Data, E-Data, Data Curation: Our New Frontier

Joan Starr

Data: The New Frontier

Joan StarrCalifornia Digital Library

1. Federal Mandates2. What they mean3. What you can do

California Digital Library (CDL)

The Mandates

1.

January 18, 2011: proposals submitted to NSF must include a supplementary document of no more than two pages labeled "Data Management Plan" (DMP)

2.

March 29, 2012: Whitehouse announces “BIG DATA” initiative with $200 million in new R&D investments.

3.February 22, 2013: The Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP) directs agencies to provide public access to federally funded research.

What does this mean?

If your scholars work with federal support:

• They need data management plans.• They must share their data.

Scholar A

What are “metadata”?

Are there standards or best practices I should be

aware of?

How much will it cost? Why should I care

about preservation? I just need a place to

put my data.Where can I get help?

How can I share my work with my colleagues?

How can I publish the data associated with

my publications?

How do I fulfill the data management requirements of my

grant?

How can I make sure I get credit ?

Can’t my work be included in the

Web of Science?

How can I provide access to my

work?

Scholar B

For the Library…

Perspective A

Perspective B

• Engage early in the lifecycle for greatest impact

What can you do?

• Prioritize scarce resources. Be clear about your choices

• Start small: provide simple services and/or tools that can evolve

• Choose flexible solutions that can be used in diverse ways

• Develop partnerships and collaborate now more than ever

Our suite of services:

Match the profile

DMPTool

• Connect researchers to resources to create a data management plan

• NSF and directorates, NIH, NEH, IMLS, foundations

• Customizable

Meeting funding agencies data management plan requirements

Primary Functions1. Step-by-step “wizard”

2. Templates and examples

3. Links to institutional resources and agency information

4. Plan publication and sharing

https://dmp.cdlib.org/

• DataCite DOIs for data, linking to scholarly research

• Credit to data producers and data publishers

• Exposure and metrics for datasets(Web of Knowledge, Google)

Primary Functions1. Create identifiers

2. Manage identifiers (and metadata) over time

3. Resolve identifiers

EZIDLong term identifiers made easy

@ezidCDL

https://n2t.net/ezid

Primary Functions1. An Excel 1) add-in & 2) cloud

application2. Document data

3. Check for good data practices

3. Obtain identifier and citation

4. Archive and share

DataUpCollect, share, archive, publish data

@DataUpCDL

http://dataup.cdlib.org/

28 May Introduction to the DMPTool

4 June Learning about data management: Resources, tools, materials

18 June Customizing the DMPTool for your institution

25 June Environmental Scan: Who's important at your campus

9 July EZID Outreach Made Easy – Joan Starr, CDL

16 July Health Sciences & DMPTool - Lisa Federer, UCLA

23 July Digital humanities and the DMPTool - Miriam Posner, UCLA

13 Aug Data curation profiles and the DMPTool – Jake Carlson, Purdue

TBD How to give the data management sales pitch to various audiences

See the website for more!

blogs.dmptool.org/webinar-series

Data Management Webinar Series

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