Webinar on DataUp: Describe, Manage, and Share Data

Carly Strasser 2 October 2012  UC3 Webinar Series  California Digital Library

Big Data OSTP March 2012 Big Data Eﬀort Launched

Guys? The Little Big Data From Flickr by jason 0nder

The Long Tail Size of dataset # datasets

The Long Tail Size of dataset # datasets # researchers

The Long Tail Data Managers Size of dataset # datasets # researchers All alone

UGLY TRUTH Many (most?) btrgroup.com researchers… are not taught data management don’t know what metadata are can’t name data centers or repositories don’t share data publicly or store it in an archive aren’t convinced they should share data

From Flickr by DW0825 From Flickr by Flickmor From Flickr by deltaMike Digital data www.woodrow.org C. Strasser Courtesey of WHOI From Flickr by US Army Environmental Command

Digital data + Complex workﬂows

Where data end up From Flickr by diylibrarian www blog.order2disorder.com From Flickr by csessums Data Metadata From Flickr by csessums Recreated from Klump et al. 2006

Where data end up From Flickr by diylibrarian www Data wwwMetadata From Flickr by torkildr Recreated from Klump et al. 2006

The Fallout Data Reuse Data Sharing Data Management

Barriers From Flickr by Chris0na Ann VanMeter •  Cost: time, personnel, software & hardware •  Confusion about standards, how to start •  Disparate datasets •  Lack of training From Flickr by bthomso •  Fear of lost rights/beneﬁts •  No incentives

From Flickr by diylibrarian ? www Data wwwMetadata From Flickr by torkildr Recreated from Klump et al. 2006

Intercept researchers where they already work

Facilitate Archiving Data management Data Reuse & Sharing Reproducibility & organization Publishing

Open Source Tool Add-‐in & Web Application Earth, environmental, ? ecological researchers

Add-‐in •  Download & install •  Appears as “ribbon” in Excel •  Windows Excel 2007+ Web-‐based application •  Website that does something with user’s ﬁles •  New user interface •  Any platform ?

What will DataUp do? What do scientists need?

~ 150 scientists •  No data preservation – Unaware of archives – Resistant to sharing •  Poor data documentation •  90% use Excel + other programs

Requirements Features Best practices check Generate metadata Generate citation ?Post data to repository

? Data Repository for Anyone | Anywhere

NSF funded DataNet Project Oﬃce of Cyberinfrastructure www.dataone.org

B A C C

DataUp Web App Demo

Add-‐in: Ribbon

Add-‐in: Metadata tab

Build community Add repositories From anima0onresources.org Add metadata schema

Main site: dataup.cdlib.org

Code site: bitbucket.org/dataup/main

Web app site: dataup. org

CDL’s Data Pub Blog: datapub.cdlib.org

www.cdlib.org www.cdlib.org/uc3 dataup.cdlib.org @DataUpCDL facebook.com/DataUpCDL carlystrasser.net @carlystrasser carlystrasser@gmail.com

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