DATA INTERVIEW WHAT IS IT AND HOW DO YOU DO IT?JULIE GOLDMAN 2014

Midterm Projectdevelop and use a data interview tool to complete a data interview with a researcher

document the research project, data practices, needs, and challenges

write a data management plan based off these interviews and your research into tools and resources that could support this project

present your interview tool, results and the data management plan to the class in a maximum 20-minute presentation

describe the researcher's day-to-day routine and discuss their data management practices

What is a Data Interview?librarian interviews a researcher to draw out information in order to construct a data management plan (DMP)

questions should focus on the data story, purpose, and life span

address the components of the simplified data management plan

goal is to acquire as much information as possible from the researcher so that the librarian can begin to implement a management plan or data curation

Data Life Cycle

Interview ToolsDCC: Digital Curation Center

DMPonline

DMPTool

Johns Hopkins University Data Management Plan

Purdue Data Information Literacy Interview Instruments

University of Virginia Data Interview Initiative

Who to Interview?

you are accountable for identifying and arranging an interview with a researcher

the interview should be about 30 minutes long

we can help you identify a researcher

think about your personal connections!

OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

PROJECT NAME

DATE PLACEFALL 2013

USING ZEBRAFISH AS A MODEL SYSTEM FOR STUDYING MOTOR AXON GUIDANCE & MOTONEURON DISEASE

CHRISTINE BEATTIE LABNEUROSCIENCE GRADUATE STUDIES PROGRAM

Interview Instrument

(unasked question)

→ follow-up question

Overview:

1. As a research focused university what kind of NIH grant do you have?

2. What other funding sources do you have?

3. How long has this research project been going on?

4. What is the overarching purpose of this research?

Research Process:

5. What is your role in the research process?

6. (What kinds of experiments are you doing with the zebrafish?)

7. Who else works on this project?

Data:

8. (What types of data products are being produced?)

9. What file formats are your data produced in?

10. (How is data analyzed?)

→ You have a lot of digital files being created, what file formats are those generated in?

→ Is there non-digital data?

Organization:

11. How is the data managed?

12. Does your lab have naming conventions for files/data?

Storage:

13. Where and how long is (everything) data and notebooks stored?

14. What kind of backup and security protocols does your lab have?

Sharing:

15. What is shared publicly and with the neuroscience community?

16. (Who is allowed access to the data?)

Access:

17. Are there security concerns within the lab?

18. Who owns and is responsible for the research data?

My Interview Instrument

research on researcher’s lab

NECDMC: research cases

Johns Hopkins University Data Management Plan template

Interview Tipsuse existing knowledge and similar case studies

do research on your researcher and their research

develop questions based on:

the what: science

the how: research process

the where: school or location

use follow-up questions during the interview

Follow Up

still have questions?

email!

have a good working relationship with them?

set-up another meeting!

My Data Management Plan

DMP Tips

topics discussed in class

the data story researcher describes

use the 7 Modules for Managing Research Data

focus on the main issues of the research project

ex: data storage, backup, preservation

End Product: Interview Instrument

instrument is semi-structured

questions covering all stages of the researcher’s project life cycle

data management planning

practices before project begins

during data collection

after the project

questions combine model and self created questions based on the researcher’s project

End Product: DMP

data management plan is two pages

provides a resource, plan, or recommendation for each of the questions covered in the interview instrument

covers the management of the project’s data over its entire life cycle

End Product: Presentation

present your interview tool, results and the data management plan

describe the researcher's day-to-day routine and discuss their data management practices

20-minutes

QUESTIONS?REMEMBER… THIS IS ALL ON THE WEBSITE