104 · Survey Results: Survey Questions and Responses
We are in the process of establishing our data management services. We have hired the Digital Assets Librarian to
provide leadership in this area, and formed a Data Management committee in late 2012.
We are just at the beginning stages of looking at offering RDM services. We’ve completed the ARL/Durspace e-Science
Institute. We are working with our central IT on choosing and implementing a collaboration tool (e.g., Sharepoint, or
something similar) in order to provide researchers with a place to work with and store their data securely. Canadian
funding agencies do not yet mandate DMPs, but we are anticipating that they will in the near future. We hope to get a
head of the game by training our librarians on RDM so as to assist researchers.
We are just at the stage of gathering resources, learning about things like the DMPTool, and starting to talk to subject
librarians and systems librarians about how RDM support has to become part of their support portfolio.
We are planning our research data management services in collaboration with the campus Research Computing Center
and IT Services (campus IT). Budget request will come jointly from the 3 units and new staff will be distributed between
them as appropriate.
We are very active in the domain of research data curation, both in developing practices and operational services as
well as exploring it as a research area itself. We have a data services unit in our library, a D2C2 research center, a Data
Education Working Group, and most importantly, all of our librarians have responsibilities for data (per policy). For the
repository, we are collaborating outside of the Libraries with a steering committee representing the interests of libraries,
IT, the research office, sponsored program services, and our faculty. Our organization is complex and not easily map-
able to some of the questions in this survey.
We are undergoing an overall library staff reorganization at this time that makes some things uncertain.
We do not have a formal data management services program or dedicated department, but we do offer some services
on an ad hoc basis, such as data management plan and data archiving consulting. We are currently conducting a
campus-wide study (survey and interviews) of research data needs on campus as well as exploring possible roles for
the Libraries through an e-Research task force, and we believe we will have a better sense of future plans after both of
these groups have reported out.
We have been collaborating with our OSP and central IT units since 2010 and will continue to do so for RDM services.
We are beginning to work with departmental/school IT, as well.
We have just begun offering services and so most of them have not yet been taken advantage of.
We took part in the e-science institute and have a strategic agenda, which is in the early stages. We also do not have an
institutional repository, but hope to have one soon.
We’re adding data responsibilities into subject librarian job descriptions as they get reviewed, and we’ll continue to do
that.
We are in the process of establishing our data management services. We have hired the Digital Assets Librarian to
provide leadership in this area, and formed a Data Management committee in late 2012.
We are just at the beginning stages of looking at offering RDM services. We’ve completed the ARL/Durspace e-Science
Institute. We are working with our central IT on choosing and implementing a collaboration tool (e.g., Sharepoint, or
something similar) in order to provide researchers with a place to work with and store their data securely. Canadian
funding agencies do not yet mandate DMPs, but we are anticipating that they will in the near future. We hope to get a
head of the game by training our librarians on RDM so as to assist researchers.
We are just at the stage of gathering resources, learning about things like the DMPTool, and starting to talk to subject
librarians and systems librarians about how RDM support has to become part of their support portfolio.
We are planning our research data management services in collaboration with the campus Research Computing Center
and IT Services (campus IT). Budget request will come jointly from the 3 units and new staff will be distributed between
them as appropriate.
We are very active in the domain of research data curation, both in developing practices and operational services as
well as exploring it as a research area itself. We have a data services unit in our library, a D2C2 research center, a Data
Education Working Group, and most importantly, all of our librarians have responsibilities for data (per policy). For the
repository, we are collaborating outside of the Libraries with a steering committee representing the interests of libraries,
IT, the research office, sponsored program services, and our faculty. Our organization is complex and not easily map-
able to some of the questions in this survey.
We are undergoing an overall library staff reorganization at this time that makes some things uncertain.
We do not have a formal data management services program or dedicated department, but we do offer some services
on an ad hoc basis, such as data management plan and data archiving consulting. We are currently conducting a
campus-wide study (survey and interviews) of research data needs on campus as well as exploring possible roles for
the Libraries through an e-Research task force, and we believe we will have a better sense of future plans after both of
these groups have reported out.
We have been collaborating with our OSP and central IT units since 2010 and will continue to do so for RDM services.
We are beginning to work with departmental/school IT, as well.
We have just begun offering services and so most of them have not yet been taken advantage of.
We took part in the e-science institute and have a strategic agenda, which is in the early stages. We also do not have an
institutional repository, but hope to have one soon.
We’re adding data responsibilities into subject librarian job descriptions as they get reviewed, and we’ll continue to do
that.
