"Undergrad ecologists aren't learning data management" - ESA 2013
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The Fractured Lab Notebook Undergraduates are not learning ecological data management at top US institutions Carly Strasser | @carlystrasser California Digital Library & Stephanie Hampton National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis ESA 2013
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Presentation for Ecological Society of America 2013 Meeting in Minneapolis, MN on 6 August 2013. Results published in Ecosphere doi: 10.1890/ES12-00139.1
Transcript of "Undergrad ecologists aren't learning data management" - ESA 2013
The Fractured Lab Notebook
Undergraduates are not learning ecological data management at top US institutions
Carly Strasser | @carlystrasser California Digital Library
& Stephanie Hampton National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis
ESA 2013
Why don’t people share data?
Is data management being taught? Do attitudes about
sharing differ among disciplines?
What role can libraries play in data education?
How can we promote storing data in repositories?
What barriers to sharing can we eliminate?
NSF funded DataNet Project Office of Cyberinfrastructure
Back in the day…
Da Vinci
Curie
Newton
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Darwin
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Digital data +
Complex workflows
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Data management Documentation Reproducibility
THE TRUTH
Data management Metadata Data repositories Sharing data publicly
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• Cost • Confusion about standards
• Lack of training • Fear of lost rights or benefits
• No incentives
Are ecologists
Are ecology grad students
Are soon-‐to-‐be ecology grad students
learning about data management?
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~5,000
Research Universities
Graduate Research Fellowships 2006-‐2010 recipients for life sciences
Baccalaureate/Arts & Sciences Institutions
Amherst College Bowdoin College Brown University Carleton College Colorado College Colorado State University Columbia University Cornell University Dartmouth College Duke University Emory University Evergreen State College Grinnell College Harvard University Indiana University
(Bloomington) Lewis and Clark College Michigan State University Middlebury College Oberlin College Oregon State University
Princeton University Purdue University Rice University San Diego State University Stanford University Swarthmore College University of Arizona UC Berkeley UC Davis UC Irvine UC Riverside UC Santa Barbara UC Santa Cruz University of Chicago University of Colorado University of Florida University of Georgia University of Idaho University of Illinois
Urbana-‐Champaign University of Kansas
University of Maryland University of Michigan University of Minnesota University of Montana University of New Mexico University of Southern California University of Texas Austin Utah State University Washington University in St. Louis
Williams College Yale University
Research University
BAS Institution
Asked ecology
instructors:
Institution? Program? Course? Lab?
Students? You?
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BAS RU
Not science
1-‐2 yr science
3-‐4 yr science
grad Student Makeup
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Notebook required
NB assessed for DM
Data Used Workflow assessed
BAS RU
Course Characteristics
Quality control and quality assurance The proper way to name computer files Types of files and software to use Metadata generation Protecting data Databases and data archiving Data re-‐use Meta-‐analysis Data sharing Reproducibility Notebook protocols (lab or field) Workflows
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How Important Is It?
Not at all
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% Courses that cover
topic
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Why Not?
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Time
Not appropriate
Covered in lab
Students not prepared
Funding
Class too big
Instructor not prepared
Covered elsewhere
Solutions?
Make time
Teach thyself
Use tools
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1. Maximize free public access 2. Ensure researchers create data
management plans 3. Allow costs for data preservation and
access in proposal budgets 4. Ensure evaluation of data management
plan merits 5. Ensure researchers comply with their data
management plans 6. Promote data deposition into public
repositories 7. Develop approaches for identification and
attribution of datasets 8. Educate folks about data stewardship
datapub.cdlib.org Teach Thyself
DCXL blog: dcxl.cdlib.org carlystrasser.net dataone.org
Teach Thyself
Step-‐by-‐step wizard for generating DMP
Create | edit | re-‐use | share | save | generate
Open to community
dmptool.org Use Tools
• Data Education Tutorials • Database of best practices &
software tools • Primer on data management • Investigator Toolkit
www.dataone.org Use Tools
• Best practices check • Create metadata • Get identifier • Post to repository
dataup.cdlib.org Use Tools
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