Initiatives and Activities of the New England e-Science Program
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A survey of the New England e-Science Program for Librarians discussing establishment of a Community of Interest, needs assessments, activities, resources, and strategy.
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Initiatives and Activities of the New England e-Science Program
- 1. Initiatives and Activities of the New England e-Science Program Donna Kafel E-Science Project Coordinator UMass. Medical School
- 2. “E-Science is not a new scientific discipline in its own right: e-Science is shorthand for the set of tools and technologies required to support collaborative, networked science. The entire e- Science infrastructure is intended to empower scientists to do their research in faster, better, and different ways.” (Hey and Hey, 2006)
- 3. Overview of e-Science Program • e-Science Program Team & COI •History of program •Regional needs assessments •Activities •Strategy
- 4. E-Science Program •Administered by the Lamar Soutter Library at UMass Medical School •Funding provided by National Networks of Libraries of Medicine New England Region •Advisory Board •E-Science Portal Editorial Board • e-Science COI: 180+ science, health sciences, and technology librarians
- 5. How we got started…. •2008 Association of Research Libraries and Coalition for Networked Information “Reinventing Science Librarianship” forum •Massachusetts Life Science Initiative--UMass Five Libraries • 2009 e-Science symposium •National Network of Libraries of Medicine New England Region (NN/LM NER) e-Science grant
- 7. Science Boot Camp for Librarians 2009: UMass Dartmouth 2010: UMass Lowell 2011: WPI 2012: Tufts 2013: UMass Amherst 2014: UConn
- 8. Professional Development Days •Stem Cell Day •Nanotechnology Day •Scientific Data Management •Metadata Day •Embedded with the Scientists: Librarians’ Roles in the Research Process •Teaching Research Data Management with the New England Collaborative Data Management Curriculum
- 9. E-Science Portal Needs Assessment: August 2009 •Establish a need for an e-Science Portal •Assess regional librarians’ e-Science information needs and educational backgrounds • Learn what data services regional libraries were currently providing •Identify learner preferences to determine mode of educational delivery Creamer et al, 2011.
- 10. Results of Portal Needs Assessment •168 surveys sent out: received 78 responses •67% of respondents: libraries are not providing data services •45.2% Potential opportunities for e-Science collaborations existed in their institutions •Roughly half of respondents had degrees in non-science subjects •Respondents prefer a variety of educational methods (online tutorials and guides, face to face classes, informal small groups, and virtual communities) •Majority of respondents prefer e-mail discussion lists but felt comfortable with blogs and other social networking tools
- 11. E-Science Portal for New England Librarians http://esciencelibrary.umassmed.edu/
- 12. An Assessment of Needed Competencies to Promote the Data Curation and Management Librarianship of Health Sciences and Science and Technology Librarians in New England: 2011 Creamer et al, 2012.
- 13. Results •Small percentage were actually engaged in digital management and curation of large data sets •Patron data services requests were infrequent •Over half of respondents’ libraries were actively involved in strategic planning for data services •Librarians lack the technical skills needed to manage and curate terabytes of data •Librarians require data literacy competencies concerning data lifecycle, data curation and preservation, scholarly communication issues related to data, and researchers’ data management requirements. •Librarians need to cultivate cyberinfrastructure and technical competencies to build and manage a data repository, manipulate metadata, and ensure system interoperability
- 14. Journal of eScience Librarianship http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/
- 15. New England Collaborative Data Management Curriculum http://library.umassmed.edu/necdmc/index
- 16. LIS 532G: Scientific Data Management
- 17. Strategy of the New England e-Science Program
- 18. It takes a Village!! Many thanks to our partners now and over the years…… E-Science Program Advisory Board: Andrew Creamer (Brown), Chris Erdmann (Harvard), Sally Gore (UMMS), Carolyn Mills (UConn), Regina Raboin (Tufts), Howard Silver (MIT) E-Science Portal project team: Daina Bouquin (Cornell), Jake Carlson (Michigan), Andrew Creamer (UMMS & Brown), Chris Erdmann (Harvard), Jen Ferguson (Northeastern), Sally Gore (UMMS), Margaret Henderson (VCU), Katie Houk (Tufts), Michelle Hudson (Yale), Stacy Konkiel (Impact Story), David LaPelle (UMMS Research Computing), Tracey Leger-Hornby (WPI), Bethany McGowan (Howard), Barbara Merolli (Holy Cross), Myrna Morales (UMMS), Joan Omoruyi (Northeastern), Regina Raboin (Tufts); Kevin Read (NIH); Rebecca Reznik-Zellen (UMass Amherst); Maxine Schmidt (UMass Amherst); Beth Schneider (Mass Gen. Hospital), James Schroeder (URI), Howard Silver (MIT), Amy Stout (MIT), Kari Swanson (Yale), Amanda Whitmire (Oregon State), Jennifer Woodward (Genzyme)
- 19. Science Boot Camp for Librarians: Mary Adams (UMass Dartmouth), Paulina Borrego (UMass Amherst), Bijan Esfahani (WPI), Paige Gibbs (UMass Dartmouth), Sally Gore (UMMS), Naka Ishii (UMass Amherst),Tracey Leger-Hornby (WPI), Teresa Maceira (UMass Boston), Sara Marks (UMass Lowell), Barbara Merolli (Holy Cross), Carolyn Mills (UConn), Tina Mullins (UMass Boston), Marion Muskiewicz (UMass Lowell), Sue O’Dell (Bowdoin), Regina Raboin (Tufts), Maxine Schmidt (UMass Amherst), Maxine Schmidt (UMass Amherst), Liz Winiarz (UMass Dartmouth), Rachel Zyrirek (WPI) Professional Development Days: Liz Coburn (MBLWHOI), Dana Elder (Tufts), Chris Erdmann (Harvard), Diane Hillman (Metadata Maven); Jonathan Kennedy (Harvard), Alex May (Tufts), Alicia Morris (Tufts), Jian Qin (Syracuse), Regina Raboin (Tufts),Chris Shaffer (OHSU), Juliane Schneider (Harvard), UMass Amherst Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing, UMass Medical School Stem Cell Registry
- 20. Frameworks for a Data Management Curriculum: Paul Colombo (Consultant), Christine Drew (WPI), Patricia Franklin (UMMS), David LaPelle (UMMS), Glenn Gaudette (WPI), Laura Hannan (WPI), Nancy LaPelle (consultant),Tracey Leger- Hornby (WPI), Heather McMorrow (Consultant), Sia Najafi (WPI), Lisa Palmer (UMMS), Mary Piorun (UMMS), Lynne Riley (WPI), Erica Stults (WPI), John Sullivan (WPI) New England Collaborative Data Management Curriculum: MJ Canavan (UMass Amherst), Elizabeth Coburn (MBLWHOI), Jen Ferguson (Northeastern), John Furfey (MBLWHOI), Emily Gustainis (Harvard), Nancy LaPelle, David Lowe (UConn), Alexander May (Tufts), Steve McGinty (UMass Amherst), Alicia Morris (Tufts), Lisa Palmer (UMMS), Laura Quilter (UMass Amherst)Regina Raboin (Tufts), Rebecca Reznik-Zellen (UMass Amherst, UMMS), Aaron Rubinstein (UMass Amherst), Matt Sheridan (UMass Amherst), Jen Walton (MBLWHOI), Darla White (Harvard)
- 21. Journal of eScience Librarianship: Jessica Adamick (UMass Amherst), Suzie Allard (UTK), ML Bergstrom (UCD), Carol A. Brach, Jake Carlson (Michigan), Lynn Copeland, Dianne Dietrich (Cornell), Chris Erdmann (Harvard), Lisa Federer (NIH), Jen Ferguson (Northeastern), Julie Goldman (Simmons), Sally Gore (UMMS), Karen Hanson (NYU), Margaret Henderson (VCU), Lisa Johnston (Univ. of Minn), Betsy Kelly (Washington Univ.),Stefan Kramer (Open Knowledge Foundation), Megan Laurence (UCSF), Tracey Leger-Hornby (WPI), Elizabeth Liddy (Syracuse), Dianna Magnoni (Los Alamos), Scott McIntosh (Univ. of Rochester)Barbara Merolli (Holy Cross), Holly Miller (MBLWHOI), Carolyn Mills (UConn), Hannah Norton (UF), Jian Qin (Syracuse), Rebecca Reznik-Zellen (UMMS), Megan Sapp Nelson (Purdue), Beth Schneider (Mass. General Hospital), Chris Shaffer (OHSU), Howard Silver (MIT), Gail Steinhart (Cornell), Carly Strasser (CDL), Chuck Thomas (Univ. System of Maryland), Lois Widmer (UF), Stephanie Wright
- 22. Simmons Scientific Data Management Class: Patrick Antle (Tufts), Andrew Creamer (Brown), Mercè Crosas (Harvard), Chris Erdmann (Harvard), Jennifer Eustis (UConn), Jen Ferguson (Northeastern), Glenn Gaudette (WPI), Julie Goldman (Simmons), Nancy McGovern (MIT), Carolyn Mills (UConn), Lisa Palmer (UMMS), Regina Raboin (Tufts), Rebecca Reznik-Zellen (UMMS), Kate Thornhill (Simmons), Jill Zitzer (UMMS)
- 23. Resources Creamer, A.; Morales, M.; Crespo, J.; Kafel, D.; and Martin, E.R. “Assessment of Health Sciences and Science and Technology Librarian e-Science Educational Needs to Develop an e-Science Web Portal for Librarians.” Journal of the Medical Library Association: JMLA 99.2 (2011): 153-156. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3066590/ Creamer, A.; Morales, M.; Crespo, J.; Kafel, D.; and Martin, E.R. “ An Assessment of Needed Competencies to Promote the Data Curation and Management Librarianship of Health Sciences, Science, and Technology Librarians in New England.” Journal of eScience Librarianship 1(1): Article 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.791/jeslib.2012.1006 Hey, T., and Hey, J. “e-Science and Its Implications for the Library Community.” Library Hi Tech 24, no. 4 (2006): 515–28. http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/ViewContentServlet? Filename=Published/EmeraldFullTextArticle/Articles/2380240404.htm Jones. E. Reinventing Science Librarianship: Themes from the ARL-CNI Forum, Research Library Issues: A Bimonthly Report from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, 2009, No. 262:13. http://arl.org/resources/pubs/rli
Editor's Notes
- Introduce myself and purpose of talk
- Many find the term “e-Science” confusing or mysterious—and not being sure if everyone at this meeting is familiar with the term, I’ve included a description of it. E-Science encompasses the ways science and scientific scholarly communication has evolved over the decades with the advent of networked computers and the internet. Much of the focus in e-science revolves around data, and how it is created, collected, described, documented, formatted, stored, preserved, shared, published and reused, and legal issues such as ownership and intellectual property issues and ethical issues such as sharing of human research data E-Science often involves: Team science: when teams of researchers are working on a large project—often in different institutions, states, and countries. As they collaborate on projects, challenges in collecting, describing, analyzing and sharing and determining ownership of data can arise • Increasing use of high-speed interconnected computers • Visualization of data; • Development of Internet-based tools and procedures; • Construction of virtual organizational structures for conducting research; • Electronic distribution and publication of findings Informal sharing of research data over the internet Challenges of organizing and analyzing disparate data formats—both print, digital and sometimes specimen
- During this presentation, I’ll discuss what and who are e-Science program team is, the e-Science Community of Interest, a history of how we got started, assessments that we’ve conducted, activities, and the program’s strategy.
- Our e-Science Program team is based at the Lamar Soutter Library at UMass Medical School. As Elaine noted, we have a contract with the NN/LM NER to develop outreach education programs for health sciences librarians in the region. Elaine Martin is the PI for the e-Science program. I am the Project Coordinator for it. Up until this past spring, Andrew Creamer worked with us at the Soutter Library on e-Science projects, until Andrew took his position as a scientific data librarian at Brown. He still is very involved in many of our projects however. Other members of our e-Science program at UMMS include Raquel Abad, who is co-coordinator of the e-Science symposium and managing editor of the Journal of eScience Librarianship, and Bob Vander Hart, who is the technical manager for the e-Science portal. Some other UMMS colleagues work on various projects—Lisa Palmer and Sally Gore and Mary Piorun have been involved in many e-Science program projects. Regina Raboin is the Chairperson for the program’s Advisory board. In this role, Elaine and I meet with her to discuss plans for the e-Science program. We first created the Advisory Board specifically for the e-Science Portal, which I’ll discuss in a few minutes—but now the Advisory Role’s focus is broader—looking at the whole program instead of a single initiative. Andrew, Chris, Sally, Howard, and Carolyn are part of the e-Science Advisory Board. There is an Editorial Board made up of two co-chairs (Jen and Katie) and 7 content editors. We maintain a database of librarians in the region who have participated in initiatives and/or attended events—this COI is made up of 180+ librarians in NE. Many librarians outside of NE are also interested in the program, and we have increased participation from them.
- In 2008, LSL librarians attended the “Reinventing Science Librarianship” forum—in which e-Science was presented as a key focus area for science libraries. The consensus among the forum presenters was that the fundamental role of the science librarian needed to expand to incorporate skills related to organizing and manipulating data and data sets” For a few years on the ARL site’s focus areas, e-Science was listed. It has since been changed to “E-Research” denoting the broader scope of networked research. As the regional medical library, we realized that STEM librarians in the area needed e-Science professional development programs that would help them build the knowledge and skills that they would need to effectively engage with their research communities and provide data related services. During this same period, Gov. Patrick had announced Massachusetts Life Science Initiative—a 10 year 1 billion dollar investment to enhance the state’s leadership in life sciences. The library directors and science librarians from the five UMass campuses met to discuss ways that our libraries could develop e-science services that would support the Life Science Initiative. From these early discussions, the group laid the groundwork for a series of events to raise NE librarians’ understanding of e-Science. Following this meeting, the NN/LM NER met with NE resource library directors who agreed to attend and invite their library staff to attend a regional e-Science symposium—and instructed the Lamar Soutter Library to take the lead on planning it. Funding was obtained from the NN/LM NER and the BLC to host the first e-Science symposium in 2009
- So in April 2009, we held the first e-Science Symposium to provide NE STEM librarians to gain an awareness of what e-Science is, provide opportunities to learn about e-Science resources and initiatives and also provides a forum where librarians can discuss new library roles for engaging research communities and supporting networked science—and explore regional collaborations. At this first e-science symposium, attendees were divided into breakout groups and discussed some key questions: How are your institutions currently managing data? Is your library involved in any data services? What kind of data is being generated at your institution? How is this data being managed now? What should be included in an e-Science web portal? What organizational structure would facilitate regional delivery of e-science Resources and services? Attendees at this first symposium voiced a need for a centralized e-Science web portal for continuing education along with an online discussion forum to support ongoing dialogue and support. I’ll talk about the portal project shortly, after discussin g two other educational events in the e-Science program.
- Along with the first e-Science symposium, Science Boot Camp was initiated by the UMass 5 Science Librarians in 2009 to provide STEM librarians an immersive science learning experience so that they would be able to more effectively engage with researchers. Each Science Boot Camps include 3 science sessions in which faculty present an overview of a science and examples of research within the field. The Capstone sessions of Science Boot Camp have focused more on a variety of topics, many of which are relevant to science librarianship such as demonstrations on how to conduct a research interview, meeting with graduate students to discuss their research and data mgmt, enhancing library school curricular with data curation courses, and discussions on communicating science. Science Boot Camp has been sponsored by a collaboration of organizations, including the NN/LM NER, the BLC, libraries from the five UMass campuses, Tufts, WPI, Holy Cross, UConn . The SBC group continues to invite new sponsors to participate in planning the camp. This boot camp model has really taken off. Tufts librarians adapted it for the annual Social Sciences Boot camp, and groups of science librarians around the country have adapted it—there’s no boot camp west, Southeast boot camp, True North in Canada
- Professional development days have provided opportunities for area librarians to learn about a specific area of scientific study or aspect of science librarianship. All 3 education events—the e-Science Symposium, Science Boot Camps, and the Professional Development Days have promoted working relationships among campus libraries in the New England region and spurred the development of a regional e-Science Community of Interest..
- In June 2009, we received NN/LM funding to develop an e-Science portal. A first step in the portal project was to conduct an assessment of the learning needs and preferred of health sciences, science, and technology librarians in NE. We sent out a survey to a total of 168 unique libraries and individual medical, health sciences, and science and technology librarians who served or whose institutions served medical orinterdisciplinary biomedical researcher patrons.
- The portal needs assessment was conducted in August of 2009. Responses to the assessment showed us that over 2/3 of libraries were not providing data services, and roughly half of respondents saw potential opportunities for e-Science Collaborations. It also gave us information on the educational background of librarians.
- Early on with the first e-Science symposium, the need for a centralized online web portal with links to e-Science resources was voiced by many librarians in the region. We began working on the portal project in 2009, starting with the portal needs assessment and creating an Advisory Board of library directors and science/health sciences/technology librarians. Here is a photo of them from Oct. 2009, We also recruited content editors for specific focus areas of the portal—as well as editors for the e-Science Community blog which is the more dynamic counterpart of the portal—providing updates on news, opportunities, events, as well as commentaries by librarians involved in e-Science. The portal was officially launched at the 3 e-Science Symposium in April 2011. It includes resources on data management, scholarly communications, tools/technologies, science resources, prof. development opportunities, among other topics. In the three years that it’s been published, there’s been a boom in the amount of data related literature and resources—consequently we are looking to do a redesign to better accommodate emerging focus areas.
- One of the aims of the portal is to teach data curation and management skills to librarians who are not currently providing these services for training for future roles in data services. In the process of aggregating RDM teaching resources for the portal, we found little information regarding the needed competencies for data curation and management, and a lack of information about the types of data services librarians were providing . We realized if we were to accurately align the resources on the portal with needed competencies, we needed to identify the competencies librarians in the NE region identified that they needed. Thus we conducted a survey of health sciences, science and technology librarians in NE in 2011.
- The majority of patron requests were for assistance with grant related data management plans
- We launched the Journal of eScience Librarianship (JeSLIB)in early 2012. It is an outgrowth of the e-Science symposia and outreach projects and like the other initiatives, is a collaborative effort. JeSLIB is an open access peer reviewed online journal that is intended to advance the theory and practice of librarianship with a focus on services related to data driven research in the physical, biological, and medical sciences. It aims to promote e-science librarianship as a discipline and porivde a forum for librarian discussion about issues related to managing, curating, preserving and retrieving clinical and science data.
- A key focus in the New England e-Science program has been identifying the need for STEM students to receive formalized instruction on research data management best practices and developing a tool that librarians could easily adapt for teaching data management concepts to students and researchers at their local settings—this tool is the New England Collaborative Data Management Curriculum, aka NECDMC. NECDMC is an online modular curriculum with lesson plans, lecture content, slides, activities, examples of data management plans, a template for a data management plan, and a collection of research cases that illustrate data management in a variety of research settings and disciplines. NECDMC has been four years in the making—starting out with an IMLS grant in which our UMMS library partnered with WPI to develop frameworks for the curriculum. Once the frameworks were finished, we then obtained further funding to fully develop the content for the curriculum. We led a collaboration of librarians who authored lecture content and teaching slides for all seven modules, Additionally some authors contributed teaching cases and examples of data management plans. Partners on the NECDMC project include librarians from UMMS, Tufts, Northeastern, UMass Amherst, Harvard, University of Connecticut, Marine Biologic Laboratory and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. We’ve conducted 2 train the trainer classes teaching how to teach with NECDMC, and elicited pilot partners who use the curriculum to teach RDM at their local institutions. We currently have 12 formal active pilot partners from around the country, and in Canada, and in So. Africa. Beyond these we are aware that others are using the curriculum. The curriculum has a Creative Commons license that allows for others to freely adapt and use the curriculum, noting attribution
- While more LIS professionals are taking on roles in data librarianship, most LIS schools do not have a separate course focused on research data management. They may offer digital curation courses of study, but data management classes are few. Beginning in Spring 2012, our e-Science team has been teaching a Scientific Data Management class at Simmons to students in the MLIS program, in their doctorate program, and practicing librarians. We based the content of the class on the New England Collaborative Data Management curriculum and invite experts in various aspects of data librarianship to present. The two key deliverables for students in the class is conducting a data interview with a researcher and taking that interview and writing a data management plan and research case scenario. Feedback from students has been that no other class has taught them this information and that they learned valuable information about the culture of scientific research, data management in the research context, and emerging roles for librarians in RDM.
- This graphic represents the initiatives within the e-Science program and their roles for forwarding the discipline of e0Science Librarianship. As you see thus far, we’ve concentrated our efforts on STEM librarians and libraries. We have received requests from librarians in other disciplines—social sciences and humanities librarians, for example, who have inquired whether we’d consider expanding the NECDMC to include RDM instruction and teaching cases for their disciplines—and a general interest in forming a data librarian COI.
- Andrew Creamer, Myrna E. Morales, Javier Crespo, Donna Kafel, and Elaine Russo Martin. "Assessment of health sciences and science and technology librarian e-science educational needs to develop an e-science web portal for librarians" Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA 99.2 (2011): 153-156.