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Item A Pilot Study on Social Science Graduate Students’ Data Core Competency(Texas Digital Library, 2023-05-17) Zhou, XuanProviding ongoing data management instruction for graduate students has become increasingly prominent in research projects. In Research Data Management (RDM), many researchers have identified different data management skill sets required for data curators, researchers, or students. Yet, literature does not provide sufficient evidence for determining the need for RDM training from social science student researchers’ perspectives. To our knowledge, few empirical studies exist that examine social science graduate students’ RDM practices. Understanding students’ experiences with research data and research data training, and their perception of RDM—identifying their data core competency status—can help develop a knowledge base for RDM education. Our research designed a pilot study for a data core competency measurement to examine how important data competence was regarded by social science graduate students and the status of their data core competence. Results demonstrated the importance of building an academic atmosphere where RDM best practices are valued in graduate social science programs. Additionally, we launched a pilot exam to evaluate students' data core competency using 16 questions to address each stage of the research data life cycle. Future studies on the development of standardized data core competencies measurement are suggested to build on our preliminary findings.Item August 2017 Forum(Texas Digital Library, 2017-08-16) Steans, Ryan J; Park, Kristi; Mumma, CourtneyItem Capstone Project Case Study: Texas Data Repository (TDR) Dataverse Integration with R(Texas Digital Library, 2021-05-24) Pechenina, Anna; Boehm, ReidItem A Consortial Approach to Research Data Repository Services(2016-08-05) Waugh, LauraIncreasingly, funding agencies and journals are adopting data policies that require researchers to deposit underlying research data into a repository. The need for data management services is among the top needs consistently expressed by members of the Texas Digital Library (TDL), a consortium of higher education institutions throughout the state. In response, the TDL has developed a new consortial data repository service with guidance from its 22 members through a series of cross-institutional working groups. This presentation will be an overview of the process toward developing a consortial research data repository service and plans for outreach and implementation.Item A Consortial Model for Research Data Services Using Dataverse(2016-06-14) Park, Kristi; Steans, RyanThe Texas Research Data Repository is a multi-institutional project of the Texas Digital Library (TDL) to develop a statewide data repository for Texas universities. The TDL is developing the data repository service with guidance from its 22 members through a series of cross-institutional working groups. It has sought to respect the spirit of "loose federation" that has guided the TDL's deployment of services over its history, honoring the need for local control over workflows while creating a meaningful shared service. In this spirit, TDL is implementing a pilot repository, using open source Dataverse, that will be collectively managed by representatives at TDL member libraries, marrying the benefits of a single repository (i.e., operation at scale) with local institutional control of associated services. Following a pilot in spring 2016, the group will assess the service and make recommendations to refine it prior to a production launch. In this presentation, members of the TDL Dataverse Implementation Working Group will discuss the repository's system architecture and its unique hybrid service design, which leverages the structure of "distributed control" inherent in Dataverse. The group will also reflect on lessons gleaned from the pilot and subsequent assessment.Item Corral: A Texas-scale Repository for Digital Research Data(2012-05-25) Jordan, Chris; Texas Advanced Computer CenterAt the end of 2010, the Regents of the University of Texas funded an investment of $23 million in research cyberinfrastructure, including a replicated, multi-petabyte research data repository and a dedicated research network linking all 15 UT campuses. The Texas Advanced Computing Center has led the effort to design and deploy the research data repository, which is now operational and supporting researchers from Austin to El Paso. This presentation will discuss the human and technical challenges of deploying large-scale research data infrastructure, and provide an overview of the design from a non-technical standpoint, explaining the concept of operation for the project, how it is situated relative to projects like TDL, and how staff at TACC have worked to engage and educate researchers from all UT campuses to make use of this valuable resource. Future directions for the project, including long-term preservation, will also be addressed.Item The Data Archivist: the archivist’s role in data management and preservation(2016-05-26) Allain, Sara; Romkey, Sarah; Artefactual Systems; ArchivematicaResearch data management is undoubtedly a hot topic in digital librarianship today. Increasingly, academic institutions are relying on services within the library to help researchers build data management plans (DMPs) and manage their data for the long term. Data repositories, like institutional repositories, are often managed by the library. While the role of the librarian in research data management is becoming increasingly clear, the role of the archivist is still emerging. Research data, like all digital assets, has digital preservation needs and challenges, but digital preservation has been described by some as a “gap” in current data management practices. Exacerbating the gap is that research data is sometimes created by domain-specific tools and in proprietary formats. In order to fill this gap, some librarians and archivists have been looking to digital preservation systems such as Archivematica to integrate with their data management platforms. This presentation will report on three approaches in the Archivematica user community to preserve research data: 1. An integration between Archivematica and the data management platform Dataverse, which is being tested by the Ontario Council of University Libraries. 2. Secondly, archivists at the Universities of Hull and York in the United Kingdom have been developing Archivematica features to better integrate with new and existing research data management systems. 3. Finally, Compute Canada has piloted Archivematica as an integrated service with its Globus Portal, a data transfer service.Item Data Competencies(2016) Williamson, Peace OssomItem Data Curation in the Texas Data Repository(Texas Digital Library, 2020-05-27) Wheeler, BrennaItem Data Management Planning and Faculty Outreach - The Baylor Experience(2016-11-15) Peterson-Lugo, Billie; Chan-Park, Christina; Baylor UniversityItem Dataverse Integration with Open Science Framework (OSF)(Texas Digital Library, 2019-01-22) Lake, Sherry H.Item Datavese for the Canadian research community: The role of libraries and consortia in providing RDM platforms & services(Texas Digital Library, 2018-11-13) Leahey, AmberItem Getting Started with the Texas Data Repository and Data Competencies [presentation](2017-02-17) Park, Kristi; Thompson, Santi; Williamson, Peace OssomItem Harvard Dataverse Management and Processes(Texas Digital Library, 2019-06-25)Item Introducing the Expanding Dataverse(2015-04-27) Castro, Eleni; Quigley, Elizabeth; Harvard UniversityThe Dataverse Project started in 2006 at Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science as an open source software application to share, cite and archive data. From its beginnings, Dataverse (then referred as the ‘Dataverse Network’) has provided a robust infrastructure for data stewards to host and archive data, while offering researchers an easy way to share and get credit for their data. Since then, there are now ten Dataverse repositories that share metadata with each other hosted in institutions around the world, which together serve more than 55,000 datasets with 750,000 data files (dataverse.org). These Dataverse repositories are using the Dataverse software in a variety of ways, from supporting existing large data archives to building institutional or public repositories. One of these Dataverse repositories is the Harvard Dataverse, that alone hosts more than 800 dataverses (containers of datasets) owned and managed by either researchers, research groups, organizations, departments or journals. The Harvard Dataverse has so far served more than a million downloads of its datasets, allowing researchers around the world to reuse the data, discover new findings, and extend or verify previous work. While the Dataverse project started from the social sciences for the social sciences, it has now expanded to benefit a wide range of disciplines and scientific domains (astronomy, life sciences, etc) leveraging our progress in the social science domain to define and enhance data publishing across all research communities. In particular, as part of the new Dataverse release (v4.0), we have evaluated the features needed in data publishing so data can be properly shared, found, accessed and reused. This presentation will provide some background information on the Dataverse's history and showcase the new features we have developed in version 4.0 for researchers.Item Launching the Texas Data Repository: How to Implement TDR at Your Institution [presentation](2016-10-06) Parks, Kristi; Thompson, SantiThe Texas Data Repository (TDR), a new service offered by the Texas Digital Library, is a platform for publishing and archiving datasets and other data products created by faculty, staff, and students at Texas higher education institutions. The repository, which is built in the open source application Dataverse, will enable TDL member libraries to provide research data management services to their campus communities that will: enable compliance with federal mandates for data archiving and sharing, increase the scholarly impacts of datasets through assignment of persistent online identifiers and citations, and facilitate limited sharing within research groups, data versioning, and long-term preservation. In this webinar, Kristi Park (Director of the TDL) and Santi Thompson (Head of Digital Repository Services at the University of Houston Libraries and chair of the TDL Dataverse Implementation Working Group) will give an overview of the repository service, requirements for TDL member participation, and plans for the future of the service.Item Learning By Example: Connecting Data Competencies with the Texas Data Repository [presentation](2017-03-09) Park, Kristi; Thompson, SantiItem Leveraging Campus Connections for RDM(Texas Digital Library, 2019-03-19) Nurnberger, AmyItem Remote Storage for Dataverse(Texas Digital Library, 2019-04-23) Crabtree, JonathanItem Research Data Triage at Carnegie Mellon University Libraries(Texas Digital Library, 2019-02-12) Kaltman, Eric