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.
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Group Data Management Program. My
name is MauraValentino and I am the metadata Librarian at Oregon
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.
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Increasing the Role
of Libraries in Data
Management at OSU
MauraValentino
Metadata Librarian
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...
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...
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.
PURPOSE
– This paper aims to explain the concept of Open Educational Resources (OER) and how libraries can make a good case to donors to fund these types of projects.
DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH
– The literature reveals that donors have been willing to support projects that save students money on textbooks. Course...
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...
With the advent of the open access and open data movement, the preservation and availability of data has multiplied exponentially. This increased distribution and sharing of data has energized numerous fields of research. In such an environment, librarians are increasingly tasked with finding actual data related to specific subjects in...