Presentation to the graduate students and postdocs of the American Chemical Society's Summer Institute in Washington, DC, on July 31, 2014.

1. The Emerging Roles of Librarians
Jeffrey Lancaster, Ph.D.
Emerging Technologies Coordinator
Columbia University Libraries
jeffrey.lancaster@columbia.edu
@j_lancaster

2. Research Workflow

3. Applica'ons?
Plausible?
Useful?
Novel?
New
Ques'ons
New
Knowledge
Patents
Background
Jus'fica'on
Conferences
Community
Conversa'on
Data
Analysis
Confirma'on
Reagents
Protocols
Learning
Up
to
Speed
Researchers
Students
Jus'fica'on
Grants
JOB
&
FUNDING
PUBLISH
PEOPLE
FUNDING
ANALYSIS
&
RESULTS
EXPERIMENTS
RESEARCH
PLAN
IDEA
Big
or
small
Discussion
Conferences
Talks
Ar'cles
Thesis
Talks
The Role of Literature in the Research Workflow
Adapted
from
Laura
Cro/
@
Nature

4. Digital vs. Print

5. Libraries as
Spaces

6. Libraries as
Virtual Spaces

7. Libraries as
Makerspaces

8. 3dprint.cul.columbia.edu

9. 3dprint.cul.columbia.edu

10. Video at vimeo.com/99602751

11. 3dprint.cul.columbia.edu

12. Leap Motion

13. Video at youtube.com/watch?v=_d6KuiuteIA

14. Makerspaces
Lots
of
different
kinds,
so
what
fits
best
in
our
library?
Digital
FabricaCon
3D
printers
+
materials
• Makerbot
Replicator
2
• FormLabs
Form
1
• Gigabot
3D
scanner
• e.g.
NextEngine
Laser
cuYer
+
ven'la'on
+
paperboard
• e.g.
Epilog
Zing
24
• e.g.
Purex
Xbase
400
Wire
bender
• DIWire
Vinyl
cuYer
+
vinyl
• e.g.
EnduraCUT
24"
Desktop
Vinyl
CuYer
Open
Source
Hardware
• Arduinos
• Raspberry
Pis
• Addi'onal
components
(resistors,
capacitors,
wires,
etc.)
• Breadboards,
soldering
irons,
etc.
• Makey
makeys
• Addi'onal
shields
Human
Computer
InteracCon
• Leap
Mo'on
• Oculus
Ric
• Google
Glass
• Kinect
• Xbox
• Wii
+
Tools

15. Libraries as
Consortia

16. Professional Skills

17. Copyright

18. Social Media

19. (Some) Scientists are private.
About some things.
And some scientists are not.

20. ORCID, ResearcherID, etc.
Unique
idenCfiers
for
researchers
to
cross-­‐reference
publicaCons,
acCviCes,
etc.
John
Smith
vs.
J.
Smith
vs.
John
D.
Smith
vs.
J.
D.
Smith
vs.
JD
Smith
vs.
…
Wang
Kim
vs.
W.
Kim
vs.
Kim
Wang
vs.
K.
Wang
…
ORCID:
0000-­‐0003-­‐0458-­‐2127
ResearcherID:
J-­‐6870-­‐2012

21. Crowd-Funding Science
Funding
science
may
no
longer
rely
upon
government.
Interested
people,
engaged
by
social
media
presence,
are
key
to
raising
money
from
the
crowd.

22. Scientists are lazy.
But:
They’ll do what funders tell them to.

23. Software

24. Applica'ons?
Plausible?
Useful?
Novel?
New
Ques'ons
New
Knowledge
Patents
Background
Jus'fica'on
Conferences
Community
Conversa'on
Data
Analysis
Confirma'on
Reagents
Protocols
Learning
Up
to
Speed
Researchers
Students
Jus'fica'on
Grants
JOB
&
FUNDING
PUBLISH
PEOPLE
FUNDING
ANALYSIS
&
RESULTS
EXPERIMENTS
RESEARCH
PLAN
IDEA
Big
or
small
Discussion
Conferences
Talks
Ar'cles
Thesis
Talks
So. Many. Tools.

25. Emerging Technologies

26. 3 Things
You Should Know

27. 1. Openness

28. 2. Data + Code

29. Sharing doesn’t count.
Until now.

30. figshare.com
Share
research
components
to
make
them
discoverable
&
citable;
get
metrics

31. figshare.com
Share
research
components
to
make
them
discoverable
&
citable;
get
metrics

32. DOIs for Code
Github + Mozilla + Figshare à DOIs
Mozilla: Software Carpentry

33. Run My Code
Share
code
used
to
analyze
data;
others
can
implement
the
same
methodology
• Biology
• Mathema'cs
• Neuroscience
• Sta's'cs
• Social
sciences
• Economics
• Econometrics
• Finance
• Management
• R
• MATLAB©
• C++
• Fortran
• Rats
• More
socware
will
be
added
soon.
Oh,
and
it’s
free!

34. Reproducibility Initiative
Address
the
reproducibility
of
your
research
in
a
blind,
fee-­‐for-­‐service
validaCon
Validated
studies
receive
a
Cer'ficate
of
Reproducibility
acknowledging
that
their
results
have
been
independently
reproduced.

35. Altmetric(s)
Capture
overall
impact
of
a
publicaCon
in
blogs,
tweets,
menCons,
news,
etc.

36. 2.1 Big Data

37. Big Data
+
Data Science
CERN:
approx. 1 PB/sec = 1000 TB/sec = 1000000 GB/sec
filtered to 1 GB/sec
http://arstechnica.com/science/2010/08/lhc-computing-grid-pushes-petabytes-of-data-beats-expectations/

38. Big Data
+
Data Science
Institute for Data Sciences & Engineering:
• Cybersecurity Center
• Financial and Business Analytics Center
• Foundations of Data Science Center
• Health Analytics Center
• New Media Center
• Smart Cities Center

39. 3. Communication

40. Future: Electronic Lab Notebooks

41. Thank you.
Questions?
Jeffrey Lancaster, Ph.D.
Emerging Technologies Coordinator
Columbia University Libraries
jeffrey.lancaster@columbia.edu
@j_lancaster
http://www.slideshare.net/jeffreylancaster