Transcript The RUresearch Data Portal: Providing Customized Access for Specific Types of Data and Primary Users Mary Beth Weber Head, Central Technical Services Rutgers University Libraries.

The RUresearch Data Portal: Providing
Customized Access for Specific Types of
Data and Primary Users
Mary Beth Weber
Head, Central Technical Services
Rutgers University Libraries
NSF Data Management Plan
• On January 18, 2011, the NSF stipulated that proposals
submitted for consideration are required to include a
supplementary document labeled "Data Management Plan"
(DMP) describing how the proposal will conform to NSF’s
policy on dissemination and sharing of research results.
• Proposals lacking a DMP won’t be considered.
• See the NSF Grant Proposal Guide, Chapter II.C.2.j and
Data Management and Sharing FAQ for more
information.
RUcore
• RUcore = Rutgers University Community Repository
• Three collections: digital collections, research material,
scholarly works
• Contains 19,000+ objects
• Collections include ETDs, historic maps, grant supported
projects (New Jersey Digital Highway, Video Mosaic
Collaborative)
• Special services such as faculty deposit, custom portals,
online submissions of ETDs
• Uses Fedora Commons repository architecture
• Workflow Management System (WMS) used for object
handling and metadata
Faculty
research data
portal
Content
divided into
3 collections
RUcore:
http://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/
http://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/research/
RUresearch Services
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Free assistance and advice
Customized search and retrieval portal
Ongoing management and support for data
Fee structure (if applicable)
Robust preservation
Metadata
Access control
Associated information
Assistance and Advice
• Design a data strategy and prepare the data management
component of a grant proposal.
• Identify the data model: What data is being captured and how
does it interact with other data in the researcher’s
environment?
• Design a metadata strategy to best describe data to ensure
colleagues and those in related disciplines can find and
re-use data.
• Make data discoverable: RUcore offers a custom search
portal that can easily be incorporated into a project website
Customized Search and Retrieval Portal
• RUcore portal application enables researchers to select
metadata elements to filter searches and display in search
results.
• Search and retrieval portal easily incorporated into project
websites using iFrames technology or Drupal.
• The Equine Science Center Portal and the Video Mosaic
Collaborative are examples of custom portals.
Ongoing Management and Support for Data
• Long-term sustainability of data deposited in RUcore.
• Dedicated team engaged in support of RUcore.
• RUcore team has contributed significant open source
software to the profession including Open ETD and Open
WMS.
Robust Preservation
• Data Curation Research Center and a full-time Data Curator.
• Industry best practices for digital file preservation (multiple
backups and restoration); persistent identifiers (handles) that
use metadata to continuously locate files; storage of files in
multiple formats; use one or more vendor independent nonproprietary canonical formats when possible; original file
format is always maintained.
• Excel and CSV are the most commonly used formats for data.
• Investigating XML and RDF for web-based canonical formats.
• Community specific data standards such as DDI for social
science and survey data may be used as needed.
Metadata
• Hybrid metadata schema that draws on MODS, Premise and
local standards.
• Ability to display and export records in different standards,
including those used by a given research community (DDI,
Darwin Core, PBCore, etc.).
• Design customized metadata specific to a given project’s
needs.
Metadata (continued)
Access Control
• Rights statement explaining how others may use a given
researcher’s work.
• Can provide an embargo period for data for a specified time
period. Embargo note will indicate that data currently isn’t
available.
Associated Information
• Data that’s collected and shared with others (grant proposals
and methodology, lab or experiment notes, images, video,
etc.) during the research process.
• Capturing can be more complex than storing and providing
access to data itself.
Research Data Lifecycle
• Build relationships between data objects within the repository
architecture. Fedora open source repository architecture
creates a compound object that pulls together data and
associated information.
• Capture associated objects in digital form and store in the
repository as part of the compound digital object package.
They’re preserved with the data.
• Provide context by organizing associated objects and making
them available in a meaningful way. Rights metadata and
events in the life cycle of an object are used to document the
“who, what, where, when and why” of context about research
and its supplementary materials.
Research Data Lifecycle
PROJECT
Associated
objects:
Design
documents;
Grant proposal;
Hypothesis;
Methodology;
Grant award;
IRB protocol;
Experiment
Data
Collection
Hierarchy
Associated
objects:
Field notes
Lab notes
Data corrections
Instrument
calibrations
Trial
Data
Associated objects:
Code book
Software
Article, dissertation,
etc.
Analysis
Publication
RUcore metadata uses an event based metadata to track various events in
the lifecycle of an object.
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Each lifecycle event is situated in a specific time and place.
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Events can be displayed in portals
• No limit to the number and type of events that can be added.
Data-centric View of Events
Custom Portals
• Offer customized searching that’s configurable, easy to use, tailored
to an expert user group, and available to a lay audience through
RUcore.
• Equine Science Center
• Video Mosaic Collaborative provides access to videos to support
teaching and research.
Equine Science Center
Customized
searching based on
data
http://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/portals/equine/
Search on “draft crosses” produces 31 results
Choice of video
formats
Ability to view
complete
metadata record
Complete metadata record has four parts: descriptive, source,
technical, rights.
Descriptive metadata
Source metadata
Rights metadata
Technical metadata
Customized
search terms
based on data
http://videomosaic.org/
Search on the term “pizza”
produces a results set. Videos
are accompanied by transcripts
and other associated objects.
Transcript that accompanies VMC video
Student work that accompanies VMC video
Analytic that accompanies VMC video
What is an Analytic?
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Single resource constructed of a series of events constructed by the
researcher
Provide connections between disparate resources along one or
many threads of research in ways that might have never been
conceived.
RUcore Analytic Tool
• An annotation tool that enables a researcher to structure a
video into meaningful events that can be analyzed using a
structured conceptual taxonomy and through free-text
annotations. Multiple analytic events, across one or more
videos, can be combined to create units.
RUcore analytic tool
http://videomosaic.org/viewAnalytic?pid=rutgers-lib:35294
Ability to share videos using various
social media.
Additional Resources
• Data news: RutgersData
http://rutgersdata.wordpress.com
• LibGuide: http://libguides.rutgers.edu/data
• Data Management:
http://libguides.rutgers.edu/datamanagement