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ItemApplying the DART Rubric to Inform Georgia Tech RDM Service Development(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-06) Rolando, LizzyPanel Abstract: To provide research data management (RDM) support services, libraries need to develop expertise in data curation and management within the library. Many academic libraries are reorganizing to initiate RDM service structures, but may lack staff expertise in this area. Funding agencies increasingly require a data management plan (DMP) with funding proposals; they describe how data generated in the proposed work will be managed, preserved and shared. We have developed an analytic rubric for assessing DMPs. An analysis of DMPs can identify common gaps in researcher understanding of RDM principles and practices, and identify barriers for researchers in applying best practices. Our rubric allows librarians to utilize DMPs as a research tool that can inform decisions about which research data services they should provide. This tool enables librarians who may have no direct experience in applied research or RDM to become better informed about researchers' data practices and how library services can support them. This panel will consist of five data specialists from academic libraries who will introduce the rubric, share the results of our individual analyses, and describe how the results informed the evolution of services at our respective libraries.
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ItemBuilding on Common Ground: Exploring the Intersection of Archives and Data Curation(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-06) Rolando, Lizzy ; Hagenmaier, WendyResearch data management continues to emerge as a distinct information discipline with unique needs, policies and practices, but there are many ways in which it overlaps with the existing disciplines of records management and archives. Examining areas where policies, practices, and resources can be shared between them is increasingly valuable as the digital information universe becomes more complex. This session will examine those shared areas, highlighting efforts to engage with different information communities and programs. Kelly Chatain, Associate Archivist, University of Michigan, will present her work as an ‘embedded’ archivist within the Survey Research Center, focusing on records management tools and archiving principles used to facilitate a practical and cultural shift in the creation of data. Bethany Anderson, Visiting Archival Operations and Reference Specialist, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will discuss ways of integrating the work of academic archives and research data services to appraise, manage, and steward data. Research Data Librarian Lizzy Rolando will discuss Georgia Tech’s efforts to identify areas of convergence between the functional and policy requirements of a research data repository ecosystem and the requirements of a born-digital archives repository ecosystem.
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ItemBeyond Metadata: Leveraging the "README" to Support Disciplinary Documentation Needs(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014-04-28) Rolando, LizzyDespite widespread agreement about the importance of metadata to facilitate data sharing and reuse, academic institutions still grapple with questions about how to best support the broader documentation requirements of their researchers’ datasets. Libraries have traditionally been concerned with established metadata standards and the structured metadata in library catalogs and repository records. But as researchers’ practices evolve and library collections grow to incorporate more types of research outputs, the library’s view on metadata must evolve as well. In order to fully support the increasingly varied and discipline specific documentation methods employed by scholars in their research -- methods that are necessary to ensure their datasets can be found and used in the future -- libraries must first become familiar with these non-standard types of data documentation and consider how they can be leveraged to improve data sharing and reuse. This presentation was part of a panel that brought together librarians who have been working to support non-standard data documentation on their campuses, focusing specifically on an effort to study disciplinary metadata and documentation practices, in order to inform the development of discipline-specific README templates.
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ItemResearch Data Needs Assessment at Georgia Tech(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013-10-21) Rolando, Lizzy ; Parham, Susan Wells ; Doty, Chris ; Valk, AlisonFrom late 2010 through spring of 2013, Georgia Tech Library’s Research Data Project Team conducted a multi-faceted assessment of GT research data needs. In this program, we will discuss the four methodologies used in our data needs assessment. Each methodology served a different purpose, allowing us to collect different but complementary information. While our survey provided a broad overview of practices, individual interviews contributed to a more thorough and nuanced understanding of trends observed in the survey. By analyzing data management plans submitted alongside NSF proposals, we better understand how researchers expect to comply with funding agency requirements for data management and sharing. Finally, data archiving case studies prompted deep discussions with researchers about their data, as well as critical conversations within the Library about the types, formats, and volumes of data we can commit to preserving. This combination of methodologies and results informs our strategic goal to develop campus partnerships to collect, manage, share, and preserve Georgia Tech digital research data. While our assessment was conducted with a narrow scope of research data services, the methodologies employed can easily be adapted and used to study and assess other Library services.