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FINDING DATA Big Data, Little

Data: Having it AllOctober 3, 2013

Denise Bennett, Marston Science

Library

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George A. Smathers Libraries

Marston Science Library

LOOKING FOR OTHERS’ DATASETS?* To reuse* To serve as model for your data

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http://library.ufl.edu/datamgmt

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Choose “idea” from the data life cycle

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Link to Datasets guide

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Datasets guide

What do you mean by “data”?

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Strategies for finding datasets

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Finding datasets within journal articles

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Multidisciplinary repositories

Let’s start with Dryad

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Repository example: Dryad

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Dryad.org – search results

Search for “size,” get 966 datasets

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Dryad.org – search results

See major subjects of resulting datasets

See journals where articles were published

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Dryad entry

See individual files; 17 for this project

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Dryad entry: citation

See how to cite the article and the data package

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Dryad dataset: in Excel, ready for re-use

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Back to Multidisciplinary repositories

Let’s look at Databib

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Repository example: Databib

603 data repositories total in Databib.

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Databib: search results

A search for “climatology” shows 53 groups

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Databib entry

See info about the group and a link to its website

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Databib leads to website

Data Access links

Recent Data Activities noted

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back on the Datasets guide

Choose any subject category to see discipline-specific repositories

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Citing datasets

See examples and recommended practices

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back to Datasets home

Scroll down for Tips & Tricks

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