Season 2, Episode 1: Michael Hirsh
Michael Hirsh's piece "Reflections on a Visit to Holland" and the transcript for this episode are available for download as additional files.
Season 2: Trailer
The transcript for this episode is available for download as an additional file.
Special Issue: 2021 Research Data Access and Preservation Summit
The Journal of eScience Librarianship has partnered with the Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) Association for a fourth year to publish selected conference proceedings. The fully-virtual 2021 Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) Summit focused on the theme of Radical Change and Data. This editorial introduces the 2021 RDAP Specia...
Preparing a Data Archive or Repository for Changing Research Data and Materials Retention Policies
Archival expectations and requirements for researchers’ data and code are changing rapidly, both among publishers and institutions, in response to what has been referred to as a “reproducibility crisis.” In an effort to address this crisis, a number of publishers have added requirements or recommendations to increase the availability of supporting ...
Do I Have To Be An “Other” To Be Myself? Exploring Gender Diversity In Taxonomy, Data Collection, And Through The Resear...
Objective: Existing studies estimate that between 0.3% and 2% of adults in the U.S. (between 900,000 and 2.6 million in 2020) identify as a nonbinary gender or otherwise gender nonconforming. In response to the RDAP 2021 theme of radical change, this article examines the need to change how datasets represent nonbinary persons and how research invol...
Data Curation Implications of Qualitative Data Reuse and Big Social Research
Objective: Big social data (such as social media and blogs) and archived qualitative data (such as interview transcripts, field notebooks, and diaries) are similar, but their respective communities of practice are under-connected. This paper explores shared challenges in qualitative data reuse and big social research and identifies implications for...
Data Consultations, Racism, and Critiquing Colonialism in Demographic Datasheets
Objective: We consider how data librarians can take antiracist action in education and consultations. We attempt to apply QuantCrit thinking, particularly to demographic datasheets. Methods: We synthesize historical context with modern critical thinking about race and data to examine the origins of current assumptions about data. We then present ex...
Data Management for Systematic Reviews: Guidance is Needed
Data management practices for systematic reviews and other types of knowledge syntheses are variable, with some reviews following open science practices and others with poor reporting practices leading to lack of transparency or reproducibility. Reporting standards have improved the level of detail being shared in published reviews, and also encour...
Reflections from Transitioning Carpentries Workshops Online
Objectives: As certified Carpentries instructors, the authors organized and co-taught the University of Montana’s first in-person Carpentries workshop focused on the R programming language during early 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a repeated workshop was postponed to the fall of 2020 and was adapted for a fully online setting. The authors sh...
Using Customer Journey Mapping and Design Thinking to Understand the Library’s Role in Supporting the Research Data Life...
Objective: Customer journey mapping and design thinking were identified as useful tools for identifying deeper insights into the research data service needs of researchers on our campus with their direct input. In this article we discuss ways to improve the process in order to identify data needs earlier in the project life and at a more granular l...
