Transcript RDMRose: Research Data Management for LIS Session 1 Introductions, RDM, and the role of LIS Session 1.3 The LIS role in RDM The.

RDMRose: Research Data Management for LIS
Session 1 Introductions, RDM, and the role of LIS
Session 1.3 The LIS role in RDM
The LIS role in RDM
Session 1.3
Sep-2012
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Learning outcomes
• At the end of this session you will be able to:
– Analyse your own role in relation to what the
literature has suggested about LIS roles in
research support and RDM in particular
– Identify RDM Library initiatives from other
institutions and assess how they could be adapted
at your institution where appropriate
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Session overview
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The liaison role
Roles to support research
RDM roles
Why librarians might have an important role
Challenges
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The liaison role
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Collection development
Information literacy training
Enquiry handling
Marketing
Committee work
Informal networking
Strategic influence
Management roles
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Facilitator
Collector
Liaison
Collaborator
Service provider
Adviser
Expert
Gatekeeper
Change agent
Leader
Maven
Teacher
Helper
Counsellor
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Library roles to support research
• Offering advice on funding sources
• Embedded or support roles conducting literature reviews or
current awareness alerts for research projects or groups
• Information literacy training
• Supporting REF
• Bibliometrics and measuring impact
• Bibliographic software training
• Advocacy for open access / institutional repository
• Offering data analysis advice
• Offering advice on copyright issues
• Offering advice on archiving of research records (e.g.
correspondence)
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Possible Library RDM roles
• Leading on local (institutional) data policy
• Bringing data into undergraduate research-based learning, promoting data
information literacy
• Teaching data literacy to postgraduate students
• Developing researcher data awareness
• Providing researcher data advice, e.g. on writing Data Management plans
or advice on RDM within a project
• Explaining the impact of sharing data, and how to cite data
• Signposting who in the institution should be consulted in relation to a
particular question
• Auditing to identify data sets for archiving or RDM needs
• Developing and managing access to data collections
• Documenting what datasets an institution has
• Developing local data curation capacity
• Promoting data reuse by making known what is available
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Potential RDM roles for LIS
ACTIVITY 1.3.1
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Activity 1.3.1 Potential RDM roles for
LIS professionals
• What could you do tomorrow?
• Which roles fit best with how you work now /
existing professional practices?
• Which roles might the library wish to avoid
taking on?
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Where does RDM fit into your role?
ACTIVITY 1.3.2
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Activity 1.3.2 Where does RDM fit into
your role?
• Briefly describe your current role.
• Which aspects of your job mean most to you?
• Which aspects of support to research relate
closest to you? Are you already doing some of
the things listed on slide 5?
• Which aspects of RDM support (as listed on
slide 6) relate closest to you?
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Why librarians might have an important role
because of
• Their knowledge of and networks within disciplinary
communities; their liaison and negotiation skills
• The strong LIS professional network to copy best practice
across institutions
• Their contact with many students and researchers in a
way other support services do not
• Their generic knowledge of good information
management practices
– Understanding that research data management as a form of
Information Literacy
• Their existing data and open access leadership roles
• Relevance of collection development practices; their
understanding of metadata
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Challenges
• We are already over-taxed!
– Other challenges in supporting research (Auckland, 2012)
– Getting up-to-speed and keeping up-to-date
• How deep is our understanding of research, especially
scientific research and our level of subject knowledge?
• Complexity and scale of issues
– Marked disciplinary differences in information practice
– Goes wide and deep: to every researcher in our institution
• Translating library practices to research data issues
• Will researchers look to libraries for this support? Historic
failure to engage researchers in library services
– Computing services, Research support services
• Resources, infrastructure, management structures have to be
found
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Roles in RDM (See sources section for sources)
Role
Alignment with existing library roles
Policy and advocacy
Lead on institutional data policy
Support and training
Bring data into undergraduate
research-based learning, promoting
data information literacy
Advocacy role e.g. in the area of
open access
Information literacy training
Teach data literacy to postgraduate
students
Develop researcher data awareness
Provide an advice service to
researchers (and research
administrators), e.g.: Advice on
writing Data Management Plans,
RDM within a project, licensing
data, on data citation and on
measurement of impact of data
sharing.
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Reference and enquiry roles;
producing print and web based
guides; copyright advice.
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Competencies required
Provide advice as above through a
web portal
Library web site
Signpost who in the institution
should be consulted in relation to a
particular question
Promote data reuse by making
known what is available internally
and externally; explaining data
citation
Data asset assessment and
repository management
Audit to identify data sets for
archiving, create a catalogue of
materials or to identify RDM needs
Role of library as point of enquiry
and the reference interview
Marketing of library resources
Cataloguing and metadata creation
Develop and manage access to data Collection development, digital
collections
library management and metadata
management
Develop local data curation
capacity
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Open access role. Preservation
role.
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Competencies for RDM roles
ACTIVITY 1.3.3
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Activity 1.3.3 Competencies for RDM
roles
• We discussed the potential RDM roles that the
Library could take on, and how they align with
existing roles. What would be the
competencies required to fulfil these potential
RDM roles?
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Competencies for RDM roles
• On the following two slides are some of our
ideas
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Roles in RDM (See sources section for sources)
Role
Policy and advocacy
Lead on institutional data policy
Support and training
Bring data into undergraduate
research-based learning, promoting
data information literacy
Alignment with existing library roles
Competencies required
Advocacy role e.g. in the area of
open access
Strategic understanding and
influencing skills
Information literacy training
Understanding of RDM best
practices as they apply to
relevant disciplines;
pedagogic skills
Reference and enquiry roles;
producing print and web based
guides; copyright advice.
Reference interview
management, knowledge of
RDM principles
Teach data literacy to postgraduate
students
Develop researcher data awareness
Provide an advice service to
researchers (and research
administrators), e.g.: Advice on
writing Data Management Plans,
RDM within a project, licensing
data, on data citation and on
measurement of impact of data
sharing.
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Provide advice as above through a
web portal
Library web site
Knowledge of institutional
and extra-institutional
resources
Signpost who in the institution
should be consulted in relation to a
particular question
Promote data reuse by making
known what is available internally
and externally; explaining data
citation
Data asset assessment and
repository management
Audit to identify data sets for
archiving, create a catalogue of
materials or to identify RDM needs
Role of library as point of enquiry
and the reference interview
Knowledge of institution
Marketing of library resources
Knowledge of researchers’
needs, knowledge of
available material
Cataloguing and metadata creation Metadata skills
Develop and manage access to data Collection development, digital
Audit interviews, knowledge
collections
library management and metadata of RDM principles, metadata,
management
licensing
Develop local data curation
capacity
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Open access role. Preservation
role.
Knowledge of RDM
principles, relevant
technologies and processes,
metadata
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More specialist roles
• A range of roles have been identified, some
quite specialist
– Data creator
– Data scientist
– Data manager
– Data librarian
• See the Core Skills Diagram, http://dataforum.blogspot.co.uk/2008/12/rdmf2-coreskills-diagram.html
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The impact on LIS organisations
ACTIVITY 1.3.4
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Activity 1.3.4 The impact on LIS
organisations
• How might libraries as organisations have to
change to support research better? For
example, does it require “embedding” of LIS
roles?
• Should any of these services be chargeable?
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Howe did they do it?
ACTIVITY 1.3.5
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Activity 1.3.5 How did they do it?
• Look at the list with steps taken by university
libraries to start to respond to the research
data management challenge.
• What approaches seem to apply best to your
own situation, and why?
• Which activities can you begin tomorrow?
Within six months? Within three years?
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SOURCES
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Sources
The table on slides 13 and 14 is based on literature including:
• Auckland, M. (2012). Re-Skilling for Research: An Investigation into the
Role and Skills of Subject and Liaison Librarians Required to Effectively
Support the Evolving Information Needs of Researchers. London: Research
Libraries UK. Retrieved from http://www.rluk.ac.uk/content/re-skillingresearch/.
• Brewerton, A. (2011) ‘... and any other duties deemed necessary:’ an
analysis of subject librarian job descriptions. Sconul Focus, 51, 60-67.
• Corrall, S. (2012). Roles and responsibilities: libraries, librarians and
data. In G. Pryor (Ed.), Managing Research Data (pp. 105-133). London:
Facet.
• Lewis, M. (2010). Libraries and the management of research data. In S.
Mcknight (Ed.), Envisioning future academic library services: Initiatives,
ideas and challenges (pp. 145-168). London: Facet.
• Lyon, L. (2012). The informatics transform: Re-engineering libraries of the
data decade, The International Journal of Digital Curation, 2012, 7 (1)
pp.126-138.
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