This presentation was provided by Mark Llauferseiler of the University of Oklahoma, during part one of the NISO two-part webinar "Labor and Capacity for Research Data Management," which was held on March 11, 2020.

1. What will you do at the intellectual
crossroads of the University of Oklahoma?
OU Libraries: Opportunities Supporting
Research & Education
NISO Labor and Capacity for Research Data Management

2. What will you do at the intellectual
crossroads of the University of Oklahoma?
 Who am I or why me?
 Local repository services
 Outreach and other
researcher services
Outline

3. What will you do at the intellectual
crossroads of the University of Oklahoma?
 Education
BS Physics
University of Kentucky
MS Meteorology
Pennsylvania State University
PhD Meteorology
Pennsylvania State University
 Work
• DoE Support scientist (1994-1996)
• Atmospheric Radiation Measurement program
o Truly ”Big” Data
o May be the first ”official” documented data
management plan
• Computer Specialist (1996-1999)
Florida State Department of Meteorology
o more Data
• Computer Systems Coordinator and Adjunct
Faculty (1999-2913)
• OU School of Meteorology
o Data, and more data
? Nontraditional PhD ?

4. What will you do at the intellectual
crossroads of the University of Oklahoma?
Data Management ARM program: A taste
Processed Data
An example netCDF data file name is depicted below:
The sgp5mwravgB4.c1.20040706.020415.cdf file contains 5-minute averaged microwave
radiometer data from the Southern Great Plains Vici site from July 6, 2004. The data level is “c1”
indicating the data was derived or calculated via Value-Added Processing (see Data Levels).
ARM netCDF files shall be named according to the following naming convention:
(sss)(nn)(inst)(qqq)(Fn).(dl).YYYYMMDD.hhmmss.cdf.

5. What will you do at the intellectual
crossroads of the University of Oklahoma?
 sss
is the site identifier (e.g., sgp, twp, nsa)
 nn
is the data integration period (e.g., 1, 5, 15, 30, 1440)
 inst
is the instrument abbreviation (e.g., mwr, wsi, mpl)
 qqq
is an optional qualifier that distinguishes these data from other data sets produced by the same instrument
 Fn
is the facility designation (e.g., C1, E13, B4)
 dl
is the data level (e.g., a0, a1, b1, c1)
 The length constraints are:
 sss: 3 characters
 Fn: 2 or 3 characters
 dl: 2 characters
(sss)(nn)(inst)(qqq)(Fn).(dl).YYYYMMDD.hhmmss.cdf
• (sss)(nn)(inst)(qqq)(Fn).(dl): MUST be 33 characters or less.
• “The TOTAL length of a filename sent to the ARM Data Center MUST be 61
characters or less.”
• https://www.arm.gov/policies/datapolicies/formatting-and-file-naming-protocols

6. What will you do at the intellectual
crossroads of the University of Oklahoma?
 Florida State
• Live and archive data
manager
• WX software/tools
maintainer
 Research IT support
 University of Oklahoma
• All that at FSU plus
• Data liaison with NOAA
agencies
• Capstone (senior thesis)
• Instructor of record for
intro meteo lab for
undergrads
Rest of my life

7. What will you do at the intellectual
crossroads of the University of Oklahoma?
 2013 Research Data Specialist
 2019 Head of Data Analytics, Visualization, and
Informatics Syndicate (DAVIS)
 OU/Libraries Organizational Contact for
• The Carpentries
• ORCID
• OSF
• DMPTool
OU University Libraries

8. What will you do at the intellectual
crossroads of the University of Oklahoma?
 Repository Services
collaboratively develops and
manages the operations of
the university's local and
shared institutional
repositories, and works to
assure the long-term
preservation and
accessibility of their content.
 SHAREOK
 Journals @ SHAREOK
 Commons@SHAREOK
 …not “big” data…
ShareOK

9. What will you do at the intellectual
crossroads of the University of Oklahoma?
 PetaStore
• Tape system
o Tapes purchased by PI’s
• Designed for larger data sets
• TB storage
• Not publicly accesable
 OURRStore
 Now being built
 Upgrade to PetaStore
 Publicly accessible via Globus
• Local Library support
• Check before release
• Globus endpoint is what
then is reference in local
repository (ShareOK)
OU Supercomputing Center for Education and Research

10. What will you do at the intellectual
crossroads of the University of Oklahoma?
Consultation & Collaborative Spaces: DAVIS

11. What will you do at the intellectual
crossroads of the University of Oklahoma?
Data Analysis Visualization Informatics Syndicate

12. What will you do at the intellectual
crossroads of the University of Oklahoma?
Information Specialists

13. What will you do at the intellectual
crossroads of the University of Oklahoma?
The Carpentries

14. What will you do at the intellectual
crossroads of the University of Oklahoma?
Trained instruction
 Introduce you to evidence-
based best-practices of
teaching.
 Teach you how to create a
positive environment for
learners at your workshops.
 Provide opportunities for you
to practice and build your
teaching skills.
 Help you become
integrated into the
Carpentries community.
 Prepare you to use these
teaching skills in teaching
Carpentries workshops.
The Carpentries Pedagogy

15. What will you do at the intellectual
crossroads of the University of Oklahoma?
The Carpentries
Intellectual Crossroads of the University
The Carpentries
Intellectual Crossroads of the University
The Carpentries

16. What will you do at the intellectual
crossroads of the University of Oklahoma?
University Libraries Workshops

17. What will you do at the intellectual
crossroads of the University of Oklahoma?
UL Workshops

18. What will you do at the intellectual
crossroads of the University of Oklahoma?
University Libraries Workshops

19. What will you do at the intellectual
crossroads of the University of Oklahoma?
University Libraries Workshops

20. What will you do at the intellectual
crossroads of the University of Oklahoma?
Open Science Framework https://osf.ou.edu

21. What will you do at the intellectual
crossroads of the University of Oklahoma?
Digital Object Identifiers DOIs

22. What will you do at the intellectual
crossroads of the University of Oklahoma?
ORCID

23. What will you do at the intellectual
crossroads of the University of Oklahoma?
Scenes from DAVIS
• Researcher problems around
• Coding
• Python, R, some MatLab
• Applying Statistical Methods
• Specialists not necessarily stats experts
• Wish: Libraries hire a stats person
• Machine setups
• Spend time fixing software installs
• Trying to have faculty/instructor use the UL as a resource for classes
• Research Data Management
• How to do better
• DMP reviews

24. What will you do at the intellectual
crossroads of the University of Oklahoma?
Dr. Mark Laufersweiler
Research Data Specialist
University Libraries
laufers@ou.edu
@laufers
@OU_Libraries
ORCID: 0000-0001-5544-0976
Thank you

25. What will you do at the intellectual
crossroads of the University of Oklahoma?
 ARM naming
• https://www.arm.gov/policies/datapolicies/for
matting-and-file-naming-protocols
 OU Libraries (UL)
• https://libraries.ou.edu
 OU UL DAVIS
• https://libraries.ou.edu/DAVIS
 OU UL Carpentries
• https://libraries.ou.edu/carpentries
 OU UL Workshops
• https://libraries.ou.edu/content/university-
libraries-request-workshops
 ShareOK (UL Repository Services)
• https://libraries.ou.edu/content/repository-
services
 OU UL Research Data Management
• https://libraries.ou.edu/content/research-data-
management
 OU UL How to create a README.txt
• https://libraries.ou.edu/content/how-make-
readmetxt-file
 OU UL DOI’s
• https://libraries.ou.edu/content/doi-digital-assets
 OU Supercomputing (OSCER)
• https://www.ou.edu/oscer
• PetaStore
o http://ou.edu/oscer/support/petastore_storag
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