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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NW5C Research Data Management & Curation Workshop: A Preliminary Review Ryan Clement | Reed College June 2015