Building Capacity:Leveraging existing library networks to take on research dataHEIDI IMKER, PHD

DIRECTOR, RESEARCH DATA SERVICE

UNIVERSITY OF ILL INOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN

Illinois Research Data Service (RDS)

Provide the Illinois research community with the

expertise, tools, and infrastructure

necessary to manage and steward research data.

Research

Data Service

(RDS)

University

Library

Super-

computing

Center

Grad

School of

Lib and

Info Sci

Provost

Vice

Chancellor

for

Research

Campus IT

2011 2012 2013 2014

Yr of Data StewardshipRDS in Campus Strategic Plan

RDS ProposalARL eScience Institute

RDS Hiring Initiated

Illinois RDS Timeline

Illinois RDS Timeline

2011 2012 2013 2014

Yr of Data Stewardship

eResearch Task Force

RDS in Campus Strategic Plan

RDS Proposal

Data Services ProgrameResearch Implementation Committee

Data Management Outreach

RDS Hiring Initiated

ARL eScience Institute

Current Illinois RDS Emphases

Outreach

• Improving local data stewardship has the most universal impact

Infrastructure

• Data Deposit for Public Access (Repository)

• Rentable Active Data Storage

Data People and Resources

• 3 Data Librarians

• eResearch Implementation Committee

• $450K in committed funding for the RDS Program

• Hiring 2 dedicated RDS Research Data Curators

• Hiring 1 dedicated RDS Data Repository Developer

Magnitude

Recent Illinois Campus Highlights

of Published Research

Universities: Diverse By Design

• Proceedings of the National Academy of Science

• Psychological Science

• Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management

• Nature (2)

• Journal of Interpersonal Violence

http://illinois.edu/lb/iList/1171

Universities: Diverse By Design

RNAseq, gut microbiota, xylanolytic bacteria, hemicellulose,

human nutrition, stars, divided attention, dual-task performance,

distracted driving, aquarium, avian influenza, captive wildlife,

emergency management, outbreak response, zoo, zoonotic

disease, bullying, sexual harassment, adolescents, biosynthesis,

enzyme mechanisms, X-ray crystallography

Universities: Diverse By Design

RNAseq, gut microbiota, xylanolytic bacteria, hemicellulose,

human nutrition, stars, divided attention, dual-task performance,

distracted driving, aquarium, avian influenza, captive wildlife,

emergency management, outbreak response, zoo, zoonotic

disease, bullying, sexual harassment, adolescents, biosynthesis,

enzyme mechanisms, X-ray crystallography

Illinois Numbers

17 colleges

150+programs of study

32,294 undergraduates

11,104postgraduates

2,765faculty

$349 Milliontotal sponsored federal

R&D expendituresave. 2009-2013

~ 6,500journal articles (Scopus)

2013

http://research.illinois.edu/about/2014_Research_Report.pdf

Existing Network: eResearch Implementation Committee

Who?• 13 Librarians and Library Staff• Archives, CAM, Data Services, Digital Humanities,

Engineering, International Studies, Library IT, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Preservation, State Scientific Surveys

What?• RDS Planning• DOI Minting for Datasets• DMPTool Wizard• RDS Interest Group

Connecting

Local Research Output• traditional publications• datasets• grey-scale literature

External Resources/Factors• repositories (re-users)• tools• policy

Connecting

External Resources/Factors• repositories (re-users)• tools• policy

Awareness and Expertise BuildingPublications … Seminars … Webinars … Listservs

Conferences ... Newsletters … Social Media

Local Research Output• traditional publications• datasets• grey-scale literature

Knowledge Overlap

what Person A

knows

what Person B

knows

Strategy

• Identify

• Assign

• Follow/Familiarize

• Report

• Contact

• Follow-through

• Follow-up

People Networks

Library Research Data Network

RDS

Life Sciences DataGeospatial Data

Tools for Data

Example

Life Sciences Data

RDS

I saw in the Biology Dept. Newsletter than Prof X just published a

paper in PNAS.

Example

Life Sciences Data

I saw in the Biology Dept. Newsletter than Prof X just published a

paper in PNAS.

Using Biosharing.org, I found Data Repository A is a good home for that data.

RDS

Example

assigned to Biosharing.orgfamiliar with Biosharing.orgreports on Biosharing.org

assigned to Bio Dept. Newsletterfollows (reads) the Bio Dept. Newsletterreports on the Bio Dept. Newsletter

Life Sciences Data

RDS

Contact & Follow Through

Research

DATA RepositoryTool

Contact & Follow-Up

Research

DATA

ImpactReuseCompliancePreservation

NSF Biosketch “Products”

http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/policydocs/pappguide/nsf15001/gpg_2.jsp#IIC2f

In Action – Warnow Paper

Citations as of Feb 12th : 3S. Mirarab, M. S. Bayzid, B. Boussau, T. Warnow, Science 346, 1250463 (2014).

In Action – Warnow Data

S. Mirarab, M. S. Bayzid, B. Boussau, T. Warnow, IDEALS http://dx.doi.org/10.13012/C5MW2F2P (2014).

Downloads as of Feb 12th: 117

Formalize a Structure …

RDS

Life Sciences DataGeospatial Data

Tools for Data

… to Existing Networks

How do you eat a whale?

One bit at a time.

Acknowledgements

eResearch Implementation CommitteeSarah Williams, Chair Bethany AndersonSusan BraxtonPeg BurnetteHarriett GreenKaren HogenboomLaila HusseinKyle RimkusBeth Sandore NamachchivayaMary SchlembachAyla SteinChristie Wiley