Transcript How will repository and subject librarians roles interact to support data management? evidence from UK institutions Angus Whyte Sarah Jones, Marieke Guy Digital Curation Centre [email protected] Institutional.

How will repository and subject librarians
roles interact to support data management?
evidence from UK institutions
Angus Whyte
Sarah Jones, Marieke Guy
Digital Curation Centre
[email protected]
Institutional Repositories Dealing with Data
OR2013 Workshop
8 July 2013, Prince Edward Island
Aims
1.
Outline UK programmes to help Higher Education
Institutions develop RDM services
2.
Background on the Digital Curation Centre
DCC role in developing services
Share examples
and lessons
1.
Outline emerging RDM services
Our view of what they are
Recent surveys on library plans & priorities
What gaps and
challenges?
2.
Examples in ‘new’ universities
Repository manager & subject librarian roles
Digital Curation Centre
• Est. 2004, Jisc funded partnership across 3
universities - Bath, Edinburgh and Glasgow
• Digital curation challenges across institutions and
disciplines
• HEFCE funding from 2011 for targeted support to
help institutions build capacity and capability in
managing research data
Institutional engagement programme
21 Degree
awarding
Russell
Group
7 e.g. St
Andrews
Pre-1992
13 e.g.
Surrey
Post-1992
4 e.g. Oxford
Brookes
England, Wales, Scotland, N. Ireland
Research
intensive
JISC Managing Research Data
• 25 x Infrastructure projects 2009-13
• DCC input - tool provision and
support for events
• Help extract, amplify and transfer
programme outputs across sector
• E.g. How-to guides, case studies
RDM Development Process
Envision
Initiate
Discover
Design
Implement
Evaluate
But its non-linear really!
…cycles of negotiation and compromise towards ‘continuous improvement’
RDM Development Process
Envision
Initiate
Discover
Design
DCC Advocacy, policy development
Implement
Evaluate
RDM Development Process
Envision
Initiate
Discover
Design
Implement
Evaluate
DCC Readiness, requirements and risk assessment
CARDIO – Collaborative Assessment of Research Data Infrastructure and Objectives
DAF – Data Asset Framework
Emerging Services – DCC/MRD
Emerging Services – Library Surveys
221 institutions US and Canada
(of which 99 universities)
Academic Libraries and Research
Data Services: Current practices and
plans for the future
Carol Tenopir, Ben Birch, Suzie Allard
University of Tennessee
Assoc. College & Research Libraries,
June 2012
Emerging Services - Surveys
81 UK higher education institutions
Research data management and
libraries: Current activities and
future priorities
Andrew Cox and Stephen Pinfield
Information School, University of
Sheffield
Journal of Librarianship and
Information Science June 28, 2013
Emerging Services – Comparison*
% current (plan)
US, Ca
UK
Policy/ advocacy
-
51 (61)
Online guidance
25 (46)
24 (52)
DMP support
26 (28)
25 (46)
Early career awareness
-
32 (43)
Reference – find, use, cite
49 (33)
42 (57)
Impact tracking
-
11 (28)
RDM advocacy, consultancy
-
28 (26)
Outreach RDS providers
16 (30)
-
Direct participation
27 (24)
-
Data transformation
16 (33)
12 (36)
IPR, copyright, licensing
-
33 (46)
Data appraisal/ selection
17 (38)
-
Preparing data for deposit
15 (33)
-
Data catalogue, metadata
23 (34)
16 (56)
Data repository
18 (39)
19 (51)
High expectations of prioritising/
planning delivery over next 2-3
years.
So how far should we match
‘technical’ services with
Repository Manager roles
& ‘informational/ consultancy’
with e.g. Subject Librarian?
What do we find Repository
Managers doing in service
development?
•rough, some fields merged, figures
averaged
Examples- New Universities
• Three “post-1992” institutions
– University of Northampton, Oxford Brookes University, University of East
London
– Postgrad students= 2500, 4260, 6795 respectively
•
Repository manager led, or actively engaged in developing
–
–
–
–
–
–
•
Policy response to funder requirements
Online guidance
Support for data mgmt planning
Outreach to engage with other service providers
Surveys/ interviews to scope research data, practices and requirements
Skills development for Subject Librarians
In each case Subject Librarians getting involved, see reskilling need with
some resistance
Examples- New Universities
• Three “post-1992” institutions
– University of Northampton, Oxford Brookes University, University of
East London (Postgrad students= 2500, 4260, 6795 respectively )
• Repository manager led, or actively engaged in developing
–
–
–
–
Policy response to funder requirements
Online guidance
Support for data mgmt planning
Surveys/ interviews to scope research data, practices and
requirements
– Skills development for Subject Librarians
Oxford Brookes University
Several hundred research active
staff
Strategy to build research profile,
interdisciplinary research &
infrastructure
Driver: Engineering and Physical
Science Research Council policy
expectations
Steering group PVC led, action by
repository and research office mgrs
Awareness training to faculty, with DAF survey follow-up, Subject Librarian
involvement and subsequent training
Roles of Repository & Subject Librarians?
• Subject Librarians getting involved, see reskilling need
(some resistance)
– ACRL Report
– “Reassigning existing library staff common tactic”
– … “Identifying and collecting data and data sets to include in
repositories has become increasingly important, leading to the
need to train staff members whose collection experience may be
limited to mostly traditional materials.”
• Repository managers active in kickstarting ‘softer’
capabilities in our experience
• If the hat fits wear it, but try it out first!
Gaps and Challenges?
• Challenge - getting data, fulfilling the consultancy role
• Gap - Guiding researchers on what to keep
• Recommending repos – certification both a challenge and gap!
• Preservation – a bridge to be built and crossed – resource
challenge
• Data publication – new genres e.g. data blogs and data papers,
new workflows and skills
Thank you
Questions, comments?
Your experiences?
Other national surveys?