Presentations

Accessibility for Data and Data Repositories: Understanding and Applying the 2024 ADA Title II Rule

Emily Blumenthal, Lena Bohman, Carrie Breton, et al.

Report   2026-06-27     Special Reports

This report aims to support research data professionals and their institutions with the task of working to make repositories and the data in them digitally accessible. The report will help them understand the requirements from the rules, their implications, and the work and changes they may require. The report emphasizes that repository and data accessibility should not be an afterthought, but a [...]

Dataset Bingo! Teaching Data Management Best Practices Through Exploration of Shared Datasets

Jen Ferguson, Megan N O'Donnell

Poster   2026-04-16     RDAP Summit 2026

Making data management lessons stick for learners can be a challenge. This poster will describe a dataset bingo game we created that provides an unorthodox opportunity for learners to take note of data management and data sharing practices that can be applied to datasets in any field, thus making it a flexible learning activity across disciplines. By having learners investigate shared datasets in [...]

Building Resilient Research Practices: Integrating RDM into Graduate Education

Kathleen Flynn, Emily Kilcer

Presentation   2025-05-13     RDAP Summit 2025

As institutional and funding body expectations for robust data management and compliance with Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable (FAIR) principles grow, research data management (RDM) instruction has become an indispensable service provided by academic libraries. Further, providing training to graduate students on RDM best practices can enhance students’ graduate experience by [...]

2025 Business Meeting

Business Meeting   2025-05-02     RDAP Summit 2025

Unwilling, Unable, Unsafe: Policy to Meet Unusual Sharing Requests

Abigail Goben, Andrew Boyd

Lightning Talk   2025-05-02     RDAP Summit 2025

As funders require increased sharing, researchers are facing increased requests where they have concerns about sharing the data. In order to anticipate these requests and establish a mechanism for response, the University of Illinois Chicago developed a data policy and framework to address sharing requests where a research is unwilling to share the data, unable to share the data, or they feel [...]

“We’re New, Want to Talk?”: Conducting a Listening Tour as the First Step in RDM Outreach

Elizabeth McCall

Presentation   2025-05-02     RDAP Summit 2025

While research data management services are growing in academic libraries, researchers’ awareness of these services is often lacking. Forming relationships with researchers can also be a challenge for new personnel. After forming a new library department called Open Scholarship and Research Data, the department conducted an informal “listening tour” with faculty and graduate students to hear more [...]

Sustaining Humanities Research with Data Collectives

Sarah Reiff Conell

Presentation   2025-05-02     RDAP Summit 2025

If you want to spend your time doing something besides maintaining a bespoke, digital project indefinitely, what can be done with the underlying scholarship? A predilection for novelty has led to a proliferation of tools, increasing the risk of Humanities research-data loss. While some projects merit the cost of constant maintenance, creating alternative solutions to preserve key elements of [...]

Climbing the STAIRS—A Summit for Fostering Resilient Institutional Data Service Communities

Jake Carlson, Mikala Narlock

Presentation   2025-03-13     RDAP Summit 2025

The need for research data services is expanding and evolving rapidly, particularly since the NIH data sharing requirement and the Nelson memo were released in 2022. Academic institutions of all sizes and specializations are increasingly challenged to meet the diverse needs of their researchers in managing, sharing, and preserving their research outputs. With this demand comes the potential for [...]

Supporting our Future Colleagues: Remote Student-Led Data Internship

Daria Orlowska

Lightning Talk   2025-03-13     RDAP Summit 2025

Data librarianship is an in-demand specialty that is not taught in library school and often requires figuring individuals to "figure it out" on the job when they are hired or transition into a role demanding data services. This presentation reflects on a remote, paid internship ran during Summer 2024 to address this gap, offering the opportunity to engage in a data project emphasizing skills such [...]

Taking the World by Storm: Navigating the Complex Terrain of Providing AI Training

Margie Sheppard, Katie Pierce Farrier

Poster   2025-03-13     RDAP Summit 2025

AI is taking the world by storm! Researchers, students, faculty, and the public are using it in all kinds of ways to up their game in research, data science and more. But for AI to work for all users, increasing productivity, helping them avoid risk and potential ramifications, institutions need to provide training and guidance on using AI tools. Such training often falls into the laps of [...]

Using the Starfish Storage Management Tool to Automate Research Data Management

Deb McCaffrey, Suhail Ghafoor, Ian Schaeffer

Presentation   2025-03-13     RDAP Summit 2025

Starfish software is a type of unstructured data management tool designed for PB size storage systems. It creates a database of files with metadata to allow for easier searching and management. The tool is built with storage administrators in mind, so the default metadata collected are things like file size, file owner, etc. At Arizona State University, it was originally purchased to manage the [...]

Data Discovery Meets Experiential Learning: The Core10 Project

Aabha Pandit, Arjay Romanowski, Heather Charlotte Owen

Poster   2025-03-13     RDAP Summit 2025

Assistance in finding data is a quintessential question most Data Services departments encounter on a regular basis. Unsatisfied with our resources to aid with this quandary, our department decided to pilot a project we labeled Core10. As the project took shape, it became evident that it would be beneficial as an experiential learning opportunity for our library’s summer internship program. A [...]

Taking Steps to Integrate CARE Principles into Institutional Data Repositories: A DSCPE Project

Alicia Zuniga

Lightning Talk   2025-03-13     RDAP Summit 2025

As a 2024 participant in the Data Services Continuing Professional Education (DSCPE) program, the speaker was paired with mentors at University of Minnesota Libraries for a 10-week project. The project’s scope consisted of determining how to better integrate the CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance into the Data Repository for University of Minnesota (DRUM) and its policies and [...]

Building a Data Services Program and Increasing Data Skills Resiliency with the DSCPE Capstone Program

Marianne Stowell Bracke, Stacy L Winchester

Presentation   2025-03-13     RDAP Summit 2025

The Data Services Continuing Professional Education (DSCPE) program is a valuable opportunity that is a structured and immersive program for early and mid-career librarians. It provides a cohort-based approach to learning, providing synchronous and asynchronous learning opportunities, and a capstone project paired with a mentor in the field. It builds resilience in the academic data library [...]

Development of an Open, Automated Workflow for Gaining Bibliometric Insights into University Research Data Publishing

Bryan Gee

Presentation   2025-03-13     RDAP Summit 2025

Interest in research data has been rapidly growing across the research ecosystem, from growing funder mandates to evolving best practices around data management. Concurrently, there is also increased interest in using bibliometrics to gain insights into the outputs of research institutions and to inform decision-making around service provision. However, tracking data publications is significantly [...]