Building Communities &
Services for Data at CDL
Carly Strasser | @carlystrasser
DataCite
25 August 2014
Contributed to Calisphere by Marin County Free Library
students
books
10 campuses
receive 8% of all research
funding in the US
2-3% of all peer-reviewed articles
published in the world every year
233,000 students
Data curation
Data
management
Data sharing
Open
researchAccess to research
products
Archiving
scholarship
students
books
How?
From Flickr by gsagostinho
Tools & Services
1
Data Life
Cycle
Plan
Collect
Describe
Analyze
Preserve
Share
Step-by-step wizard for generating DMP
Create | edit | re-use | share | save | export
Open to community
DMPTool: dmptool.org
Plan > Collect > Describe > Analyze > Preserve > Share
Create persistent identifiers
Manage identifiers & associated metadata
Resolve identifiers
Plan > Collect > Describe > Analyze > Preserve > Share
DOI: 10.1890/1540-9295-10.2.59
ARK: ark:/12025/654xz321/s3/f8
Resolver
Website
with
“object”
Plan > Collect > Describe > Analyze > Preserve > Share
Plan > Collect > Describe > Analyze > Preserve > Share
DOI: 10.1890/1540-9295-10.2.59
Resolver
Website
with
“object”
+
OA publications that get DataCite DOIs
via EZID benefit from CrossRef
metadata services & subscribers
Sidebar
Analysis tools
Full-text search
10,772 web sites
Preserve & store websites
Plan > Collect > Describe > Analyze > Preserve > Share
Institutional repository for preservation
& access to digital assets
About
•  Launched 2010
•  Content-agnostic
•  Discipline-agnostic
•  Deposit via API or UI
But…
•  Account setup not self-
service
•  UI not user-friendly for
novices
Plan > Collect > Describe > Analyze > Preserve > Share
Simplify data deposit and search for
UC researchers
under the hood
Free public access to research products
Plan > Collect > Describe > Analyze > Preserve > Share
Faceted
search &
browse
Citation
License info
DataCite metadata for
now; plans for more
Down the Road
Open source community
Integrate with standard protocols
Establish instances outside of UC
github.com/cdluc3/dash/wiki
Data
Publication
FromCalisphere,contributedbyFullertonCollege
What should data
publication look
like at UC?
Plan > Collect > Describe > Analyze > Preserve > Share
John Kratz,
Postdoc
What should data
publication look
like at UC?
doi: 10.12688/f1000research.4518
“Publish”
“Paper”
“Peer review”
“Sharing”
“Available”
“Article”
“Publication”
From Flickr by Sandia
Labs
C. Strasser
C. Strasser
World Bank Photo Collection From Flickr
What do researchers think
of data publication?
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
NIH (biologists
only)
NSF OSTP
Know all the details
Read about it
Heard of it
Never heard of it
Survey of
researchers
N=274
Kratz & Strasser, submitted to PLOS ONE
“How familiar are you with these data policies?”
From Flickr by mhlradio
Outreach
& Education
2
Help Researchers…
From Flickr by Jonathan Nightingale
care & prioritize
document data
write good DMPs
Conferences
Workshops
Campus visits
Guest lectures
From Flickr by Matt
Data management best practices
Open science
Tools & tips
From Flickr by University of Houston
Support
Librarians in
Helping
Researchers
CDL
Librarians
Researchers
datapub.cdlib.org
IDCC
•  Data management education
•  Tools and services
•  Open data and open science
•  The role of libraries
Presentations & workshops
Improving Data Stewardship with the DMPTool:
Helping Libraries Promote Data Management
•  Data management guidance
•  Promotional materials for DMPTool:
slides, posters, postcards
•  Improvements to DMPTool website
From Flickr by Boston Public Library
Participation &
partnerships3
Founding member of DataCite
Received DataCite Gold Award last 2 years
Starr & Cruse are active participants
NSF-funded DataNet Project
Office of Cyberinfrastructure
www.dataone.org
UC3 member involvement:
leadership team, working groups
B
CA
Partners
Institute for Data Science
FromFlickrbycompujeramey!
Website
Email
Twitter
Slides
carlystrasser.net
carlystrasser@gmail.com
@carlystrasser
slideshare.net/carlystrasser

CDL Tools for DataCite 2014