Libraries as Partners in Research: the UC Curation Center’s Tools and Services

UC3 TeamUniversity of California Curation Center

California Digital Library

A changing data intensive landscape

• Ever increasing number, size, and diversity of content

• Ever increasing diversity of partners, and stakeholders

• Decreasing resources• Inevitability of disruptive change– Technology– Institutional mission

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What keeps users up at night?

What are “metadata”?

Who owns my data?

How much will it cost?

Why should I care about preservation? I just need a place to

put my data.Are data

included in open access?

How can I share my work with my colleagues?

How can I publish the data associated with

my publications?

How do I fulfill the data management requirements of my

grant?

How can I make sure I get credit ?

Can’t my work be included in the

Web of Science?

How can I provide access to my

work?

Challenge for Researchers

Role of libraries

apply library knowledge and expertise to data challenges: manage, organize, describe, disseminate, preserve information

• Neutral service provider: work across the entire institution

• Intellectual Property experts: dealt with copyright, can translate to data

• Ability to advise on preserving research outputs

• Knowledge to advise on data management and curation

• Knowledge on complying with funder mandates, including open access

Resulting service landscape

Create, edit, share, and save data management plans

Curation repository: store, manage, preserve, and share research data

Create and manage persistent identifiers

A service to collect, manage and preserve Web-published content

Create, share, archive, publish tabular data

Open Access publishing services / dynamic research platform

DMPTool

• Connect researchers to resources to create a data management plan

• NSF and directorates, NIH, NEH, IMLS, foundations plus

• Customizable

Meeting funding agencies data management plan requirements

Primary Functions

1. Step-by-step “wizard”

2. Templates and examples

3. Links to institutional resources and agency information

4. Plan publication and sharing

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Create, share, archive, connect, publish data

Primary Functions1. An Excel 1) add-in and 2) cloud

application2. Document data3. Check for good data practices3. Obtain identifier and citation4. Archive and share

EZID: Long term identifiers made easy• Precise identification of a dataset

(DOI or ARK)• Credit to data producers and

data publishers• A link from the traditional

literature to the data (DataCite)• Exposure and research metrics

for datasets(Web of Knowledge, Google)

Primary Functions1. Create persistent identifiers2. Manage identifiers (and associated

metadata) over time3. Resolve identifiers

Merritt Repository• Curation repository open to the UC

community and beyond

• Discipline / content agnostic

• New kind of cost model: pay as you go or pay once and store for X

Primary Functions

1. Deposit

2. Manage (metadata, versions, etc)

3. Access (expose)

4. Share (with other researchers)

5. Preserve

Merritt’s Diverse Service Offering: Meeting Campus Needs

• Dark archive for important digital assets

• Bright archive with direct discovery and access

• Preservation back-end for existing or new discovery and content management systems

• Integration with distributed data grids

http://datashare.ucsf.edu

Archive or publish:- Working papers- Published materials- Scholarly journals- Books / Monographs- Data publications- Multimedia- Conference Proceedings

eScholarship provides Open-Access scholarly publishing services to the University of California and delivers a dynamic research platform to scholars worldwide.

eScholarship provides tools to support new modes of scholarly publication, including:- Collection management

system for showcasing your department or unit’s scholarly output

- Comprehensive peer review and editorial workflow management system

- Print on Demand (POD) preparation

- EZID / Merritt integration for datasets

All content in eScholarship is:- Preserved in Merritt- Indexed in Google, Google

Scholar and Melvyl- Freely available to the world- Tracked to provide detailed

usage information

Web Archiving Service (WAS)

• ARCHIVE institution websites• BUILD collections for research• CAPTURE political and social events• SAVE at-risk government websites

Primary Functions

1. Capture

2. Manage

3. Preserve

4. Publish

For more informationUC Curation Centerhttp://www.cdlib.org/uc3uc3@ucop.eduStephen Abrams Mark ReyesPatricia Cruse Abhishek SalveScott Fisher Joan StarrErik HetznerRosalie LackGreg Janée Carly StrasserJohn Kunze Marisa StrongMargaret Low Adrian TurnerDavid Loy Perry Willett