creative ideas for
revitalizing research
data services
BRIANNA MARSHALL | @notsosternlib
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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this is not a
success story.
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1. The messy bits
2. Processes! Workflows! Documents!
3. RDS (+ then some)
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more about me
• Graduated May 2014
• A lot of digital generalist type experience;
wasn’t sure where I’d end up
– Librarian? Technologist? Archivist?
– Scholarly communication? Data
management? Digital scholarship?
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then I became a
coordinator!
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6.5%
over two years
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about
Research Data Services
– Education + training
– Consultations
– Data management plans (DMPs)
researchdata.wisc.edu
@UWMadRschSvcs
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davidjwbailey (CC BY NC SA)
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RDS sponsors
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the team
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alrighty then,
it’s time to
get strategic.
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Image used courtesy of Alex Calcatelli:
http://www.skillshare.com/classes/design/Love-Your-Letters-Communicate-Visually-with-Words/393632797/projects/5952
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user Jukle Bot (CC BY NC)
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some of the things we did
• Website overhaul
– Design
– New blog workflows
• New digest/newsletter
• Sought new brown bag series speakers
• Visual design – flyers etc.
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renewed focus on
the RDS website
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[ researchdata.wisc.edu ]
MAY 2015
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project plan
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mockups
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content inventory
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[ researchdata.wisc.edu ]
AUGUST 2015
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[ researchdata.wisc.edu ]
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RDS website progression
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renewed focus
on design
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brown bag flyers
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renewed focus
on outreach
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RDS digest
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digest workflow
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RDS twitter
@UWMadRschSvcs
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RDM
doesn’t
exist
in a
vacuum.
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find these slide decks at:
speakerdeck.com/bmarshall
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http://www.briannamarshall.com/
2015/09/27/dil-reading-group
• Fall 2015
• Participants (12)
– Liaison librarians
– Information literacy librarians
– Graduate students
– Library IT
– Academic IT
• Goals
– Explore RDM/info lit intersections in a
fun, interdisciplinary way
– Create data management evangelists!
• Outputs
– Monthly notes
– Teaching + Learning Forum talk
data info literacy
reading group
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http://libux.co/brianna-marshall-cameron-cook/
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what’s next
for RDS?
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systems
education strategy
policy
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creativity + strategy
• Continual process improvement
• Keeping the momentum
• Moxie!
• Design thinking
• Change management
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big projects
• Repository landscape
– Understanding, advising, adapting
• ELN / repository pipeline
• Supporting open science + open research
• RDM + librarians
iterate quickly
(and just as
quickly shrug
off the
resulting
mistakes!)
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having ideas is cool…
but executing them
well is the crucial part.
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creating connections
at your institution
is a GREAT
accomplishment.
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beginning is often
the hardest part.
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give your data
services a jolt
to the system.
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fun is
contagious.
.
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(competent + enjoyable)
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identify + embrace
constraints.
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change
adapt
assess
reassess
(you get the idea.)
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then give it
all away..
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just sayin
• If you aren’t feeling creative, find a way.
Our work needs this.
• The best ideas don’t always come from
libraries.
• When marketing services, professional
doesn’t have to mean zero personality!
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thanks for listening!
Brianna Marshall
@notsosternlib
brianna.marshall@wisc.edu
Research Data Services
researchdata.wisc.edu
@UWMadRschSvcs
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