CIRSS Publications and Presentations
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Carole Palmer presented for the Bloomsbury Conference on E-Publishing and E-Publications on June 24-25, 2010. This presentation drew on current research on scientific data practices and curation requirements for the Data Conservancy, which is developing an integrated and comprehensive data curation strategy for research libraries. She discussed how current research is adapting methods developed for research on data curation for institutional repositories to address the aims of this nationally scoped repository initiative and the problems associated with defining data communities and representing meaningful units of data for long term access and use.
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Melissa Cragin presents at the 2010 USAIN Conference
Hosted by: Purdue University
Title of Presentation: Introduction to Data Curation - A Running Tour through the Data Curation Environment
Date: May 9, 2010
As librarians move to provide services to support "cyber-enabled" researchers, they will need enhanced knowledge to engage in liaison activities. Early explorations in this area indicate that librarians may need to support research further "upstream" in its lifecycle than in the traditional scholarly communication cycle. Working in collaboration with researchers and being directly involved in the research process can be intimidating for librarians when there is a lack of methodologies and tools available to help. Librarians at Purdue University and the University of Illinois received a National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to investigate issues related to research data collections, and will share knowledge and tools to help address these problems.
Data curation is the active and on-going management of research data through its lifecycle of interest and usefulness to scholarship, science, and education. Curation activities and policies enable data discovery and retrieval, maintain data quality, and provide for re-use over time. This morning's workshop provides a broad overview of theoretical and practical problems in this emerging field. We will examine and discuss issues related to research processes and lifecycles, scholarly communication, research data collections, appraisal and selection, use and re-use, cost and service models. We will introduce the conception of the Data Curation Profiles Project, and draw on some of our findings to serve as examples during the presentation and discussion.
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Virgil Varvel of CIRSS presents a logitudinal analysis of data from the PLDS statistical report in the May / June 2010 Public Libraries journal, pp. 36-44. Key findings include: per $1000 of expenditures, libraries tended to experience slightly less output between 2008 and 2009 and seven-year trends showed statistically significant increases in income and expenditures per capita as well as per capita measures of library visits, holdings, circulation, and collection turnover.
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On April 10, 2010 Melissa Cragin participated on a panel, "Legal and Social Implications of Shared Collections," at the ASIS&T Research Data Access and Preservation Summit.
Her presentation is entitled, "Small science research and the data sharing strata." Melissa discussed small science research, data sharing, and implications for data management systems. -
Carole Palmer, principal investigator on the IMLS Digital Collections and Content project and director of CIRSS, will present "Aggregating Collections to Advance Our Collective Cultural Heritage" at WebWise 2010 on March 4 in Denver, Colorado. Her presentation will be part of a panel discussion on "The Future of Information Delivery: New Tools and Services for Discovery and Access".
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Title: Extending an LIS Data Curation Curriculum to the Humanities: Selected Activities and Observations
Authors: Allen H. Renear, Molly Dolan, Kevin Trainor, and Trevor Muoz
The poster will be presented at the iConference 2010, which takes place in Champaign, during February 3-6.