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NEXT-GENERATION RESEARCH AND THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

WHAT THE UC LIBRARIES BRING TO THE EQUATION

Brian E. C. SchottlaenderThe Audrey Geisel University Librarian

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LIBRARIES =

Natural home for, and stewards of, the University’s intellectual property.• Content:

– Acquired, licensed, created– Secondary, primary– Analog, digital

• Infrastructure:– Shelving– Repositories

• Services:– Metadata– Archiving– Preservation

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NO LESS TRUE …

… in the context of today’s meeting than in other contexts.• Content

– ETDs– ELNs– Datasets

• Infrastructure:– Bit storage– Tools

• Services:– Metadata– Archiving– Preservation

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AT THE SYSTEMWIDE LEVEL

• Merritt: repository service for managing, sharing, archiving, and preserving digital content https://merritt.cdlib.org/

• DMP: tool for creating data management plans required by federal funding agencies https://dmp.cdlib.org/

• EZID: tool that makes it easy to create and manage unique, long-term identifiers for anything: texts, data, etc. http://ezid.cdlib.org/

• ORCID: tool for creating persistent digital identifier for a researcher http://orcid.org/

• DASH: tool that allows researchers to describe, upload, and share research data http://cdluc3.github.io/dash/user-guide/

• Data publication: CDL CLIR Fellow• Data metrics: “Make Data Count” -- NSF grant with PLoS and

DataONE

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ON THE CAMPUSES

• Growing number of campus libraries have dedicated staff with knowledge of research data infrastructure concepts:– Davis: Spinning up Data Sciences Management Services– Irvine: E-Research and Digital Scholarship Services – San Diego: Research Data Curation Program

• Berkeley– Google Apps for Education

• Davis– incubating campus Data Science Initiative

• Irvine– Have just launched UCI DASH instance and have added a GeoLocation feature

https://dash.lib.uci.edu/xtf/search– Have created an OC Data Portal using DASH https

://dash.lib.uci.edu/xtf/search?smode=orangecounty-home

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ON THE CAMPUSES

• San Diego– RDF-model DAMS– Chronopolis– Five data pilots launched– IDI: ACT, Library, Qualcom Institute, SDSC

• San Francisco– Managing/Curating “-omics” data in support of Precision Medicine

• UCLA– Following their RISP initiative (Research Infrastructure Strategic Plan), now

assembling a more complete picture of the need for research data storage, curation, and preservation.

– Expect to launch real pilot in the near future.

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PARTNERSHIPS

• Google

• HathiTrust/HTRC

• PASIG (Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group)

• DPN (Digital Preservation Network)

• RDA (Research Data Alliance)

• JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee)

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GOING FORWARD

• Staff– More– More expert

• Policy issues• Discovery tools• Metrics• Service models• Costs• Funding

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