My slides for participation in the Fall 2012 Professional Development Day for New England Librarians ,November 7, 2012 (for more information, see http://libraryguides.umassmed.edu/Informationists)

2. The UCLA Experience
 Outreach and results

3. The UCLA Experience
 Outreach and results
 Working with the research team: challenges and
initial plans

4. The UCLA Experience
 Outreach and results
 Working with the research team: challenges and
initial plans
 Next steps and opportunities

5. Outreach
 General: collaboration with Office of Research
Administration (ORA)

6. Outreach
 General: collaboration with Office of Research
Administration (ORA)
 Targeted: identification of and outreach to relevant
researchers

7. Targeted Outreach

8. Targeted Outreach
NIH division funding grant

9. Targeted Outreach
NIH division funding grant
Grant type

10. Targeted Outreach
NIH division funding grant
Grant type
Period of funding

11. Targeted Outreach
70+
emails

12. Targeted Outreach
70+
emails
6
meetings

13. Targeted Outreach
70+ emails
6 meetings
3 proposals

14. Unexpected Benefits
 New relationships with ORA/OCGA

15. Unexpected Benefits
 New relationships with ORA/OCGA
 Better understanding of grant funding process,
particularly with respect to UCLA workflows

16. Unexpected Benefits
 New relationships with ORA/OCGA
 Better understanding of grant funding process,
particularly with respect to UCLA workflows
 Increased awareness among researchers of Library
as research collaboration partner

17. The Project: THz and
Corneal Hydration
Image via Bennett DB, Taylor ZD, Tewari P, et al; Terahertz sensing in corneal tissues. J. Biomed. Opt. 0001;16(5):057003-
057003-8. doi:10.1117/1.3575168.

18. Challenges: Siloed Data
Device metadata
Experiment
Histology images and report
Proteomics data
Visible image
THz image

19. Challenges: Lab Notebook
Image via http://www.clemson.edu/biosci/faculty/moran/lab/antarctic_research/qanda07/index.html

20. Challenges: Data
Practices
Image via http://www.russbellew.com/pages/backup.aspx

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22. Addressing the Challenges
Easiest  Back up existing digital content
Hardest

23. Addressing the Challenges
Easiest  Back up existing digital content
 Digitize lab notebook
Hardest

24. Addressing the Challenges
Easiest  Back up existing digital content
 Digitize lab notebook
 Create workflows for gathering data
moving forward
Hardest

25. Addressing the Challenges
Easiest  Back up existing digital content
 Digitize lab notebook
 Create workflows for gathering data
moving forward
 Design a metadata standard to guide
future research in THz imaging
Hardest

26. Addressing the Challenges
Easiest  Back up existing digital content
 Digitize lab notebook
 Create workflows for gathering data
moving forward
 Design a metadata standard to guide
future research in THz imaging
Hardest  Aggregate disparate data sources

27. Next Steps
 Continue work with corneal hydration and THz

28. Next Steps
 Continue work with corneal hydration and THz
 Pursue funding including informationist as key
personnel on NSF grant to investigate THz
applications for non-destructive evaluation of art

29. Next Steps
 Continue work with corneal hydration and THz
 Pursue funding including informationist as key
personnel on NSF grant to investigate THz
applications for non-destructive evaluation of art
 Outreach to other research groups to discuss
inclusion of informationist as key personnel or co-PI
on other NSF/NIH grants