With the increased interest in Data Management, OSU Libraries is trying to increase the role the library plays in data management. OSU is a research intensive campus and with granting agencies requiring data management plans, there is an opportunity for the libraries to provide a new service.
With the increased interest in Data Management, OSU Libraries is trying to increase the role the library plays in data management. OSU is a research intensive campus and with granting agencies requiring data management plans, there is an opportunity for the libraries to provide a new service.
On academic campuses, graduate students produce data and that data is often being lost. This paper describes the efforts at Oregon State University to educate graduate students on the value of their data and of preserving it. Graduate students were interviewed and from this information a successful data management workshop...
Much of the focus of digital collections has been and continues to be on rare and unique materials,
including monographs. A monograph may be made even rarer and more valuable by virtue of hand
written marginalia. Using technology to enhance scans of unique books and make previously
unreadable marginalia readable...
This is the PowerPoint (PDF) file for a 60-minute workshop for graduate students covering data management best practices. Topics covered include general recommendations for data management in terms of planning, data description (metadata), file formats and naming conventions, ethics and consent, copyright, and sharing and archiving of data. The workshop...
There are many tasks beyond describing resources that can be accomplished with metadata. Training catalogers in metadata has often only involved explaining various metadata schemes and how they relate to Marc records. This presentation aims to explain how metadata differs from cataloging beyond being a more context specific form of...