RDAP14: Data discovery and access through metadata brokering
RDAP14: Data on a dime, building data services at James Madison University
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Yasmeen Shorish, Physical and Life Sciences Librarian
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Research Data Access and Preservation Summit, 2014 San Diego, CA
Transcript of RDAP14: Data on a dime, building data services at James Madison University
Yasmeen Shorish, Physical and Life Sciences Librarian
19,927 students, 91% undergraduate
940 FT faculty
Active grant-seeking; 65% funding success rate
Over 60% of funding is federal (FY13)
Focus on undergraduate research
Identify the need
Evaluate resources
Build services
Plans to grow (?)
2011: Faculty request guidance on NSF
DMP requirement
Faculty reach out to numerous entities
without any cohesive direction
Everyone wants boilerplate language
What do we already have?
Campus partners recognized the need and wanted to help
Relative small size made it possible to get all parties
in one room
Despite willingness, no immediate ability to build
infrastructure; no additional personnel or time to build
web services – beyond a LibGuide – to guide faculty
What do we already have?
Where there is a will, there’s a way
Professional organizations
Good neighbors
Presented DMP Tool to administration
Became a contributing institution in early
2012
Prompted additional conversations around
data as a scholarly product
Leveraged hosting ACRL Scholarly
Communication Roadshow
Created a Scholarly Communication
Taskforce
Cross-campus responses positioned the
library to request additional resources
Hired a Digital Collections Librarian and a
Metadata Librarian
Developing an institutional repository
Why the question mark?
Increase infrastructure: data policy
document
Investigate where we can go from here:
Room to add more curatorial efforts
Additional personnel
Identify the need
Evaluate resources
Build services
Plans to grow (?)
