge, and abilities
• Interviews transcribed and coded
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Thanks to my fellow monks at UCLA:
Rikke Sarah Ogawa, MLIS, AHIPBethany Myers, MSLISVessela Ensberg, Ph.D., former CLIR Fellow.Tony Aponte, MLIS
Apologies to:Schrader, A. (2010). Responding to Pfiesteria piscicida
(the fish killer): Phantomatic ontologies, indeterminacy, and responsibility in toxic microbiology. Social Studies of Science 40(2), 275-306.
Questions, comments: scout@library.ucla.edu
LISTEN. THEN MOBILIZE!
Planning the Research Data Working Group at Penn State Libraries
October 27, 2015 Sarah Pickle
RDM at PSUL
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DMP-related guidance
Undefined interest in services for research data
Not on researchers’ map of RDM support
“Data” in 1 of ca. 500 PSUL titles
RDM at PSUL
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Motivations
Challenge 1: Providing support for
RDM wasn’t in anyone’s job
description.
How to bring them on board and
make them feel this is worth their
effort?
Challenge 2: Not everyone was
ready or confident enough to jump
right in.
How to develop a safe community
that would provide education,
training, and a sense of shared
purpose?
I was conducting outreach with
researchers and support staff to
uncover what help was needed and
what help already existed.
But I had the potential to become a
victim of my own success. I also
needed the support of my subject-
specialist colleagues.
Goal: Enlist my colleagues—who are
often already in researchers’
workflows—to work with me.
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RDWG
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R(e)DW(in)G
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RDWG
Planning efforts:
Recruited co-organizers.
Drafted proposal, which included phased-out plan to learn together, work toward creation of RDM handbook, implementation of coherent outreach strategy, and ongoing professional development.
Charged by AD.
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YES! But how?The goals outlined in the RDWG
proposal were well and good, but
they were ours…
How could they best match the
needs of the environment we were
working in?
NB: Question language differs slightly from text of questionnaire.
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YES! But how?Listen.
The goals outlined in the RDWG
proposal were well and good, but
they were ours…
How could they best match the
needs of the environment we were
working in?
NB: Question language differs slightly from text of questionnaire.
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YES! But how?Listen.
The goals outlined in the RDWG
proposal were well and good, but
they were ours…
How could they best match the
needs of the environment we were
working in?
NB: Question language represented here differs slightly from text of questionnaire.
How often do you talk with faculty and students about their research data?(n=73)
How confident do/would you feel when talking with faculty and students about their research data?(n=69)
What do you need to feel more confident talking with faculty and students about their research data?(n=37)
14%
23%
38%
25% often
sometimes
rarely
never
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YES! But how?Listen.
The goals outlined in the RDWG
proposal were well and good, but
they were ours…
How could they best match the
needs of the environment we were
working in?
NB: Question language represented here differs slightly from text of questionnaire.
How often do you talk with faculty and students about their research data?(n=73)
How confident do/would you feel when talking with faculty and students about their research data?(n=69)
What do you need to feel more confident talking with faculty and students about their research data?(n=37)
14%
23%
38%
25% often
sometimes
rarely
never
9%
25%
28%
25%
14%very
confident
neutral
not very
not at all
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YES! But how?Listen.
The goals outlined in the RDWG
proposal were well and good, but
they were ours…
How could they best match the
needs of the environment we were
working in?
NB: Question language represented here differs slightly from text of questionnaire.
*Categories created from open-text responses.
How often do you talk with faculty and students about their research data?(n=73)
How confident do/would you feel when talking with faculty and students about their research data?(n=69)
What do you need to feel more confident talking with faculty and students about their research data?(n=37)
14%
23%
38%
25% often
sometimes
rarely
never
9%
25%
28%
25%
14%very
confident
neutral
not very
not at all
51%
22%
help with resources* training/group
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RDWGMobilize!
May-July 2015
Half a dozen hour-long meetings
held with documentation posted on
group wiki. 10-12 faculty and staff
participants from across PSUL, both
subject and functional specialists.
Topics covered: defining data,
characterizing quantitative and
qualitative data, research data
lifecycle, key aspects of RDM
planning.
RDWG member questionnaire
asked about specific data-
related topics and was
intended to inform future
growth and track progress.
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RDWGChallenges
Hesitant to suggest topics and
volunteer to present.
How can they know what they don’t know enough to know that they want to know it?
Fear of scope creep in the
Libraries and “marketing”
services PSUL doesn’t (or
shouldn’t…) provide.
Confirmation of one original motivation for forming the group—no clear path for RDM support in PSUL—while also resisting an attempt to forge that path from the grassroots.
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RDWGGoing forward
The group is on a temporary hiatus,
partly due to the start of the new
semester, partly due to our hope for
RDM-related commitments the new
ADs, partly due to my leaving Penn
State.
But there’s momentum! Group
members now have a colleagues they
can turn to for support and a sense
of where to find help when they need
it.
Even if the future of RDM training
and community at PSUL takes a
different form, RDWG has broadened
awareness of RDM concerns and
needs on campus while confirming
interest in addressing them.
Maybe it has served as a proof of
concept for future grassroots
organizing in the Libraries.
Shared vocabulary, sense of project lifecycle
Resources on group wiki
New science data librarian
Onboarding two ADs interested in RDM
Uncertain future for RDWG,
but hopeful for RDM support
in the Libraries.
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Preliminary conclusions
I don’t know whether I succeeded—
it’s too early to tell—but the
attendance numbers and diversity
were promising. Group members felt
comfortable asking questions and
acknowledging where the limits of
their understanding were.
The hope is that the information I
gathered can be used not just as
justification for RDWG’s existence,
but also as a way to demonstrate
progress and build confidence in my
colleagues to provide RDM support.
Turning needs-assessment inward helped to take the
temperature of my colleagues and create a group
that they would value.
Thank you.sarah_pickle@cuc.claremont.edu@sarahepickle
Stephanie SimmsResearch Data SpecialistCalifornia Digital Library@stephrsimms
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User Experience/UXWhat it isWhy it matters
“a person’s perceptions and
responses that result from the
use or anticipated use of a
product, system, or service”
-ISO 9241-210
Boston traffic sign image from www.tallahasseewebdesign.com
http://researchdata.wisc.edu/
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Personas
Laura:
Mid-career oceanographer
Abby:
Science data librarian
Are you a faculty member, educator, project manager or
data librarian? Have you been intrigued by how DataONE
might relate to you and improve your work? Not sure
where to begin?
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Usability testing(assessment)
Content is King –
Usability is Queen
Flickr | Dominic Winsor
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UX = a strategy for RDM in libraries
Wikimedia Commons | Arenamontanus
DISCUSSIONQ&A
Morgan DanielsVanderbilt Universitymorgan.g.daniels@vanderbilt.edu@morgand
Ana Van GulickCarnegie Mellon Universityanavangulick@cmu.edu@anavangulick
Scout CalvertUCLAscout@library.ucla.edu@windloochie
Sarah PickleAssessment LibrarianThe Claremont Colleges Librarysarah_pickle@cuc.claremont.edu@sarahepickle
Stephanie SimmsResearch Data SpecialistCalifornia Digital Librarystephanie.simms@ucop.edu@stephrsimms
CLIR/DLF Postdoctoral Fellows in Data Curation
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