Supporting the Research Data Life Cycle

Columbia Research Data Symposium

Supporting the Research Data Life Cycle

Joan Starr@joan_starr

University of California Curation CenterCalifornia Digital Library


Partnership between CDL | 10 UC campuses | Peer institutions

Provide solutions, services, resources for digital assets

Pool & distribute diverse experience, expertise, & resources


A life cycle approach

Create, edit, share, and save data management plans

Curation repository: store, manage, and share research data

Open source add-in & Web app for Microsoft Excel as a data collection tool

Create and manage long-term identifiers

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Open Access publishing services / dynamic research platform

Collect, manage, preserve and publish websites and documents

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Data Curation for Practitioners Workshop

DMPTool

• Connect researchers to resources to create a data management plan

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

• 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

Data Curation for Practitioners Workshop

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DMP Tool: https://dmp.cdlib.org/


• Precise identification of a dataset (DOI or ARK)

• Credit to data producers and data publishers

• A link from the traditional literature to the data

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

Primary Functions1. Create long term identifiers

2. Manage identifiers (and associated metadata) over time

3. Resolve identifiers

EZIDLong term identifiers made easy

@ezidCDL


EZID in actionEZID: http://n2t.net/ezid


EZID: http://n2t.net/ezid

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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


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PhD grad stud

postdoc Masters sci

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Researchers: How Frequently Do You Use Excel?

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Carly Strasser, CDL

DataUp: http://dataup.cdlib.org/


• ARCHIVE institution websites• BUILD collections for research• CAPTURE political and social events• SAVE at-risk government websites

Primary Functions

1. Capture

2. Manage

3. Preserve

4. Publish

Web Archiving Service (WAS)


54 public archives

120+ archives total

7,500+ sites

50+ TB

23 institutions

WAS Snapshot

WAS: http://webarchives.cdlib.org/



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For more information

UC3 Data Management Planning Resourceshttp://www.cdlib.org/services/uc3/dmp/index.html

Twitter: @ezidCDL and @DataUpCDLEmail: [email protected]; [email protected]

How to find me:Twitter: @joan_starrEmail: [email protected]

Documents

Supporting the Research Data Life Cycle