jen ferguson "a tale of two projects"
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Jen Ferguson gave this presentation during the "Understanding E-Science: A Symposium for Medical Librarians" on February 13, 2012 in Houston, TX.TRANSCRIPT
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Why A tale of two projects Jen Ferguson
02•13•2012
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Reuse & collaboration
First, there was
Annotating data sets associated with published papers.
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(Have you seen me?)
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Microarray data set(s) Paper
Software
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Here’s what comes out.
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Why S Switching gears
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Reuse & collaboration
Then there was
Creating an insanely great digital repository service.
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The vision
A repository robust and flexible enough to support storage,
access, & discovery of the widest possible range of digital
materials created and used at the university.
Meaning?
Teaching materials ✔
Student portfolios & projects ✔
Research data ✔
And more.
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“We have to respect that most folks chose not to be librarians.”
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The tech specs
• Repository built in Fedora
• Perl scripts (not people) do most of the metadata ‘dirty work’
The process
• Meet with the client to determine needs & practices
• Create a customized Perl module to unpack/wrangle data
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A case in point
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Late-breaking news:
Got data!
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LearningObject Papers
Data
Faculty member
isPartOf
isPartOf isMemberOf
isMemberOf isMemberOf
isMemberOf
isMemberOf
isMemberOf
Other
isDataSetFor
isDataSetFor
isDerivativeOf
isMemberOf
isPartOf isPartOf
JPG
DAT SPS
Dataset Dataset
Paper
Paper
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U Summing up
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Created by scientists
Specialized solution
Discipline-specific
Globally focused
‘Downstream’ intervention
Metadata by external curator
Created by librarians
Generalized solution
Discipline-agnostic
Institutionally focused
‘Upstream’ intervention
Metadata by content creator
Two very different approaches…
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The good news
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Sources
Harvard School of Public Health. “Harvard School of Public Health- HSPH”. October 13, 2011.
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/
ISA Team. "Isa - About". October 6, 2011. http:// isatab.sourceforge.net/index.html.
Northeastern University. “Northeastern University: a leader in global experiential learning in Boston, MA”.
October 13, 2011. http://www.northeastern.edu/
Northeastern University – University Libraries. Annual Report: 2010. Available from:
http://www.lib.neu.edu/about_us/mission/documents/2010annualreport.pdf
United States National Library of Medicine. “Home – PubMed – NCBI”. October 13, 2011.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/
Stock photos ‘Abacus’, ‘Chrome gear’, ‘Floppy disks’ and ‘Roll’ courtesy of stock.xchng. Available from:
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