Only as good as our sources
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Presentation at the School Library Association of Victoria conference 'Making the most of data'. This quote coined by a journalist, applies equally well to students completng assignments, to teachers preparing lessons, and to policymakers dealing with complex educational issues. All rely on sources that are relevant, accurate and accessible – exactly the type of sources that are typically discovered in libraries. So how do we ensure the sources available in school library collections meet the needs of the school? Collecting and analysing data from the school community is an important way of evaluating the library’s services and collection.
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- 1. Only as good as our sources Making the most of data School Library Association of Victoria Conference August 2017 Pru Mitchell
- 3. data literacy - more than numbers
- 7. metadata
- 10. Census data
- 15. Wikicite skills I am a regular Wikipedia contributor I have contributed data, data models, or new property proposals to Wikidata I am a regular contributor to other Wikimedia projects I write code and web applications I have experience with SPARQL I have experience writing bots / automated agents I have experience writing text and markup parsers I have worked with tools and applications for citations I have written tools to extract or analyze citations I have translated technical documentation I have experience visualizing data I have experience with bibliographic / citation standards and data models I work for an organization that will directly benefit from these efforts
- 16. Citing sources in Wikipedia • Every fact has an inline citation (superscript) • Every citation has a full reference (footnote) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources
- 18. "We are only as good as our sources. If they are wrong, we are wrong.“ Goldstein, T. (2007). Journalism and truth: strange bedfellows. Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Ill, p. 59 attributed to New York Times reporter Judith Miller in 2003
- 19. Taraborelli, D. (2017). Wikicite: the road ahead
- 20. Ford, H. (2017). The social life of (Wikipedia) sources.
- 23. Learning about learning data
- 24. By Iwasaki,Hikaru at War Relocation Authority. Department of Interior - National Archives ARC Record Group:210, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=20 17956
- 25. Course: Using and interpreting data Using and interpreting data in schools Online: seven online modules (topics) Course duration: 20 hours over approximately 10 weeks (one term) For teachers and school leaders who wish to build solid shared understandings about the kinds of data used in schools, the different ways in which data can be represented and what they can tell teachers about student learning.
- 27. Library data What data do you use? What data could you use? What data could you share? What data would you like to have?
- 28. Data management
- 29. Data governance 1. No-harm rule 2. Honesty & transparency 3. Fairness 4. Choice 5. Accuracy and access 6. Accountability 7. Stewardship 8. Security 9. Enforcement Data Governance Australia
- 30. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:FAIR_data#/me dia/File:FAIR_data_principles.jpg By SangyaPundir - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=53414062
Editor's Notes
- Like Kristin and Sandy, data was not my thing. I have watched university colleagues move into data librarianship This session could be called ‘my year of data’. While I am definitely not into the ‘quantifiable self’ collecting loads of personal data – no fitbit, no watch, or GoPro - not much shopping. Although I do check into Swarm - and tweet a bit However, in my work life I cannot escape the data deluge| I thought I would take you on a journey of where data librarianship fits into my day – and how little of this is based around numerical data
- Yesterday was #World Indigenous Day, and I would like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land we stand on, the Wurundjeri peope of the Kulin nation. I respect their elders, their teachers and all those who have educated here over so many generations. Yesterday the OECD released this important global report on Indigenous Education. How does an office sitting in PAris know what is going on in Indigenous education in Australia. This report is only as good as the sources they have available I was privileged in my small way to contribute data sources to this report. - Over 85 years librarians at the Australian Council for Educational Research have selected and collected research on Indigenous education. - We have indexed and catalogued it so we can find that research - Then some years later, researchers asked our research librarian to do a specific literature search and provide them with the best set of resources to meet their topic - The finished report comes back to us for 'editing' reference list - anything to save researchers time, but also an opportunity to close the loop and check what resources were in fact useful, how did it match what we provided, and what additional grey literature the researchers may have found themselves
- My main theme for this session is that data is not just numbers
- This chart is just one example that shows how the sources we provided to the OECD have been collated and displayed. Effective leadership & teaching capability are levers for achieving improved outcomes for #Indigenous #students http://bit.ly/2foVM6 http://www.oecd.org/edu/promising-practices-in-supporting-success-for-indigenous-students-9789264279421-en.htm
- Earlier in the year PISA and TIMSS results were released – it is not just the reports that are published but the data behind those reports. The data sets increasingly are required to be published - by the funding body. www.acer.org/ozpisa This enables additional analysis beyond what the original funding allowed for. Data collection - international surveys are very expensive and timeconsuming Allows checking of results
- http://research.acer.edu.au/ozpisa/24/ Download SAS file formats – in Zip files The data files are catalogued as per any other resource – except for large file sizes, and not being sure how much information someone will require. Luckily there are code books available, and the publications help make sense of what is available.
- This is the data area we have been specialists in for years. But of course, cataloguing is not sexy enough – and is re-branded as metadata
- Informit A+ Education In Canberra last week for an Informit Data Providers meeting. In the old days it was called the indexers meeting. The Cunningham Library at ACER provides the index data for A+ Education - which we license through Informit in Australia, and Proquest and Chinese language versions. Same data - different products. How do we do this? Data standards.
- Search for data literacy in A+ education
- In June, the 2016 Census data began to be released from the ABS, and researchers started looking for key tables for updating their favourite longitudinal project. There is a lot of data available for free from the ABS, but the data cubes and sensitive datasets require subscription, and signing in blood by the CEO – that no-one in the organisation will misuse the data. Creating new datasets. The anguish when ABS change the way they measure things – or the world changes When new data are collected – the ABS need to explain clearly what categories they have used to code the responses.
- One of my volunteer hats at the moment is Vice-President, Wikimedia Australia At the VALA Conference we hosted a UK speaker about Wikidata – the free knowledge base behind the Wikipedia projects – a repository with 31,469,988 data items that anyone can edit Wikidata is a free and open knowledge base that can be read and edited by both humans and machines.Wikidata acts as central storage for the structured data of its Wikimedia sister projects including Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wikisource, and others. Wikidata also provides support to many other sites and services beyond just Wikimedia projects!
- One of the places wikipedia data ends up is in search engine infoboxes One of our challenges at the moment is updating the ABS 2016 census data across Wikipedia. Look at the source used for the population data. Now I could fix this here for the Camberwell article Check other language Wikipedias - population does not need to be 'translated'
- We need authority control! the Qcode https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2934668 So the theory is we record the data ONCE in wikidata and then other sources pull from this WORK IN PROGRESS
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2017/Program I got there on a scholarship, and one of the conditions was that I share what I learned with my community. You are my community! It was an amazing list of organisations represented including search engines, OCLC, Internet Archive, major european libraries
- The list of selection criteria for scholarships I am a regular Wikipedia contributor I have contributed data, data models, or new property proposals to Wikidata I am a regular contributor to other Wikimedia projects I write code and web applications I have experience with SPARQL I have experience writing bots / automated agents I have experience writing text and markup parsers I have worked with tools and applications for citations I have written tools to extract or analyze citations I have translated technical documentation I have experience visualizing data I have experience with bibliographic / citation standards and data models I work for an organization that will directly benefit from these efforts
- 10,000 word style manual – I have summarised for you Check time? can show live demo of adding sources
- Peter Karmel article example of citation and reference
- Who said
- https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5032235 https://figshare.com/articles/WikiCite_The_journey_and_the_road_ahead/5032235
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:The_social_life_of_(Wikipedia)_sources.pdf&page=6 Heather Ford: The social like of Wikipedia sources
- SLASA Online Referencing Generator
- The data wall in action Caption from original: Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Family counselor is examining wall chart. Wall charts show residence of every resident. A yellow button (pink pin) in center of any residence shows that a relocation plan has been made and approved.
- Discuss in small groups: collection data Your data action plan Data audit What have you got that you use wgat have you got that you could use What could you get What have you got that you could share? What would you like to have? Record – organise – analyse – Infer – Test hypotheses Interested in what titles your patrons request via MeLCat? Interested in what titles are requested numerous times? Wondering about turn-around time? There's a host of information that can be mined from the MeLCat transaction data . . . once you know how! After taking this class, you'll be able to access the transaction data, understand the coding, and create your own reports using this data. Use of Course Analysis in Compiling a Collection Development Policy Statement for a University Library. Palais, Elliot Journal of Academic Librarianship, v13 n1 p8-13 Mar 1987 Describes a methodology which analyzes courses described in university catalogs in order to produce a database used in the compilation of a collection development policy statement. Each step of the analysis is described, and tables are used to track sample data through the entire process. (CLB)
- DGA Code of Practice is a principles-based self-regulatory regime that sets leading industry standards and benchmarks for responsible and ethical data-practices through 9 core principles*: http://datagovernanceaus.com.au/dga-code-of-practice/ E-health with no data interoperability controls http://www.zdnet.com/article/australias-digital-health-strategy-gets-the-nod-without-data-interoperability-controls/ Insurance – risk pooling/risk sharing and data Joined up education data
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:FAIR_data#/media/File:FAIR_data_principles.jpg