Part of the Indiana University Scholars' Commons Workshop series on Surviving and Thriving in Academia. This presentation provides tips, examples, and things to consider for organizing research files (primary and secondary resources).

1. Getting Organized:
Managing your research
Scholars’ Commons Workshop Series - September 26, 2014
Juliet L. Hardesty
Metadata Analyst
Indiana University Libraries
jlhardes@iu.edu @jlhardes

2. Goals for organizing research
• Track (and don’t lose) your research
• Use your research
• Share your research
Step 3:
Profit!
Step
2
Step
1: Data
… using metadata

3. What is this… metadata?
• Describes, categorizes, organizes
• Example
• Store, preserve, migrate
• Find, identify, and access later
– (sometimes much much later after it’s mixed in
with all sorts of other stuff that may or may not be
related)

4. Field data
• spreadsheets, proprietary software
flickr

5. icanhascheezburger
Interviews
• sound recordings, transcriptions,
screen capture

6. Citations
• articles, books, web sites, digital collections, presentations
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7. Finding things later
• Based on feature
– File format
– Date
– File name
– Directory
structure
flickr

8. • Based on activity
–Writing a paper
–Conducting an experiment
–Analyzing a data set
–Creating a presentation
–Preparing a lesson/course
• No correct answer when it’s personal
flickr

9. Device Determinism
• Mobile device(s) > Main device
• Use apps available on all of your devices
– Evernote
– Zotero
– Google Drive
– Box

10. Personal Example: Journal Article

11. Personal Example: Journal Article (cont’d)

12. Personal Example: Journal Article (cont’d more)

13. Personal Example: Report from Survey

14. Personal Example: Report from Survey (cont’d)

15. Personal Example: Report from Survey
(cont’d more)

16. Back it up!
flickr
• Box@IU
• Other options

17. Tools (and people) exist to help
• Evernote – note-taking in the cloud
• Zotero – citation management
• Bamboo Dirt – more digital research tool options
than you will ever need
• Top 10 tech tips for IU students - UITS
• What is Metadata? – metadata@iu.edu
• IU Libraries Scholars’ Commons Reference Desk
• Me!
– Tuesdays, 10am-noon, Scholars’ Commons 157L

18. flickr
Questions?
Comments!
• Julie Hardesty
• jlhardes@iu.edu
• @jlhardes
• Metadata Consulting
– Fall 2014
– 10am-noon, Tuesdays
– Scholars’ Commons 157L
• metadata@iu.edu