eScience series: Week 3 of 5

Edit: Transcript available at http://bit.ly/16V3MxC 

Week 3: Developing a Research Data Management Curriculum and Course 
Thursday, August 29, 2013
9:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Pacific time
#medlibs Twitter chat

Week 1 recap is here, Week 2 recap is here.

First Twitter chat and not sure what to do? Here's a Quick Guide to Twitter Chats to help!

Project Overview

The New England Collaborative Data Management Curriculum is a publicly available resource that you are free to take and adapt for your data management teaching needs.

Background

From August 2010 through December 2011, the Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and the George C. Gordon Library at Worcester Polytechnic Institute collaborated received an IMLS grant to develop an instructional framework  (http://library.umassmed.edu/data_management_frameworks.pdf) for an online research data management course with instructional modules on preserving, managing, and sharing digital data. When implemented, these modules can be delivered to students in science courses at each institution, ranging from first-year science and engineering students, to graduate-level medical, nursing, and biomedical students.

In 2012-2013, the Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical School partnered with librarians from the Marine Biological Laboratory and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Northeastern University, Tufts University, and University of Massachusetts at Amherst on a grant from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, New England Region to implement these frameworks, authoring the content necessary for a research data management course to teach essential research data management skills to science and medical researchers. Project deliverables include the content for an online textbook, activities, and lecture slides.

The seven modules are based on the NSF data management plan recommendations and cover an overview, data types and related aspects of records management, metadata, storage, back up, and security, legal and ethical aspects of data management, considerations for data sharing, and preservation.

The curriculum can be adapted in many ways.  Each module could be taught separately or librarians needing a 90-minute overview course can download and adapt module 1.  For those having more time, the curriculum is case based, and the instructor can guide students through a case study and then connect content from each of the modules to support writing a data management plan for that particular case.  Students can then be assigned their own cases and can work independently or in groups to analyze a case and create a data management plan.

Visit here for a sample of the Module 1 Textbook that can be adapted for a 90-minute course:

http://works.bepress.com/andrew_creamer/15/

Visit here for a sample of Module 1 Slides that can be adapted for a 90-minute course:
http://works.bepress.com/andrew_creamer/16/

For an example of what the slides look like customized to an institution, please view this example at UMMS:
http://slidesha.re/14DXkH8


Guiding Questions for Tweet Chat August 29th

What opportunities do we have to embed and teach data management to health sciences students?

Is there an interest in using and adapting these materials?  If so, would you be interested in taking part in an evaluation project?

Would you be interested in expanding and submitting a case study to the collection (original cases can be viewed here: http://library.umassmed.edu/data_management_frameworks.pdf)?

What are the important data management issues we should be covering?

When you adapt the curriculum, what data management planning tools or resources will you recommend for students? (e.g. DMPTool)

What local and institutional resources and contacts do you point your students and faculty to get data management support?

What are the most important data management best practices that we can teach to students?

Save the Date! For upcoming programming on using this resource:

Inaugural e-Science for New England Librarians webinar on October 31, 2013 from 12 -1 pm: Teaching with Module 1 and Writing a Data Management Plan, taught by Regina Raboin, Tufts University


Scientific Research Data Management Professional Development Workshop on November 8, 2013

The Scientific Research Data Management Professional Development Workshop is intended for librarians interested in teaching faculty and students about aspects of managing research data and developing data management plans. It will provide attendees the opportunity to experience a regionally-developed and case-based data management curriculum as learners, and familiarize them with the New England Collaborative Data Management Curriculum resources that they can then use for teaching at their own institutions. The workshop will be taught by Elaine Martin, Andrew Creamer, and Donna Kafel, and will be held at the Beechwood Hotel, 363 Plantation St., Worcester (across from the UMMS campus).  Class size will be limited to 40 attendees who will be accepted on a first come, first serve basis.

The five week schedule includes:

August 15th:  Donna Kafel                            e-Science portal
August 22nd:  Kevin Read                             e-Science thesaurus
August 29th:  Andrew Creamer          New England Collaborative Data Management Curriculum
Sept. 5: Sally Gore                             Role of the informationist on research teams
Sept. 12:Lisa Palmer & Kate Thornhill   Institutional repositoriesand open access

eScience series: Week 2 of 5

Week 2: e-Science Thesaurus
Thursday, August 23, 2013
9:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Pacific time
#medlibs Twitter chat

Edit: Transcript now available at http://bit.ly/16BtnvB

Week 1 recap is here

First Twitter chat and not sure what to do? Here's a Quick Guide to Twitter Chats to help!

Join your colleagues for the second of a five week series presented by the University of Massachusetts Medical School Lamar Soutter Library eligible for Medical Library Association Continuing Education hours (it's not too later to sign up for CE!) where Kevin Read (@ReadKev) will be covering

a) The eScience Thesaurus for Librarians that will be hosted on the eScience Portal website

a 1) Definitions of eScience terminology
a 2) Relevant, seminal literature on eScience topics
a 3) Links to useful resources that can be used to help librarians implement eScience services into their current practice
a 4) Interviews with prominent librarians working in eScience roles

b) A discussion about eScience and data-related roles for librarians

b 1) What areas of eScience are most daunting for #medlibs?
b 2) What areas of eScience do #medlibs find the most interesting?
b 3) What areas of eScience would #medlibs like to learn more about?
b 4) What are some of the perceived challenges of learning about and implementing eScience and data-related services (e.g. time, subject knowledge)?
b 5) How could #medlibs reach out within their institutions to find out if there are opportunities for collaboration?
b 6) Do you see a place for eScience and data-services within your own institution?

The five week schedule includes:

August 15th:  Donna Kafel                            e-Science portal
August 22nd:  Kevin Read                             e-Science thesaurus
August 29th:  Andrew Creamer          New England Collaborative Data Management Curriculum
Sept. 5: Sally Gore                             Role of the informationist on research teams
Sept. 12:Lisa Palmer & Kate Thornhill   Institutional repositoriesand open access

eScience Series: Week 1 of 5

Transcript: http://bit.ly/1cRby0D

Week 1: e-Science Portal for New England Librarians
Thursday, August 15, 2013
9:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Pacific time
#medlibs Twitter chat

First Twitter chat and not sure what to do? Here's a Quick Guide to Twitter Chats to help!

Join your colleagues for the first of a five week series presented by the University of Massachusetts Medical School Lamar Soutter Library eligible for Medical Library Association Continuing Education hours (more on that at the bottom of this post) where we will be discussing the e-Science Portal for New England Librarians (http://esciencelibrary.umassmed.edu/index) and the e-Science Community blog
(http://esciencecommunity.umassmed.edu/).

On this first night of the series, Donna Kafel will officially guest host on her Twitter account (@dmkafel) but will mention @NERescience and how it is used to communicate news/events and relevant information. Topics Donna plans to cover include:

1. The portal's purpose--to provide librarians with the tools, knowledge and skills to effectively participate in networked science.

2.  The portal's intended audience:  librarians working in research organizations that generate, share, store and/or use data for basic scientific research in the health, biological, and physical sciences. Donna will also note that we will be revising the portal scope statement to include library/ischool students in addition to working librarians.

3. Key sections of the portal where librarians can access specific information such as Funders' requirements, research lifecycles, repositories, courses and professional development opportunities, and the e-Science Community blog . The blog provides information on upcoming news and events and provides a platform for reviews and commentaries.

4. "Events for New England Librarians" that are posted on the home page of the portal and discuss them:  the annual e-Science symposium, professional development days, and the Science Boot Camp.

5. Their editorial board's plans to restructure the portal so that librarians who are doing specific work such as data management consulting, developing data repositories, or teaching research data management can easily find the tools they need. 

The five week schedule includes:

August 15th:  Donna Kafel                            e-Science portal
August 22nd:  Kevin Read                             e-Science thesaurus
August 29th:  Andrew Creamer          New England Collaborative Data Management Curriculum
Sept. 5: Sally Gore                             Role of the informationist on research teams
Sept. 12:Lisa Palmer & Kate Thornhill   Institutional repositoriesand open access


Medical Library Association Continuing Education (MLA CE) Hours
by Nikki Dettmar @eagledawg

Interested in earning between 5 to 8 hours of MLA CE (sorry, no partial hours awarded) for participation in the #medlibs eScience series for free to $5? Please register at this link during the series (now through September 12th). The registration link has specific details on what actions participants need to take in order for CE hours to be awarded.

Why so many variables? As most of us know how vacation schedules go during the month of August, some specifics are still being worked out with the Medical Library Association but one thing is certain: I have applied for and MLA has pre-approved this eScience series for CE, which is a very new and exciting development I am thrilled to announce. Any costs collected would go directly to MLA per the specifications of their Discussion Group Program. I am volunteering my time as convener for all program coordination, verification of participation, administration of evaluations and issuance of CE on my own non-work time because I believe so strongly in this new venue of professional development for our field.

I will update with more specific details when they are known, and thanks for your support!

Chat on Emerging Technologies

Edit: Transcript available at bit.ly/134ASg4

The Medical Library Association (MLA) has created a team to examine the question of emerging technologies in medical librarianship, from what tech we should be aware of  to support our communities and profession to what tech we should know and use as professional competencies. 

Please help us by participating in this chat hosted by the medical librarians Twitter community, #medlibs, Thursday, August 8th 9:00 PM Eastern/6:00 PM Pacific for one hour. The chat transcript will be available for reference afterwards in an edit to this post.

Here is the official question we've been assigned:

"The explosion of information, expanding of technology (especially mobile technology), and complexity of healthcare environment present medical librarians and medical libraries opportunities and challenges. To live up with the opportunities and challenges, what kinds of skill sets or information structure do medical librarians or medical libraries are required to have or acquire so as to be strong partners or contributors of continuing effectiveness to the changing environment?" 

Who we are: 

https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/115832551443909297773

Our ETech Mindmap: 

http://www.mindmeister.com/275111357/mla-emerging-technologies