Initiatives and Activities of the New England e-Science Program

Donna KafelE-Science Project Coordinator

UMass. Medical School

“E-Science is not a new scientific discipline in its own right: e-Science is shorthand for the set of tools and technologies required to support collaborative, networked science. The entire e-Science infrastructure is intended to empower scientists to do their research in faster, better, and different ways.”

(Hey and Hey, 2006)

Overview of e-Science Program

• e-Science Program Team & COI•History of program•Regional needs assessments•Activities•Strategy

E-Science Program•Administered by the Lamar Soutter Library at UMass Medical School

•Funding provided by National Networks of Libraries of Medicine New England Region

•Advisory Board

•E-Science Portal Editorial Board

• e-Science COI: 180+ science, health sciences, and technology librarians

How we got started….•2008 Association of Research Libraries and Coalition for Networked Information “Reinventing Science Librarianship” forum

•Massachusetts Life Science Initiative--UMass Five Libraries

• 2009 e-Science symposium

•National Network of Libraries of Medicine New England Region (NN/LM NER) e-Science grant

E-Science Symposium

http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/escience_symposium/

Science Boot Camp for Librarians

2009: UMass Dartmouth2010: UMass Lowell2011: WPI2012: Tufts2013: UMass Amherst2014: UConn

Professional Development Days

•Stem Cell Day

•Nanotechnology Day

•Scientific Data Management

•Metadata Day

•Embedded with the Scientists: Librarians’ Roles in the Research Process

•Teaching Research Data Management with the New England Collaborative Data Management Curriculum

E-Science Portal Needs Assessment: August 2009

•Establish a need for an e-Science Portal

•Assess regional librarians’ e-Science information needs and educational backgrounds

• Learn what data services regional libraries were currently providing

•Identify learner preferences to determine mode of educational delivery

Creamer et al, 2011.

Results of Portal Needs Assessment

•168 surveys sent out: received 78 responses

•67% of respondents: libraries are not providing data services

•45.2% Potential opportunities for e-Science collaborations existed in their institutions

•Roughly half of respondents had degrees in non-science subjects

•Respondents prefer a variety of educational methods (online tutorials and guides, face to face classes, informal small groups, and virtual communities)

•Majority of respondents prefer e-mail discussion lists but felt comfortable with blogs and other social networking tools

E-Science Portal for New England Librarians

http://esciencelibrary.umassmed.edu/

An Assessment of Needed Competencies to Promote the Data

Curation and Management Librarianship of Health Sciences

and Science and Technology Librarians in New England: 2011

Creamer et al, 2012.

Results•Small percentage were actually engaged in digital management and curation of large data sets

•Patron data services requests were infrequent

•Over half of respondents’ libraries were actively involved in strategic planning for data services

•Librarians lack the technical skills needed to manage and curate terabytes of data

•Librarians require data literacy competencies concerning data lifecycle, data curation and preservation, scholarly communication issues related to data, and researchers’ data management requirements.

•Librarians need to cultivate cyberinfrastructure and technical competencies to build and manage a data repository, manipulate metadata, and ensure system interoperability

Journal of eScience Librarianship

http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/

New England Collaborative Data Management Curriculum

http://library.umassmed.edu/necdmc/index

LIS 532G: Scientific Data Management

Strategy of the New England e-Science Program

It takes a Village!!Many thanks to our partners now and over the years……

E-Science Program Advisory Board: Andrew Creamer (Brown), Chris Erdmann (Harvard), Sally Gore (UMMS), Carolyn Mills (UConn), Regina Raboin (Tufts), Howard Silver (MIT)

E-Science Portal project team: Daina Bouquin (Cornell), Jake Carlson (Michigan), Andrew Creamer (UMMS & Brown), Chris Erdmann (Harvard), Jen Ferguson (Northeastern), Sally Gore (UMMS), Margaret Henderson (VCU), Katie Houk (Tufts), Michelle Hudson (Yale), Stacy Konkiel (Impact Story), David LaPelle (UMMS Research Computing), Tracey Leger-Hornby (WPI), Bethany McGowan (Howard), Barbara Merolli (Holy Cross), Myrna Morales (UMMS), Joan Omoruyi (Northeastern), Regina Raboin (Tufts); Kevin Read (NIH); Rebecca Reznik-Zellen (UMass Amherst); Maxine Schmidt (UMass Amherst); Beth Schneider (Mass Gen. Hospital), James Schroeder (URI), Howard Silver (MIT), Amy Stout (MIT), Kari Swanson (Yale), Amanda Whitmire (Oregon State), Jennifer Woodward (Genzyme)

Science Boot Camp for Librarians: Mary Adams (UMass Dartmouth), Paulina Borrego (UMass Amherst), Bijan Esfahani (WPI), Paige Gibbs (UMass Dartmouth), Sally Gore (UMMS), Naka Ishii (UMass Amherst),Tracey Leger-Hornby (WPI), Teresa Maceira (UMass Boston), Sara Marks (UMass Lowell), Barbara Merolli (Holy Cross), Carolyn Mills (UConn), Tina Mullins (UMass Boston), Marion Muskiewicz (UMass Lowell), Sue O’Dell (Bowdoin), Regina Raboin (Tufts), Maxine Schmidt (UMass Amherst), Maxine Schmidt (UMass Amherst), Liz Winiarz (UMass Dartmouth), Rachel Zyrirek (WPI)

Professional Development Days: Liz Coburn (MBLWHOI), Dana Elder (Tufts), Chris Erdmann (Harvard), Diane Hillman (Metadata Maven); Jonathan Kennedy (Harvard), Alex May (Tufts), Alicia Morris (Tufts), Jian Qin (Syracuse), Regina Raboin (Tufts),Chris Shaffer (OHSU), Juliane Schneider (Harvard), UMass Amherst Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing, UMass Medical School Stem Cell Registry

Frameworks for a Data Management Curriculum: Paul Colombo (Consultant), Christine Drew (WPI), Patricia Franklin (UMMS), David LaPelle (UMMS), Glenn Gaudette (WPI), Laura Hannan (WPI), Nancy LaPelle (consultant),Tracey Leger-Hornby (WPI), Heather McMorrow (Consultant), Sia Najafi (WPI), Lisa Palmer (UMMS), Mary Piorun (UMMS), Lynne Riley (WPI), Erica Stults (WPI), John Sullivan (WPI)

New England Collaborative Data Management Curriculum: MJ Canavan (UMass Amherst), Elizabeth Coburn (MBLWHOI), Jen Ferguson (Northeastern), John Furfey (MBLWHOI), Emily Gustainis (Harvard), Nancy LaPelle, David Lowe (UConn), Alexander May (Tufts), Steve McGinty (UMass Amherst), Alicia Morris (Tufts), Lisa Palmer (UMMS), Laura Quilter (UMass Amherst)Regina Raboin (Tufts), Rebecca Reznik-Zellen (UMass Amherst, UMMS), Aaron Rubinstein (UMass Amherst), Matt Sheridan (UMass Amherst), Jen Walton (MBLWHOI), Darla White (Harvard)

Journal of eScience Librarianship: Jessica Adamick (UMass Amherst), Suzie Allard (UTK), ML Bergstrom (UCD), Carol A. Brach, Jake Carlson (Michigan), Lynn Copeland, Dianne Dietrich (Cornell), Chris Erdmann (Harvard), Lisa Federer (NIH), Jen Ferguson (Northeastern), Julie Goldman (Simmons), Sally Gore (UMMS), Karen Hanson (NYU), Margaret Henderson (VCU), Lisa Johnston (Univ. of Minn), Betsy Kelly (Washington Univ.),Stefan Kramer (Open Knowledge Foundation), Megan Laurence (UCSF), Tracey Leger-Hornby (WPI), Elizabeth Liddy (Syracuse), Dianna Magnoni (Los Alamos), Scott McIntosh (Univ. of Rochester)Barbara Merolli (Holy Cross), Holly Miller (MBLWHOI), Carolyn Mills (UConn), Hannah Norton (UF), Jian Qin (Syracuse), Rebecca Reznik-Zellen (UMMS), Megan Sapp Nelson (Purdue), Beth Schneider (Mass. General Hospital), Chris Shaffer (OHSU), Howard Silver (MIT), Gail Steinhart (Cornell), Carly Strasser (CDL), Chuck Thomas (Univ. System of Maryland), Lois Widmer (UF), Stephanie Wright

Simmons Scientific Data Management Class: Patrick Antle (Tufts), Andrew Creamer (Brown), Mercè Crosas (Harvard), Chris Erdmann (Harvard), Jennifer Eustis (UConn), Jen Ferguson (Northeastern), Glenn Gaudette (WPI), Julie Goldman (Simmons), Nancy McGovern (MIT), Carolyn Mills (UConn), Lisa Palmer (UMMS), Regina Raboin (Tufts), Rebecca Reznik-Zellen (UMMS), Kate Thornhill (Simmons), Jill Zitzer (UMMS)

Resources

Creamer, A.; Morales, M.; Crespo, J.; Kafel, D.; and Martin, E.R. “Assessment of Health Sciences and Science and Technology Librarian e-Science Educational Needs to Develop an e-Science Web Portal for Librarians.” Journal of the Medical Library Association: JMLA 99.2 (2011): 153-156. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3066590/

Creamer, A.; Morales, M.; Crespo, J.; Kafel, D.; and Martin, E.R. “ An Assessment of Needed Competencies to Promote the Data Curation and Management Librarianship of Health Sciences, Science, and Technology Librarians in New England.” Journal of eScience Librarianship 1(1): Article 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.791/jeslib.2012.1006

Hey, T., and Hey, J. “e-Science and Its Implications for the Library Community.” Library Hi Tech 24, no. 4 (2006): 515–28. http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/ViewContentServlet?Filename=Published/EmeraldFullTextArticle/Articles/2380240404.htm

Jones. E. Reinventing Science Librarianship: Themes from the ARL-CNI Forum, Research Library Issues: A Bimonthly Report from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, 2009, No. 262:13. http://arl.org/resources/pubs/rli