Internet Librarian – Day 3: Repositories, a library opportunity
Posted: October 25, 2006 Filed under: conferences/events, il2006 1 CommentRepositories & The Impact on Digital Librarians
D. Scott Brandt
D. Scott Brandt talked about getting into the research network at the university. Brandt was pointing to a new library initative at Purdue to involve libraries earlier during the research process. It’s not about managing finished, publishable objects; we need to insert ourselves in the data management, access and preservation needs when the research is happening in the lab. I like the sound of that.
Notes from the presentation:
The story of how Purdue Libraries got into repository initative?
Need for approaches, protocols and systems to store all of our natiaonl data
New dean, new directions – collect, organize describe, curate – for university community
“Librarians as participants – putting libraries salaries on grants for limited times”
-librarian does work or is project manager
Library faculty are better integrated into campus research agenda
How to foster interdisciplinary collaboration?
Researchers have data management needs
– seek researchers who undrstood that collecting and organizing and providing access to data
could make grant need stronger
Initial Questions:
Do researchers have data discovery management and organization needs?
Can library science solve some of these problems
Data related faculty needs they found:
- not sure how to share data
- lack of time organize data sets
- help describing data
- want to find new ways to manage data
- need help archiving datasets/collections
Departments served – Ag, Chem Eng, Biology
Brandt used the onstar car data example
Collaboration: crucial to research
– different aspects of dealing with data = library opportunity
Agronomy example:
1. working with simple data generation model, determine data/metadata workflow
2. libraries role is helping data producers
Chem Engr – discovery informatics
1. investigation of small science data needs
2. issues of what gets shared, when and how
3. libraries role is developing dataset ontologies – utilitzing language of electronic notebooks to define, navigate throughout research process
Library roles:
- metadata creation
- providing access
- providing preservation
- consult on ontologies and vocabularies
scholarly communication – data analysis
- published data/datasets
- unpublished research
- published research (non-traditional)
- published research traditional
- secondary tertiary resources
Libraries are being invited into the levels of development before these top 5 peieces of scholarly communication are finished
– actually participating during research and development – COOL STUFF
Data Curation Matrix – Johns Hopkins, looking at 5 types of scholarly communication and the opportunities across disciplines
Repository as a research platform
– focus on active verbs: access, preserve
– Distributed Institutional Repository
Going forward – new role for librarians
– serve as “bridge” between researchers and libraries
– library data research sceintist
Purdue e-Scholar library
http://e-scholar.lib.purdue.edu
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