Lessons Learned From a Research Data Management Pilot Course at an Academic Library

Setting and Objective: From January-March 2014, three librarians from the University of Washington (UW) taught a course in research data management as a pilot for the New England Collaborative Data Management Curriculum (NECDMC). The goals of the workshops were to a) pilot the NECDMC curriculum to see how effective it was as an out-of-the box solution for teaching research data management (RDM), and b) to gauge interest in an RDM class among certain UW student populations, and c) to teach UW’s first RDM workshop offered to non-librarians. Design and Methods: The NECDMC consists of 7 modules that can be taught independently or as a series. UW decided to teach all seven modules consecutively, as one-hour long weekly workshops. Each module included a lecture and activity or discussion. We taught at one location on upper campus, and live-streamed the lecture to another location in the Health Sciences Library. Each module was assessed at the end of the class. Results: Interest in a research data management class is high; however, retention for a non-credit, 7-week class is low. Individual assessments show that students thought the content was important and well-delivered. Conclusions: Based on registration, graduate students at UW in many disciplines are interested in learning research data management skills. A non-credit, 7-week class had low retention; another type of class structure might increase retention. The NECDMC curriculum is an excellent framework, but modification to individual modules are necessary to provide a thorough and localized curriculum specific to one institution

Using active learning techniques to engage academic librarians in research data management

ACRL 2015 PosterUsing active learning techniques to engage academic librarians in research data management. Poster presented at ACRL 2015 in Portland, OR.ACR

Digital Preservation and Data Repositories: just what does "long-term" mean anyway?

Presentation given at the 2015 DLF Forum in Vancouver, BC in snapshot session "6 Snapshots - Open Access / Data Management"As the University of Washington Libraries began writing policy for the institution's data repository currently under development, we found ourselves in a quandary: "how long is long enough?" Within the framework mandated by the US Government's Office of Science and Technology Policy's (OSTP) memo on access to federally funded research, and given the myriad challenges of digital preservation, what are libraries committing to when planning a repository to provide long-term access to research data? This snapshot will stir conversation on a topic that needs to be addressed within a community jumping head first into the development of institutional data repositories

Is There a Role for Physiological Methods in the Evaluation of Human-Information Interaction?

In human-information interaction (HII) we are facing new research challenges as we attempt to look more holistically at the relationship between people, technologies, and information objects. These challenges revolve around understanding how the interaction process changes over time and evaluating emotional responses during interaction. The use of physiological measures is becoming prevalent in human-computer interaction (HCI) research to detect emotional responses during technology use and to design responsive computer devices. In this paper, we explore the collection, analysis and interpretation of physiological measures through the research literature and our own experience of employing them in a research study, with the overarching question, “What is the potential for physiological measures in the study of HII?Arts, Faculty ofLibrary, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS), School ofReviewedWinner of the ALISE/Dialog Methodology Paper Competition, Association of Library and Information Science Education, January 2012.FacultyGraduat