Doing Journalism with Data

Doing Journalism with Data

Are you interested in data journalism in the newsroom, finding data to support stories, finding story ideas with data analysis, and/or telling stories with visualization? If so, this online course might be of interest to you.

For more information: http://www.datadrivenjournalism.net/course/

New England Collaborative Data Management Curriculum

New England Collaborative Data Management Curriculum Site is Live

The New England Collaborative Data Management Curriculum offers openly available materials that librarians can use to teach research data management best practices to students in the sciences, health sciences and engineering fields, at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The materials in the curriculum are openly available, with lecture notes and slide presentations that librarians teaching RDM can customize for their particular audiences. The curriculum also has a database of real life research cases that can be integrated into the curriculum to address discipline specific data management topics.

You can visit the site at: http://library.umassmed.edu/necdmc/index

Research Data MANTRA Renewed | U of Edinburgh

U of Edinburgh Renews Research Data MANTRA 

Edinburgh University Data Library has announced that Research Data MANTRA, the free online course designed for researchers or others planning to manage digital data as part of the research process has been refreshed.

Shortlisted by the Research Information Literacy and Digital Scholarship (RILADS) project (http://rilads.wordpress.com/) as one of 15 good practice examples designed to enhance information literacy skills MANTRA has been upgraded to Version 2 of Xerte Online Toolkits, the e-learning development environment used to create the MANTRA learning materials.

This has the ability to deliver content using HTML5 rather than the Flash Player. This has a number of advantages in that you can deliver content to a much wider range of devices, and specifically you can deliver content to devices that do not support Flash.

The new MANTRA also highlights aspects of the learning materials that may be of particular interest to a range of discreet personas including research students, career researchers, and senior academics.

See URL: http://datalib.edina.ac.uk/mantra/

DMPTool Webinar Series | DMPTool.org

DMPTool Webinar Series Continue

Many of you have heard much about the DMPTool by now. Those who are still unfamiliar with a data management tool called DMPTool, and for those who are interested to learn more about the DMPTool, here is a reminder of a webinar series that would be useful for introducing the tool, communicating how to use it effectively, and describing how it can be customized for institutional needs. More information is available here.

<<Webinar Schedule>>

DATE	TOPIC	LINKS
28 May	Introduction to the DMPTool	Recording and Slides
4 Jun	Learning about data management: Resources, tools, materials you can use	Recording and Slides and Bibliography
18 Jun	Customizing the DMPTool for your institution	Recording and Slides
25 Jun	Environmental Scan: Who’s important at your campus	Recording and Slides
9 Jul	Promoting institutional services with the DMPTool; EZID as example	Recording and Slides
16 Jul	Health Sciences & DMPTool – Lisa Federer, UCLA	Recording and Slides
30 Jul	Digital humanities and the DMPTool – Miriam Posner, UCLA (rescheduled from July 23)	Recording and Slides
13 Aug	Data curation profiles and the DMPTool – Jake Carlson, Purdue	Recording and Slides
27 Aug	Talking points for meeting with institutional stakeholders	Recording and Slides
24 Sep	Beyond funder requirements: more extensive DMPs	Registration Link
15 Oct	Tools & resources that work with/complement the DMPTool (details soon)	Registration Link
5 Nov	Case studies – How librarians have successfully used the tool
TBD	TENTATIVE: Outreach Kit Introduction

Computing Skills for Data Analysis from Johns Hopkins University | Coursera

Computing Skills for Data Analysis from Johns Hopkins University| Coursera

Are you interested in learning the fundamental computing skills necessary for effective data analysis? In this upcoming Coursera course, you will learn to program in R and to use R for reading data, writing functions, making informative graphs, and applying modern statistical methods.

• Begin Date: 23 September 2013
• Offered by: Johns Hopkins University
• Workload: 3-5 hours/week
• Term: Four weeks
• More information and registration: https://www.coursera.org/course/compdata

Metadata Course from UNC Chapel Hill | Coursera

Upcoming Metadata Course from UNC Chapel Hill on Coursera

Are you interested in learning about metadata? The upcoming Coursera course Metadata: Organizing and Discovering Information from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, might be of interest to you.

• Offered by: University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
• Begin Date: 2 September 2013
• Term: Eight weeks
• More information and registration: https://www.coursera.org/course/metadata

The Center for Statistical Consultation and Research

Just something to keep in mind as you think about data-related projects and working with those who are doing work with data…

The Center for Statistical Consultation and Research (CSCAR) provides  statistical consulting to all UM faculty, staff, and graduate students with the design, planning, analysis, and presentation of research studies.

CSCAR also presents workshops on statistical methods, statistical software, and qualitative data analysis. Fall, Winter and Spring workshop offerings include Statistics Review, SAS, SPSS, Stata, SEM and Analysis with R.

Visit the CSCAR web page for current offerings http://cscar.research.umich.edu/workshops for additional information.

Data Management Overview Training for Librarians | Harvard University

The Research Data Management Overview Training for Librarians

On July 9th, Harvard University offered the training program targeted to all librarians, archivists, records managers, and IT staff who interact with researchers/faculty in managing data in all aspects of the research life cycle. This was an opportunity for individuals and units at Harvard to meet, network and learn from each other.

Below you can find the presentation slides and handouts from the training session:

1. Michael Leach, Research Data Management Overview RDC_Intro_ML_PPT_2013-07-09.pdf
2. Skip Kendall, Archives, Records, Management and Data RDC_SK_PPT_2013-07-09.pdf
3. Susan Gomes, Overview of FAS Research Development: Research Support Services RDC_RAS_SG_PPT_2013-07-09.pdf
4. FAS Guidance on NSF Data Management Plans (handout) RDC_RAS_NSF_DMP_Handout_2013-07-09.pdf
5. Data Management – Legal and Policy Issues Links (handout) RDC_LegalAndPolicyIssuesLinks_Handout_2013-07-09.pdf
6. Data Management Plan: Questions to Consider (handout) RDC_DMP_Questions_Handout_2013-07-09.pdf
7. Getting Started with the Harvard Dataverse Network (handout): http://thedata.org/files/thedata_new2/files/gettingstartedguidefinal.pdf
8. Harvard Dataverse Network Features (handout): http://thedata.org/files/thedata_new2/files/harvarddvnfeaturesfinal.pdf

List of Data Management Resources

Below is a list of data management resources & continuing education opportunities:

• e-Science Portal list of training/courses/degree programs: http://esciencelibrary.umassmed.edu/sci_data_literacy and http://esciencelibrary.umassmed.edu/educ_librarians
• ICPSR week-long workshops: Applied Data Science: Managing Research Data for Re-Use (offered every other year) and Providing Social Science Data Services: Strategies for Design and Operation
• University of Minnesota Data Management Course (targeted for grad students in engineering, but useful for librarians): https://sites.google.com/a/umn.edu/data-management-course_structures/home-1
• University of Massachusetts Frameworks for Data Management (targeted for grad students in sciences, but useful for librarians): http://library.umassmed.edu/data_management_frameworks.pdf and http://library.umassmed.edu/imls_phase_two
• Dorothea Salo’s twelve-week continuing-ed Data Management online course: http://www.slis.wisc.edu/continueed-DataMgmt.htm
• Syracuse post-master’s certificate (online; doesn’t require GRE; includes 5 courses): http://ischool.syr.edu/future/cas/datascience.aspx
• UIUC post-master’s certificate (online; doesn’t require GRE; includes 9 courses): http://www.lis.illinois.edu/academics/programs/cas-dl
• UNC-Chapel Hill post-master’s certificate (2-weeks onsite, the rest online; requires GRE no more than 5 years old;  includes 10 courses): http://sils.unc.edu/programs/graduate/post-masters-certificates/data-curation
• University of North Texas iCAMP effort to educate librarians on data management and digital curation: http://icamp.unt.edu/icamp/content/icamp-project
• Simmons course on Research Data Management: http://esciencecommunity.umassmed.edu/2012/10/23/simmons-offers-scientific-research-data-management-course-in-spring-2013/

News about Research Data MANTRA

Research Data MANTRA (http://datalib.edina.ac.uk/mantra/) is a free, non-credit course designed for postgraduate students and early career researchers which provides guidelines for good practice in research data management.

In recognition of the work done by Edinburgh University Data Library in developing this open educational resource, MANTRA has been evaluated and shortlisted in a report by the Research Information Literacy and Digital Scholarship (RILADS) project as one of 15 good practice examples designed to enhance information literacy skills of postgraduate students and early career researchers in UK Higher Education. 

To read more: Research Data Blog by University of Edinburgh