82 · Survey Results: Survey Questions and Responses
Canadian Polar Data Network, CPDN. http://polardatanetwork.ca/. Successful: highly collaborative, wide pool of
expertise, coordinated access services, distributed preservation infrastructure, shared ingest/processing services.
Challenging: business model, sustainability, governance.
Data curation pilot project with ICPSR’s Director of Curation Services and data librarians at multiple universities. Applied
data curation practices, processes, and tools developed by ICPSR to prepare, process, and ingest datasets into their
archive. Challenging to allocate personnel time to the project. Successful due to the collegial people involved.
DMPTool.
DMPTool (joint development and planning). DataONE (users group, best practices development). ASERL/SURA (data
policies development). Virginia Tech (graduate student bootcamp).
MIT has partnered with Harvard over many years to provide the Harvard-MIT Data Center that includes access to high
performance computers, special application software, training for the software applications, and the development of the
Dataverse Network. Many researchers who use these services have affiliations at both institutions. The two institutions
are physically close, and relationships with colleagues are very positive. Ensuring that MIT needs and/or requirements
are considered for Dataverse developments can be a challenge as the development and system support for Dataverse is
at Harvard.
Participate in consortial committees through Ontario Council of University Libraries.
Research computing and IT each have representative members on the e-science working group. Willingness to
cooperate has made this collaboration successful.
Virginia Tech and University of Virginia jointly sponsored a data management boot camp for graduate students at each
institution participating on their local campuses and virtually.
We have partnered with CDL in use and development of some of their RDM tools.
We want to.
We were principle developers of the DMPOnline tool. We collaborated in the development tool with eight other
institutions.
RDM SERVICE CHALLENGES
54. Please briefly describe up to three challenges your library has encountered in providing RDM
services and the measures that have been tried to overcome those challenges. N=48
Qualitative answers to this question were organized and sorted, resulting in the following overall themes.
Collaboration campus-wide 18 38%
Funding 17 35%
Faculty Engagement 15 31%
Technology Infrastructure 13 27%
Limited Staffing 12 25%
Marketing Services 12 25%
Staff Training 11 23%
Scoping services 9 19%
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