Big Data Forum April 18, 2013 Beth Oehlerts Digital Management Librarian Nancy Hunter Coordinator of Acquisitions and Metadata Services.

Big Data ForumApril 18, 2013

Beth Oehlerts

Digital Management Librarian

Nancy Hunter

Coordinator of Acquisitions and Metadata Services

Data Management at CSU:Starting a Campus

Conversation

Experience organizing, describing, preserving information

Growing expertise in the area of data management, which we can bring to this conversation

The CSU Institutional Repository (I.R.)

Libraries and Data Management

Faculty

Librarians

Graduate Students

Campus Collaboration

Compliance with grant-funder mandates

Copyright/Access rights information

Data organization (data lifecycle planning, metadata, data access structures, etc.)

Data storage (what, where, for how long?)

Determining Needs and Outcomes

Colorado State UniversityInstitutional Repository

Open resource for published research results and data sets

DiscoverableExposed to Google and other harvesters

AccessibleProfessionally managed access Part of Digital Collections of Colorado, shared with

8 librariesOrganized

Metadata - structural organization Persistent

Preservation

What the CSU I.R. Is

Access-controlled via login But – we are able to embargoAnd – we are able to limit to CSU IP range

Able to hold structured data, e.g. web pages pointing to databases

Able to accept self-deposit of publications and data sets

What the CSU I.R. Is Not (Yet)

Store your publications together, preferably in the CSU I.R.

Your publications should point to your referenced data sets

Depending on the size, data sets associated with your publications should be stored with the publication in the CSU I.R.

‘Small’ (up to 200 GB), and some ‘Medium’ (200 GB to 10 TB)

‘Large’ (>10 TB) should probably stay where generated or stored in a disciplinary data archive

Our Current Thinking

Struggling with ????

Do you need help describing data for use by others?

What skills would you like to develop?

How may the Libraries help?

How to Start the Conversation

Collaborate - Identify potential partnerships

Create campus-wide groups to work with data management needs

Any other ideas?

Next Steps

NCAR Libraries (June-November 2012)

Even experienced data managers are challenged byData Citation / AttributionGranularityFormatsData Life Cycle

Data Policies

You’re Not Alone!

CSU Librarieshttp://lib.colostate.edu/repository/http://lib.colostate.edu/repository/nsf

University of Minnesotahttps://www.lib.umn.edu/datamanagement

California Digital Libraryhttp://www.cdlib.org/services/uc3/datamanagement/

Databib (list of international data repositories)http://databib.org/

Resources

Thank You!