Browsing by Subject "curation"

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    The Data Management Village: Collaboration among Research Support Providers in the Large Academic Environment
    (Databrarianship: The Academic Data Librarian in Theory and Practice (editors Kristi Thompson and Lynda Kellam) Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), 2016) Hofelich Mohr, Alicia; Johnston, Lisa R; Lindsay, Thomas A
    Data management encompasses the practices and people that acquire, control, protect, deliver and enhance the value of data throughout the research lifecycle. Done well, data management requires that these practices and people be connected throughout the entire research lifecycle. However, much of this work takes place in researchers’ own offices or labs or with the help of specialized support offices on campus, who only directly interact with researchers at single points in their projects. In academic libraries, a data management specialist may only interact with researchers at the beginning and end of a project, assisting with the creation of a data management plan (DMP) and preservation of the data when the research is completed. This poses a challenge when trying to help researchers integrate best practices into their workflows throughout the planning, collection, and analysis stages. Most libraries are focused on providing broad, public access to the content under their stewardship, and given this mission, libraries alone may not be able to offer all of the data services that our researchers need (for example, dark archives for sensitive or private data). Therefore, given the diverse nature of research data and the distributed support researchers may seek throughout their project, universities need a well-connected, distributed way to support data management; it is a service that “takes a village.”
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    “We’re all doing the best we can with what we’ve got” : Preservation practices of Data Curation Network members
    (2022) Luong, Hoa; Narlock, Mikala R.; Petters, Jon
    Over the course of six weeks, members of the Data Curation Network were interviewed by the Assistant Director to discuss their research data preservation practices. Through these semi-structured interviews, several commonalities emerged, including key challenges that will need to be addressed to ensure the long-term reusability of research data as well as the similar mentality many institutions expressed: that they are doing the best they can with what they have. The authors conclude by identifying areas of potential future research as well as practical collaboration opportunities.