La Trobe Uni: ERDMS project - connecting with Libraries with IT Andrew Williams
This presentation was part of the CAVAL/ANDS Workshop - Managing library teams for a research and data-intensive future
(Melbourne, 28 July 2017). Workshop program and presentations from other speakers: http://www.ands.org.au/news-and-events/presentations/2017
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ALL THIS IN FIVE MINUTES
1. ERDMS project
2. Library role
3. Librarians’ roles
4. Librarians’ skills
Notas do Editor
ERDMS project – Enterprise Research Data Management System project
“developing and building the University's capacity to collect, curate and disseminate research data underpinning research outputs.”
Joint effort between ICT and the library
“Flagship” university project
ICT PM and BAs sitting in the library. Librarians are SMEs.
Library role
Library sees RDM and the ERDMS project strategically. In addition to the need for what the project is intended to deliver, it’s an opportunity for the library to be at the centre of something that’s not going away.
The library really drives the governance of the project and ensuring consideration is given at the appropriate levels to the decisions that need to be taken. ICT is more active at the functional level.
Librarian’s roles
Librarians have had SME and UAT roles in the ERDMS project.
We chose to use the two recent ANDS-funded HVC projects to really give library staff a chance to learn hands-on about RDM.
Project management experience, and metadata experience, in describing the data for the disciplines and for Research Data Australia.
Librarian’s skills
Project management. It’s a generic skill, but very useful in a world of change.
Metadata skills, or the skill of organising things for consumption by others.
Liaison skills, or the skill of working productively with researchers.
In addition to this, there has been a significant effort to help library staff understand RDM sufficiently that they feel comfortable talking about it with researchers in their day to day liaison work.
My bio was a bit tongue in cheek, but I was trying to hint that RDM is still a relatively new field, that there is no defined path into it, but librarians are better positioned than many other vocations to play a role.