This document provides tips and recommendations for data stewardship. It encourages enabling data sharing, exploring new tools, and working with libraries and researchers to help change systems. It emphasizes that data is more important than ever due to digital data and complex workflows. Proper data management helps ensure reproducibility, credibility, collaboration and faster progress. Researchers must have data management plans and make their data open and useful to others. They should include data in their credentials and publications to get proper recognition. The document recommends tools and resources for planning, documenting, and getting credit for data work.

1. Data Stewardship
California Digital Library
carlystrasser@gmail.com
Mountain Observatories
July 2014
Tips, Tools, & Why You
Should Care
Carly Strasser | @carlystrasser

2. FromFlickrvialibrarianinsta.tumblr.com
I am not a
librarian.

3. C.Strasser
…but I do work at
a library.

4. Enable data
sharing
Encourage
new
incentives
Think about
code sharing
Work with libraries,
publishers and
researchers
Explore new
tools to help
change
system
Build
tools

5. Why are
you here?
Because data is more
important than ever.

6. Digital data
FromFlickrbyFlickmor
FromFlickrbyUSArmyEnvironmentalCommand
FromFlickrbyDW0825
C. Strasser
CourteseyofWHOI
FromFlickrbydeltaMike

7. Digital data
+
Complex workflows

8. From Flickr by ~Minnea~
Reproducibility
Data management
Documentation

9. From Flickr by johntrainor
Who cares?

10. Better reproducibility.

12. More credibility.
Better reproducibility.

14. More credibility.
Better reproducibility.
Increased collaboration & reuse.

16. Faster progress.
More credibility.
Better reproducibility.
Increased collaboration & reuse.

18. Faster progress.
More credibility.
Better reproducibility.
Future scientists can use the data.
Increased collaboration & reuse.

19. From Flickr by Redden-McAllister
From Flickr by Ken Cowell
From Flickr Brandi Jordan

20. Faster progress.
More credibility.
Better reproducibility.
Future scientists can use the data.
Increased collaboration & reuse.
You have to.

21. Funders
From Flickr by Eva Rinaldi Celebrity and Live Music
Photographer

22. … “Federal agencies investing in research and
development (more than $100 million in annual
expenditures) must have clear and coordinated
policies for increasing public access to
research products.”
Feb
2013

23. Funders
Journals
From Flickr by Eva Rinaldi Celebrity and Live Music
Photographer

25. data management
FromFlickrbyBigSwedeGuy
Best Practices
Plan

26. A document that
describes what you will
do with your data
throughout
the research project
From Flickr by Barbies Land
What is a data
management plan?

27. Basic DMPs
From Flickr by Artful
Magpie
1. Types of data
2. Data & metadata standards
3. Policies
4. Plans for preservation
5. Budget

28. When do you plan?
Yes.

29. Plan
Collect
Assure
Describe
Preserve
Discover
Integrate
Analyze
Proposal
writing
Research
Publication
Ideas
When do you plan?

30. data management
FromFlickrbyBigSwedeGuy
Best Practices
Plan
Be open

31. science
source
notebook
content
access
data
government
knowledge
FromFlickrbycdsessums

32. Open Science:
Making
data
research
dissemination
available to all
From Flickr by Julia Manzerova

33. make
data
as
useful
as
possible
From Flickr by Hallvard E
Make your data as useful as possible

34. “I want to be co-author”
“Let me know what you will do with it first”
custom data use
agreements
is best
are bad
Standard, machine-readable
licenses/waivers
is okay

35. data management
FromFlickrbyBigSwedeGuy
Best Practices
Plan
Be open
Recognize

36. Include data in your CV.

37. Include data in your CV.
Publish your data.

38. Include data in your CV.
Publish your data.
Cite data.
Example:
Sidlauskas, B. 2007. Data from: Testing for unequal rates of morphological
diversification in the absence of a detailed phylogeny: a case study from
characiform fishes. Dryad Digital Repository. doi:10.5061/dryad.20

39. Tools
FromFlickrbymhlradio
to plan for
sharing

40. databib.org
Where
should I put
my data?
Find a repository

41. Step-by-step wizard for generating DMP
create | edit | re-use | share
Free & open to community
Use the dmptool.org

42. Tools
FromFlickrbymhlradio
to get credit

43. www.orcid.org
Adopted by
Funders | Publishers |Repositories | Tools
Claim your work

45. Altmetrics
Metrics for alt-products
Get credit for EVERYTHING
Downloads
Tweets
Mentions
Views
Data
Code
Slides
Blogs

46. Altmetrics
Metrics for alt-products
Get credit for EVERYTHING

47. Tools
FromFlickrbymhlradio
to document
your work

48. Learn new skills
software carpentry
www.software-carpentry.org

49. E-notebooks, Online science

50. From Flickr by dotpolka

51. From wikimedia.org by Natebailey
Everett Rogers Technology Adoption Lifecycle model

52. From wikimedia.org by Natebailey
Everett Rogers Technology Adoption Lifecycle model
Research is changing.
When will you adapt?

53. FromFlickrbycompujeramey!
Website
Email
Twitter
Slides
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carlystrasser@gmail.com
@carlystrasser
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