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Page 1: The Do-It-Yourself Research Data Management Training Kit for Librarians Robin Rice, Data Librarian, R.Rice@ed.ac.uk EDINA and Data Library, University.

The Do-It-Yourself Research Data Management

Training Kit for Librarians

Robin Rice, Data Librarian, [email protected] and Data Library, University of Edinburgh

Annual Workshop of the International Associationof Scientific and Technological Libraries (IATUL)

Research Data Management: Finding our RoleUniversity of Oxford: 6 December 2013

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OverviewRDM at University of Edinburgh

New roles: supporting data management

Research Data MANTRA – researcher training

Edinburgh liaison librarian training in RDM

Disseminating opportunities: the DIY Training Kit

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Uni of Edinburgh’s RDM Policy

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Our Research Data ManagementRoadmap (to implement the policy)

Involvement from across University and Information Services

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Data Management Support

General consultancy and support service throughout the research process

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Supporting and training researchers

• Online guidance for academic staff

• Training PhD students and early career researchers

• Awareness-raising and service rollout

• Data management consultancy; grant-costed effort such as embedded librarians or data librarians

• Training librarians, preparing IT staff for rollout

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New landing page for RDM

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Research Data MANTRA

• Openly licensed online learning self-paced course in RDM for postgrads and early career researchers

• Grounded in three disciplines, working with post-graduate schools

• Video stories from researchers in variety of settings

• Data handling exercises in four software analysis packages

http://datalib.edina.ac.uk/mantra

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course

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Challenges for Librarians in RDM

• Finding time to pursue new activities

• Establishing credibility in a new area of expertise

• Learning new skills; ‘getting techie’

• Getting hands dirty with unpublished material

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Learning from Monash experience –It’s about confidence building

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Liaison librarian training (2012-13)Data Library and User Services

carried out training with two groups of 4 liaison librarians

Aimed to reuse MANTRA in a blended learning approach for academic liaison librarians

Idea inspired by Data Intelligence 4 Librarians hybrid course from 3TU Delft

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Approach: pilot librarian trainingLibrarians are professionals with own

experience and concerns to bring to training

Obtain buy-in from start, from participants as well as their managers

Small group (4 plus facilitator), private setting, plenty of time for discussion, sharing stories

Emphasis on facilitation rather than teaching

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Five topics / modules

Data management planningDocumenting & organising dataData storage & securityEthics & copyright Data sharing

Topics of interest agreed with participating librarians before start of training. Loose correspondence to MANTRA units.

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Course structure: five sessions

Each face to face session two hours duration

Facilitated by an ‘expert’ (data librarian)

Invited guest speakers to kick off each session

Short talks followed by long discussions

Interactive group exercises from UK Data Archive Train the Trainers workbook

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‘Homework’ assignments

Allow 2 weeks to complete prior to session

MANTRA modules & recommended reading

Reflective questions to think as a researcher

Independent study: Interview a researcher

Write up a Data Curation Profile

The first builds confidence; the second practices what we preach (sharing)

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Because we love librarians -DIY RDM Training Kit for Librarians

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Contents of the training kit

Course schedule Reflective questions for each sessionSelected group exercises from UK Data ArchiveIndependent study assignment: Data Curation

Profile, from D2C2, Purdue University LibrariesPodcasts and presentations of short talksEvaluation formsCompleted curation profiles

All CC-BY licensed so please reuse!

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Links

University of Edinburgh policy

http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/research-data-policyResearch data management home page

http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/data-managementMANTRA online training

http://datalib.edina.ac.uk/mantraEdinburgh Data Blog

http://datablog.is.ed.ac.uk