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Item Building an Online Data Management Plan Tool(2013-03-26) Reilly, Michele; Dryden, Anita; University of HoustonFollowing the 2011 announcement by the National Science Foundation (NSF) that they would begin requiring Data Management Plans with every funding application, the University of Houston Libraries explored ways to support our campus researchers in meeting this requirement. A small team of librarians built an online tool using a Drupal module. This tool includes informational content, an interactive questionnaire, and an extensive FAQ to meet diverse researcher needs. This easily accessible and locally maintained tool allows us to provide a high level of personalized service to our researchers.This poster will highlight the need for such a tool, the steps taken to create the tool and outcomes from researcher involvement.Item Finding Roots, Gems, and Inspiration: Understanding Ultimate Use of Digital Materials(2014-03-14) Thompson, Santi; Reilly, Michele; University of Houston; Central Washington UniversityThe University of Houston Digital Library (UHDL) is the point of virtual access for digitized cultural, historical and research materials for the university’s libraries. UHDL developed a "digital cart” system (DCS) that allow users to download high resolution images from its collections. The DCS records important information supplied by the user regarding the ultimate use of the downloaded images. Until now, no formal analysis of the transaction log for the DCS has been completed. This research is significant because little is known about the ultimate use of digital library materials. Current literature suggests that this problem is not uncommon among digital libraries around the world. Our analysis begins to fill a critical gap in the professional conversation on digital libraries by directly contributing to the small body of literature that is asking who uses digital libraries and for what purposes. This presentation will outline how researchers analyzed data from portions of the transaction logs from the DCS from 2010 to 2013. From this analysis, they will highlight some of the interesting and innovative ultimate uses by patrons. The researchers will discuss the study and offer audience members approaches for analyzing data to determine ultimate use and its ramifications inside and outside of the classroom.Item Online Metadata Generator for Research Data(2013-03-21) Reilly, Michele; de la Cruz Gutierrez, Manuel; University of HoustonNSF, NIH and other funding agencies are now requiring Data Management Plans that include the expectation of sharing research data. To facilitate this expectation, librarians from the University of Houston are developing an automated online system to document data sets at the various stages of their life cycle. Our process will consist of determining key Dublin Core elements and developing a discipline-specific crosswalk. (This crosswalk translates discipline-specific terminology to that used by Dublin Core.) The discipline-specific terminology and the key element set will be developed in collaboration with faculty researchers. This set will be minimal in order to reduce the burden to the researcher in documenting their data yet provide enough information for the management of the data over its life cycle. Ultimately, the resulting sets will be shared across each discipline community to foster a shared set of standards. This crosswalk will result in a discipline-specific metadata generator. It is envisioned that this discipline-specific metadata generator will be an online system that allows researchers and their assistants to develop metadata on the fly. The discipline-specific metadata generator will crosswalk to Dublin Core ultimately ensuring sharing, discoverability and interoperability of data seamlessly while minimizing researcher effort. The presenters will discuss how they envision the system will work, what steps they are taking in determining key discipline-specific elements - including how those elements crosswalk to Dublin Core - , the progress to date, and the importance of inter-departmental collaboration necessary to make this system a reality.Item Item