LIS 532G: Scientific Research Data Management Final Project Presentation: Zebrafish and Data Management Teaching Case Study focuses on model organisms in a neuroscience research lab: Using Zebrafish as a Model System for Studying Motor Axon Guidance & Motoneuron Disease

1. ZebrafishAND
Data Management
Julie Goldman
LIS 532G Fall 2013

2. Teaching Case for
Data Management

3. key concepts in the narrative of the
research story are pulled out to model
the seven parts of a DMP
three teaching points elaborate the need
for a change in the research process
questions used to integrate discussion to
give insight to acceptable data
management practices for similar
research environments

4. Case Narrative

5. Using Zebrafish as a Model
System for Studying
Motor Axon Guidance &
Motoneuron Disease

6. Beattie Lab

7. Research
investigating the biological basis of
motoneuron diseases SMA and ALS
genetic models of zebrafish

8. Narrative Quotes
The majority of the research involves “general lab work”
Most of the computers attached to our equipment are
very low tech and old.
I always print out a hard copy of any images and paste
them in my lab notebook.
This is a big change from the paper notebook log
perviously used.
Publications are considered the “electronic” form of data
conservation around here.

9. Integrating the Narrative
with the Seven Data
Management Principles

11. Main Teaching
Points

12. Linking and
Finding Data
!
no standardizations
for files or notebooks
must link between
the experiment
description and the
experiment results

13. Storage and Backup
CDs are not regarded as
long-term
sharing via Dropbox and
Google Drive
regular copying, data
migration, upgrade to
current formats
updating the lab
computers can reduce the
team’s responsibility

14. Preservation
publications and zebrafish lines are
shared with the science community
the raw data is NOT being preserved
use resources available to determine
the best actions for archiving and
preserving scientific research

15. Discussion
Questions

16. Managing Lab
Notebooks
What are some additional purposes
for maintaining lab notebooks?
What information from this project
do you think should be recorded?

17. Managing Lab
Notebooks
What kind of roles and services can
librarians offer to assist institutional
researchers’ obtaining and use of ELNs?
What are the differences in storage
and long-term preservation
considerations of paper lab notebooks
and ELNs?

18. Tracking
Microscopy Images
What kinds of technologies or
workflows could improve the lab’s
management of microscopy images?

19. Linking & Sharing
Software and Devices
What is a better long-term solution
for the record keeping needs of the
fish facility and for linking
laboratory?
What types of issues relating to
curation and preservation could arise
when using this type of material?

20. Institutional Resources
What types of data management
support and services can librarians
offer researchers to increase
institutional repository usage?

21. Questions?
THANKS!