Curtin Library Rocking the (meta)data

Peter Green

Presentation Roadmap

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• Outline of the Project • The Role of the Library • Library skillsets • Software • Mainstreaming by the Library

The Project

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• ANDS Major Open Data Collection Project

• https://projects.ands.org.au/id/MODC25

The Rocks

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• Mineral rock samples from the Geological Survey of Western Australia (GSWA)

Physical samples

• http://hdl.handle.net/10273/IECUR0002

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The Scanner

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Panorama

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Research Data Management

• Current system

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Data stored, shared and reusable

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Metadata managed, shared and discoverable

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Major Open Data Collection

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• Made the data open • Made the data discoverable • Metadata is the key to discovery

The Metadata

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The Metadata

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The Metadata

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The Metadata

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The Project Output

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• Data is produced, stored and open • Data is described • Data is discoverable

The Role of the Library

Curtin Library Rocking the (meta)data – Peter Green Curtin University is a trademark of Curtin University of Technology CRICOS Provider code 00301J

• Project Management • Communication and team work • Skills in cataloguing and complex data • Understanding of Discovery • Metadata Hub • Metadata Control • Long term view

(new) Library Skillsets

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• Apply old skills to new domain • Data Management and Data Publication • Linked data and RIF-CS • Geoscientific data

Software solutions

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• Library deployed ReDBox as metadata hub – Linked to ANDS Research Data Australia – Linked to ANDS Cite My Data

• Bika as LIMS • Web server for data access

Mainstreaming for Library

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• Metadata Hub in place • Data publishing as a service • Librarians upskilled • Great Research Data Scavenger Hunt

Questions

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