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ItemReviewing Data Management Plans: Practical Experience for New Service Providers(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-10-12) Winchester, Stacy ; Sheffield, Megan ; Exner, Nina ; Parham, Susan WellsMany academic librarians begin their work in research data support by offering reviews of Data Management Plans (DMPs, also called Data Management and Sharing Plans/DMSPs), which are required components of many grant proposals. After a researcher drafts a DMP, they may want someone to review it, assess its fit with best practices, and give feedback. Reviewing DMPs means evaluating and offering advice for improvement. But how does a library get started with reviewing DMPs? This workshop is tailored for new data librarians and subject librarians starting in data, who want to provide a DMP or DMSP support toolbox. The panel portion will compare real-world practices on how to provide DMP reviews for existing drafts created by researchers in different institutional settings. Next, presenters will compare different approaches, such as contrasting the DART Rubric (“DMPs as A Research Tool”) for in-depth National Science Foundation (NSF) reviews versus the Caltech NSF checklist for fast reviews; discussing how FASEB’s NIH DMSP contest rubric differs from the DART rubric; and summarizing how funder notes in DMPTool can be used for reviewing DMPs from various funders. This discussion will help new DMP evaluators think about how the process might change, and not change, for different funders’ DMPs. Finally, everyone will have guided practice in using the DART rubric to evaluate a simple research proposal and sketch out feedback for improvements in the DMP. At the end, the whole class will be better prepared to evaluate DMPs and offer researcher feedback on how to improve their Plan to make their research data FAIR.
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ItemCustomizing DSpace: Developing Private Communities & Collections for Future Repository Integrations(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-06) Parham, Susan Wells ; Hagenmaier, Wendy ; Helms, ChrisIn this presentation, practitioners from the Georgia Tech Library will describe our collaboration with DSpace vendor Atmire to deploy code customization allowing greater granularity over access permissions to our unique digital content, and to merge two locally hosted DSpace instances. This collaboration arose from efforts at Georgia Tech to bridge the traditionally separate worlds of the institutional repository and archival digital collections by employing a loosely integrated ecosystem of DSpace, ArchivesSpace, Archivematica, and Vireo. A first step in this effort was to merge two locally hosted DSpace instances used for quite different purposes: our open access institutional repository and a dark archive of both unprocessed born-digital materials and preservation copies of digitized files. Because DSpace is inherently designed for providing open access to an institution’s intellectual output, we required code customization that would allow greater control over access to the restricted content migrated from our dark archive. We collaborated with Atmire to develop a phased deployment process that would allow Georgia Tech to maintain our local technical institutional knowledge and administrative control while employing Atmire’s specialized skill set in DSpace code customization and support. We will share lessons learned about the costs and benefits of this more complex deployment strategy.
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ItemBuilding a Collaborative Curation Framework: Working Towards Sustainable Digital Stewardship(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-11-02) Parham, Susan Wells ; Hagenmaier, Wendy ; Blewer, AshleyThis presentation will discuss lessons learned from an academic research library’s endeavor to reconsider curation work holistically – across siloed content types, processes, systems, and departments. Georgia Tech team members will explore insights from our efforts working with Artefactual Systems to reimagine and sustain digital stewardship work across existing organizational silos.
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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.
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ItemGALILEO Knowledge Repository (GKR) Metadata(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012-08-09) Carter, Andy ; Downey, Catherine Jannik ; Fay, Robin ; Givens, Marlee ; Parham, Susan WellsGKR metadata origins and guidelines, creating metadata in DSpace, training GKR partners and a list of disciplines.
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ItemIntroducing New Services with DSpace(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007-01-23) Parham, Susan Wells ; Woynowski, Kent ; Griffin, JulieThe Georgia Tech (GT) Library and Information Center established SMARTech (http://smartech.gatech.edu/), our DSpace Institutional Repository (IR) in August 2004. We envisioned an open access (OA) system of user-submitted scholarly faculty output, but shifted to a service-oriented focus which broadened the collecting scope of our IR and expanded our use of DSpace as a tool for providing publishing and preservation services to the GT community. Our first service was to submit faculty research ourselves, supply item level metadata, and review copyright. We decided adding more publishing services would make supplying content for SMARTech easier for faculty. We also decided it would be mutually beneficial to expand our use of DSpace to include new conference and journal publishing services (http://epage.gatech.edu) since faculty include publications, conference participation, and editorial positions in tenure and promotion packages. The new services would offer faculty a low-cost model for creating and maintaining conference web sites and OA journals, allowing them more time to focus on content rather than system support. We further expanded the use of DSpace as a backbone for our service-oriented programs by supplementing the intellectual output of GT with archival records of the Institute. We preserve electronic versions of traditionally print archival records in SMARTech and have begun integrating our digital preservation service into the workflow of various campus publishing units.Though SMARTech was considered by the Archives for digital manuscript preservation, the idea was negated by copyright and privacy restrictions. Archives established a closed instance because the preservation and organizational abilities of DSpace make the software ideal for managing digital archival collections. These expanded services will reinforce the position of SMARTech as a valuable service to the GT community.