DMPTool: Expert Resources & Support for Data Management Planning

<p>A growing number of funding agencies require data management plans (DMP) as part of new research grant proposals. One of the challenges facing institutions is providing a support structure for potential researcher knowledge gaps in the process. The DMPTool is a free, open source tool designed to not only assist in the DMP writing process, but also connect researchers to best practices and support at their institutions. These objectives are well aligned with many of the goals of the Research Data Alliance. We will demonstrate the role the DMPTool plays in the data lifecycle, and how it can be effectively implemented to best support the research community.</p

DataUp: Helping Researchers Manage, Archive & Share Tabular Data

<p>Poster describing the DataUp tool, created by California Digital Library and Microsoft Research Connections, with funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. The open-source tool is available as an add-in or a web application and helps researchers manage, archive, and share their tabular research data. </p

The UC Curation Center (UC3): Developing Tools & Services for Managing Research

<p>As part of the California Digital Library, the UC Curation Center (UC3) provides resources, tools, and services to a wide range of researchers across the University of California system and beyond. We are working to create a comprehensive set of tools and services to assist researchers throughout the research and data lifecycles. These include the EZID identifier service; the Merritt Repository for preservation and access to digital assets; the DataUp tool for quality checking, documenting and sharing tabular datasets; the DMPTool web application for creating data management plans; the DataShare software tool for documenting and archiving datasets; and the Web Archiving Service (WAS) for preserving websites. Many of these projects involve partners both within the UC system and beyond, and represent successful collaborations with museums, libraries, researchers, and funders. Our future plans include making our software open and reusable, and collaborating with other tools and services such as ORCID, Databib, and altmetrics services.</p

DataUp 2: Improvements to help researchers better archive, manage, and share their tabular data

<p>Poster on the newest version of the DataUp tool. See http://dataup.cdlib.org for more information.</p

Engaging in E-Science through Project Partnership

This poster provides an overview of the role of academic and science libraries in DataONE, a distributed sustainable digital data preservation and access network for earth, environmental and ecological sciences funded as one of two initial DataNet projects by the National Science Foundation. The poster presents a case study highlighting (1) the role of librarians and libraries in DataONE, (2) the structure of the DataONE virtual organization, and (3) the kinds of services that libraries will provide as they develop their capacity to curate digital data. Librarians are involved at all stages of the project – proposal development, needs analysis, data collection, standards development, outreach and instruction, end-user support, LIS research, data curation, and preservation. DataONE uses inclusive organizational structures and processes to integrate digital, academic, and science librarians with research networks, governmental organizations, international organizations, data and metadata archives, professional societies, NGOs, the commercial sector, and synthesis and supercomputer centers/networks to form an economically and technologically sustainable virtual organization. The librarians involved in this project plan to build distributed services to provide user instruction, global virtual reference services, and support the dissemination of best practices for collecting "born archival" scientific data. Participating libraries will evolve to support the discovery and long-term (decades to centuries) preservation of diverse multi-scale, multi-discipline, and multi-national science data collected by biological (genome to ecosystem) and environmental (atmospheric, ecological, hydrological, and oceanographic) scientists, national and international research networks, and environmental observatories