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UNSW Library & eResearch September 2011
Outline
• UNSW Library & eResearch
• Library Repository Services
• eResearch examples
• Data librarianship and the UNSW ANDS-funded Seeding the Commons project
• Questions
University Library, UNSW
‘UNSW Library Lawn’ by unsw.flickr
Library Repository Services (LRS)
Created: January 2009
Aim: To support online environments for research, learning and teaching
“UNSW Library… is actively working with research projects, Schools and Research Centres to develop infrastructure and services that explore and meet this new role for libraries. The Library is focussed on standards-based, interoperable services and systems”
Institutional Repository
Projects
NCHSR Clearinghouse
HRHKnowledge Hub
Membrane Research
Environment
UNSW Seeding the Commons
Design & Art Australia Online (DAAO)
• Open source, freely accessible, scholarly e-Research tool
• Presents biographical data about Australian artists, designers, craftspeople and curators
• Built upon the foundations of the ‘Dictionary of Australian Art Online’
Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN)
• Used by students and staff at the School of Chemistry, UNSW
• Based on software developed at the University of Southampton in the U.K.
• Data librarians developed a guide for assigning metadata to ELN posts as well as providing tailored advice to specific students
Data librarianship
• Develop understanding of issues in data librarianship
• Seek and carry out projects to gain experience in data librarianship
• Identify research data management services that UNSW Library could offer faculties and centres
‘OK...we won't make you wear them anymore. Today.’ by shadow planet
Researching the Researchers (Rsquared) project
Aim: To investigate the
existing data use and
sharing practices of UNSW
researchers.
Methodology: Focus
groups, an online survey
and in-depth semi-
structured interviews.
‘Research’ by Anders Sandberg
Rsquared project findings
UNSW Seeding the Commons project
Resourcesabout research data
management Recordsin Research Data
Australia
Protocolsrelated to data management
Connections between datasets and publications
Infrastructureto support research data management
eResearch skills
• Managing, organising & describing resources
• Standards development & interoperability
• Archiving & preservation
‘Flu Genome Data Visualizer’ by Jer Thorp
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