Librarians as data stewards: a case study of the UCLA Civil Rights Project Rebekah Cummings May 10, 2013 University of California, Los Angeles
Oct 21, 2014
Librarians as data stewards: a case study of the UCLA Civil
Rights Project
Rebekah Cummings
May 10, 2013
University of California, Los Angeles
A tale of two research teams …
Digital Youth Network
UCLA Civil Rights Project
The problem of data management
Data curation as a solution
The UCLA Civil Rights Project
Overview
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Publications
“Data is the new oil”
David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization | Video on TED.com. (2010).
Social Science Data Archiving
Source: Amy Pienta, ICPSR
Social science
studies funded
by NIH and
NSF
Data Librarians
http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/create-manage/life-cycle
ResearchData
Lifecycle
Most researchers:
Aren’t taught data management
Don’t know how to create proper metadata
Aren’t familiar with discipline specific repositories
Aren’t convinced they really have to share their data
Adapted from http://www.slideshare.net/carlystrasser/iassist20120608
Improved data transfer and storage
Data citation standards
Metadata standards
Indexing services
Trusted repositories
Technical Solutions:
Social Challenges
The UCLA Civil Rights Project (CRP)
As of 2012 the Civil Rights Project had …
no digital preservation plan
no centralized repository
no governance plans or workflow
Civil Rights Project Dataverse
Civil Rights Project eScholarship
eScholarship Usage Statistics
784 Views/Downloads from January – April, 2013
Workflow and Governance
Social solutions: changing the culture of data
Teaching in methods classes
Data librarians in grant offices
Workshops
Individual consultations
Acknowledgements
Dr. Christine Borgman – advisor
Elizabeth Stephenson - internship supervisor
Gary Orfield, Laurie Russman, Roderic Crooks, and John Kucsera - UCLA Civil Rights Project
Charlotte Brown, Christopher Felker, and Richard Fraser - UCLA Civil Rights Project Archive
Kimberly Gomez - UCLA Urban Schooling Division
NSF Award # 1216872