Northwest Five Consortium

Reed College

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Northwest Five Consortium

University of Puget Sound

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Northwest Five Consortium

Lewis & Clark College

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Northwest Five Consortium

Whitman College

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Willamette University

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The workshop

Co-Principal Investigators

• Mark Dahl, Director of the Aubrey R. Watzek Library, Lewis & Clark College
• Dena Hutto, College Librarian, Reed College.

Planners/Organizers

• Parvaneh Abbaspour, Research and Instruction Librarian, Lewis & Clark College
• Amy Blau, Instructional and Data Services Librarian, Whitman College
• Ryan Clement, Data Services Librarian, Reed College
• Eli Gandour-Rood, Science Liaison Librarian, University of Puget Sound
• Michael Spalti, Associate University Librarian for Systems, Willamette University 

Workshop Teams

• Faculty researcher
• Student research assistant
• Librarian
• IT support (optional)

Recruiting Faculty

Recruiting Faculty

Final Faculty Disciplines

• Two chemistry
• One environmental science
• One biology
• One sociology

The workshop

Christen Dalsgaard -A Carpenter's Workshop

Day One

• Research data lifecycle
• Organization, naming, version control, etc.
• Backup & storage
• Metadata
• Data sharing
• Archiving & long-term storage

Day Two

• How to apply general to specific case (fac/students)
• How to generalize outreach from specific case (librarians)
• Group work day
• Reflection/discussion

Assessment

What happened to Reed?

or, the lonely qualitative researcher...

Student/Faculty Preparedness

What stood out as the most important skills?

• File naming and organization (x5)
• Thinking big picture about data management
• My data might be useful to me or someone else in the future!

What else did you want to see?

• More on protocols (particularly with undergrad turnover)
• Deeper dive into file formats and conversion
• More online/repository searching time!
• More student to student work

Other thoughts?

• Lots of talk of going back to campus and evangelizing
• Desire for a platform to share practices and information with NW5C colleagues
• NW5C shared repository?
• Do the workshop annually!
• Lots of kudos to Amanda

Lessons going forward

• Stick to science OR social science (no matter how idealistic you are)
• More time for students to network with each other
• Faculty outreach?