These are the slides for the LIBER Webinar "23 Things About Research Data Management", held on 23 February 2017. A recording of the webinar is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGH6fVHrnKQ
5. Learning resources
1. A “top ten” list of recommendations for libraries to get started
with research data management from LIBER,
http://bit.ly/RDAthing1
2. Relevant concepts are presented and mapped in the e-Science
Thesaurus, http://bit.ly/RDAthing2
3. Understanding the life of research data with the DCC Curation
Lifecycle Model, http://bit.ly/RDAthing3
4. MANTRA online training modules for librarians,
http://bit.ly/RDAthing4
5. Read the most current literature in the Digital Curation
Bibliography, http://bit.ly/RDAthing5
6. Dozens of examples of resource guides created by librarians for
patrons to learn more about data on the SpringShare LibGuide
Community Site, http://bit.ly/RDAthing6
6. Data Reference & Outreach
7. Begin a conversation with a researcher about data by
Conducting a Data Interview, http://bit.ly/RDAthing7
8. Learn more about a researcher’s needs by reading or
creating your own Data Curation Profile,
http://bit.ly/RDAthing8
9. Develop engagement materials to help your librarians
such as the DataOne Librarian Outreach Kit,
http://bit.ly/RDAthing9
10. Questions about data answered by experts on the DataQ
forum, http://bit.ly/RDAthing10
7. Data Management Plans
11. One example is the DMPTool that lists funder
requirements in the United States and builds a plan by
asking the researcher to answer a series of questions.
Other countries such as the U.K. and Canada have similar
tools, http://bit.ly/RDAthing11
Data Literacy
12. The Data Information Literacy project and book
developed a curriculum to help librarians and other
teachers incorporate data into information literacy
outreach and instruction, http://bit.ly/RDAthing12
8. Metadata
13. Determine what metadata format is appropriate and
standard to recommend or apply by using the Metadata
Standards Directory, http://bit.ly/RDAthing13
Citing Data
14. DataCite has resources to help researchers make their
datasets citable to help users give attribution and to begin
measuring impact by issuing Digital Object Identifiers
(DOIs) for datasets, http://bit.ly/RDAthing14
9. Data Licensing and Privacy
15. How to License Research Data from the Digital Curation
Centre can help librarians work with researchers to
choose a license for the data they share,
http://bit.ly/RDAthing15
16. JISC manages the DATAPROTECTION email list with
discussions on issues related to sensitive data,
http://bit.ly/RDAthing16
10. Digital Preservation
17. Understand vocabularies and standards for digital
archives using the Open Archival Information System (
OAIS) reference model and trustworthy digital repository
certifications such as ISO 16363 and the
Data Seal of Approval
18. Find tools that are available to help with digital
preservation using COPTR, http://bit.ly/RDAthing18
11. Data Repositories
19. Find an appropriate repository by searching the
re3data.org registry of research data repositories,
http://bit.ly/RDAthing19
20. Publish and share data now using free, online data
repositories such as figshare, Zenodo,
Open Science Framework, or DataVerse
12. Community of Practice
21. An example of a national approach to research data
management community-building at a federal level is the
Australian National Data Service, http://bit.ly/RDAthing21
22. Some annual conferences that address research data and
involve librarians include the International Digital
Curation Conference (IDCC), Research Data Access &
Preservation Summit (RDAP), International Association for
Social Science and Information Services & Technology (
IASSIST), and Research Data Alliance (RDA)
13. Join the Research Data
Alliance!
23. Belong to an international community who builds social
and technical bridges to enable data sharing. It’s free to
join by visiting the website, then subscribe to the Libraries
for Research Data Interest Group,
http://bit.ly/RDAthing23
14. Natasha Simons
23 Things for Research Data
Management
Senior Research Data Management
Specialist
LIBER Webinar
23 February 2017
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16. The program
• Online, self-paced program for
anyone interested in learning
more about research data
management
• ‘Do’ one Thing each week
• Share! – community groups,
online Meet Up boards, catch
up webinars, Twitter, Blogs,
crash courses and ‘sprint to the
finish’ courses
ands.org.au/23-things
#23rdthings
17. Topic groupings
• Things 1-3 Ready, set, data!
• Things 4-6 Repositories for data
• Things 7-8 Data citation and impact
• Things 9-10 Rights, ethics and
sensitive data
• Things 11-14 Metadata & more
• Things 15-18 Let’s talk data!
• Things 19-21 Hands on with data &
tools
• Things 22-23 Data communities
22. Embraced by a global
community
Members of the 600 strong meetup community
23. What did participants think?
I liked the range of resources e.g. videos, documents and
data records covering different discipline areas.
Staff are more eager to engage researchers in
conversation now.
My confidence to discuss
research data management
with experts, students and
data librarians has grown -
thank you!
24. What did managers think?
“New and augmented skills of librarians will provide future benefit to the library as a
whole”
Future plans include:
•Expand the level of library staff participation in research data management
•Continue supporting professional opportunities in research data management for
library staff e.g. reuse and re-purpose the 23T materials
27. Ideas for re-using 23 Things
• Use the ‘Master File’ of all 23 Things
• Customise for your institution
• Contextualize for your discipline e.g. Top 10 Things
for Medical and Health now available
• Put on a crash course and sprint to the finish course –
lesson plans available
• These & more at:
http://www.ands.org.au/partners-and-communities/23-
toolkit
28. Natasha.Simons@ands.org.au
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0635-1998
@n_simons
Natasha Simons
With the exception of logos, third party images or where otherwise indicated, this
work is licensed under the Creative Commons Australia Attribution 3.0 Licence.
ANDS is supported by the Australian
Government through the National Collaborative
Research Infrastructure Strategy Program.
Monash University leads the partnership with
the Australian National University and CSIRO.
29. Questions?
• Type your questions in the chat box.
• Rob Grim (moderator) will select and pose
questions to the speakers
• Unanswered questions will be addressed
by Natasha and Michael in a blog post (to
be published following the webinar)
30. WEBINAR: Research Data Services
Thank You!
Final Notes:
1. Survey - please tell us what you thought!
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/MYR6GXB
2. 23 Things in 11 Languages
https://www.rd-alliance.org/group/libraries-research-data-i
We’ll email a link to the recording shortly.
Notes de l'éditeur
The program developed by the RDA team inspired a small group of Australian librarians and information specialists to create an Australian version of the program called ‘23 (research data) Things’ (ANDS, 2016). Co-ordinated by the Australian National Data Service (ANDS, 2016), this program was designed to build capability and a community of practice around research data management. It expands on the RDA model by challenging participants to ‘do’ 23 Things that will build their confidence and experience with research data management. Like the RDA model, the 23 Things are grouped into several topics including rights, ethics and sensitive data, repositories for data,metadata and crosswalks, data citation and impact. The program is paced for participants to undertake 1 Thing per week to complete all 23 Things over several months. To accommodate a variety of capabilities and learning styles, a choice of 3 activities is provided for each Thing. Participants may be asked to critique a video, comment on a short paper, use a free online tool or search for resources. It is intended to be a hands-on learning program. As they work through each of the 23 Things, participants are encouraged to share their questions, ideas and learnings with others involved in the program through a dedicated online discussion forum, local community groups, webinars and social media. The program was supported by the Australian Library and Information Association (a professional body representing librarians) and the Council of Australian University Librarians (representing librarians in the higher education sector). Uptake of the 23 Things was beyond our wildest dreams…
Aimed at anyone interested in learning more about data management – target group: librarians & research support staff
Participants asked to ‘do’ one Thing each week at their own pace then discuss at community group or via online ‘meet up’ boards. New Thing released a week or two in advance + some break weeks. No pressure - do all 23 Things or only the ones of interest. No sign up.
Input into development of the Things from the library community
Regular calls with community group leaders
Ran crash courses and sprint to the finish courses
ANDS staff monitored meet up boards along with special guests e.g. license expert
Supported by ALIA and CAUL
Bookmarks and stickers!
ANDS catch up webinars
Ran over March to November 2016
Can be re-purposed (will get to this later in the talk)
Each Thing offered at three levels:
Getting Started
Know more
Challenge me
Thing 4: Data discovery
[Introductory background statement]
Click on this RDA record from the Australian Antarctic
Data Centre: Weddell seals in Antarctica
Have a close look at the record to see the ways the Australian Antarctic Division has made this record discoverable and accessible. Note how many times this dataset has been cited and how to cite this data. We will look at data citation in more detail in Thing 7.
Spend a few minutes exploring RDA.
Try browsing or searching on a topic of interest.
See which institutions contribute metadata records to RDA.
Explore a record or two in depth.
Consider: the future impact of having a national research data catalogue.
Do you have a question? Want to share a resource?
webinar = national
community groups = contextualised learning
crash courses = cross institutional and enabled people to learn quickly
Statistics from 1 September
23(research data)Things has been truly embraced by the global community. The initial crowd sourcing of the “Things” was from an international community. Nearly a thousand people from over 10 countries registered for the initial kick off webinar where we explained the program.
Part of the program has been the encouragement of the creation of local groups or communities of practice around data. We know of nearly 50 groups that have formed, either within in a workplace or institution, or at a geographical location or around a certain subdomain of data, in particular the virtual health and medical 23 things community.
We have encouraged this by providing the contact details of the groups on our website. We have also supported these communities with regular webinars for the leaders of the groups.
For the whole community we have encouraged networking and community involvement by forming these local groups, promoting a Twitter #23RDThings hashtag, establishing a national forum using MeetUp, augmented with regular virtual catch ups, and sent out a fortnightly “what’s happening “ newsletter, run the Crash courses and the Sprint to the finish events.
So who has been doing 23 Things?
This map is as of May 2016, and shows members of the over 600 strong MeetUp community.
We can see lots of locations in Australia and a good spread across New Zealand. There’s activity elsewhere in the English speaking world, with a couple of participants in Asia, Middle East and Africa. Since this map was drawn we have also added participants in Germany.
This is just from MeetUp. If we look at the people who have joined our mailing list we have emails from another 5 or 6 countries.
We have also provided a bunch of other resources and incentives including Credly badges, bookmarks and posters that can be used to help promote 23 (research data) Things. Many of the local groups have used their own incentives many of which seem to involve cake
changed staff engagement with clients: Staff are more eager to engage researchers in conversation now -or-- My confidence to discuss research data management with experts, students and data librarians has grownneed for variety and challenge - online does not work for a long sustained change in community -- I liked the range of resources eg videos, documents and data records covering different disciples
Add What did Managers think?
this is key to this group - great for individuals but what would an investment in this program result in?
As the 23T program came to a close:
39% of respondents indicated they had plans in place to expand the level of library staff
participation in research data management
33% had no plans at that time
72% of respondents intend to continue supporting professional development opportunities in research
data management for their library staff
The shift of individual capability has been extensive. Several participants commented that they were able to develop their data management skills because the program was free, online, flexible and multilevel.
More than 80% of respondents now regard themselves as ‘knowledgeable’ or ‘very knowledgeable’, up from just over 10% at the beginning of the program
30% are now confident enough to apply for positions involving research data
13% are considering enrolling in a University course to get a formal data qualification
This represents a timely opportunity for managers to leverage newly developed skills and confidence to implement or further develop research data management support services.
While the program is still underway, our ongoing evaluation suggests an opportunity to build on the 23 (research data) Things program by: repackaging the resources developed for new uses and audiences; encouraging others to repurpose the resources to meet specific institutional, discipline or community needs; running follow on programs during 2017 that will further develop knowledge and skills developed during the 23 (research data) Things program.
Use the ‘Master File’ of all 23 Things (69 pages!)
Contextualize 23T for your discipline e.g. Top 10 Things for Medical and Health now available
Put on a crash course and sprint to the finish course – lesson plans available
Customise 23T for your institution – include your own services and examples
Select a few Things that could be offered as a 1 hour workshop
word doc
Top Ten health and medical
Listen in program (will get it up on the web on Monday)
crash course and sprint lesson plans
Master file of all 23 Things
Includes all the Getting started, Learn more, and Challenge me activities to reuse and edit (69 pages).
Open the master file (DOCX, 1.19 MB)
Open the master file (PDF, 1.69 MB)
10 Medical and Health Things to reuse and edit
10 medical and health research data Things (DOCX, 0.91 MB)
10 medical and health research data Things (PDF, 0.95 MB) Prepackaged short courses
Things 1-12 Crash Course outline: a run sheet with suggested timings, resources and activities.
Things 13-23 Sprint to the Finish course outline (DOCX, 0.02 MB): a run sheet with suggested timing, resources and activities.