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Big Data, Small Schooldigital curation and the liberal arts university

Megan Toups & Michael HughesTrinity University

San Antonio, TX

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data (it's a metaphor)

the problem

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the solution

digital curation“the active and ongoing management of data through

its lifecycle of interest and usefulness to scholarship,

science, and education."iSchool, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

it involvesdata discovery

authentication

preservation

representation

management

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does size matter?

● faculty at small schools generate data;

those data are vulnerable to loss

● NSF requires Data Management Plans

● an opportunity to reframethe library

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adapt and thrive

● for Trinity, DC = DM + ?

○ adapting digital curation to local conditions

● data support services

 A peppered moth spotted in Longwood Gardens, PA

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Trinity's Approach

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Data Management Education

Data Management Plan (DMP) Help

Digital Commons as Data Repository

+ Other Projects

Data Support Services

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● Conduct FocusGroups withFaculty

● Design Service

● Train LiaisonLibrarians

Get the Ball Rolling: Build on Relationships

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First Semester Successes

Chemistry: NSF Data Management Plan

Biology: Confocal Microscopy data into the Digital

Commons (forthcoming)

Biology: Written into Hormone Database grant

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Growing Services

Train Liaisons

Reach Out

Educate Research Studentsand New Faculty

Let it Grow

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up, up and away

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a brief bibliography...

Trinity's Data Support Services page

http://libguides.trinity.edu/datasupportservices

DataONE Resourceshttps://www.dataone.org/resources

UK Data Archive's Create and Manage Data 

http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/create-manage

Research Data Curation Bibliography by Charles W. Bailey, Jr.http://digital-scholarship.org/rdcb/rdcb.htm

DMPTool

https://dmp.cdlib.org/

Introduction to Intellectual Property Rights in Data Managementhttps://confluence.cornell.edu/display/rdmsgweb/introduction-intellectual-property-rights-data-management

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photo credits...

slide 1:

Dknights411 (Flickr alias). "Trinity University (Texas)" (2005). http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trinity_University_(Texas).jpg

slide 2:Dalrymple, John. "Morpeth Flood" (2008). http://www.flickr.com/photos/johndal/2836131328

slide 4:Image marked for reuse on: Moi, Kuanyin. "Blog Tips: Does Your Blog Have theSnooze Factor?" Blog-Blond . 2 Apr. 2007. Web. 8 Feb. 2013.

slide 5:Paulus, Kristine. "Peppered Moth". (2011). http://www.flickr.com/photos/kpaulus/6003074163

slide 11:Lim, Eric. "Hot Air Balloons" (2009). http://www.flickr.com/photos/ericlbc/3422136029/