scholarly journals Conceptualizing Data Curation Activities Within Two Academic Libraries

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophia Lafferty-Hess ◽  
Julie Rudder ◽  
Moira Downey ◽  
Susan Ivey ◽  
Jen Darragh
Keyword(s):  
Academic Library ◽  
White Paper ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Data Curation ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Library Community ◽  
Institute Staff ◽  
Duke University ◽  
Community Data ◽  
The University

A growing focus on sharing research data that meet certain standards, such as the FAIR guiding principles, has resulted in libraries increasingly developing and scaling up support for research data. As libraries consider what new data curation services they would like to provide as part of their repository programs, there are various questions that arise surrounding scalability, resource allocation, requisite expertise, and how to communicate these services to the research community. Data curation can involve a variety of tasks and activities. Some of these activities can be managed by systems, some require human intervention, and some require highly specialized domain or data type expertise. At the 2017 Triangle Research Libraries Network Institute, staff from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University used the 47 data curation activities identified by the Data Curation Network project to create conceptual groupings of data curation activities. The results of this “thought-exercise” are discussed in this white paper. The purpose of this exercise was to provide more specificity around data curation within our individual contexts as a method to consistently discuss our current service models, identify gaps we would like to fill, and determine what is currently out of scope. We hope to foster an open and productive discussion throughout the larger academic library community about how we prioritize data curation activities as we face growing demand and limited resources.

scholarly journals Constructing Data Curation Profiles

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 93-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Witt ◽  
Jacob Carlson ◽  
D. Scott Brandt ◽  
Melissa H. Cragin
Keyword(s):  
Academic Library ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Data Curation ◽  
Library Services ◽  
University Environment ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
Research Domains

This paper presents a brief literature review and then introduces the methods, design, and construction of the Data Curation Profile, an instrument that can be used to provide detailed information on particular data forms that might be curated by an academic library. These data forms are presented in the context of the related sub-disciplinary research area, and they provide the flow of the research process from which these data are generated. The profiles also represent the needs for data curation from the perspective of the data producers, using their own language. As such, they support the exploration of data curation across different research domains in real and practical terms. With the sponsorship of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, investigators from Purdue University and the University of Illinois interviewed 19 faculty subjects to identify needs for discovery, access, preservation, and reuse of their research data. For each subject, a profile was constructed that includes information about his or her general research, data forms and stages, value of data, data ingest, intellectual property, organization and description of data, tools, interoperability, impact and prestige, data management, and preservation. Each profile also presents a specific dataset supplied by the subject to serve as a concrete example. The Data Curation Profiles are being published to a public wiki for questions and discussion, and a blank template will be disseminated with guidelines for others to create and share their own profiles. This study was conducted primarily from the viewpoint of librarians interacting with faculty researchers; however, it is expected that these findings will complement a wide variety of data curation research and practice outside of librarianship and the university environment.

Research data stewardship at the University of Hong Kong

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
SiZhe Xiao ◽  
Tsz Yan Ng ◽  
Tao T. Yang
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Data Curation ◽  
Data Repository ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Data Infrastructure ◽  
Academic Communities ◽  
Data Stewardship ◽  
The University

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to look at the journey and experience of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) Research Data Management (RDM) practice to respond to the needs of researchers in an academic library.Design/methodology/approachThe research data services (RDS) practice is based on the FAIR data principle. And the authors designed the RDM Stewardship framework to implement the RDS step by step.FindingsThe HKU Libraries developed and implemented a set of RDS under a research data stewardship framework in response to the recent evolving research needs for RDM amongst the academic communities. The services cover policy and procedure settings for research data planning, research data infrastructure establishment, data curation services and provision of online resources and instructional guidelines.Originality/value This study provides an example of an approach to respond to the needs of the academic libraries about how to start the RDS including the data policy, data repository, data librarianship and data curation.

scholarly journals Research Librarians’ Experiences of Research Data Management Activities at an Academic Library in a Developing Country

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Johnson Masinde ◽  
Jing Chen ◽  
Daniel Wambiri ◽  
Angela Mumo
Keyword(s):  
Data Management ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Data Curation ◽  
Collaborative Partnerships ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
Model Framework ◽  
Technological Infrastructure ◽  
Research Data Management ◽  
And Training

Abstract University libraries have archaeologically augmented scientific research by collecting, organizing, maintaining, and availing research materials for access. Researchers reckon that with the expertise acquired from conventional cataloging, classification, and indexing coupled with that attained in the development, along with the maintenance of institutional repositories, it is only rational that libraries take a dominant and central role in research data management and further their capacity as curators. Accordingly, University libraries are expected to assemble capabilities, to manage and provide research data for sharing and reusing efficiently. This study examined research librarians’ experiences of RDM activities at the UON Library to recommend measures to enhance managing, sharing and reusing research data. The study was informed by the DCC Curation lifecycle model and the Community Capability Model Framework (CCMF) that enabled the Investigator to purposively capture qualitative data from a sample of 5 research librarians at the UON Library. The data was analysed thematically to generate themes that enabled the Investigator to address the research problem. Though the UON Library had policies on research data, quality assurance and intellectual property, study findings evidenced no explicit policies to guide each stage of data curation and capabilities. There were also inadequacies in skills and training capability, technological infrastructure and collaborative partnerships. Overall, RDM faced challenges in all the examined capabilities. These challenges limited the managing, sharing, and reusing of research data. The study recommends developing an RDM unit within the UON Library to oversee the implementation of RDM activities by assembling all the needed capabilities (policy guidelines, skills and training, technological infrastructure and collaborative partnerships) to support data curation activities and enable efficient managing, sharing and reusing research data.

scholarly journals Kildekompasset - å navigere seg frem til riktig referansestil

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilde Daland ◽  
Birgitte Kleivset ◽  
Patricia Flor ◽  
Siv Holt
Keyword(s):  
Reference System ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
White Paper ◽  
Web Resource ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
Huge Challenge

One of the main tasks of an academic library is to guide students in critical evaluation and the ethical use of sources so that they can interpret, evaluate and create information in a correct and proper way. This should be integrated into the subjects, which is a huge challenge. Many students are told that they can freely select the reference style as long as they are consistent. But it is difficult to be consistent when you barely know what a reference style is. It is not easy for the librarian to answer how one refers to a governmental white paper in a self-designed reference system. To do this in a simple way, it is desirable to share the task between academic tutors and the library.  The recommendation of a reference style should come from the subject department of a faculty and from the sample collections provided by the library. The libraries at the University of Agder (UoA) and Telemark University College (TUC) joined forces to create a survey in which various reference styles were listed, complete with examples. The respondents were asked to choose the style they preferred  and would advise their students to use.  The response rate among the academic staff at the TUC and the UoA was 40%. We consider this to be a representative sample. The purpose of the final web resource aims to be as simple as possible. Students who do not know what a reference style is, and students who do not know which style they should choose, are now guided to make a confident choice of style.

scholarly journals Building and Managing a Digital Collection in a Small Library

2009 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 88
Author(s):  
Wayne Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Digital Development ◽  
Digital Collection ◽  
Duke University ◽  
The University

The creation and management of digital library collections is a relatively new field of librarianship that nevertheless has produced a substantial literature. Because the development of digital information resources can be an expensive undertaking, it is not surprising that the institutional pioneers in digital development typically were large academic research libraries or federally funded agencies. As a result, librarians and information managers from such institutions have tended to dominate the professionaldiscourse on digitalization. At an April 2003 conference in Los Angeles presented by the Northeast Document Conservation Center, for example, the speakers were from Harvard University, Duke University, Cornell University, UCLA, the University of California–Berkeley, Columbia University, the Research Libraries Group, the National Archives and Records Administration,and the Library of Congress—hardly a representative cross-section of American libraries.1

scholarly journals Academic Library as the Space for the Development of Future Specialists’ Competence

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-30
Author(s):  
Laimute Kardeliene ◽  
Kęstutis Kardelis ◽  
Rima Bakutyte
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environments ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
First Year ◽  
Educational Impact ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Professional Qualification ◽  
The University ◽  
Flow Of Information

Abstract The article discloses the value of academic library. This value is deriving from the university purpose to prepare students to be able to deal with the increasing the flow of information in the society (Owusu - Ansah, 2001). Research was carried out in Utena University of applied science. First-year students (n = 140) made 48,3% of the sample, and third-year students (n = 150) - 51,7% of the investigated sample; males - 33,8% (n=98), and females - 66,2% (n=192). The conditions of academic library as student and future specialist empowered environment are validated: communicational, physical, pragmatic. The interpretation of research data disclosed that the academic library as learning environment and as environment which is empower the student to a professional qualification less or more improve future specialist professional, academically and as a personality. The future development of specialist competence effectiveness criteria can be considered as the nature of those experiences, which causes him to preparation for examinations and various settlements, preparation of projects and the search for the global academic community material created a topic of interest. The nature of experiences can reduce the educational impact of library. While improving learning environments are necessary to guide students with higher academic achievement and those who are spending more time in the library view.

From Our Own Correspondent… the Canadian Research Knowledge Network

2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-72 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Academic Library ◽  
Knowledge Network ◽  
Research Knowledge ◽  
Digital Resources ◽  
Library Community ◽  
University Of Manitoba ◽  
The University ◽  
Canadian Research

AbstractJohn Eaton from the University of Manitoba at Winnipeg, describes an important Canadian knowledge initiative within the academic library community relating to acquisition of digital resources.

scholarly journals Corporate Libraries: Bellwether of Change for the Library World at Large

2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
James M. Matarazzo ◽  
Toby Pearlstein
Keyword(s):  
Academic Library ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Academic Librarians ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Library Community ◽  
Cost Cutting ◽  
Physical Assets ◽  
The University

In this article, the authors argue that the lessons learned from the increasing closures of corporate li- braries that began in the 1980s can be applied to the wider library community. These closures have accelerated since the 1990s due to corporate cost cutting measures and the ever increasing availability of internet services that bypass the information professional. Above all, the authors argue that corporate librarians have often failed to align their services to the priorities of the companies they serve. This has resulted in their institutional marginalization and the eventual closure of the library. The authors make the case that, among other types of libraries, the sacrosanct place of the academic library at the center of the university is not guaranteed. The information era with its vast digital resources has and will under- mine the physical assets of traditional libraries as well as the customary role of librarians who staff them. Academic librarians will increasingly be expected to show administrators that their services are aligned to their institution’s strategic priorities and that their libraries are providing added value to its customers, namely, the students, faculty and staff of their college or university. If they do not do so, they very well may face, in the not so distant future, what may now seem unimaginable –the reduction or closure of the academic library in favor of customer-accessed digital information services. 

scholarly journals Getting the Central RDM Message Across: A Case Study of Central versus Discipline-Specific Research Data Services (RDS) at the University of Cambridge

Libri ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-116
Author(s):  
Clair Castle
Keyword(s):  
Academic Library ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Descriptive Case Study ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Mixed Approach ◽  
The University

Abstract RDS are usually cross-disciplinary, centralised services, which are increasingly provided at a university by the academic library and in collaboration with other RDM stakeholders, such as the Research Office. At research-intensive universities, research data is generated in a wide range of disciplines and sub-disciplines. This paper will discuss how providing discipline-specific RDM support is approached by such universities and academic libraries, and the advantages and disadvantages of these central and discipline-specific approaches. A descriptive case study on the author’s experiences of collaborating with a central RDS at the University of Cambridge, as a subject librarian embedded in an academic department, is a major component of this paper. The case study describes how centralised RDM services offered by the Office of Scholarly Communication (OSC) have been adapted to meet discipline-specific needs in the Department of Chemistry. It will introduce the department and the OSC, and describe the author’s role in delivering RDM training, as well as the Data Champions programme, and their membership of the RDM Project Group. It will describe the outcomes of this collaboration for the Department of Chemistry, and for the centralised service. Centralised and discipline-specific approaches to RDS provision have their own advantages and disadvantages. Supporting the discipline-specific RDM needs of researchers is proving particularly challenging for universities to address sustainably: it requires adequate financial resources and staff skilled (or re-skilled) in RDM. A mixed approach is the most desirable, cost-effective way of providing RDS, but this still has constraints.

scholarly journals The Academic Library as a Gateway to the Internet: An Analysis of the Extent and Nature of Search Engine Access from Academic Library Home Pages

2004 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 276-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol A. Wright
Keyword(s):  
Search Engine ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Evaluation Criteria ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Home Pages ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Association Of Research Libraries ◽  
Study Results ◽  
The University

Academic libraries have the opportunity through their Web pages to present to the university community recommended sites and appropriate techniques for searching the Internet. But in the design and organization of home pages, academic libraries often provide inadequate navigational paths to sites that provide search engine selection and evaluation criteria. The author conducted a study of the home pages of 114 academic libraries that belong to the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) to determine their paths to Internet search engines. This paper presents the study results and makes recommendations for improvement.

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