28 · Survey Results: Survey Questions and Responses
Locally host purchased numerical and GIS data as necessary. On-demand digitization of paper maps.
Measuring research impact—guides and workshops on research impact metrics (e.g., h-index), measuring journal
impact, altmetrics, pricing information (scholarly materials), citation tracking.
Metadata consulting, Persistent Identifiers/data citation.
Programming/software development is only available to faculty who have funding to contribute. We act as an
intermediary for acquiring data for free, including providing confirmation of academic need on behalf of students,
brokering gifts of desired data from governments (local, state or federal) or non-governmental organizations and, if
needed, filing FOIA requests for specific data sets. We also provide file format conversion help. We also offer consulting
on data management solutions, referring to appropriate services across campus (including to our own IR) as well as
training generally on data management issues. While these services have mainly been in place since January 2011,
the library committee behind them has been in place since summer 2008. Several organizations on campus provide
advanced, customized and often automated data management solutions, some of which are mediated and some of
which are self-serve.
Through our digital humanities campus partnership, the Libraries provide some level of support for textual analysis and
visualization (which you might consider a form of data mining and data visualization). We also consult on issues related
to long-term data retention and/or preservation for a wide variety of data types, including “image” data (photographs,
illustrations, etc.)
We provide an API for accessing, using, and querying the digital collections/libraries hosted at the university. Current
needs are being reviewed for the addition of other services, trainings, and supports.
We are exploring a range of metadata support and curation services.
We have been supporting GIS visualizations and are exploring new options such as Tableau. On the Chinese Canadian
Stories project we worked with the Stanford Spatial History Project to create some visualizations.
Web scraping/harvesting, metadata management.
While the Libraries’ liaison to computer science has provided reference help with data mining, data visualization,
database design and management, and programming/software development questions over the years, these support
services are not officially part of our research data management services framework of services.
Working with campus IT to develop a university data management plan.
RDM Services
A LibGuide of resources for data management is currently in progress.
Advice for data management plans.
Data curation and legacy data conversion active research data storage data management planning.
Data Library has been in existence since 1992 offering a number of data support services. We are engaged in a wide
spectrum of data curation, RDM and preservation activities and partnerships.
Data management plan training and support, DMP tool
Data Management Planning (DMPTool)
Data management plans
DMP Tool in place for the university community. We provide training on use of the Tool.
Locally host purchased numerical and GIS data as necessary. On-demand digitization of paper maps.
Measuring research impact—guides and workshops on research impact metrics (e.g., h-index), measuring journal
impact, altmetrics, pricing information (scholarly materials), citation tracking.
Metadata consulting, Persistent Identifiers/data citation.
Programming/software development is only available to faculty who have funding to contribute. We act as an
intermediary for acquiring data for free, including providing confirmation of academic need on behalf of students,
brokering gifts of desired data from governments (local, state or federal) or non-governmental organizations and, if
needed, filing FOIA requests for specific data sets. We also provide file format conversion help. We also offer consulting
on data management solutions, referring to appropriate services across campus (including to our own IR) as well as
training generally on data management issues. While these services have mainly been in place since January 2011,
the library committee behind them has been in place since summer 2008. Several organizations on campus provide
advanced, customized and often automated data management solutions, some of which are mediated and some of
which are self-serve.
Through our digital humanities campus partnership, the Libraries provide some level of support for textual analysis and
visualization (which you might consider a form of data mining and data visualization). We also consult on issues related
to long-term data retention and/or preservation for a wide variety of data types, including “image” data (photographs,
illustrations, etc.)
We provide an API for accessing, using, and querying the digital collections/libraries hosted at the university. Current
needs are being reviewed for the addition of other services, trainings, and supports.
We are exploring a range of metadata support and curation services.
We have been supporting GIS visualizations and are exploring new options such as Tableau. On the Chinese Canadian
Stories project we worked with the Stanford Spatial History Project to create some visualizations.
Web scraping/harvesting, metadata management.
While the Libraries’ liaison to computer science has provided reference help with data mining, data visualization,
database design and management, and programming/software development questions over the years, these support
services are not officially part of our research data management services framework of services.
Working with campus IT to develop a university data management plan.
RDM Services
A LibGuide of resources for data management is currently in progress.
Advice for data management plans.
Data curation and legacy data conversion active research data storage data management planning.
Data Library has been in existence since 1992 offering a number of data support services. We are engaged in a wide
spectrum of data curation, RDM and preservation activities and partnerships.
Data management plan training and support, DMP tool
Data Management Planning (DMPTool)
Data management plans
DMP Tool in place for the university community. We provide training on use of the Tool.
