1. DATA MANAGEMENT
AND THE CHANGING
LANDSCAPE OF RESEARCH
Shea Swauger
Data Management Librarian

2. DATA ARCHIVING MANDATES
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH
(2003)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/data_sharing/data_sharing_
guidance.htm
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
(2011)
http://www.nsf.gov/eng/general/dmp.jsp
OFFICE OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY POLICY
(2013)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/02/22/expanding-publicaccess-results-federally-funded-research

3. THE FUNDER’S PERSPECTIVE

4. AN ALTERNATIVE

5. UNANTICIPATED DATA REUSE
Dryad Digital Repository
http://datadryad.org/

6. TRADITIONAL SCHOLARSHIP AND
ASSESSMENT:
MEASURING THE IMPACT OF JOURNAL ARTICLES
• IMPACT FACTOR OF THE JOURNAL
• NUMBER OF CITATIONS TO THE ARTICLE
• IMEDIACY INDEX
• CITED HALF-LIFE

7. HOW CAN WE MEASURE
THE IMPACT OF DATA?
ALTMETRICS
(alternative metrics)
http://www.plumanalytics.com/
http://readermeter.org/
http://impactstory.org/

9. BUILDING A CULTURE OF OPENNESS

10. REASONS FOR NOT SHARING
DATA
DATA OWNERSHIP AND RIGHTS ISSUES
• ASK PERMISSION
• GIVE
ATRIBUTION
• BE WILLING TO
REMOVE THE
DATA

11. REASONS FOR NOT SHARING
DATA
RETAIN THE ABILITY TO PUBLISH FIRST
• EMBARGO THE
DATA
• DON’T PUBLISH
THE DATA UNTIL
ARTICLE
PUBLICATION

12. REASONS FOR NOT SHARING
DATA
FEAR OF OTHERS FINDING ERRORS IN THE WORK
• PERFORM
DATA
CLEANING
• HAVE A PEER
LOOK OVER
THE DATA

13. REASONS FOR NOT SHARING
DATA
FEAR OF OTHERS MISINTERPRETING THE DATA
• METADATA
• README FILES
• PROVIDE
CURRENT
CONTACT
INFORMATION

14. REASONS FOR NOT SHARING
DATA
DATA CONTAINS SENSITIVE OR PERSONALLY
IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION
• ANNONIMIZATION
• BREAKING APART
DATA TABLES
• SELECTIVE
SHARING

15. DATA REPOSITORIES:
INSTITUTIONAL OR DISCIPLINESPECIFIC?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

16. FIND A DISCIPLINE-SPECIFIC
REPOSITORY
http://databib.org/

17. CSU’S
INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY
http://digitool.library.colostate.edu

18. DATA MANAGEMENT SERVICES AT CSU:
DATA MANAGEMENT PLAN
WRITING
https://dmp.cdlib.org/

19. DATA MANAGEMENT SERVICES AT CSU:
CURATION:
DATA APPRAISAL, SELECTION,
METADATA, STRUCTURING,
FORMATING

20. DATA MANAGEMENT SERVICES AT CSU:
LONG-TERM DIGITAL
PRESERVATION

21. DATA MANAGEMENT SERVICES AT CSU:
DATA ACCESSABILITY AND
SEARCH ENGINE
OPTIMZATION

22. DATA MANAGEMENT SERVICES AT CSU:
OPEN-ACCESS REPOSITORY
MEETS GRANT FUNDER’S
REQUIREMENTS

23. RESEARCH DATA AND THE TENURE
AND PROMOTION PROCESS
SHOULD IT COUNT?
IF SO, HOW MUCH?

24. THE COMMODIFICATION OF DATA
BIG DATA
LARGE SCALE ANALYTICS
DATA BROKERING
RESEARCH DATA?

25. IF YOU HAVE DATA ISSUES

26. THE LIBRARY IS HERE TO HELP

27. QUESTIONS?
Shea Swauger
Data Management Librarian
Morgan Library, 210 E
shea.swauger@colostate.edu
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