Electronic Data Center

Services Division Annual Report, 07/23/2013

Jennifer Doty, Rob O’Reilly, Michael Page

Mission StatementO The Electronic Data Center supports the use of

geospatial and quantitative data for both faculty and students and in both research and teaching. It furthers the academic mission of scholarly inquiry by assisting users with locating relevant data and with assembling those data into usable forms, thus allowing users to test and evaluation arguments and hypotheses and to move from the realm of the abstract and theoretical to the realm of the empirical. Reflecting the non-disciplinary nature of data, the Center assists researchers from departments and schools throughout the university.

Our Talisman

Highlights - GISO ATL Maps Projects:

City Directories1928-Vintage MapsGeocoder

O Field Work:St. Catherine’s IslandSamothrace

O Consultations

Highlights – Data Management

O Hire of Jennifer DotyO Fall 2012 SurveyO Presentations: RDAP and IASSISTO Curation Projects:

ICPSRDataVerse Network

O GA Tech Collaboration

“The future, Mr. Gittes! The future!!”

O Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS)

O Intent is to maintain existing services and support and develop new services to supplement what we already do

O Planning for the move up to Level 3 is underway

O & E E I E I O

Some rather big new things

Chris Pixelated Pollette

A Marketing Plan

Orientation 2012O Orientation – Pizza party/tours

O Pizza party all on one floor! Much better! Alas, no gluten free pizza.

O Orientation Leaders (i.e. other students) took their groups on tours of the library during orientation. We provided tour notes to make sure they highlighted the important (to us) things.

O Chaotic but good chaos.

Orientation, part deuxO Orientation Game for new students

GameO 10 tasks (photos)O Only 10 entries. O Potential reasons:

• time o’ year (in the first 2-3 weeks of semester when they are overwhelmed)

• prize?

PACE 2012Pre-Major Advising

Connections at EmoryFor the first time, the library was actually part of the PACE curriculum. Week 6 was a library exercise. We gave them a choice of 2 out of 3 activities.

PACE feedback

“The NYTimes exercise worked

well. Do more like that next time.”

Marketing Events/workshops

Today’s events chalkboard

New or newish workshops

O ETD submissionsO Copyright and your dissertationO Dissertation bootcamp

Study BreaksBring us your tired, your hungry, your huddled

masses outside the Jones Room door

An actual quote by an actual student

"Take a picture of me with the dog –--

I need to send this photo to my mom so she can

feel good about paying full tuition at Emory."

Ice cream April 30

12 gallons X 30 minutes

= 0

New PartnershipO ACE! (not to be confused with PACE,

FAME, DiSC, ECIT, ECDS, MODS, etc.)O Academics & Culture @ EmoryO Incoming First Year undergraduates can

take part in the ACE Program for International Students.  O 4-week program O prepare them for a successful adjustment

to the academic, social and cultural life at Emory and in Atlanta before the fall semester begins.

ACERS, FALL 2012

UpcomingO Interactive E-learning modulesO New PACE assignmentsO QEP and beyond!

New website! Aug 24