10. Why should I care about data management?
Rinehart, AK. “Getting emotional about data” College & Research Libraries News September 2015 vol. 76 no. 8 437-440
11. What is data
management?
The policies, practices and procedures needed to
manage the storage, access and preservation of data
produced from a research project
17. Research funding is tight
http://www.bu.edu/research/articles/funding-for-scientific-research/
18. Funders want to do more with less
http://figshare.com/blog/2015_The_year_of_open_data_mandates/143
19. White House’s 2013 OSTP
“The Obama Administration is committed to the proposition
that citizens deserve easy access to the results of
research their tax dollars have paid for. That’s why, in a
policy memorandum released today, OSTP Director John
Holdren has directed Federal agencies with more than
$100M in R&D expenditures to develop plans to make the
results of federally funded research freely available to
the public—generally within one year of publication.”
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/02/22/expanding-public-access-results-federally-funded-research
20. NSF post-award requirements
“Investigators are expected to share with other
researchers, at no more than incremental cost and within
a reasonable time, the primary data, samples, physical
collections and other supporting materials created or
gathered in the course of work under NSF grants.
Grantees are expected to encourage and facilitate
such sharing.”
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/policydocs/pappguide/nsf11001/aag_6.jsp#VID4
21. It’s good for science
• Improves research reproducibility
• Improves efficiency
• Spurs innovation
22. It’s good for you
• You are the future data user
• Your data get used (and cited)
• Exposure to collaborators
• More competitive grants
38. One on one meetings
• How do I write a DMP?
• How do I organize my data?
• How do I clean and format my data?
• How do I automate my analyses?
• How do I get my data ready to share?
39. Data archiving service
• CSU Digital Repository
• 78 Datasets
• Satisfy requirements for
manuscripts and grants
• At no cost <1 TB
• $150/TB for 5 years
• $300/TB for >5 years
40. Large Projects
• Shortgrass Steppe – LTER (32)
http://hdl.handle.net/10217/100254
• Yellowstone Willows LTREB (21)
http://hdl.handle.net/10217/173646
• RAPID: Characterizing the Response of
a Burned Landscape to an Unusual and
Extreme Rain Event (4)
http://hdl.handle.net/10217/100371
42. Take home points
• Data management requires new skills
• Library staff have those skills
• CSU Libraries can help
• Education
• One on one meetings
• Digital Repository
You already care deeply about your data
It’s your IP
But…
There are external pressures that make thinking about how to preserve research data more pressing
The number of PhDs is growing, hence….
Despite a steady increase in the number of PhDs, research funding is more or less flat
Stronger data sharing requirements are coming down the road, all the way from the whitehouse.
More is coming in response to this mandate.