This document provides an overview of resources for librarians to self-educate on data science basics, software, and the library's role in data management. It recommends introductory readings on cyberinfrastructure, data challenges, and evolving library services. More advanced readings include syllabi on digital curation. The document also lists blogs, conferences, and organizations for continuing education, as well as tools for tasks like data curation, metadata, and visualization.
Data 101 Computers in Libraries Presentation.
Covers what you need to learn, where learning opportunities are, and some people/blogs you need to pay attention to.
Are you trying to balance the Common Core, Essential Standards, Integrated Technology, and Interdisciplinary Units? NO PROBLEM! Join content area teachers from Broad Creek Middle School, a School to Watch, as they share free resources for successful, fun lesson options for you to consider using with your students .
Data 101 Computers in Libraries Presentation.
Covers what you need to learn, where learning opportunities are, and some people/blogs you need to pay attention to.
Are you trying to balance the Common Core, Essential Standards, Integrated Technology, and Interdisciplinary Units? NO PROBLEM! Join content area teachers from Broad Creek Middle School, a School to Watch, as they share free resources for successful, fun lesson options for you to consider using with your students .
Challenges & Opportunities for Linked DataLeigh Dodds
Slides from my talk at Online Information 2010. There is a write-up of the talk available: http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities/2010/12/challenges-and-opportunities-for-linked-data.php
Tech Tools That Engage the Library Population - Pecha Kucha ACPL Library Camp...Rebecca Johnson
This pecha kucha presentation describes two technology tools that can be used to engage your library population - QR Codes and Poll Everywhere. **The blank slide is a poll everywhere embedded poll**
Lean Startup and Lean UX give you powerful experiment driven methods to learn about customers, products and services. But you’re not dealing with test tubes and chemicals. You’re dealing with people.
The customer backlash from some of Facebook’s experiments last year shows that what companies can do doesn’t always match up with what customers think they should do. How do we keep doing valuable experiments without hurting our customers or damaging our reputation?
There’s a word you hear from experimental scientists you don’t often hear on product teams: Ethics.
How does your organisation help you create ethical experiments? Professional scientists have people & processes to help them deal with ethical issues — experiments pass both professional and institutional standards. Is anyone thinking about ethical standards inside your company — or is the issue being ignored completely?
Lean personas: discover your real customersAdrian Howard
How can you get everyone in the team to understand your customers - especially if you're not 100% certain yourself?
Personas - research-based examples of the people who use your product - can help. Unfortunately in agile contexts traditional persona development often doesn't work well.
How do we use personas when our understanding of the product and market is still evolving? What happens when we lack the resources for extended up-front research? How do teams manage changes to existing personas? How should we communicate personas? How do we keep the value of long-term research in an environment of rapid iteration or continuous delivery?
We'll show you how to incrementally build models of your customer with the whole team. We'll be demonstrating practical techniques for documenting personas, communicating ongoing research, and integrating it with agile approaches to product vision and strategy.
How do you get everybody in your team to understand who is using your product — especially if you're not 100% certain yourself? You get out of the building and talk to your customers, but how do you communicate what you've learned when you get back?
Persona are research-based examples of the people who use your product. They help teams understand customers and deliver the features that they really need. However persona have traditionally been produced by specialist researchers in up-front research phases that don’t fit in well with agile and lean product development.
This talk shows you how to get the whole team involved in user research. You’ll work through an example scenario showing you how to learn about your customers by building persona incrementally. You'll experience how to get rapid alignment on your customer within the team, how to refine customer models over time, and how this lets you work with persona in a changing marketplace. Helping the whole team gain customer empathy and generate new product ideas.
You'll come away with practical techniques for integrating persona with agile & lean approaches to product strategy and development.
How do you get everybody in your company to understand your customers — especially if you’re not 100% certain yourself? You’ve got out of the building and talked to your customers, but how do you communicate and build on what you learned when you get back? We’ll show how to get the whole team involved in doing user research and building persona continuously. You’ll be introduced to a practical technique for integrating persona with lean approaches to product strategy and development.
Encoded Archival Context - Challenges, Possibilities, and Future (EAC-CPF)Iris Lee
EAC-CPF (Encoded Archival Context - Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families) is an established archival standard with emerging practices. The American Museum of Natural History is creating EAC-CPF records as part of a Hidden Collections grant describing expeditionary collections and their creators.
In this lightening talk hosted by the MDOR Roundtable at the 2014 annual SAA conference, Iris Lee and Nick Krabbenhoeft discussed the evolution of using custom Excel sheets to xEAC, a generalized xForms-based service. We also presented challenges we faced in understanding and adopting the standard.
Linked Data: turning the web into a context graphLeigh Dodds
A presentation I gave at Strataconf 2012. I reviewed the concepts of Linked Data and argued that while the approach has come from the semantic web community, there are interesting parallels with efforts from Facebook and Schema.org. Linked Data provides a way for us to create resolvable identifiers + discover useful data by just using the web infrastructure more effectively.
How do you get everybody in your company to understand who is using your product — especially if you're not 100% certain yourself? You've got out of the building and talked to your customers, but how do you communicate what you learned when you get back?
Persona — research-based examples of the people who use your product — help teams understand customers and deliver the features they really need.
This talks shows you how to get the whole team involved in user research. We work through an example scenario showing you how to build persona incrementally. You'll learn practical techniques for integrating persona with lean approaches to product strategy and development.
There are so many devices, tools, and techniques to tantalise us, and challenge our modes of reading and information organisation. What will you change today, tomorrow, next week? Are you keeping up with every(E)thing?
August 2009 OPALescence presentation - find more here: http://opalescence.wetpaint.com/page/Erin+Downey+Howerton
Find out what Web 2.0 tools are being used by teachers around the world to pump up their lesson plans, and what learning institutions can do to help them succeed.
Incremental Persona, Lean UX Festival 2014Adrian Howard
How do you get everybody in your company to understand who is using your product — especially if you're not 100% certain yourself?
You've got out of the building and talked to your customers, but how do you communicate what you learned when you get back?
Persona — research-based examples of the people who use your product — help teams understand customers and deliver the features they really need.
We’ll show how to get the whole team involved in user research. We work through an example scenario showing you how to build persona incrementally. You'll learn practical techniques for integrating persona with lean approaches to product strategy and development.
Challenges & Opportunities for Linked DataLeigh Dodds
Slides from my talk at Online Information 2010. There is a write-up of the talk available: http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities/2010/12/challenges-and-opportunities-for-linked-data.php
Tech Tools That Engage the Library Population - Pecha Kucha ACPL Library Camp...Rebecca Johnson
This pecha kucha presentation describes two technology tools that can be used to engage your library population - QR Codes and Poll Everywhere. **The blank slide is a poll everywhere embedded poll**
Lean Startup and Lean UX give you powerful experiment driven methods to learn about customers, products and services. But you’re not dealing with test tubes and chemicals. You’re dealing with people.
The customer backlash from some of Facebook’s experiments last year shows that what companies can do doesn’t always match up with what customers think they should do. How do we keep doing valuable experiments without hurting our customers or damaging our reputation?
There’s a word you hear from experimental scientists you don’t often hear on product teams: Ethics.
How does your organisation help you create ethical experiments? Professional scientists have people & processes to help them deal with ethical issues — experiments pass both professional and institutional standards. Is anyone thinking about ethical standards inside your company — or is the issue being ignored completely?
Lean personas: discover your real customersAdrian Howard
How can you get everyone in the team to understand your customers - especially if you're not 100% certain yourself?
Personas - research-based examples of the people who use your product - can help. Unfortunately in agile contexts traditional persona development often doesn't work well.
How do we use personas when our understanding of the product and market is still evolving? What happens when we lack the resources for extended up-front research? How do teams manage changes to existing personas? How should we communicate personas? How do we keep the value of long-term research in an environment of rapid iteration or continuous delivery?
We'll show you how to incrementally build models of your customer with the whole team. We'll be demonstrating practical techniques for documenting personas, communicating ongoing research, and integrating it with agile approaches to product vision and strategy.
How do you get everybody in your team to understand who is using your product — especially if you're not 100% certain yourself? You get out of the building and talk to your customers, but how do you communicate what you've learned when you get back?
Persona are research-based examples of the people who use your product. They help teams understand customers and deliver the features that they really need. However persona have traditionally been produced by specialist researchers in up-front research phases that don’t fit in well with agile and lean product development.
This talk shows you how to get the whole team involved in user research. You’ll work through an example scenario showing you how to learn about your customers by building persona incrementally. You'll experience how to get rapid alignment on your customer within the team, how to refine customer models over time, and how this lets you work with persona in a changing marketplace. Helping the whole team gain customer empathy and generate new product ideas.
You'll come away with practical techniques for integrating persona with agile & lean approaches to product strategy and development.
How do you get everybody in your company to understand your customers — especially if you’re not 100% certain yourself? You’ve got out of the building and talked to your customers, but how do you communicate and build on what you learned when you get back? We’ll show how to get the whole team involved in doing user research and building persona continuously. You’ll be introduced to a practical technique for integrating persona with lean approaches to product strategy and development.
Encoded Archival Context - Challenges, Possibilities, and Future (EAC-CPF)Iris Lee
EAC-CPF (Encoded Archival Context - Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families) is an established archival standard with emerging practices. The American Museum of Natural History is creating EAC-CPF records as part of a Hidden Collections grant describing expeditionary collections and their creators.
In this lightening talk hosted by the MDOR Roundtable at the 2014 annual SAA conference, Iris Lee and Nick Krabbenhoeft discussed the evolution of using custom Excel sheets to xEAC, a generalized xForms-based service. We also presented challenges we faced in understanding and adopting the standard.
Linked Data: turning the web into a context graphLeigh Dodds
A presentation I gave at Strataconf 2012. I reviewed the concepts of Linked Data and argued that while the approach has come from the semantic web community, there are interesting parallels with efforts from Facebook and Schema.org. Linked Data provides a way for us to create resolvable identifiers + discover useful data by just using the web infrastructure more effectively.
How do you get everybody in your company to understand who is using your product — especially if you're not 100% certain yourself? You've got out of the building and talked to your customers, but how do you communicate what you learned when you get back?
Persona — research-based examples of the people who use your product — help teams understand customers and deliver the features they really need.
This talks shows you how to get the whole team involved in user research. We work through an example scenario showing you how to build persona incrementally. You'll learn practical techniques for integrating persona with lean approaches to product strategy and development.
There are so many devices, tools, and techniques to tantalise us, and challenge our modes of reading and information organisation. What will you change today, tomorrow, next week? Are you keeping up with every(E)thing?
August 2009 OPALescence presentation - find more here: http://opalescence.wetpaint.com/page/Erin+Downey+Howerton
Find out what Web 2.0 tools are being used by teachers around the world to pump up their lesson plans, and what learning institutions can do to help them succeed.
Incremental Persona, Lean UX Festival 2014Adrian Howard
How do you get everybody in your company to understand who is using your product — especially if you're not 100% certain yourself?
You've got out of the building and talked to your customers, but how do you communicate what you learned when you get back?
Persona — research-based examples of the people who use your product — help teams understand customers and deliver the features they really need.
We’ll show how to get the whole team involved in user research. We work through an example scenario showing you how to build persona incrementally. You'll learn practical techniques for integrating persona with lean approaches to product strategy and development.
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Convenient isn't always simple: Digital Visitors and Residents.Lynn Connaway
Connaway, L. S. (2019). Convenient isn't always simple: Digital Visitors and Residents. Presented at the University of Adelaide, February 18, 2019, Adelaide, Australia.
In a debate between Jenny Robins, professor, and Floyd Pentlin, LMS retired and madman, these slides present the side of the debate questioning an over reliance on database information as the source of vetted, edited information without considering some of the weaknesses of pre-digested information which isn't always as accurate as we would like to believe.
A stripped down version of a presentation I gave to students in Latvia - it's a fantastic time to be shaping the profession of librarianship, so this slide-deck is about the world and the way it's changing, trends for the future, and how to make the most of being a librarian.
Rediscovering Relevance for the Science & Engineering Library - presentation ...Patrick "Tod" Colegrove
Faculty members across the Sciences & Engineering agree: the e-resources of the library are used more heavily today than their print counterparts were fifteen years ago. Learn how one library has rediscovered relevance to its academic communities by removing over half of the printed collections from the physical space.
The DeLaMare Library was the "beautiful library", with impeccable collections, located in a historic building at the crossroads of the departments it serves on the university campus, and had undergone a complete retrofit and remodel in 1997; yet 12 years later, students were only occasionally seen browsing its collections, with faculty only dropping by to put materials on course reserve. This paper is a case study of how the library, after in-depth analysis of holdings and close observation of end-user patterns, made seemingly radical changes that have resulted in an over five-fold increase in gate count in less than two years; rather than a quiet repository of books, the library has become a hotbed of learning and knowledge creation, with students and faculty driving the need to more than double the number of computer workstations and library open hours. Details shared will include numerous low to no-cost ideas that have proven effective in front-line advocacy for the Science & Engineering Library, and enabled the library to meet the increased demand without corresponding increases in library staff.
The Year of Blogging Dangerously: Lessons from the "Blogosphere". This talk will describe how to build an institutional repository using free (or cheap) web-based and blogging tools including flickr.com, slideshare.net, citeulike.org, wordpress.com, myexperiment.org and friendfeed.com. We will discuss some strengths and limitations of these tools and what Institutional Repositories can learn from them.
Staring at a blank screen trying to think of something for the library blog? We'll review great blog examples that inspire ideas for content, and we'll discuss how you can organize those ideas and plan ahead for timely, relevant blog topics. Presented at GaCOMO12 by Courtney McGough.
Staring at a blank screen trying to think of something for the library blog? We'll review great blog examples that inspire ideas for blog content, and we'll discuss how you can organize those ideas and plan ahead for timely, relevant blog topics.
Similar to Data Self Education for LITA Forum (20)
3. Autodidactic Librarian’s Guide to Learning Data Science
Photo by John (cygnus921) http://www.flickr.com/photos/cygnus921/2678359760
4. WHAT?
Basics of Data
Software
Library
Components
Photo by Johnathan Nightengale http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnath/7270799658/
5. Gold, Anna. Cyberinfrastructure, Data, and
Librarians: Parts 1 & 2. D-Lib.
September/October 2007:13(9/10).
Salo, Dorothea. Retooling Libraries for the
Data Challenge. Ariadne. July 2010:64.
2012 Priscilla Mayden Lecture from the
University of Utah: eScience and the
Evolution of Library Services
For advanced readings, review Dorothea
Salo’s 855 syllabus. http://dsalo.info/wp-
content/uploads/2011/05/855syll2012.pdf
16. Librarian Research Data
Data Management Plans
IRB
Metadata
Reuse potential
Data Discovery
17. Desk Metrics
Locate
Digitize/clean
Provide key/metadata
Visualizations
Store and Publish
18. Citations
Slide 3: Photo by John (cygnus921) http://www.flickr.com/photos/cygnus921/2678359760
Slide 4: Photo by Johnathan Nightengale http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnath/7270799658/
Slide 5: Gold, Anna. Cyberinfrastructure, Data, and Librarians: Parts 1 & 2. D-Lib.
September/October 2007:13(9/10).
Salo, Dorothea. Retooling Libraries for the Data Challenge. Ariadne. July 2010:64.
2012 Priscilla Mayden Lecture from the University of Utah: eScience and the Evolution
of Library Services http://library.med.utah.edu/or/pmayden/home.php
Salo, Dorothea. Syllabus: LIS 855, Digital Curation.
http://dsalo.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/855syll2012.pdf
Slide 6: Stuart, David. Facilitating Access to the Web of Data: a Guide for Librarians. October 2011:
Facet Publishing. London.
Milton, Michael. Head First Excel. 2010: O’Reilly. Sebastopol, CA.
Caldwell, Sally. Statistics Unplugged. 3rd Ed. 2010: Cengage Learning. Wadsworth, MA.
Slide 7: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/
http://www.arl.org/sparc/
http://www.ala.org/lita/
http://www.asis.org/Conferences/RDAP11/
http://www.iassistdata.org/
http://www.ala.org/alcts/
http://strataconf.com/stratany2012
Slide 8: http://datacurationprofiles.org/
http://www.data.gov/
https://dmp.cdlib.org/
http://www.wolframalpha.com/
http://www.gapminder.org/
http://databib.org
http://code.google.com/p/google-refine/
Why am I on this stage?*AAAS Confererence*Started at UIC in Dec 2010 (Public Small Town to Urban R1 Medical)*Just following the NSF DMP Mandate*Database Designer –been working with data, cleaning, building –this appealed. *Started seeing Data related things turning up in job ads*Who is doing it in libraries? GIS, IT, and Catalogers—Linked library data, FRBR, RDA
So I’m supposed to be at least slightly autodidactic, right? I dug, I read I listened. Today we’re going to go through the what, where, and who that I’ve identified thus farNOT Comprehensive but a launch point for you or someone at your institution who is trying to get up to speed
Basics of Data: *Comes in all shapes and sizes*Clean*Good? *Good doesn’t always mean complex or vice versa*I charge by the hour to clean data*Also includes STATISTICS and DATA ANALYSIS *We don’t all need to statisticians*Software: SPSS/SAS/R, Mathematica (what’s behind Wolfram Alpha), and Advanced Excel. Excel –also works for grocery lists, though it’s harder to do calculations on those tables. *Library ComponentsMetadata and OntologiesSources of DataData Management Plans Basically: Find/Acquire, Describe, and Provide Access. Gee, now doesn’t that sound familiar…. Metadata—lot easier to find, we’ve been doing that for much longer, now it’s finding content appropriate ontologiesSources—best thing I can recommend is go out and look. I’ll give you some links, go digging around in other people’s LibGuidesE.G. Federal Government –alcohol DMPs are a natural for us.