working with researchers on data management and workflows for archiving and sharing of data
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This presentation by Fabian Cremer was given at the Scholarly Communication and Research Infrastructures Steering Committee Workshop. The workshop title was Libraries and Research Data Management – What Works?TRANSCRIPT
working with researcherson data management and workflows for archiving and sharing of
data
or
from the everyday life of an embedded data manager
Fabian CremerLIBER 43rd Annual Conference | July 2nd 2014
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idea
Fabian Cremer | working with researchers on data management | LIBER Conference | July 2nd 2014 | CC-BY 4.0 |
Planning / Funding
Data Collection
Documen-tation
Analysis / Processing
Publication / Sharing
RDM plan for proposal
Repository Data Centre
continuous RDM support
apply for RDM project
structuring / backup
tools / infrastructure
ingest / policies
standards / monitoring
• fill the gap and get RDM in the project phase• get RDM costs funded together with the project• transfer experiences and developments to institutional RDM support
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settings
Collaborative Research Centre 990
large: 100+ researchers
PhDs & Postdocs „very“
interdisciplinary & international
intensive data production
support for RDM
Digital Humanities Research Collaboration
small: 6 researchers senior academics humanities &
social sciences mainly data reuse
infrastructure for RDM
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
single - medium projects
mostly PhDs neighbouring
disciplines (social/cultural)
private datasets
workflows for RDMFabian Cremer | working with researchers on data management | LIBER Conference | July 2nd 2014 | CC-BY 4.0 |
Ecological and Socioeconomic Functions of Tropical Lowland Rainforest Transformation Systems (Sumatra, Indonesia)
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the researchers‘ dark side
• untrained
• busy
• focused
• pressured
• bad conscience
• unconcerned
• lazy
• blinkered
• selfish
• indifferent
(in their own words)
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bridge heads
• being integral part of project
• offering something that makes their workaday life easier
• rising awareness for duties with providing ways to fulfill them
• adapting general procedures to the individual situation
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Fabian Cremer | working with researchers on data management | LIBER Conference | July 2nd 2014 | CC-BY 4.0 |
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shipwrecks
• not fitting into the researcher’s workflow
• having no backup from above or no explicit authority
• waiting for the researchers to come to you
• transfer RDM material without adaption
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Fabian Cremer | working with researchers on data management | LIBER Conference | July 2nd 2014 | CC-BY 4.0 |
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field of work
• provide a virtual server for a subproject application
• write an Excel script for transformation of table data
• moderate the development of a data sharing agreement• design a digital field report• classify the confidentiality level of a dataset
• modelling a ERM for a subproject‘s database
• search a suitable data centre for a certain dataset
• evaluate software for image tagging and annotation• interview a researcher on her/his research• …
• set up a database and research infrastructure• individual data management plans for the
researchers• ...
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Fabian Cremer | working with researchers on data management | LIBER Conference | July 2nd 2014 | CC-BY 4.0 |
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mind & skills
what I found useful to have as an embedded data manager
• RDM Basics• rudimental IT, advanced Excel• requirement analysis• data structuring & modelling• concepts of metadata• asking, interviewing, moderating• searching, investigating• “competence network”• combination of expert knowledge and a service mindset• understanding for scientific work and its conditions
Fabian Cremer | working with researchers on data management | LIBER Conference | July 2nd 2014 | CC-BY 4.0 |
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mind & skills
what I found really useful as an embedded data manager
• be fearless
@ jungle rubber plantationJambi province, Sumatra,
Indonesia
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links
[email protected]@mmg.mpg.de
Georg-August-Universität GöttingenGöttingen State and University LibraryResearch and Development Departmenthttp://www.rdd.sub.uni-goettingen.de
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversityhttp://www.mmg.mpg.de
Digital Humanities Research Collaborationhttp://www.gcdh.de/en/projects/dh
Collaborative Research Centre 990: Ecological and Socioeconomic Functions of Tropical Lowland Rainforest Transformation Systems (Sumatra, Indonesia)http://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/310995.html
Fabian Cremer | working with researchers on data management | LIBER Conference | July 2nd 2014 | CC-BY 4.0 |