EDUCAUSE Live! Participant Chat: Links and Abbreviated Transcript

National Status of Data Management: Current Research in Policy and Education

June 21, 2012: 1:00 p.m. ET (UTC-4; 12:00 p.m. CT,11:00 a.m. MT, 10:00 a.m. PT)

Session Links

  • View the corpus of texts in Voyant:
  • DataRes:
  • iCAMP:
  • The DataONE project:
  • DataONE materials and free online course:
  • University of Edinburgh free online training :

Session Chat

Michele Hayslett: (13:07) We do offer support in our library so I voted for that but many other offices around campus are also offering a variety of services and we're all collaborating.

Melissa Woo - UW-Milwaukee: (13:08) We are in the same situation as @Michele - many areas are contributing

Robin Rice: (13:09) Our Library and IT are combined as Information Services. But the guidance was written by the Data Library.

Vika Zafrin: (13:10) Our Libraries and IS&T (Information Services & Technology) are collaborating on the data management planning consulting, and the (in planning phase) data management service itself.

Robin Rice: (13:10) It would be interesting if the wordle was controlled for words like 'data'.

University of Massachusetts Amherst: (13:11) We have one on retention and not sharing.

Julie Arendt: (13:20) How can someone register and take these courses?

Robin Rice: (13:24) Are there any plans for teaching about data re-use?

Dan: (13:26) You list cimmunication as a fundamental competency. How do you build/assess this?

Joan Cheverie - EDUCAUSE: (13:31) @Spencer - Will your work include making links to these plans available?

William Moen, University of North Texas: (13:34) In response to the question about who the target marketis for these courses... we see the primary target group is grad students in library and Information sciences, but we are recruiting disciplinary grad students to take one or more of our courses... and then learn from that experience.

Bob Sandusky: (13:50) The DataONE project is taking the approach of early career intervention, DC as a process that runs throughout the research / data lifecycle. There is a lot of emphasis on training and outreach including training materials anyone can use.

Robin Rice: (13:57) In addition to the excellent DataONE materials there is a free online course dedicated to training librarians from the Netherlands. Also there are free online training units and downloadable data handling exercises in specific software environments, aimed at 'small science' and humanities graduate students from the University of Edinburgh (us) . Freely and openly available to all.