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RDMRose: Research Data Management for LIS
Session 7 Case Studies of Research Projects
Session 7.3 Reflection on RDM and your role as an LIS professional
Reflection on RDM and your role
as an LIS professional
Session 7.3
Nov-15
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Learning outcomes
• By the end of this session you will be able to:
– Relate the issues that have been discussed in the
previous session to your current and future role as
an LIS professional
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Session overview
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Revision of session 1.3
Questionnaire
Written reflection
Group discussion
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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 roles
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.
Advice on RDM within a project.
Advice on licensing data. Advice on
data citation. Perhaps 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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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
Auditing 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
Metadata skills
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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Questionnaire
• For each of these possible RDM roles, please
indicate on a scale of 0 to 4:
– What best fits your current role or might be a
plausible extension of it.
– And to what extent you feel you are ready to
contribute to this role.
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Written reflection
• What are your current skills and strengths that
may be relevant to your potential future role
in RDM? Think both of your personal skills and
strengths, and of your professional ones.
• What knowledge and/or skills do you need to
further develop in order to take on an RDMrelated role?
Nov-15
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