BEVERLY P. CIMAGALA, RL
University of Science And Technology of Southern Philippines
International Conference of Airlangga Library (ICOAL)
April 25-26, 2018
IMPORTANCE OF RESEARCH DATA MANAGEMENT FOR ACADEMIC
LIBRARIES
- Your managing data (your own or by group’s)
- You think you maybe should be - Your not sure why it matters - Your not sure how best to do it
- You’d like to know whether you’re on the right track?
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SESSION OUTLINE
What Why How
- Research Data - Research Data
Management (RDM) - Research Data
Management is Important?
- Academic Libraries play an important role in RDM?
So, what do we mean by Research Data?
,
-Anything & everything produced in the course of research.
-Prof. Jeff Haywood,
VP, CIO/Librarian, University of Edinburgh, UK
-A raw data directly produced from the lab or survey.
-A processed data which has been cleaned, refined,
arranged, & combined in a manner that it is useful in research.
-Mallikarjun Dora Anil Kumar
So, what do we mean by Research Data?
,
Includes analogue sources as well as discrete digital objects
(text, file, image, audio, video) complex digital objects and databases
-Whyte and Tedd, 2011
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Results from experiments
• Historical Diaries
• Physical Objects
• Algorithms
• Lab and field notebook
• Interview transcripts
• Photographs
• Text answers
• Methodologies &
workflow
• Correspondence
• Questionnaires
• Simulation software
• specimens
• Database
• Government record
• models
• Film footage
.docx .xls .rtf
.pdf .spss
RESEARCH DATA is…
• Diverse
• Valuable and costly
• Driven by information intensive process
• Massive
• Complex
• Derivative
• Multi-sourced
• Sensitive
RESEARCH DATA
No single/simple definition of what constitutes RESEARCH DATA.
Used to support the
production or validation of original research.
It can be born digital, or it can be analogue(and then digitised)
IT IS SITUATIONAL…
-Sebastian Palucha Research [-Data Manager Durham University
DATA is situational
can be use and re-used…
…for the purposes you may have thought of…
…even after you have
extracted all the value
you need from it.
https://thelocalbrand.com/big-data-analytics-ultimate-one-page-guide/
Significant Storage
Lost Data
Miracle Workers: rescuing data from the jaws of disaster A fire damaged server from the University of Southampton
https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2011/08/01/why-you-need-a-data- management-plan/
Your data fell into the wrong hands?
Why manage your
research data?
• Find and understand it when needed.
• Avoid unnecessary duplication.
• To validate results if required.
• So your research is visible and has impact!
• To get credit when others cited your work.
Why manage your
research data?
• To share your data for others to use and learn from.
• To make your research easier.
• To stop yourself from drowning irrelevant stuff.
• To avoid accusations of fraud or bad science.
• To avoid data loss!
Why manage your
research data?
Research Data
Management
• RESEARCH DATA
MANAGEMENT(RDM)
• Everyday management of
research data during the lifetime of a research project
• Involves decisions about how
data will be preserved and shared
after the project is completed
• RDM
• “Understood as collecting,
analysing, publishing, re-analysing, critiquing and reusing data.”
Tammaro, Anna Marie ( 2014) ‘Research Data Management in the Curriculum: an interdisciplinary approach.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/)
• RDM
• “Research data management
concerns the organization of data, from its entry to research cycle
through to the dissemination and archiving of valuable results.”
Whyte, A., Tedds, J. ( 2011) ‘Making the Case foe Research Data Management”.
DDC Briefing Papers.
http//www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/briefing-papers/making-case-rdm
RDM
Why important…
Data, like journals and books , is a scholarly product.
Data(specially digital data) is fragile and easily lost.
There are growing research data
requirements imposed by funders and publishers
RDM saves time & resources in the long run.
Good management helps to prevent errors increases the quality of your analyses.
Well-managed & accessible data allows others to validate & replicate findings.
RDM facilitates sharing of research data and, when shared, data can be lead to a valuable discoveries by others outside of the original team.
Why important…
Ph D Student
Where do I safely keep my data from my fieldwork, as I travel home?
Individual Researcher
How can I best keep years worth of research data
secure and accessible for when I and others need to re-use it?
Research Team
How do we ensure we have
access to our research data after some of the team have left?
How do we ensure compliance to
funders for several years of open access to data?
How can our research
collaborations share data,
and make them available
once complete?
Is managing data actually a job of a
university/ academic libraries?
y
Research projects represents an
integral part of global research knowledge base.
Academic library’s current role in providing access to the
published part of that knowledge base.
Lewis, M.J.(2010) Libraries and the management of research data
http://eprints.whiteroe.ac.uk/11171
The scale of the challenge in terms of infrastructure,
Skills and culture change
requires concerted action by a range of stakeholders,
And not just university/
academic libraries.
Lewis, M.J.(2010) Libraries and the management of research data
http://eprints.whiteroe.ac.uk/11171
ACADEMIC LIBRARY
A leader in RDM
…….a leader in RDM
Academic Libraries play an essential coordination role in the process of collaboration across
institution in developing RDM Program.
A facility with staff who have expertise in many issues of RDM.
Key player in data management, curation, &
preservation. (Erway, 2013, Shaffer 2013)
Lewis, M.J.(2010) Libraries and the management of research data
http://eprints.whiteroe.ac.uk/11171
…….a leader in RDM
Have a provisioning data for research use.
Staff have existing relationship with researchers, support units & leaders across the university.
Can coordinate service across disciplines
Meet best practices in RDM
(Humphrey, 2014)
Lewis, M.J.(2010) Libraries and the management of research data
http://eprints.whiteroe.ac.uk/11171
…….a leader in RDM
Academic librarians can coordinate RDM efforts beyond their institution,
Sharing lessons learned in professional groups.
Building partnerships with other universities to develop and test RDM solutions.
(Humphrey, 2014)
Lewis, M.J.(2010) Libraries and the management of research data
http://eprints.whiteroe.ac.uk/11171
University of Science & Technology
of Southern Philippines
University of Science & Technology of Southern Philippines
University of Science & Technology of Southern Philippines
Best Practice
File and Naming
& Organization
Use descriptive & informative file names.
Choose file formats that will insure long term access
File formats
Best Practice
TRACK
Different versions of your documents
CREATE
METADATA
For every experiment or analysis you run
Best Practice
Find Helpful Tools
for analysing your data
Must have storage
Backups of your data
…….best practice
• Ethical Issues
• Sharing Data
• Get Credit
• Copyright & Intellectual Property
• Confidentiality and Privacy
“YOU CAN HAVE DATA
WITHOUT INFORMATION, BUT YOU CANNOT HAVE
INFORMATION WITHOUT DATA”
-Daniel Keys Moran
Email: [email protected] University of Science & Technology of Southern Philippines
