An Eight Year Odyssey in Data Management: Purdue University

James L. Mullins, PhD Dean of Libraries &Esther Ellis Norton Professor, Purdue University

Research Data Management: Finding Our RoleUniversity of Oxford, December 5-6, 2013

Consistently in the Top 50 in The World Rankings for Reputation – (London) Times Higher Education

Strength Areas: STEM Fields –Most Recent Honor – Dr. Ei-ichi Negishi – Nobel Laureate in Chemistry – 2010

Enrollment – 37,976; International – 9,509, 3rd in USA

CRADLE OF ASTRONAUTS

23 NASA astronauts graduated from PurdueIncluding Neil Armstrong & Gene Cernan, first and last persons to be on the moon.

FET-based bio-sensorAlam group

needs.nanohub.org

NEEDS:

Vision: A new era of electronics enabled by the new capabilities of emergingnano-devices.

Mission: Connect nano-material and device research to new applications withphysics-based circuit simulation models.

Nano Engineered Electronic Device SimulationLead institution: PurduePartners: MIT, UC Berkeley, and Stanford

Used with permission, Pedro Irazoqui – Nov. 9, 2013

Glaucoma monitoring Seizure detection

Heart failure warningProsthetic arm control

The microchips shown were designed and

assembled at Purdue

Used with permission, Pedro Irazoqui – Nov. 9, 2013

2 mm

MINIATURIZATION

Used with permission, Pedro Irazoqui – Nov. 9, 2013

Purdue University Research Repository: PURR

http://www.youtube.com/v/jYBcsfiRhio

The PURR Odyssey – How it Started. • 2003 - National - “Atkins Report” Revolutionizing Science and Engineering through Cyberinfrastructure – NSF • 2004 - 2006 – At Purdue

• nanoHUB NSF Funded, collaborative software, HUBzero• Conversations between Libraries and Researchers• Restructuring of Libraries – Associate Dean for Research

• 2007 - At Purdue • Creation of Distributed Data Curation Center (D2C2) • NSF DataNet Proposal – using HUBzero platform • Creation of Libraries’ Interdisciplinary Research Specialist and Data

Research Scientist• IMLS Grant for Data Curation Profiles

Jumping Forward Three Years – (otherwise we will be here all day!)

Building Purdue University Research Repository - PURR - 2010 – 2014 (#1)

•May 2010 – NSF Announcement of Data Management Mandate

•Summer 2010 – Provost appoints taskforce of faculty researchers – co-chaired by CIO and Dean of Libraries.

• Fall 2010 - Commitment to develop repository jointly by ITaP, OVPR, and Libraries using HUBzero platform.

• 2011 - Workshops offered by OVPR and Libraries -introduced Data Curation checklist & •Trusted Digital Repository criteria used as framework.

Building Purdue University Research Repository - PURR - 2010 – 2014 (#2)

•Spring 2012 – Vice-President for Research committed $1,200,000 to develop data repository. Project Director from Libraries asked to lead Data Repository development team –– Purdue University Research Repository – PURR selected as name. •Summer 2012 – Data Repository Specialist and programmers hired. Libraries staff including archivists, data and subject specialists dedicated to development. Work with staff from HUBzero and OVPR.

2014 - Next Steps • Three universities to collaborate with Purdue on

scaling data management: University of Chicago, University of Illinois, and University of Michigan.

• International collaboration between Purdue Libraries and Tsinghua University and National Science Library (China).

How to start a data management process and implement a data repository. • Appreciate and Understand Application of library and archival science principles and theory to data management.

• Don’t hesitate to Collaborate with faculty (researchers), information technology, research office, and sponsored programs to develop a process and repository to manage and preserve data.

• Accept that that there is Little or No Precedent to establish sustainability for library e-science/data management.

Purdue Libraries staff of the PURR Working Group (several not included in photograph) and does not include OVPR, Faculty, ITaP (HUBzero) and SPS members.