Research Data Management Services at the MIT Libraries
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Research Data Management Services at the MIT Libraries
Amy StoutASEE
June 2011
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As science changes…
So do science libraries
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Don’t panic!
You have the skills you need
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Try new things…
Just call them “pilots”
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Science changes the tools…
And the tools change science.
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Our ability to produce data has outpaced
Our ability to organize and store it.
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As science changes…
So do science libraries.
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What can librarians do to support the new trends in science?
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Learn as much as possibleabout departmental research
And the data deluge
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Translate what libraries do…
Into data management services for researchers
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What are our strengths?
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We respond with agility to rapidly changing environments
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We understand the fields we support
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We know how to organize information
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We know how to make information accessible
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We know how to preserve information
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From Science, May 23, 2011
“A data archivist would be a mix of librarian, IT expert and physicist, with the computing skills to keep porting data to new formats but savvy enough about the physics to be able to crosscheck old results on new computer systems.”
-- Rescue of Old Data Offers Lesson for Particle Physicists
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How much physics do you need to know?
The original team of Google translation experts who won accolades for their excellent software that could translate Chinese and Arabic consisted of NOT ONE Chinese or Arabic speaker. – from The Most Human Human
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What data management services can librarians provide?
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Inform researchers of data issues that may impact them
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Provide guidance on how to organize, store and preserve data
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Offer solutions to data management problems
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How did the MIT Libraries get started in this area?
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Study group started in 2006
Broadened our membership in 2008
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Services we offer our research community
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http://libraries.mit.edu/data-management
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Managing Research Data 101
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Bioinformatics for Beginners
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One-on-one consulting
• Format migration• Answering questions• Writing data management plans
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The NSF Data Management Plan requirement
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Radish
http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/62236
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How to handle non-MIT contributors?
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Esoteric file formats
A preservation conundrum
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Open-source software
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Multiple file/zip file issues
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Inconsistent metadata
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Esoteric information – not for the layperson!
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Future directions
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Creating data profiles of individual researchers
And data audits of whole departments
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Developing a service model for assisting researchers in the lab
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Outreach to liaison librarians
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Support more projectsfor DSpace@MIT
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Remember…
• As science changes, so do science libraries• Don’t panic! You have the skills you need• Try new things… just call them “pilots”