Part of the IUB Libraries' 'Surviving & Thriving in Academia' workshop series - 'Managing your social media presence.'
We talked about ways to think of your research in terms of metadata and tools that can help you organize, store, and share your work.
1. Savvy Management Part I.I:
Managing your own metadata
Juliet L. Hardesty
Metadata Analyst
Indiana University Libraries
jlhardes@iu.edu @jlhardes
2. What is this… metadata?
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Describes, categorizes, organizes
Example
Store, preserve, migrate
Find, identify, and access later
– (sometimes much much later after it’s mixed in
with all sorts of other stuff that may or may not be
related)
3. Metadata as a Scholar
• Main goals
– Track (and don’t lose) your research
– Use your research
– Share your research
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1: Data
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Step 3:
Profit!
7. Finding things later
• Based on feature
– File format
– Date
– File name
– Directory
structure
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8. • Based on activity
–Writing a paper
–Conducting an experiment
–Analyzing a data set
–Creating a presentation
–Preparing a lesson/course
• No correct answer when it’s personal
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10. Tools (and people) exist to help
• Evernote – note-taking in the cloud
• Zotero – citation management
• Bamboo Dirt – more digital research tool
options than you will ever need
• Tools for research on the go – IU Libraries
• Top 10 tech tips for IU students - UITS
• What is Metadata? – metadata@iu.edu
11. Sharing your research
(when it’s all done
and stuff)
• Publications
– Title, author(s), subjects,
keywords, abstract
• Research data sets
– Field data, spreadsheets,
image sets
– Metadata standards
– Proprietary file formats
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12. Manage your scholar profile
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ORCID
Google Scholar citations
VIVO at IU
Web of Science, LinkedIn, Academia.edu
Ask fellow researchers/mentors/advisors
Organizes research around the corpus of YOU
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