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The Do-It-Yourself Research Data Management
Training Kit for Librarians
Robin Rice, Data Librarian, [email protected] and Data Library, University of Edinburgh
Annual Workshop of the International Associationof Scientific and Technological Libraries (IATUL)
Research Data Management: Finding our RoleUniversity of Oxford: 6 December 2013
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OverviewRDM at University of Edinburgh
New roles: supporting data management
Research Data MANTRA – researcher training
Edinburgh liaison librarian training in RDM
Disseminating opportunities: the DIY Training Kit
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Uni of Edinburgh’s RDM Policy
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Our Research Data ManagementRoadmap (to implement the policy)
Involvement from across University and Information Services
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Data Management Support
General consultancy and support service throughout the research process
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Supporting and training researchers
• Online guidance for academic staff
• Training PhD students and early career researchers
• Awareness-raising and service rollout
• Data management consultancy; grant-costed effort such as embedded librarians or data librarians
• Training librarians, preparing IT staff for rollout
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New landing page for RDM
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Research Data MANTRA
• Openly licensed online learning self-paced course in RDM for postgrads and early career researchers
• Grounded in three disciplines, working with post-graduate schools
• Video stories from researchers in variety of settings
• Data handling exercises in four software analysis packages
http://datalib.edina.ac.uk/mantra
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course
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Challenges for Librarians in RDM
• Finding time to pursue new activities
• Establishing credibility in a new area of expertise
• Learning new skills; ‘getting techie’
• Getting hands dirty with unpublished material
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Learning from Monash experience –It’s about confidence building
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Liaison librarian training (2012-13)Data Library and User Services
carried out training with two groups of 4 liaison librarians
Aimed to reuse MANTRA in a blended learning approach for academic liaison librarians
Idea inspired by Data Intelligence 4 Librarians hybrid course from 3TU Delft
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Approach: pilot librarian trainingLibrarians are professionals with own
experience and concerns to bring to training
Obtain buy-in from start, from participants as well as their managers
Small group (4 plus facilitator), private setting, plenty of time for discussion, sharing stories
Emphasis on facilitation rather than teaching
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Five topics / modules
Data management planningDocumenting & organising dataData storage & securityEthics & copyright Data sharing
Topics of interest agreed with participating librarians before start of training. Loose correspondence to MANTRA units.
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Course structure: five sessions
Each face to face session two hours duration
Facilitated by an ‘expert’ (data librarian)
Invited guest speakers to kick off each session
Short talks followed by long discussions
Interactive group exercises from UK Data Archive Train the Trainers workbook
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‘Homework’ assignments
Allow 2 weeks to complete prior to session
MANTRA modules & recommended reading
Reflective questions to think as a researcher
Independent study: Interview a researcher
Write up a Data Curation Profile
The first builds confidence; the second practices what we preach (sharing)
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Because we love librarians -DIY RDM Training Kit for Librarians
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Contents of the training kit
Course schedule Reflective questions for each sessionSelected group exercises from UK Data ArchiveIndependent study assignment: Data Curation
Profile, from D2C2, Purdue University LibrariesPodcasts and presentations of short talksEvaluation formsCompleted curation profiles
All CC-BY licensed so please reuse!
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Links
University of Edinburgh policy
http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/research-data-policyResearch data management home page
http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/data-managementMANTRA online training
http://datalib.edina.ac.uk/mantraEdinburgh Data Blog
http://datablog.is.ed.ac.uk