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Emerging Data Curation Roles for Librarians: A Case Study of Agricultural Data
Journal of Agricultural & Food Information, 2011
This article discusses ways in which agricultural librarians can transform what they do to meet t... more This article discusses ways in which agricultural librarians can transform what they do to meet the emerging needs of scientists for creating data management strategies. Discussion of the Purdue University Libraries’ experience with evolving roles in working with scientists will include required knowledge, training, experimentation, and development of working relationships with scientists involved in the data curation, as well as
Skills in this competency may include: • Is familiar with the basic data processing and analysis ... more Skills in this competency may include: • Is familiar with the basic data processing and analysis tools and techniques of the discipline or research area. • Understands the effect that these tools may have on the data. • Uses appropriate workflow management tools to automate repetitive analysis of data.
Findings from the DIL Interviews: Ethics and Attribution Skills in this competency may include: •... more Findings from the DIL Interviews: Ethics and Attribution Skills in this competency may include: • Develops an understanding of intellectual property, privacy and confidentiality issues, and the ethos of the discipline when it comes to sharing and administering data. • Acknowledges data from external sources appropriately. • Avoids misleading or ambiguous representations when presenting data. Additional skills mentioned by an interviewee: • Identifying what data not to show for privacy purposes. Average Ranking of Importance (5=essential): Faculty = 4.38, Students = 4.35 Faculty responses: Fewer faculty gravitated towards the data representation element of the competency, focusing more on the citation, intellectual property, privacy and confidentiality elements.
The purpose of this paper was to identify existing criteria that may be considered in evaluating ... more The purpose of this paper was to identify existing criteria that may be considered in evaluating journals in the scholarship of teaching and learning in agriculture, natural resources, and the life sciences. This can assist faculty authors and evaluators of promotion and tenure cases to explain indicators of the quality of the publications. The commonly accepted criteria are: peer review; acceptance rate; longevity; open access availability; inclusion in indexing/abstracting services; citation analysis; and expert opinion. These data were collected for a representative set of journals which indicated that: acceptance rates for the journals varied widely; most of the journals existed for at least 10 years; most of the journals did not have an ISI impact factor or Eigenfactor TM Score; the ERIC database was the predominant indexing resource; and there were no published lists of journals in these subjects compiled from expert opinion.
This case study describes an investigation into the data management and sharing practices within ... more This case study describes an investigation into the data management and sharing practices within an interdisciplinary research lab. The Purdue Water Quality Field Station (WQFS) consists of researchers and graduate students generating data on a range of topics including: water quality, water flow, chemical composition of water, soil composition, soil moisture, and plant biomass. Many of these data are of interest beyond the lab, to other researchers, policy makers, and companies. Most of the data are gathered, processed and analyzed by graduate students from several different departments. The data gathered by one graduate student may be useful to others, but there are few common practices for documenting, managing or sharing data in the lab, making sharing data difficult even amongst lab personnel. To characterize the data sharing needs and practices in this setting, previous interviews with researchers were supplemented by interviews with 6 graduate students using a modified versio...
Evolution of Reference: A New Service Model for Science and Engineering Libraries
Preserving Soil Survey Data with GIS
Purdue University Libraries are resurrecting a 1906 Soil Survey of Tippecanoe County, Indiana and... more Purdue University Libraries are resurrecting a 1906 Soil Survey of Tippecanoe County, Indiana and mashing it with itself in order to add value, access, and interaction beyond the more traditional scan/describe/store model of collection recovery. It is an attempt to leverage the evolving technologies of librarianship (description, yes, but also text markup, web application-building, and geographic information systems [GIS]) toward the benefit of our users' maturing needs and expectations. This poster provides some context to the materials and the project and documents the process of taking beautiful, important, but underused analog materials and decompiling them in order to re-build a more useful, accessible whole.
Partnering with Agronomy Faculty to Create a Framework of Data Sharing
Our librarians are partnering with scientists to help them describe, preserve, manage, and share ... more Our librarians are partnering with scientists to help them describe, preserve, manage, and share the data generated by their research. In one instance, the librarians are working with an Agronomy faculty member to create a data collection of water quality samples gathered at the University's Agronomy Center for Research and Education (ACRE).The project has two phases: the first to ingest and archive five years' worth of past data as a batch process, and the second to integrate our tools into the data collection process so that current and future data flows into the repository. Metadata from the water quality sample data collection is harvested, aggregated with metadata from other repository collections, indexed for searching, and presented on the web in a context with other digital library content such as e-prints and digitized archival collections.But completion of the technical aspects of the project is not the only goal for librarians. Building relationships with the facu...
A Watershed Moment: Preserving and Improving Access to Water Quality Data
Librarians at Purdue University are partnering with scientists to help them describe, preserve, m... more Librarians at Purdue University are partnering with scientists to help them describe, preserve, manage, and share the data generated by their research. Scientists are interested in publishing their data to meet the requirements of funding agencies as well as to enable their datasets to be more broadly discovered and used. The Distributed Data Curation Center (D2C2) at the Purdue University Libraries has developed a data repository framework to house datasets and furnish services and tools to make this possible. This poster will describe an example of such a partnership between librarians and agronomists to create a data collection of water quality samples gathered at Purdue’s Agronomy Center for Research and Education (ACRE). It includes an analysis of the researchers’ workflow and the automation of the description and ingestion of instrument data into a repository using XSLT and programming scripts. A scan of available thesauri and community formats and practices was conducted befo...
College & Research Libraries, 2007
In response to changing user behavior and decreased funding, the University of Arizona Library re... more In response to changing user behavior and decreased funding, the University of Arizona Library recognized a need to reevaluate how it provided information and referral services. A project team conducted action gap surveys to determine customer satisfaction, logged questions actually asked to establish appropriate staffing needs, and calculated the cost of providing these services. As a result of the data gathered, new service and staffing models were implemented that reduced both the number of service points and reliance on professional staff without a reduction in perceived quality.
Some Thoughts on Opportunities for Collection Development Librarians
New and emerging roles are transforming the landscape of academic librarianship. This paper focus... more New and emerging roles are transforming the landscape of academic librarianship. This paper focuses on the changes facing academic librarians whose activities and responsibilities in collections are shifting, particularly in the face of greater emphasis on user-driven collection development. Librarians’ reduced role in routine collection development translates into gaining more time and support to move in other directions. Among many
Science & Technology Libraries, 2001
Library services have changed dramatically in recent years due to the rapid developments in both ... more Library services have changed dramatically in recent years due to the rapid developments in both information technology and electronic resources. The behavior and expectations of users have changed as well. Users expect to find full-text information online that is retrievable with a minimum of effort. The information literacy movement is influencing the approaches of many instruction librarians, but this influence is often realized in generic materials geared to reach the greatest number of students, materials that do not suit the specific needs of science and engineering library customers. Librarians must re-envision instruction for an environment where a "one size fits all" approach is not appropriate. [Article copies available for a feefrom The Haworth Document Delivery Service: 1 -800-HA WORTH. E-mail address: <getii$o@haworth pressinc.com> Website: hnp:llwwwHaworthPress.com O 2001 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights resewed.]
In-house training for instruction librarians
Research Strategies, 2003
... In-house training program. ... These assignments were gathered from departmental liaison libr... more ... In-house training program. ... These assignments were gathered from departmental liaison librarians and course Web sites. ... One participant remarked, “the lack of understanding of info lit principles in designing assignments is more pervasive than we think.” One comment pointed ...
Data Management and Sharing from the Perspective of Graduate Students: An Examination of the Culture and Practice at the Water Quality Field Station
portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2013
ABSTRACT Libraries are actively seeking to identify and respond to the data management and curati... more ABSTRACT Libraries are actively seeking to identify and respond to the data management and curation needs of researchers. One important perspective often overlooked in acquiring an understanding is that of graduate students. This case study used the Data Curation Profile Toolkit to interview six graduate students working for agronomy researchers at the Water Quality Field Station (WQFS) research lab to understand the students’ practices with data, the challenges they face, and their attitudes toward managing and sharing data. Though a small study, this research could provide new insights for libraries creating data services, particularly in regard to graduate students.
Adding value to digitizing with GIS
Library Hi Tech, 2008
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a project that digitized the 1906 Soil Survey o... more Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a project that digitized the 1906 Soil Survey of Tippecanoe County, Indiana, extracted its contents into full-text and geospatial datasets, and then built them into a web application designed to approximate but improve upon the way soil surveys are typically used by soil scientists in their research and field work. Design/methodology/approach – The components of a 1906 soil survey document were scanned and their contents were extracted using several different methods, chief among them imagery segmentation and classification. The resulting datasets included a full-text version of the original narrative and two georeferenced versions of the soil survey map. Findings – Going several steps beyond just scanning, including the application of geographic information system (GIS) capabilities, adds significant value to geospatial materials whose contents are still relevant but whose formats are cumbersome. In addition, this allows for a GIS platform to which other maps and content can be added. Originality/value – This is a unique approach to enhancing content through GIS.
The Pilot Study of Integrating Spatial Educational Experiences (Isee) in an Undergraduate Crop Production Course
Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education, 2011
Mediated Document Delivery Using the British Library's Inside
Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Information Supply, 2002
ABSTRACT Escalating journal costs forced annual cancellations and a moratorium on new journal tit... more ABSTRACT Escalating journal costs forced annual cancellations and a moratorium on new journal titles that compromised the integrity of the University of Houston Library's journal collection. The Library decided to pursue commercial document delivery as a way to supplement the journal collection and to satisfy customer needs for timely delivery of materials, selecting the British Library's Inside to provide the documents. The Life Sciences Librarian designed a pilot project to offer mediated document delivery service to Biology and Biochemistry faculty, which resulted in unexpected increases in positive communications between the faculty and the Library.
Some Thoughts on Opportunities for Collection Development Librarians
Collection Management, 2010
New and emerging roles are transforming the landscape of academic librarianship. This paper focus... more New and emerging roles are transforming the landscape of academic librarianship. This paper focuses on the changes facing academic librarians whose activities and responsibilities in collections are shifting, particularly in the face of greater emphasis on user-driven collection development. Librarians’ reduced role in routine collection development translates into gaining more time and support to move in other directions. Among many
Collection Management, 2010
The collection development role of the academic librarian in the research university library is i... more The collection development role of the academic librarian in the research university library is increasingly subject to significant change as opportunities to build new types of library collections proliferate, particularly with respect to research data. A Purdue Libraries task force was charged with building facultyproduced collections for a data repository prototype. One purpose of the project was to inventory and characterize the resources and skills required of the Libraries and its data-collecting librarians. This paper examines the librarian roles and activities that were identified during the project and suggests ways the experience of the task force can inform the roles and activities of librarians who are similarly charged.
Emerging Data Curation Roles for Librarians: A Case Study of Agricultural Data
Journal of Agricultural & Food Information, 2011
This article discusses ways in which agricultural librarians can transform what they do to meet t... more This article discusses ways in which agricultural librarians can transform what they do to meet the emerging needs of scientists for creating data management strategies. Discussion of the Purdue University Libraries’ experience with evolving roles in working with scientists will include required knowledge, training, experimentation, and development of working relationships with scientists involved in the data curation, as well as
Skills in this competency may include: • Is familiar with the basic data processing and analysis ... more Skills in this competency may include: • Is familiar with the basic data processing and analysis tools and techniques of the discipline or research area. • Understands the effect that these tools may have on the data. • Uses appropriate workflow management tools to automate repetitive analysis of data.
Findings from the DIL Interviews: Ethics and Attribution Skills in this competency may include: •... more Findings from the DIL Interviews: Ethics and Attribution Skills in this competency may include: • Develops an understanding of intellectual property, privacy and confidentiality issues, and the ethos of the discipline when it comes to sharing and administering data. • Acknowledges data from external sources appropriately. • Avoids misleading or ambiguous representations when presenting data. Additional skills mentioned by an interviewee: • Identifying what data not to show for privacy purposes. Average Ranking of Importance (5=essential): Faculty = 4.38, Students = 4.35 Faculty responses: Fewer faculty gravitated towards the data representation element of the competency, focusing more on the citation, intellectual property, privacy and confidentiality elements.
The purpose of this paper was to identify existing criteria that may be considered in evaluating ... more The purpose of this paper was to identify existing criteria that may be considered in evaluating journals in the scholarship of teaching and learning in agriculture, natural resources, and the life sciences. This can assist faculty authors and evaluators of promotion and tenure cases to explain indicators of the quality of the publications. The commonly accepted criteria are: peer review; acceptance rate; longevity; open access availability; inclusion in indexing/abstracting services; citation analysis; and expert opinion. These data were collected for a representative set of journals which indicated that: acceptance rates for the journals varied widely; most of the journals existed for at least 10 years; most of the journals did not have an ISI impact factor or Eigenfactor TM Score; the ERIC database was the predominant indexing resource; and there were no published lists of journals in these subjects compiled from expert opinion.
This case study describes an investigation into the data management and sharing practices within ... more This case study describes an investigation into the data management and sharing practices within an interdisciplinary research lab. The Purdue Water Quality Field Station (WQFS) consists of researchers and graduate students generating data on a range of topics including: water quality, water flow, chemical composition of water, soil composition, soil moisture, and plant biomass. Many of these data are of interest beyond the lab, to other researchers, policy makers, and companies. Most of the data are gathered, processed and analyzed by graduate students from several different departments. The data gathered by one graduate student may be useful to others, but there are few common practices for documenting, managing or sharing data in the lab, making sharing data difficult even amongst lab personnel. To characterize the data sharing needs and practices in this setting, previous interviews with researchers were supplemented by interviews with 6 graduate students using a modified versio...
Evolution of Reference: A New Service Model for Science and Engineering Libraries
Preserving Soil Survey Data with GIS
Purdue University Libraries are resurrecting a 1906 Soil Survey of Tippecanoe County, Indiana and... more Purdue University Libraries are resurrecting a 1906 Soil Survey of Tippecanoe County, Indiana and mashing it with itself in order to add value, access, and interaction beyond the more traditional scan/describe/store model of collection recovery. It is an attempt to leverage the evolving technologies of librarianship (description, yes, but also text markup, web application-building, and geographic information systems [GIS]) toward the benefit of our users' maturing needs and expectations. This poster provides some context to the materials and the project and documents the process of taking beautiful, important, but underused analog materials and decompiling them in order to re-build a more useful, accessible whole.
Partnering with Agronomy Faculty to Create a Framework of Data Sharing
Our librarians are partnering with scientists to help them describe, preserve, manage, and share ... more Our librarians are partnering with scientists to help them describe, preserve, manage, and share the data generated by their research. In one instance, the librarians are working with an Agronomy faculty member to create a data collection of water quality samples gathered at the University's Agronomy Center for Research and Education (ACRE).The project has two phases: the first to ingest and archive five years' worth of past data as a batch process, and the second to integrate our tools into the data collection process so that current and future data flows into the repository. Metadata from the water quality sample data collection is harvested, aggregated with metadata from other repository collections, indexed for searching, and presented on the web in a context with other digital library content such as e-prints and digitized archival collections.But completion of the technical aspects of the project is not the only goal for librarians. Building relationships with the facu...
A Watershed Moment: Preserving and Improving Access to Water Quality Data
Librarians at Purdue University are partnering with scientists to help them describe, preserve, m... more Librarians at Purdue University are partnering with scientists to help them describe, preserve, manage, and share the data generated by their research. Scientists are interested in publishing their data to meet the requirements of funding agencies as well as to enable their datasets to be more broadly discovered and used. The Distributed Data Curation Center (D2C2) at the Purdue University Libraries has developed a data repository framework to house datasets and furnish services and tools to make this possible. This poster will describe an example of such a partnership between librarians and agronomists to create a data collection of water quality samples gathered at Purdue’s Agronomy Center for Research and Education (ACRE). It includes an analysis of the researchers’ workflow and the automation of the description and ingestion of instrument data into a repository using XSLT and programming scripts. A scan of available thesauri and community formats and practices was conducted befo...
College & Research Libraries, 2007
In response to changing user behavior and decreased funding, the University of Arizona Library re... more In response to changing user behavior and decreased funding, the University of Arizona Library recognized a need to reevaluate how it provided information and referral services. A project team conducted action gap surveys to determine customer satisfaction, logged questions actually asked to establish appropriate staffing needs, and calculated the cost of providing these services. As a result of the data gathered, new service and staffing models were implemented that reduced both the number of service points and reliance on professional staff without a reduction in perceived quality.
Some Thoughts on Opportunities for Collection Development Librarians
New and emerging roles are transforming the landscape of academic librarianship. This paper focus... more New and emerging roles are transforming the landscape of academic librarianship. This paper focuses on the changes facing academic librarians whose activities and responsibilities in collections are shifting, particularly in the face of greater emphasis on user-driven collection development. Librarians’ reduced role in routine collection development translates into gaining more time and support to move in other directions. Among many
Science & Technology Libraries, 2001
Library services have changed dramatically in recent years due to the rapid developments in both ... more Library services have changed dramatically in recent years due to the rapid developments in both information technology and electronic resources. The behavior and expectations of users have changed as well. Users expect to find full-text information online that is retrievable with a minimum of effort. The information literacy movement is influencing the approaches of many instruction librarians, but this influence is often realized in generic materials geared to reach the greatest number of students, materials that do not suit the specific needs of science and engineering library customers. Librarians must re-envision instruction for an environment where a "one size fits all" approach is not appropriate. [Article copies available for a feefrom The Haworth Document Delivery Service: 1 -800-HA WORTH. E-mail address: <getii$o@haworth pressinc.com> Website: hnp:llwwwHaworthPress.com O 2001 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights resewed.]
In-house training for instruction librarians
Research Strategies, 2003
... In-house training program. ... These assignments were gathered from departmental liaison libr... more ... In-house training program. ... These assignments were gathered from departmental liaison librarians and course Web sites. ... One participant remarked, “the lack of understanding of info lit principles in designing assignments is more pervasive than we think.” One comment pointed ...
Data Management and Sharing from the Perspective of Graduate Students: An Examination of the Culture and Practice at the Water Quality Field Station
portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2013
ABSTRACT Libraries are actively seeking to identify and respond to the data management and curati... more ABSTRACT Libraries are actively seeking to identify and respond to the data management and curation needs of researchers. One important perspective often overlooked in acquiring an understanding is that of graduate students. This case study used the Data Curation Profile Toolkit to interview six graduate students working for agronomy researchers at the Water Quality Field Station (WQFS) research lab to understand the students’ practices with data, the challenges they face, and their attitudes toward managing and sharing data. Though a small study, this research could provide new insights for libraries creating data services, particularly in regard to graduate students.
Adding value to digitizing with GIS
Library Hi Tech, 2008
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a project that digitized the 1906 Soil Survey o... more Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a project that digitized the 1906 Soil Survey of Tippecanoe County, Indiana, extracted its contents into full-text and geospatial datasets, and then built them into a web application designed to approximate but improve upon the way soil surveys are typically used by soil scientists in their research and field work. Design/methodology/approach – The components of a 1906 soil survey document were scanned and their contents were extracted using several different methods, chief among them imagery segmentation and classification. The resulting datasets included a full-text version of the original narrative and two georeferenced versions of the soil survey map. Findings – Going several steps beyond just scanning, including the application of geographic information system (GIS) capabilities, adds significant value to geospatial materials whose contents are still relevant but whose formats are cumbersome. In addition, this allows for a GIS platform to which other maps and content can be added. Originality/value – This is a unique approach to enhancing content through GIS.
The Pilot Study of Integrating Spatial Educational Experiences (Isee) in an Undergraduate Crop Production Course
Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education, 2011
Mediated Document Delivery Using the British Library's Inside
Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Information Supply, 2002
ABSTRACT Escalating journal costs forced annual cancellations and a moratorium on new journal tit... more ABSTRACT Escalating journal costs forced annual cancellations and a moratorium on new journal titles that compromised the integrity of the University of Houston Library's journal collection. The Library decided to pursue commercial document delivery as a way to supplement the journal collection and to satisfy customer needs for timely delivery of materials, selecting the British Library's Inside to provide the documents. The Life Sciences Librarian designed a pilot project to offer mediated document delivery service to Biology and Biochemistry faculty, which resulted in unexpected increases in positive communications between the faculty and the Library.
Some Thoughts on Opportunities for Collection Development Librarians
Collection Management, 2010
New and emerging roles are transforming the landscape of academic librarianship. This paper focus... more New and emerging roles are transforming the landscape of academic librarianship. This paper focuses on the changes facing academic librarians whose activities and responsibilities in collections are shifting, particularly in the face of greater emphasis on user-driven collection development. Librarians’ reduced role in routine collection development translates into gaining more time and support to move in other directions. Among many
Collection Management, 2010
The collection development role of the academic librarian in the research university library is i... more The collection development role of the academic librarian in the research university library is increasingly subject to significant change as opportunities to build new types of library collections proliferate, particularly with respect to research data. A Purdue Libraries task force was charged with building facultyproduced collections for a data repository prototype. One purpose of the project was to inventory and characterize the resources and skills required of the Libraries and its data-collecting librarians. This paper examines the librarian roles and activities that were identified during the project and suggests ways the experience of the task force can inform the roles and activities of librarians who are similarly charged.