NW5C Research Data Management & Curation Workshop:

A Preliminary Review

Ryan Clement | Reed College 

June 2015

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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Northwest Five Consortium

Willamette University

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NW5C Current Data Services

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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?

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