Doing It Your Way: Approaches to Research Data Management for Libraries April 29, 2014 NN/LM MAR Research Data Management Symposium The Rockefeller University, New York, NY

Agenda and Learning Objectives

Time Topics 9:30 – 9:45 AM Welcome 9:45 – 9:55 AM Intro to the Case Study

• gain an understanding of challenges surrounding data management in the research setting

• evaluate a “real-world” data management scenario and recommend appropriate services and resources

9:55 – 10:25 AM Best Practices: Data Collection & Organization • learn the importance of organizing data including directory structures, files

and file contents (datafiles) • learn best practices for file and variable naming and tracking their work • learn about strategies to organize research data and the importance of

version control, consistency, standards, and tools to help them

10:25 – 10:55 AM Documentation and Metadata • create a readme file and data documentation • describe application of metadata and where to find standards

10:55 – 11:10 AM Break

11:10 – 11:35 AM Backup/Storage/Security • describe issues and procedures related to data access, security, backup and

storage

11:35 AM – 12:05 PM Sharing/Preservation/Licensing • identify barriers to data management and sharing • describe appropriate repositories for data sharing

12:05 – 12:15 PM Closing the Case Study 12:15 – 12:35 PM Environmental Scan 12:35 – 12:45 PM Keeping Up with Data Management

• describe resources for current awareness including… • discover resources for additional data management including DMPTool, etc

etc

12:45 – 1:00 PM Wrap up

Doing It Your Way: Approaches to Research Data Management for Libraries NN/LM MAR Research Data Management Symposium http://guides.nnlm.gov/datamgmt2014

Using a Case Study to Teach Data Management to Librarians http://dx.doi.org/10.7910/DVN/29213

Sherry Lake, Research Data Services, University of Virginia Library Andrea Denton, Research and Data Services, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia

The  Case   Dietrich, Dianne (2012) "Biophysics - Cornell University," Data Curation Profiles Directory: Vol. 4, Article 2. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5703/1288284314999.

Worksheets  

Data  Collec*on  and  Organiza*on  

Use  consistent  data  

organiza*on  

Assign  descrip*ve  filenames  

Documenta*on  and  Metadata  

Define  the  contents  of  

your  data  files  

Provide  documenta*on  

Backup  Storage  Security  

Protect  your  data  

Protect  your  respondents  

Sharing  Preserva*on  Licensing  

Preserve  informa*on  

Share  your  research  

Addi0onal  Worksheets  Best Practices in Data Collection and Management Workshop

The  Workshop  •  Description: Second day of a two-day research data

management symposium •  Goal: To prepare librarians to teach faculty and graduate student

researchers about data management best practices •  Goal: To illustrate opportunities for library involvement in data

management •  Length: 3.5 hours •  Method: Case-based with hands-on activities •  Attendees: Academic librarians, hospital and medical librarians,

and special librarians

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Workshop  Ra0ng  

Workshop  Comments  •  Hands-on session with Andrea & Sherry was muy fabuloso. •  Most meaningful: hands-on training and future planning with

Lake & Horne Denton's workshop; the practical tips doing the case study; Getting a systematic approach to how libraries can present data management to their researchers.

•  Working through the case study and working in groups was very helpful.

•  I think we would have benefited from having more time to do the case study or if it was distributed at the end of the first day, people could review it before.

•  The case study was interesting-but seemed a little bit basic. •  The hands-on Tuesday session was VERY helpful. However, I

thought the example case was more bench science than clinical which leaves some unanswered questions about clinical data extraction, management, etc.