Presentations

Building Resilient Research Practices: Integrating RDM into Graduate Education

Kathleen Flynn, Emily Kilcer

Presentation   2025-05-13   Research Data  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   Research Data  RDAP Summit 2025

Sustaining Humanities Research with Data Collectives

Sarah Reiff Conell

Presentation   2025-05-02   Research Data  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 [...]

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

Abigail Goben, Andrew Boyd

Lightning Talk   2025-05-02   Research Data  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   Research Data  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 [...]

Data Discovery Meets Experiential Learning: The Core10 Project

Aabha Pandit, Arjay Romanowski, Heather Charlotte Owen

Poster   2025-03-13   Research Data  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 [...]

Assessing the Effects of Updated Metadata Workflows in an Institutional Repository

Ali Krzton

Poster   2025-03-13   Research Data  RDAP Summit 2025

The Auburn University Scholarly Repository is a locally-hosted generalist DSpace repository. DOIs have been registered through DataCite for new deposits, including datasets, since 2020. In 2024, AU Libraries personnel phased out the automated workflow in which repository metadata was crosswalked and pushed via script to DataCite. A new workflow which involved manual creation of metadata for each [...]

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

Margie Sheppard, Katie Pierce Farrier

Poster   2025-03-13   Research Data  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 [...]

Supporting our Future Colleagues: Remote Student-Led Data Internship

Daria Orlowska

Lightning Talk   2025-03-13   Research Data  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 Steps to Integrate CARE Principles into Institutional Data Repositories: A DSCPE Project

Alicia Zuniga

Lightning Talk   2025-03-13   Research Data  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 [...]

Understanding Researcher Needs and Challenges: Findings from a Qualitative Study on Research Data Services

Chelsea McCracken, Ruby MacDougall

Presentation   2025-03-13   Research Data  RDAP Summit 2025

In the past few decades, partnerships between libraries and other campus units have become important contributors to sustaining the growth of the research enterprise at higher-education institutions across the globe. Providing cross-campus research support services, these partnerships are essential for helping researchers navigate the increasingly complex world of research data management and for [...]

Using a Faculty Recruitment Strategy to Train Research Staff and Students to Develop Data Management Plans

Kevin Read

Presentation   2025-03-13   Research Data  RDAP Summit 2025

The University Library and Research Office collaborated to offer a 3-part research data management (RDM) training program for faculty and their research staff and students during the summer of 2024. The training program consisted of an introductory training session in RDM, a workshop where registrants built data management plans (DMPs), and an assignment where registrants submitted a finalized [...]

What is "Curation" in a Self-Mediated, Open Repository?: A Case Study of OSF

Gretchen Gueguen

Presentation   2025-03-13   Research Data  RDAP Summit 2025

Digital Curation is vital to the long term usability of content and the reproducibility and validity of research claims. A recent study of researchers at academic institutions by Jonston et.al in PLOS One reported: Curation actions most frequently reported include checking for duplicate files, reviewing documentation, reviewing metadata, minting persistent identifiers, and checking for [...]

Strengthening Resilience in Research Data Services: An Early- Career Perspective on Building Capacity Through Professional Development

Samantha Harmon

Poster   2025-03-13   Research Data  RDAP Summit 2025

As research data services evolve, libraries must remain agile and forward-thinking. My participation in the DSCPE program during my first semester as an early-career academic librarian provided critical training in advocating for data management resources, foundations in data literacy, and navigating the complexities of research culture, equipping me to adapt to shifting priorities and resource [...]

OpenRefine in Action: Creating a New Tool-Based Primer for the Data Curation Network

Heather Charlotte Owen, Aditi Thite, Peyton Tvrdy

Presentation   2025-03-13   Research Data  RDAP Summit 2025

In April of 2023, the Data Curation Network (DCN) held a workshop about the CURATE(D) Workflow to better teach participants about data curation, cleaning, and sharing. At this workshop, the organizers encouraged participants to form working groups to create “Primers” for various topics. At this meeting, the OpenRefine Working Group was formed to create a primer for the application, OpenRefine. [...]