SPEC Kit 334: Research Data Management Services · 27
Topic Reference Training N
Locating &using existing data sources
(for sciences, humanities, government,
medical, etc.)
65 45 65
GIS and geospatial analysis, support 61 42 61
Copyright &patent advising 55 29 55
Institutional repository 50 38 51
Dataset purchase, acquisition,
subscriptions
45 22 45
General statistical software support 41 20 44
Data analysis support 28 19 29
Data visualization support 26 12 27
Data mining 17 8 20
Database design &management 16 7 18
Programming/software development 12 5 14
Other data support service(s) 16 15 18
Total Responses 72 63 72
65
61
55
50
45
41
28
26
17 16
12
16
45
42
29
38
22
20 19
12
8 7
5
15
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
Loca0ng data GIS Copyright &
patent advising
Ins0tu0onal
repository
Dataset
purchases
Sta0s0cal
soEware
Data analysis Data
visualiza0on
Data mining Database
design
Programming Other data
support
Reference Training
If you selected Other data support service (besides research data management services), please
briefly describe the service(s) your library offers. N=23
Data preparation support: geocoding, georeferencing, distance/area/density calculations, converting formats, merging/
joining, extracting/subsetting, and digitizing.
Data access: maintain a data extractor and data fileserver.
Informatics support 1–3 years, personal archiving training 1–3 years, subject repository 3+ years, media repository 3+
years, digitalization (data creation for mining) 3+ years, data transformation/normalization (campus-level support, i.e.,
faculty metrics) 1–3 years.
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