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<p><a href="http://ndsr.nycdigital.org/project-update/">See original posting here.</a></p>
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<p>Originally, I had my presentation scheduled for about 10 minutes but due to time constraints on the agenda, it was shortened to five. This meant I speed-talked my way through all the analyses I had finished the Friday before (April 3) while hoping to impress on everyone there that the risk of data loss is not only imminent, but inevitable. Given the questions and comments I received directly after my presentation and in the week to come, I can say this presentation was a definite success.</p>
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<p>For the Residency itself, all I have left to do is my final report--this is a compilation of my previous reports and analyses with recommendations for storage, management, and preservation of the Museum’s vast scientific collections and research data. These previous reports include: a plan for the length of retention for digital assets, an environmental scan to see what other similar institutions are doing for their data, and an overview of what federal agencies fund AMNH research, and whether those agencies require data management plans or not. All these previous reports will come together to form my recommendations as well as provide the Museum with the information it needs to understand and interpret my recommendations.</p><!-- TEASER_END -->
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<p>From there, I will take the results of my survey and translate them into functional requirements I believe should be met by the Museum. This will be the final half of the report. What I anticipate taking up the bulk of the report are my findings and analytical work. This is the evidence for my recommendations and must be given the majority of emphasis. Translating my enormous excel sheet of results into nicely graphic'd and verbal will be a task worthy of its two month timeline for sure.</p>
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<p>This Friday, I will fulfill my last requirement for NDSR. This is my enrichment session--basically a way for the Residents to get experience planning events. I will take the other Residents up to the AMNH Research Library for a presentation on the types of data at risk at the Museum, and current strategies for preservation of such data.</p>
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<p>After this, I will give them a snapshot into the research process by taking them down to the Microscopy and Imaging Facility for an in-depth look at how research using the CT Scanner works. Think of a “cooking show” type of presentation that shows each data at each step of the process, with an eye toward management of that data. This could have only been achieved with the collaboration of the exceptional MIF staff, whom I will now publicly thank: Morgan, and Henry--thank you!</p>
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<p>So as you can see--the life of a Resident is busy and the work is always flowing never ending. However, with two months left at the AMNH, I can only hope that time starts to slow down and I can have a small infinity within the remaining months.</p>
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<p>So, I kind of am in love with the <a href="https://www.force11.org/meetings/force2016" >FORCE conference</a> I just went to. FORCE2016 is the annual conference from an organization called FORCE11 (ha, the year they started the org.). This year, 500 people came from around the world: researchers, librarians, software developers, large scale repositories, open science advocates, and everyone in between. It was not only a very diverse conference in terms of home country and job, but also in the way the conference and program was run.</p>
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<p>First, one of the coolest things I have ever seen: in addition to the MULTITUDE of tweets around the event (seriously everyone was so active, it was amazing), they hired a company to take visual notes!! While everything was going on!! Everyone, the gist of their talks, panels, lightning talks, EVERYTHING! Such a great idea and it produced a great visual overview of the con!</p><!-- TEASER_END -->
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<p>There was a great program of people. I'm going to highlight my two favourites. The first was from Steven Pinker surrounding how <em>absolutely astoundingly convoluted</em> academic writing is, and how it contributes to a toxic publishing culture in academia. The question he examines is: why is SO MUCH communication ineffective? Is it on purpose? Or is it because of what he calls the Curse of Knowledge—the difficulty we all have in imagining what it’s like not to know something we know? Pinker approached this in (duh) a really understandable way -- he is not only articulate himself, but perfectly explains how academic writing has changed over time -- from classic style, where the reader and writer are equals, and the writer is simply trying to provide a window into the world (showing not telling), to the currently popular postmodern/self-conscious style, where the goal is to not seem ignorant about one's own enterprise.</p>
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<p>The other talk in my top 2 was from <a href="http://www.indiana.edu/~gender/people/foster.shtml">Laura Foster</a>, Assistant Professor of Gender Studies at Indiana U, Bloomington. She spoke on current, multi-institutional work in South Africa examining how indigenous peoples articulate the effects of climate change and their strategies for adaptation. The institutions involved are: Natural Justice, University of Cape Town, Indiana University, and and members of the Indigenous Griqua peoples. The catch here is that the researchers were forced to grapple with two conflicting ideas: to share and not to share. Indigenous Griqua peoples asked researchers to not share all their findings and wanted to give input on publication decisions, but funders want them to publish everything openly with CC licenses. </p>
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<p>This made me approach openness in a much different way than I ever have. Foster and her collaborators created a solution -- they developed contracts signed by everyone to protect the interests of indigenous peoples, while complying with mandates for open access by funders. Foster challenged the ideal that scholarly information should be openly shared and accessed. This is not something I ever thought to question before -- there's lots of privilege and entitlement embedded in this, and the way she called me (and everyone else) out on this assumption was not only a big game changer for me when I meet with researchers (some of whom DO work with indigenous peoples, refugees, immigrants, and other exploited peoples), but also, beyond IRB, the way researchers can protect their participants and research collaborators. I always say openness as combating intellectual colonialism, but Foster turned that on its head and it was immensely helpful.
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<p>Check it out -- Foster begins at 5:03:</p>
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<p>Now, onto the fun stuff: I was able to get on stage!! This session was entitled "<a href="https://www.force11.org/meetings/force2016/program/agenda/concurrent-session-starting-right-foot-data-management">Starting Off on the Right Foot with Data Management</a>" and was run by Rebecca Boyles and Danny Kingsley. It was essentially data management and open X debate club!! Goodness it was so fun.</p>
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<p>The 8 of us on stage were split into two teams: the 'For' team and the 'Against' team. We were then given ballons to pop with statements inside, such as: 'Sharing data openly is a waste of time' and others in that vein. We then had to argue, and the audience voted on whose arguments were the strongest. I was on the 'Against' team and we won!! Mostly because we were given a bunch of double-negatives, so we argued <em>for</em> openness and well-managed data.</p>
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<p>If you want to hear me cuss and rant about data management sitting next to the CEO of Figshare, check it out:</p>
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<p>As the National Digital Stewardship Resident at the American Museum of Natural History, I was introduced to the very specific problems facing museum librarians and archivists not only through observing the Research Library, but by speaking individually with some of the most intensive data creators at the Museum. As a part of my larger needs assessment project at the Museum, I created a semi-structured interview guide that I used to enter into a targeted dialogue with scientific staff members, covering all aspects of their digital research and collections data. Topics included the volume of their data, its rate of growth, format types, necessary software and hardware support, management practices, and opinions on preservation of their data (i.e. what data they believe is important in the long-term). I interviewed close to 60 staff members in total, including all the curators in the five Science divisions at the Museum: Anthropology, Invertebrate Zoology, Paleontology, Physical Sciences, and Vertebrate Zoology.</p><!-- TEASER_END -->
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<p>During the course of my analysis, I discovered not only the sheer volume of data (with a substantial number of curators generating many terabytes a day!) but also the diversity of said data, for both research purposes and within collections. This is a big data problem that many research museums are facing. Looking at the AMNH, diversity of data is found not only in the macrocosm of the Museum’s five Science divisions, but also with each curator and research methodology.</p>
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<p>After gathering this interview data, I was tasked with analyzing it in order to make recommendations in a larger final report on three essential categories: storage, management, and preservation of digital research and collecaions data. A related deliverable of my project was also a report on solutions other museums have developed for curating their in-house research and collections data. This environmental scan showed that few natural history museums in the United States take an institutional approach to solving this challenge, largely due to resource constraints. A popular institutional solution for collections data is Arctos, the community-driven multidisciplinary collection management information system that was developed as a collaboration among multiple institutions and currently holds three million natural history museum records. However for research data, fewer such solutions exist for natural science research and are in development currently. The National Museum of Natural History and the British Natural History Museum are both growing their digital preservation program by building institutional repositories to house their respective research data.</p>
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<p>As I continued to develop my AMNH-specific recommendations for storage, management, and preservation of digital research and collections data, I remained cognizant of the community implications. This final report is still a working document, now totaling over 100 pages. It is my hope that through at least publicly releasing my semi-structured interview guide (which will be in my public NDSR report to be released in the coming weeks), that other natural science museums can pursue the same needs assessment procedure to understand the extent and scope of their own digital data—and in doing so, have the opportunity to advocate and educate for and on digital preservation in their own institutions. Only when there is institutional support can larger community-driven resources be developed and the risk of data loss minimized. </p>
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<p> This month was excellent as it marked my first ever professional presentation as a NYU Librarian :) </p>
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<p>Last year during NDSR, it seemed like I was giving a presentation at a conference, professional organization meeting, webinar, etc. every other week. It’s been exceptionally restful (well, sort of...) to spend these past 5 months getting to know NYU, my colleagues, the scope of my work, and really just getting a feel for my day-to-day. </p>
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<p>One of the most exciting outputs from my first semester here at NYU has surrounded my work on the Moore-Sloan Data Science Environment (msdse.org). Back in October (link to Oct 2015 post), I wrote about the MSDSE Summit that was held at Suncadia Resort in Washington state. God it was so incredibly beautiful there and I got to do some really cool stuff, but the best thing that happened was definitely meeting <a href="http://guides.lib.uw.edu/friendly.php?s=research/jmuilenburg" >Jenny Muilenburg</a> and <a href="http://bids.berkeley.edu/people/erik-mitchell" > Erik Mitchell</a>. </p><!-- TEASER_END -->
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<p>As the three librarians in the MSDSE, we wanted to meet and discuss some of the potential outputs that our Libraries Working Group (which had its first in-person meeting at the Summit!) could produce. One thing that came out of it was <a href="https://www.cni.org/?p=23571" >our presentation</a> at the <a href="https://www.cni.org/events/membership-meetings/past-meetings/fall-2015" >Coalition of Networked Information Fall 2015 Meeting in Washington, DC</a>.</p>
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<p>We were really interested in exploring more overlap between the work that data scientists do and the potential work that could take place in libraries. Because the nature of data science is so multidisciplinary, and encompasses a variety of research methods and domains, it faces a lot of the same issues as libraries do in open scholarship, data access, reproducibility, curation, standardized vocabularies and metadata, and data curation. </p>
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<p>There are so many opportunities for us to all collaborate on these issues and create infrastructure and service models to better serve our communities. However, deploying these is super challenging. This has been a big strength of the MSDSE--the chance for universities to create these new collaborations as well as create new employment opportunities for data scientists.</p>
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<p>So in thinking through these issues, Jenny, Erik, and I thought of potential career paths for data scientists in libraries. We thought of three main categories of jobs:</p>
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<p>You can see our <a href="https://osf.io/fqcr7/" >slides</a> on the Open Science Framework as well as our recorded presentation, which CNI is graciously hosting on their YouTube and Vimeo channels: </p>
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<p>Hello everyone! Vicky here to bring you some holiday cheer. I thought, since this is our last post before Hanukkah, Yule, Life Day, Festivus, Kwanzaa , Pancha Ganapati, Soyal, the Dongzhi Festival, Christmas, Newtonmas, Boxing Day, Omisoka, and New Years, I could wind down a busy few months by talking about the American Museum of Natural History party season!</p>
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<p>The Library kicked off the party season this year, with probably 50+ people eating and drinking in the reading room (it’s only one night of the year, librarian friends who are cringing!) as the night went on. This was a great opportunity for me to better get to know many of the scientists that I've interviewed for my NDSR project in a more informal environment.</p><!-- TEASER_END -->
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<p>Friday the 12th was the day of the physical sciences party. Since it’s one of the better slots for parties, the Rose Center was absolutely packed. What usually sets the physical sciences party apart from others is the high probability of seeing some science celebrities, since it is held in the same wing as <a href="http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/tyson/profile" >Neil deGrasse Tyson</a>’s office.</p>
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<p>For me, the first celeb sighting of the night was <a href="http://billnye.com/" >Bill Nye the Science Guy</a>! I walked by Neil deGrasse Tyson’s office on the way to the bar/food room, and looked in hoping for a quick look look at NDT himself, and to assess the number of people at the party. To my surprise, I saw Bill Nye in there dancing!! I promptly freaked out to my boss but kept moving as the office was way too crowded for me to get in.</p>
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<p>Later that night, as I was refilling my drink, in Bill walked to get some dinner. I saw him bopping around the table, getting some pasta and salad, and waited until he was done to approach and ask for a picture. He was so sweet and immediately agreed! He told me on "the Science Guy show," they had 12 GB of digital data that were constantly being fanned and air conditioned. In his words, “it was state of the art technology.”</p>
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<p>After I got through the crowds and saw a lot of the scientists I interviewed for my project here, I made it into Neil deGrasse Tyson’s office thanks to my security guard friend Jamiel, who is tight with Dr. Tyson. He introduced me to NDT, and asked if I could get a picture with him. Dr. Tyson replied "only if she asks me." I was so struck I immediately stuttered out "if you don't mind, Dr. Tyson!" And he turned to take a picture with me. As we opened a bottle of wine together, I told him about my project and digital preservation, which was absolutely incredible. He was obviously supportive of anything preserving science data. He even took a picture with my boyfriend later! Such a good sport.</p>
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<p>I have to say, the AMNH is absolutely the best place I've ever worked. Everyone I've met here has been nothing but gracious and my work is everything I've wanted to do since I was a kid. However, perks like getting to meet Bill Nye the Science Guy and Neil deGrasse Tyson make this job all the sweeter.</p>
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<p>Hi everyone, this is Vicky reporting from Portland, Oregon! I am here on the west coast for the first time attending <a href="http://code4lib.org/conference/2015/" >code4Lib 2015</a>, and since today is the last day of the conference, I thought I’d give everyone a bit of a report about what went on here.</p>
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<p>First, I want to talk about the format of presentations at code4Lib. It’s absolutely unlike any other conference I’ve ever been too. There are no multiple sessions going at once. Everything is streamlined into one room. Yes--we sat in a room from 9-5pm watching 20 minute presentations, with an hour for lunch and two to three half hour breaks. This sounds really daunting but I have to tell you--it was so refreshing! I’ll talk a little bit more about the actual presentations later on.</p><!-- TEASER_END -->
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<p>code4Lib also is the first conference I’ve ever been to that takes the idea of explicit consent to heart and offers attendees and presenters ways to opt-in to potential anxiety-triggering events (like being filmed or photographed) rather than opt-out. I find this really progressive and important--other conferences, take note. All presenters had to sign a consent form, and could opt-in to being filmed and live-streamed (find the live stream and archived videos <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/code4lib" >here</a>). Attendees wore red lanyards if they didn’t. You can find a great blog post on explicit consent by code4Libber <a href="https://twitter.com/tararobertson" >Tara Robinson</a> <a href="http://tararobertson.ca/2015/developing-a-culture-of-consent-at-code4lib/" >here</a>.</p>
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<p>We had an NDSR moment too! Rebecca from the Boston cohort presented on the “horror story” of data loss in LTO tapes at WGBH. It gave everyone in the audience a chill and started some really interesting conversations at break about preservation. It’s especially important because this was the only presentation that focused on digital preservation. I was shocked a conference as techy as code4Lib didn’t include more presentations on digipres, but the presentation are chosen by votes so maybe most attendees didn’t think the other presentations on digipres were relevant. Read more about Rebecca’s presentation <a href="http://code4lib.org/conference/2015/fraimow" >here.</a></p>
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<p>I found that my favorite presentations dealt with actual technical products or services that people had been developing. This was especially interesting to me because of my background in computer science and continued work in the tech-related side of LIS. While there were great presentations on other subjects I’m interested in (management practices and libs & social justice work, to name a few), I found these “meat and potatoes” presentations to be the most eye-opening for me. I had no idea that <a href="http://sass-lang.com/" >SASS</a> was something gaining traction in web development, but apparently it’s the next step in web aesthetics. It’s basically a cleaner version of CSS that compiles into CSS--the best part for me: you can have variables instead of duplicates in your code! No more will my web pages have CSS that reads:
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<p>Other tech touched upon library tools that make jobs as techy-librarians easier. Like the presentation on <a href="https://packer.io/" >packer.io</a>. Packer.io is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms (Docker, VMWare, VirtualBox, etc), all from a single source configuration. The presenters gave the example of an Islanadora install. There are a lot of software dependencies that comes with the install and it is a really convoluted and intense process. If you want to put this on another computer, it would require you to do that whole install all over again. With packer.io, there are no more crazy software stacks. You just “clone” the first computer and boot up the second one with the system image disk. Boom. Just one config.</p>
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<p>It’s scriptable so that builds can be automated and it’s API is extendable to make it work with just about anything. This is such an awesome tool and I’m so glad I got to hear someone speak on it in detail. It could definitely have some possibilities at the AMNH. You can see the full line-up of presentations <a href="http://code4lib.org/conference/2015/schedule">here</a>, many of which have the slides attached.</p>
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<p class="caption">A slide from a presentation on packer.io. The rest of the <a href="http://www.kevinclarke.info/slides/c4l15/index.html#/" >slides here</a> & info on <a href="https://packer.io/" >packer.io</a> here.</p></div>
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<p>Portland has also been a blast to explore. As my first introduction to the west coast, its basically everything I thought it would be: Williamsburg if Williamsburg were a huge city. It was filled with trendy thrift shops, tiny hole-in-the-wall music and tea shops, and a population dressed in the finest worn leather jackets and combat boots. Everyone is really friendly and willing to help when tourists (read: me) get hopelessly lost. The city even gave me a sign post to make getting home easier:
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<p>Portland had a ton of really niche spots to explore. When I told friends I was going to Portland, the first thing they told me was: get donuts! The best two are <a href="http://www.bluestardonuts.com/">Blue Star Donuts</a> and <a href="http://voodoodoughnut.com/">Voodoo Doughnuts</a>. I ended up trying both, but only one can be king. Turns out it’s:</p>
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<p>code4Lib provided a great semi-structured social event after-hours at the eBay HQ called beer4Lib where conference attendees brought beer from their home or local to Portland. Everyone got together, shared their takeaways from the con, played some pool, and tried some new craft beers. I’m just excited I got to say I had beers at eBay!</p>
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<p>Today I am going to continue my exploration by adding <a href="http://www.powells.com/?gclid=CjwKEAiAmOymBRD0_evS4aTh2hUSJAB7FkhyQA4Jku7wzxsfKHRDsbDyikjRuPVMOKOBE0nWTwIkehoCj1Xw_wcB">Powell’s City of Books</a> (apparently, the Strand of Portland) and a cat cafe called <a href="http://purringtonscatlounge.com/">Purrington’s Cat Lounge</a> to my list of visited places in Portland. Though I’m sad the conference is over, I’m glad I had the opportunity to both explore a new city and to speak with other techy-librarians and get to see what such a diverse population of institutions are doing to contribute to the management, organization, and storage of digital assets. Needless to say, I’ll be back next year to explore a (hopefully) new city and new conference materials.</p>
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<p>PS. As an aside, I thought this was quite funny: after the two people live-tweeting the event, I am the person tweeting the most about the con! How weird...BUT everyone can <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1tdLkJTMwwi0QBoa9PXVLPfCFzxLz7RVgVdul5bEwVww&authuser=0" >access the #c4l15 twitter archive here</a> if they want to see what everyone’s been tweeting about!</p>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">It's Love Your Data Week! Today's message: Respect your data - give and get credit <a href="https://t.co/Au9yxcHd7g">https://t.co/Au9yxcHd7g</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LYD16?src=hash">#LYD16</a></p>— Dryad (@datadryad) <a href="https://twitter.com/datadryad/status/697821519574077440">February 11, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<p>What was also super neat about Love Your Data Week is that, although it was clearly US-centric, we had participation across the globe! I even tried to tweet in French to someone in France writing about #LYD16 (and had that tweet quickly edited by my French boyfriend. I'm trying!!).</p>
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<p>#LYD16 also happened to coincide with the deployment of <a href="http://nmwolf.net" >Nick</a> and I’s ongoing project, <a href="http://data-services.hosting.nyu.edu" >Data Dispatch</a>. You’ll see that if you click on the above links, you’ll get directed to posts on this blog! This site is replacing the previous Data Services blog, and has been in the works in one form or another since Nick arrived at Data Services (two weeks after me). The old blog was another avenue for the department to advertise classes, events, or push out the cool link or two. This new platform functions more as a space to show off the cool data that comes through our doors, in addition to the features of the last blog (advertising us, our classes, and services). With this new site, we are hoping to create more of a conversation about data-driven initiatives both here and beyond NYU.</p>
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<p>Anyway, for #LYD16 Nick and I organized ourselves using our collaborative <a href="http://osf.io" >Open Science Framework</a> project, "Data Management Team Planning." The first thing we did was create a separate wiki page for our #LYD16 planning. On this wiki, we wrote down our social media etiquette. For instance: Vicky will tweet from @nyudataservices, then Nick and Vicky will retweet, or Vicky will <a href="https://www.instagram.com/vickysteeves/" >instagram</a> this photo and using <a href="https://ifttt.com/" >IFTTT</a>, push it out onto <a href="http://vickysteeves.tumblr.com/" >her tumblr</a>. Basically, we set up some basic ground rules for posting during the week. Everything #LYD16!!</p>
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<p>A portion of this page was dedicated to scheduling our social media blasts. We made this editorial calendar so we could coordinate who would be responsible for what during the week. Since the OSF wiki supports the <em>amazing</em> feature of strikethrough, I had a blast crossing things off our list as the week progressed.</p>
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<p>Everything in our editorial calendar was linked out to our images in OSF Storage. This made everything really easy to execute week-of and day-of. He and I could just go to the appropriate day, click the link for the images, download them, and schedule them to be tweeted/instagrammed at the agreed upon time. By having everything centralized via OSF, it was much easier for us to coordinate, especially since I spend one day a week in a different office space. You might not think that's a lot, but Nick and I spend a good amount of our day-to-day with each other planning and coordinating, so not having him <em>right there</em> is mildly annoying when I'm in Brooklyn.</p>
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<p><a href="http://ndsr.nycdigital.org/library-advocacy/">See original posting here.</a></p>
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<p>Everyone reading my posts must be saying, “Damn, this girl is obsessed with proving the value of the library! We get it already!” Blame <a href="http://www.simmons.edu/slis/faculty/fulltime/matarazzo.php" >Jim Matarazzo</a>, my corporate libraries professor back at <a href="http://www.simmons.edu/slis/" >Simmons</a>. He really drilled it into my head that if a library can’t prove that it’s worth having, it will be the first thing cut from a budget. And it scared me into constantly thinking about it. Thanks, Jim!</p>
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<p><a href="http://ndsr.nycdigital.org/prove-yourself-needs-assessment-edition/" >In my last NDSR-NY post</a>, I described how the needs assessment survey can be utilized to show value on an institutional level, in the setting of meetings with business operatives and institutional leaders. In my <a href="http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2014/11/the-value-of-the-ndsr-residents-and-mentors-weigh-in/" >blog post for the SIGNAL</a>, I wrote about how programs like NDSR can prove their value on an interdisciplinary level as well as to the LIS field.</p><!-- TEASER_END -->
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<p>In this post, I’m going to discuss the day-to-day bias that libraries and librarians face within their user groups. It’s something I’ve dealt with as the resident at the AMNH, and as such I’ve had to do a lot of advocacy work at the “ground level.” With librarians becoming increasingly digitally proficient and offering new digital services, a common question many face is: “Why is the library doing this? Isn’t this an IT thing?”</p>
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<p>No. It’s not an IT thing. While all the back-end work, such as physically setting up servers and maintaining them is under IT’s jurisdiction, it is the information professionals who make all the ones and zeroes stored there discoverable and readable to users. Other misconceptions are that IT is responsible for making sure your data isn’t corrupted. It’s not. The job of IT ends at the storage, security (keeping out unwanted hackers, firewalls, etc.), and maintenance of hardware.</p>
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<p>Where librarians excel in the technological world is in management and preservation. We can organize your digital objects, create systems to put it in where its searchable and accessible on a wide scale, and then preserve the most important 2-4% through techniques created <i>within our field</i>. Preservation metadata doesn’t add itself, nor does IT want to add to their already ridiculously long laundry list of things to do. I’ve worked so many IT jobs, just take it from me: they do not want the job of a systems engineer or a networking administrator AND a librarian.</p>
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<p>Nor should librarians work solely in analog materials anymore. With so much born-digital material being created daily, we need to be involved in its organization and management or data loss is a big concern. <a href="http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2014/09/were-all-digital-archivists-now-an-interview-with-sibyl-schaefer/" >This interview</a> with Sibyl Schaefer in the SIGNAL paints this idea perfectly; she says “we don’t all need to be digital archivists, but we do need to be archivists who work with digital materials.”</p>
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<p>We need to help cultivate a culture that trusts librarians with both analog and digital materials. Libraries are a service, and as such we as librarians need to make known and understood the services we offer. This is done usually through interpersonal communication, in email, phone, text, IM, or face-to-face. Each of these interactions provide the librarian a great opportunity to explain why the services they and the library offer are only available through them. A few sentences here and there spawn larger conversations where we can continue to prove our knowledge and worth as digitally proficient staff. From there, institutional culture and indeed, wider stereotypes of librarians as stodgy old women can finally, finally end.</p>
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<p class="blog-post-meta">January 15, 2016 by <a href="../../resume.html">Vicky
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<p>If you've been following this blog for a while, or even took a quick look on my
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<a href="../../resume.html">resume</a> page, you'll see I haven't been at my position
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at NYU for very long. January 3rd marks the fifth month (to the day!) that I've been
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NYU's official "Research Data Management and Reproducibility Librarian." There was a
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brainstorm with <a href="http://nmwolf.net/">Nick</a> about what our <a href=
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"http://guides.nyu.edu/DS_classes">classes</a> we are going to teach as a part of
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course offerings</a>.</p>
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<p>This was all well and good, but since I started in August I missed the goal-setting
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timeline that is typical for my colleagues. As such, I wanted to make some, and my
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supervisor in the library thought it would be a good way to measure growth besides.
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Plus, since I'm pretty early career, setting goals for a measurable outcome was kind of
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<p>In the end, I made 7 goals for this 2015-2016 academic year:</p>
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<li><span class="c1">Research</span>: Currently I'm involved in a few different
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research projects, all collaborations, across three different domains/topics. I'd
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peer-reviewed, academic journal.</li>
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<li>Reproducibility as Research: I would also like to look at reproducibility more
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specifically as a research target area. I am really interested in learning more about
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<li><span class="c1">Teaching Me How to Teach</span>: I would love to learn more
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about teaching and pedagogical theory, as its own entity. While I have certainly
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I think that I would benefit from taking some workshops on teaching. I'm going to
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minimum.</li>
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<li><span class="c1">Multimedia Instruction/Outreach</span>: I'm super interested in
|
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making short, two-to-five minute videos outlining tools that could be of use in
|
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managing data, such as the <a href="https://osf.io">Open Science Framework</a>,
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<a href="https://www.openicpsr.org/">Open ICPSR</a>, converting files to archival
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formats, etc. I think a varied approach to disseminating RDM information would get us
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some more love. I would like to complete two of these "how-to" videos by the end of
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this academic year.</li>
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<li><span class="c1">Build Up the Curriculum</span>: I want to expand instructional
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offerings from three classes a semester to six classes a semester at a minimum,
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starting in the spring 2016 semester. Approaching the entire RDM lifecycle in one
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class can be overwhelming to some first-time users. By offering classes that
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separately address each aspect of the RDM lifecycle (i.e. data creation, data
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documentation, etc.) it allows for a more in-depth and digestible delivery of
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information.</li>
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<li><span class="c1">Targeted Outreach</span>: I want to incorporate some more
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relationship building into my daily workflow. I think that by entering a 1-1 dialogue
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with certain users would help to disseminate information on RDM services at NYU, and
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hopefully start a dialogue about RDM and reproducibility leading to some action items
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within the target group. By the end of this academic year, I will choose one
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department to make direct inroads with and speak 1-1 with the faculty members of that
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department.</li>
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<li><span class="c1">Improving the <a href=
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in building up a corpus of online knowledge base through expanding the LibGuide as
|
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much as possible. To accomplish this, every Friday I plan on setting aside an hour to
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<p>I have a twofold method to keeping these goals in order and make sure I "get 'er
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done" (ew sorry for this). The first one is more for the collaborative projects I've
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Framework</a>(OSF) I mentioned under goal #4.</p>
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<p>The OSF is a <em>FREE</em> tool created by the non-profit, the <a href=
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"https://cos.io/">Center for Open Science</a>, to integrate with resarchers' daily
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workflows. Besides allowing for maximum control over data access (with really robust
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controls for creating labs/collaborators on specific projects, and even more
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granularly, specific components of specific projects), the OSF helps people document
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and archive materials from all parts of the research data lifecycle, from study design
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to data to publication. What's also great is that the OSF is completely open source,
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which means there is an <a href="https://osf.io/y9jdt/">API</a> and <a href=
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"https://osf.io/getting-started/#addons">lots of addon features</a> that you can use.
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My favourites are the Google Drive and GitHub addon (probably because I use it the
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most), but it also has integration with Amazon S3, Box, Dataverse, Dropbox, Figshare,
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OSF Storage, Mendeley, and Zotero.</p><img src="../../images/osf_DS.png" alt=
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<p class="caption">All my projects listed on OSF, with Nick as my collaborator on
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almost all.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.nmwolf.net/">Nick</a> and I use the OSF for all our projects for
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Team RDM in Data Services. We use it to track files in each of our individual,
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NYU-Google Drive accounts, link in code that we write from our respective GitHubs, and
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keep metrics open for our public projects as a great boost to our reviews. It's been
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really useful, also because of the integrated Wiki feature that lets us keep robust
|
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to-do lists for each other/our team and allows gives us a space to document explicitly
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what we have been doing, how we've been doing it, how we are disseminating information,
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instructional work.</p>
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<p>Plus, it's a standardized markup so we can do some cool strikethrough effects and
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<p>The second one is strangely analog. I always make a plan in my <a href=
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and keep a big picture focus of all the things I want to get done before August 2016.
|
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I'm a proud member of the #PashFam on <a href=
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"https://www.instagram.com/passionplanner">Instagram</a>, and using my Passion Planner
|
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I've definitely kept up with a lot of goals that may or may not have previously fallen
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to the wayside. It just has a great interface to goal tracking and accountability that
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has helped me refine my focus professionally and personally.</p><img src=
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"../../images/jan20_planner.jpg" alt="Passion Planer" height="85%" width="85%">
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<p class="caption">Look at all the crossed-off goals and "to-do's!"</p>
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<p>Plus, Passion Planner has really great inspiration quotes on each page, along with a
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“Good Things That Happened” section each week for me to fill out. As a
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generally negative person, I genuinely feel like this helped to keep me positive and
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less bogged down in my anxiety. The paper is super thick also so I like to draw with my
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multi-colored pens to make everything seem just that little bit better.</p>
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<p>Passion Planner works for me because it's not only a place to keep my schedule, but
|
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also a place to doodle, journal, write notes, and do some short and long-term goal
|
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setting activities complete with weekly to-do-lists and monthly check-ins. Each week
|
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and day have a "Focus" section, where you write in your focus for that week, and then
|
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each individual day. As someone who loves to multitask but also loves to plan (almost
|
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obsessively loves to plan) this has kept me super on-track for getting things done,
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especially since there are separate to-do lists on each week for my personal and
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professional life. I'm kind of obsessed with it. I have like 3 of these in the wings
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for when I finish this one. What's cool is you can also <a href=
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"http://www.passionplanner.com/downloads/">download it for free</a> as a
|
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pdf!</p><img src="../../images/passion_planner.png" alt="Passon Planner" height="85%"
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width="85%">
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<p>This week I made my first trek down to Virginia to engage with the Center for Open Science IRL! After just about a year of emails, hangouts, and calls, I was excited to see the space in which I think some really innovative tech is being developed for the open X community. The second week of July was designated as SHARE week: Monday and Tuesday was the SHARE hackathon, Wednesday and half of Thursday was the SHARE community meeting, and the last half of Thursday and Friday was the SHARE Curation Associates kick off orientation. </p>
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<p>I arrived at the 2-day hackathon a day late (oops...) so Tuesday was a bit of a catch-up session for me. I decided to work on the <a href="https://github.com/CenterForOpenScience/ember-share">ember-share project</a>, basically a new front-end for the <a href="https://github.com/CenterForOpenScience/SHARE">SHARE API</a>. I spent the majority of the day trying to instantiate a local SHARE API server, to no avail. All the dev is done on MAC OSX, which made me think that it'd be a breeze to get a server up and running on my Ubuntu 14.04 machine (I've since upgraded to 16.04 and I kinda love it...), however I spent around 9 hours trying to get this thing to run 100% successfully on my machine. I made it as far as using elastic search, thanks to the amazing developers at the Center for Open Science. The productive output that came out from this was: 1) buffing up their doucmentation, 2) a bug fix (Rémi says I'm really good at finding bugs...), and 3) making those connections with the COS folks. I left feeling a bit frustrated (but you'll see why that's good later on in the post!) but mostly motivated to get this f*^#ing thing running, no matter what. I left feeling like I contributed to the community, even though I literally just couldn't install something. It was kind of really awesome.</p>
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<h3>SHARE Community Meeting</h3>
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<p>The community meeting ran for Wednesday and half of Thursday of SHARE week. The purpose is basically to see how people are interacting with SHARE at their institutions. From their <a href="http://www.share-research.org/2016/04/share-2016-community-meeting/">website</a>: "The meeting will focus on metadata transformation through expert curation; collaborative open source technologies, initiatives, and infrastructure projects related to SHARE; and SHARE communication and outreach. There will be a mixture of lightning talks, brainstorming, and hands-on workshops."</p>
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<p>The most useful talk of the 1.5 days of lightning talks was actually not technology based at all. "Service-Learning Pedagogy at Your Institution — How to Incorporate Interns into This Work, Use SHARE in Your Digital Scholarship Training Workshops, etc." from COS co-founder and CTO Jeff Spies.</p>
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<p>In this talk, Jeff gave an overview of the COS's internship model, called "service learning." This model is based on balancing instruction with pragmatic, real-life opportunities to serve YOUR community. It all has to do with taking short- and long-term motivation into account -- if you are serving your community, doing impactful work, bolstering your CV, etc., you feel more passionate. Simple concept, put into practice through actual projects. If you as the mentor can't make the point that what your interns/employees are doing is absolutely important, then something is catastrophically wrong.</p>
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<p>The key is to show excitement when someone tells me what they're working on. Jeff's strategy is to walk around and ask people randomly: "Tell me what you are working on." He doesn't accept one word answers, such as "good." He wants interns to pitch what they are doing to him, as an opportunity for them to show enthusiasm, frustration, whatever they are feeling -- his approach is that interns are not wasting time EVEN IF it's just a tiny bug fix. It's critical work, and they should feel that.</p>
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<p>Jeff also made the point that there is literally <em>NO DIFFERENCE</em> between the work the COS interns do and the work the COS developers do. This is actually astounding. In his words, "Classroom based learning is not real world. Period."</p>
|
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<p>The basic pedagogical concept is: do not teach new technology, teach how to learn technology. This service-learning model requires buy-in from mentors. In addition to motivation, enthusiasm, and community-focus, there is a level of independent learning that needs to be achieved to "learn how to learn." </p>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/share16s?src=hash">#share16s</a> independence != alone <a href="https://t.co/SLlHdUVf21">pic.twitter.com/SLlHdUVf21</a></p>— Vicky Steeves (@VickySteeves) <a href="https://twitter.com/VickySteeves/status/753325800204726272">July 13, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<p>He also made a point to discuss how frustration and learning effects privileged vs. nonprivileged people. In his view, frustration is great and is a necessary step in the learning process. However, managers/mentors, to have a team that is happy, motivated, and productive, must understand that there are cultural & implicit biases that affect the way that nonprivileged folks show frustration. Mentors need to be attentive to this & <em>empathize</em> instead of bulldozing or shrugging these signs off.</p>
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<p>The bottom line -- CHOOSE TECH that fosters community, inclusivity, diversity, learn-/teach-ability, functionality.</p>
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<h3>SHARE Curation Associates</h3>
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<p>What I really came to participate in was the <a href="http://www.share-research.org/about/our-team/associates-program/">Curation Associates program</a> (since I am an associate...see the full list of participants <a href="http://www.share-research.org/about/our-team/associates-program/2016-2017-share-curation-associates/">here</a>). The program is billed as "an opportunity for library professionals to develop digital curation and computational thinking skills to enhance local institutional repositories in a service-learning setting." Basically, it's a training program for folks who work in libraries to gain competencies in curating digital records to enhance local institutional repositories, and also to train others in turn, maximizing community efforts through a "train the trainer" model.</p>
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<p>Some skills that the associates are expected to gain are in areas such as:</p>
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<p>The developers and staff members of the Center for Open Science gave us associates an overview of: Python, what an API is, and other very technical skills that will effect our curation work. We were given a survey beforehand to gauge our skills with the hope being that the sessions would be tailored to the levels indicated by the group. I think overall it was successful; although honestly, I was in my room trying to process the Nice attacks (my boyfriend did some of his schooling in Nice, and it's 1 hour away from his family home where we just were...) for most of day 1 of the program, so I can't speak for all sessions.</p>
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<p>A major strength of the orientation was the use of Jupyter notebooks as an interface for working with the SHARE API. This made it easy to get results without having to use the command line -- this was key since many of the folks there aren't comfortable or familiar using the terminal. However, I found a lot of the folks sitting next to me had trouble making the cells of the notebook run -- it was tough to account for all these varying levels of comfort.</p>
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<p><a href="https://github.com/VickySteeves/share_tutorials">I forked the tutorial</a> that we used from Erin's GitHub and just commented the absolute bejeezus out of it. I'm hoping this helps the folks sitting next to me.</p>
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<p>At the end of the Curation Associates orientation on Friday afternoon, I took a quick Uber out to Monticello with my awesome NYU colleague, Zach Coble, who works in the Digital Scholarship Studio, which sits next to my department, Data Services, in Bobst. I was absolutely <em>gassed</em> to go to Monticello because Thomas Jefferson is one of my absolute favourite Presidents-- Lewis & Clark, replacing the Library of Congress with his own collection, Ambassador to France, author, architect -- he was truly one of the only American "Renaissance" men. He had an absolute love of reading and love of learning, and apparently (found this out on the tour) participated in the education of his kids and grandkids, sending the ones who wanted off to university (not even to the university he founded!).</p>
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<p>A really important part of the visit was the Enslaved Persons lectures/tours, where an older, Colonel Sanders-looking man (this made me reallllll skeptical at first...) walked the grounds giving the history and stories of the enslaved people at Monticello. Zach and I had missed the last one we could take, so we poached on another group's tour when they stopped at vegetable garden at Monticello. There had been a lot of complaints about the erasure of enslaved peoples' stories at Monticello, and as a response the foundation who runs it started disseminating more information and providing tours to educate the public about slavery at Monitcello (they even made an <a href="https://www.monticello.org/site/visit/download-free-slavery-monticello-app">app</a>).</p>
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<p>In addition to the tours of the grounds, there is an online exhibit on the <a href="https://www.monticello.org/slavery-at-monticello">website</a>: "How could the author of the Declaration of Independence own slaves? How could twenty percent of the population of the new United States, founded on the principles of liberty and equality, live in bondage? What was life like for enslaved people in the early republic? This online exhibition uses Monticello as a lens through which to examine these questions."</p>
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<p>As Zach and I waited for our Uber back to the hotel (which ended up being the same driver), we went into the gift shop to look for gifts for our respective significant others. I didn't find anything that Rémi would enjoy, but I did find a nice needlework pattern for me!</p>
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<p>For my last night in Charlottesville, I was wandering around the Charlottesville Mall (right there outside the Center for Open Science/my hotel) and I came across a few of the developers I had met throughout the course of the week. They were busking...with a cello. Bad. Ass. They invited me out for dinner at this place called the Horse Head, which they apparently frequent because the waiters knew them all by name and was sharing cute pics of his pet pig.</p>
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<p>I had an early night because my flight was leaving at 6am the next morning, but I have to say: what an awesome working environment and what an amazing team the people at the COS have put together. It's clear that the collaboration extends from their work projects into cool personal projects. The team is strong for sure, in both ability and cohesion.</p>
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<p>Well folks, this marks the final post from the 2014-15 NDSR-NY cohort. Before we officially sign off we wanted to say a big thank you to everyone who has followed our journeys via this blog, and offer some final thoughts on what the residency has meant to us.</p>
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<p><strong>Shira:</strong> I’ve learned so much over the past 9 months that it’s hard to know where to begin. When I think back to when we began this residency I’m amazed at what we’ve managed to accomplish since September: between the 5 of us we’ve published over 50 blog posts, attended and/or presented at over 20 conferences, tweeted about our projects more or less continuously, and published 15 articles. And of course that’s not to mention all the project deliverables themselves! I’m so grateful that I had the opportunity to be a part of this residency. Working with my colleagues and mentors at the Carnegie Hall Archives has been an absolute pleasure. They were supportive and generous with their time and I feel lucky to have had the opportunity to learn from them. The same goes for my incredible cohort. Peggy, Vicky, Karl and Julia: you guys have taught me so much. I’m thankful for the wisdom, words of encouragement, and advice you have given to me over the course of this residency, and I’m truly sad to be saying goodbye.</p>
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<p><strong>Vicky: </strong>Wow, it’s so hard to believe that the nine months are over. It feels like I blinked and I was moving from Boston to Brooklyn, I blinked again and I was in orientation week at METRO, and now I blinked and we are writing our farewells on our blog. NDSR has prepped me for a career doing an intensely specialized facet of information science, and I couldn’t be more grateful for the chance to work on this next frontier. The AMNH has been so instrumental to my professional and personal growth, and the support of my cohort has been invaluable. But like the Fellowship of the Ring, we are bound by friendship and love, but our time as a cohort has ended. I’ll never forget this time or the people in it. Thank you everyone!!</p>
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<p><strong>Karl:</strong> I refuse to leave my desk at the Frick and so will not be signing off here...j/k...*sigh*. Like all of my fellow residents, I'm sure, I was tremendously inspired by the scope and nature of these projects when I first discovered them. What I didn't anticipate was that they would embed us into such a warm, welcoming, and supportive family of professionals. Thanks to Margo, Annie, and all at METRO who made this opportunity real and guided us through it. Thanks to the NYARC Directors for providing both the inspiring vision for my work and the professional support to make it and my future endeavors successful. Thanks to Sumitra Duncan, Debbie Kempe, Lily Pregill, and everyone else at the Frick, MoMA, and Brooklyn Museum, who made me feel so much at home. Most of all, thanks to my fellow residents for making this crazy adventure so fun and inspiring throughout. We'll have to do it again some time.</p>
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<p><strong>Julia: </strong>It’s been an amazing past year! I can’t believe it’s actually come to an end and we’ll all disperse to begin the next phase in our lives! I’m truly grateful to have shared this experience with Vicky, Karl, Peggy, and Shira. Much thanks also to my generous mentors, Donald Mennerich and Lisa Darms. Sharing my experiences with all of you readers has also been an unexpected bonus! I’ve been pleased that the blog has reached new researchers now interested in coming to use NYU’s born-digital collections. Thanks guys!</p>
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<p><strong>Peggy: </strong>Though I may have internally (or externally) groaned every time I realized I had another post on this blog coming up, when I look back on what I’ve written over the past nine months, I’m glad that I was required to record my experiences. There’s so much I might have forgotten if I hadn’t written it down, from lessons learned to fun times had at conferences. I’m happy that there will be a record of this whirlwind nine months in my life, and I’m glad that it’s publicly available for all to see, both as a record of my work and a look into the life of a young professional. I won’t lie though - it was <i>pretty </i>exciting crossing off this last blog post on my to-do list. Thanks for reading, and stay tuned for September when a new cohort of residents will take over the blog!</p>
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<p>I just got back from the most BEAUTIFUL two week vacation in France with my S.O., Rémi. Look at all the places we went!!</p>
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<p>One of my big tasks since coming into NYU last August was to work on the <a href="https://github.com/ViDA-NYU/reprozip" >ReproZip</a> project. My role is largely outreach and education: I was tasked with teaching ReproZip and general reproducibility principles, gathering use cases in a wider variety of disciplines (when I arrived, the use cases were largely in computer science), and supporting users in general.</p>
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<p>ReproZip kind of blew my mind when I arrived; it's an open source software tool that simplifies the process of creating reproducible experiments. Basically it tracks operating system calls and creates a package that contains all the binaries, files, and dependencies required to reproduce the experiment. A reviewer can then extract the experiment on their own machine using ANY operating system (even if it's different from the original one!!) to reproduce the results. As a librarian, I was like "OH MY GOD. THE DIGITAL PRESERVATION GAME JUST GOT UPPED." Anyway, here's basically how ReproZip works -- in 2 steps:</p>
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<p><a href="https://remram.fr/" >Rémi Rampin</a>, the current developer of ReproZip, <a href="http://bigdata.poly.edu/~fchirigati/" >Fernando Chirigati</a>, the former developer, and I created this great GitHub repository called <a href="https://github.com/ViDA-NYU/reprozip-examples" >ReproZip Examples</a>, dedicated to showcasing examples and use cases from different domains using ReproZip. We have everything from digital humanities (a history paper used ReproZip!) to archived websites and client-server architecture, to machine learning. It's awesome -- check it out and try to unpack stuff if you want!</p>
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<p>In May, Rémi and I will be at the Data and Software and Preservation for Open Science workshop, <a href="https://daspos.crc.nd.edu/index.php/workshops/container-strategies-for-data-software-preservation-that-promote-open-science" >Container Strategies for Data Software Preservation that Promote Open Science</a>. I'm serving as an external organizer, but the two of us will be doing some extensive work with ReproZip while there.</p>
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<p>Anyway. I'm really looking forward to learning more about some other containerizing tools like <a href="https://github.com/crcresearch/daspos-umbrella" >Umbrella</a> and meeting some other folks (hopefully a lot of librarians!!) who are involved in the reproducibility and preservation space. The community doing active tool development in this area seems fairly small, so it'll be great for fostering interoperability having us all in a room.</p>
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<p>Hi everyone!! So, like Karl, I was recently asked to write a post on another blog (<a href="http://www.mnh.si.edu/rc/fieldbooks/" >The Smithsonian Field book Project blog!</a>) and thought, instead of rewriting the whole post and publishing it here, I could just point our lovely readers in the right direction!</p>
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<p>Applications to the 2015-16 National Digital Stewardship Residencies in New York are open! The deadline to apply has been extended by two weeks, to <b>Friday, May 22</b>! Woo! As if you needed more good news than that, METRO also recently announced the host institutions for this round of residencies, and they’re very exciting (like we’d probably compete with you for them if we could!). You can learn all about them and their projects <a title="NDSR 2015-16 hosts and projects" href="http://ndsr.nycdigital.org/projects-201516/" ><b>here</b></a>.</p>
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<p><b>Karl:</b> I followed Julia’s and Shira’s general approaches to creating the video, but in terms of what I wanted it to actually achieve for me, I focused on making it the best possible representation of who I am and how I like to communicate--especially when challenged to speak on such a complicated topic in a short time frame. I can’t stress heavily enough just how many directions you could take that in your own case, and therefore how beneficial it is to be yourself and make it your own.</p>
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<p><b>Vicky:</b> To be honest, I totally winged it. My boyfriend’s twin sister has a degree in photography with a concentration in film (big thank you to <a title="Homepage: Zoë Catalano" href="http://zoecatalano.com/" >Zoë Catalano</a>!), so after a double shift at the restaurant I was working at, I went to their house to film. It was nice that she had an HD camera and editing abilities, so the actual quality of the video was very good. As for the content, I didn’t practice or write a script, I just got in front of the camera and tried to focus on the reasons why I am interested in digital preservation, and then focused it onto the project at the AMNH--because I really, really, wanted that one. That being said, tailoring it so specifically probably isn’t a good idea...but for me in this one instance, it really worked. I agree with Peggy--think of it as a video cover letter.</p>
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<p><b>Peggy:</b> It’s really, really helpful to have worked in a cultural heritage institution while you’re in school, to show that you have at least a basic understanding of how these types of institutions work and that you’ve demonstrated your skills outside the classroom. Even if you’re volunteering or working one day a week - any hands-on experience you can get, take it.</p>
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<p><b>Vicky:</b> Keep up with the profession--librarians and archivists of all types are super active on Twitter, listservs, LinkedIn--you name it, we’re on it. Read the blogs, read the articles, and stay up to date with the latest developments in the field. This will put you ahead.</p>
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<p><b>Shira:</b> What Vicky said. Read widely, read closely, and in particular read the standards. During your residency it will be crucial to be able to <a title="NDSR Blog: On Buy-In, Communication, and Sustainability" href="http://ndsr.nycdigital.org/on-buy-in-communication-and-sustainability/" >explain the high-level digital preservation concepts within OAIS, TDR, etc., in layman’s terms</a>, and so making sure you’re familiar with these documents is essential.</p>
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<p><b>Julia: </b>While I agree with what everyone else has said, I also want to stress that it depends. Each fellowship is different. I don’t think the fellows would be interchangeable on each other’s projects. For example, my thesis work in digital forensics applications to archives and my week long “Born-Digital Forensics” course at the Maryland Institute of Technology Humanities in Learning and Teaching all helped prepare me specifically for some of the challenges at NYU and made it much easier to hit the ground running with my project to start my acquisition workflows and documentation.</p>
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<p><b>Vicky:</b> Well in the beginning of the Residency, it wasn’t too bad trying to balance the NDSR requirements/meetings and the work at the AMNH. That being said, as we are into the final stretch of the Residency, it’s become increasingly difficult. The final deliverable still needs to be written, some intermittent deliverables need to be cleaned up, and we are in the push. While workshops and professional development opportunities are critical to information professionals, there are times I just want to hunker down at the AMNH and not come out until I am finished. But otherwise, the AMNH has been very understanding and supportive of my PD/NDSR requirements and my mentors have been a huge help for me finding balance.</p>
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<p><b>Karl:</b> This is not always a binary choice; outreach and advocacy are part and parcel of our residencies, both within and on behalf of our host institutions. I try to keep in mind at all times how my work at NYARC advances the field outside of our walls (it helps when you’re already working for a consortium) and how my participation in outside events/efforts can advance NYARC’s specific goals. Still, as Vicky implies, these strategies do compete for your time and your presence, so you kind of have to love to do both in order to keep the fuel burning for either!</p>
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<p><b>Julia: </b>This can be tricky. There’s definitely some push and pull between wanting to advocate both within my own institution and to the general community. More prosaically, just fitting in all the meetings into my schedule is difficult. There are standing meetings that are both NDSR- and NYU-specific, and it can be impossible to make them all. Factor in the travel and there’s really no time to waste. Fortunately, everyone I report to understands that I have multiple obligations that sometimes compete with one another.</p>
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<p><b>Julia: </b>My relationship with my mentor. While I don’t necessarily see or work with him on a daily or even every-other-day basis, if we didn’t agree on how to prioritize and focus my energies this project might not have worked out. Luckily, he’s given me a lot of flexibility to explore the issues that I think are interesting, like emulated access to complex media, while also giving me support when I get stuck, run out of ideas, and just need some help. I’ve also been super lucky in that we’ve been able to collaborate on talks and papers together.</p>
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<p><strong> <b>Karl:</b> </strong>I’ll agree with Julia and say that it’s all about relationships. To the success of my project, it was definitely more important that I could work and communicate effectively among geographically (and hierarchically) dispersed teammates than that I had any particular experience with software, metadata schemas, or scripting languages. Those are useful only insofar as you can <a title="NDSR Blog: On Buy-In, Communication, and Sustainability" href="http://ndsr.nycdigital.org/on-buy-in-communication-and-sustainability/" >gain and sustain buy-in for your work</a>, and yes, having an engaged and engaging mentor in your corner can make all the difference there.</p>
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<p><strong><b>Peggy:</b> </strong>I will also add that taking advantage of the cohort model of NDSR is incredibly important. By that I mean utilizing this built in support network of residents going through a very similar experience to you. I’ve found it so helpful to discuss problems and questions with the other residents, especially at the beginning of the program when you may be more hesitant to ask a lot of questions at your institution (even though, of course, you totally should! But I understand the hesitancy when you’re just starting somewhere). The other residents will probably be going through a lot of the same stuff you’re going through and be very grateful for someone to talk about it with.</p>
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<p><strong>Shira: </strong>I think Peggy hit the nail on the head as far as the advantages of the cohort model go, because having everyone’s input and support has been invaluable. I also want to mention how important it is to have your elevator pitch down pat. If I had a nickel for every time someone asked me what my project was about over the past year, I’d be an extremely rich lady by now. (Alas…) But in all seriousness, I’ve found that being able to concisely explain what the NDSR program is, what your project will accomplish, etc., was key to gaining buy-in from my colleagues at Carnegie Hall.</p>
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<p>My first two weeks of May have been just explicitly devoted to conferences. Planning, executing, attending, surveying -- you name it, I've been doing it in relation to some event or another. It's actually been great, but <em>so exhausting</em>. I am definitely giving a lot of props to event planners for doing this as their day-to-day.</p>
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<p>My first time organizing a conference-ish thing! I helped to organize the <a href="https://reproduciblescience.org/nyu/events/reproducibility-symposium-2016/" >2016 NYU Reproducibility Symposium</a> which took place May 3, 2016 in the Jacob's room of <a href="http://cusp.nyu.edu">The Center for Urban Science + Progress</a>. This was an initiative of the <a href="http://msdse.org/" >The Moore-Sloan Data Science Environment</a> at NYU. We put a call out for lighting talks and demos, and the response we received from the NYU community and beyond was really great! We ended up putting together a fairly diverse <a href="https://reproduciblescience.org/nyu/events/reproducibility-symposium-2016/schedule/" >schedule</a> packed with folks who work in fields like computer science, psychology, libraries, physics, maths, and more.</p>
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<p>The point of the day was to showcase tools to help make the reproducibility process easy, along with case studies showing how creating reproducible experiments has helped other research groups. We had a great turn out across the MSDSE. Our partners UC Berkeley and University of Washington made up 11% of the registrations and 33% of the speakers.</p>
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<p>We ended up deviating a bit from the schedule; we had all our lightning talks (with a few coffee breaks and a brown bag lunch) and in place of the breakout sessions in the afternoon, we ended up having a rountable discussion based on the participants vote. We gathered around the table to discuss some hands-on strategies for things like the best way to change the rewards systems to encourage openness and reproducibility (promotion/tenure, publishing, etc.), teaching reproducibility concepts, and culture hacking (thanks to <a href="https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~stark/" >Philip Stark</a> for this one). The last session was a panel, which I unfortunately had to miss to head out to another conference...</p>
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<p>So, I actually had to leave the Reproducibility Symposium early to make my way down to Atlanta, GA for my first ever <a href="https://www.asis.org/rdap/" >RDAP Summit</a>! It had a <a href="https://www.asis.org/rdap/program-2016/" >great program</a> stacked with leaders in the field of data management, repository management, and other roles related to researchers and their data. From the RDAP website: "The Summit is relevant to the interests and needs of data managers and curators, librarians who work with research data, and researchers and data scientists. A wide range of disciplines from the life sciences, physical sciences, social sciences, and humanities will be represented. The Summit will bring together practitioners and researchers from academic institutions, data centers, funding agencies, and industry." A lot was covered from a lot of different perspectives--my favourite panel for this was kind of unexpected. Panel 5: "Data Management Plans and Public Access: Agency and Data Service Experiences" had an incredible selection of panelists -- one person from the DOE, one from NSF (division of biological infrastructure), one from NIH, and one librarian at an academic university. I loved this panel because the audience got to hear the status of DMPs right from the source -- the federal agencies. There was a lot of discussion about auditing DMPs, budgeting for RDM, and repositories for data deposit. It was absolutely great.</p>
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<p>A minor but very important reason for my attendance at this year's RDAP Summit was because I had a poster accepted! My co-author Kevin Read was able to go with me, but our other co-author Drew Gordon had to miss it. We got a lot of interesting questions -- our poster was essentially displaying some work we have done and continue to do to bridge the gaps across the vast NYU campuses and researchers to deliver better and more coordinated data services. Check it out:</p>
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<p>My last conference of May was the <a href="https://osf.io/y9mpx/" >Container Strategies for Data and Software Preservation Workshop</a>, a two day workshop organized by the NSF-funded <a href="http://daspos.org/" >Data and Software Preservation for Open Science</a> (DASPOS) project, hosted at the University of Notre Dame.</p>
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<p>I served as an external organizer, and Rémi & I (we're super cute and have a <a href="https://daspos.crc.nd.edu/index.php/14-daspos/workshops/55-workshop-7speak#vste" >joint speaker bio</a>) had one large demo + presentation, and then ran three separate breakout sessions, all for <a href="https://github.com/ViDA-NYU/reprozip" >ReproZip</a>. ReproZip is an open source software developed at NYU that seeks to lower the barrier of making research reproducible. ReproZip allows researchers to create a compendium of their research environment by automatically tracking programs and identifying all their required dependencies (data files, libraries, configuration files, etc.). After two commands, the researcher ends up with a neat archived package of their research that they can then share with anyone else, regardless of operating system or configuration. These community members can unzip the package using ReproUnzip, and reproduce the findings.</p>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/remram44">@remram44</a> & I are presenting <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ReproZip?src=hash">#ReproZip</a> today @ <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DASPOS?src=hash">#DASPOS</a> workshop on container. sci! Lowering the barrier to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/repro?src=hash">#repro</a>: <a href="https://t.co/3wDCu5XsvE">https://t.co/3wDCu5XsvE</a></p>— Vicky Steeves (@VickySteeves) <a href="https://twitter.com/VickySteeves/status/733299002175848448">May 19, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<p>The DASPOS organizers used <a href="https://osf.io" >the Open Science Framework</a> to organize all the conference materials such as notes, presentations, code, videos, whatever people wanted to contribute. For our breakouts, we had a separate <a href="https://osf.io/aqztf/" >ReproZip OSF component</a> to take notes and centralize materials and <a href="https://github.com/daspos/Docker-Workshop-Use-Case-2/tree/master" >accompanying GitHub repro</a> where people could deposit any examples or use-cases. And we actually got one! <a href=" http://bertini.nd.edu/" >Bertini</a> is a a package for solving polynomial systems, developed at Notre Dame in the math department. The ReproZip package was deposited into our ReproZip OSF con. The depositor has made a great <a href="https://osf.io/wq8td/" >README</a> with instructions and also provided a <a href="https://osf.io/43kmq/" >.rpz package</a> so others can reproduce his work!</p>
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<p>The last day of the workshop I was invited to sit on a panel--which was the last session of the whole thing! Here are <a href="https://osf.io/m29j8/wiki/home/" >some notes</a> summarizing what was said -- ultimately, I went kinda punk rock about reproducibility, as I always do. Some key quotes of mine include:</p>
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<p>And of course, the one stolen one from Philip Stark:</p>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a href="https://twitter.com/philipbstark">@philipbstark</a> 's "hacking the culture" quote has now made its way into all my convos about <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/reproducibility?src=hash">#reproducibility</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/quoteparasite?src=hash">#quoteparasite</a></p>— Vicky Steeves (@VickySteeves) <a href="https://twitter.com/VickySteeves/status/733399298793078784">May 19, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<p>The organizers said they would release all the videos, transcripts, and other A/V related materials as soon as possible, which is great. What I love is that DASPOS walks the walk: <a href="https://osf.io/view/containerstrategies/" >all the presentations</a> are available for people to look at, download, critique, whatever, along with the rest of the conference materials. Everything was done in the open! We just have to containerize our OSF for Meeting space ;)</p>
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<p>What I’ve come to love about the library science field (which after years of waiting tables you’d think I’d hate) is the service aspect to everything we do. Librarians are intensely user-focused in all of our work: through the use of needs assessment surveys, we mold our libraries to what users want, expect, and need. We use the results to design programs, buy technology, even create positions within a library (YA librarian is a thing because of that!). Some common ways to implement a library assessment include focus groups, interviews, scorecards, comment cards, usage statistics from circulation and reference, and surveys sent to users via email or on paper.</p>
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<p>The first part of this workshop dealt with the assessment process and types of survey questions, while the second dealt mainly with checking your results for errors. I will focus here on the first part, which is about data gathering and question manufacturing.</p>
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<p>I will touch briefly on the assessment process by saying this: all the questions asked should be directly relatable to all the objectives laid out in the beginning of the process. Also, that surveying is an iterative process, and as a library continues to survey its users, the quality of the survey to get valuable results will also increase.</p>
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<p>While my work at AMNH is conducted solely through interviews, I found that the discussion Nisa had on the types of questions used in survey design was particularly helpful. She focused the session on closed-end questions, because there is no way to get quantitative data from open-ended questions. All the results can say is “the majority of respondents said XYZ,” as opposed to closed-ended questions where in the results its “86% of respondents chose X over Y and Z.” This emphasize was extremely important, because real quantifiable data is the easiest to work with when putting together results to share in an institution.</p>
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<p>For multiple choice questions, it is important to include all options without any overlap. The user should not have to think about whether they fit into two of the categories or none at all. For rating scales, my biggest takeaway was the use of even points for taking away any neutrality. While forcing people to have opinions is considered rude at the dinner table, it is crucial to the success of a survey project.</p>
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<p>Both of these types of questions (and all closed-ended questions) allow for easy statistical analysis. By a simple count of answers, you have percentage data that you can then group by other questions, such as demographic questions (only use when necessary! sensitive data is just that--sensitive) or other relevant identifying information.</p>
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<p>In terms of results, this can be structured like: “78% of recipients who visit the library 1-4 times a week said that they come in for group study work.” These are two questions: what is your primary use of the library, and how often do you come in, both multiple choice. These provide measurable results, critically important in libraryland and something librarians can utilize and rely heavily upon.</p>
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<p>I also want to briefly discuss more innovative ways libraries can begin to use this incredible tool. Proving value--the library’s value, that is. Libraries traditionally lose resources in both space and funding due to a perceived lack of value by management, the train of thought usually that since libraries aren't money-makers, it inherently has less value to the institution.</p>
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<p>We as librarians know this to be both ludicrous and false. And we need to prove it. If the result the library is looking for says something like “95% of recipients said that they could not have completed their work without the use of the library,” then that is a rating scale question waiting to happen. And an incredible way to quantitatively prove value to upper management.</p>
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<p>Quantitative data gathered via strategic surveying of user groups can be a powerful tool that librarians can--and should!--use to demonstrate their value. In business decisions, the hard numbers do more than testimonials. Library directors and other leaders could have access to materials that allow them to better represent the library to upper management on an institution-wide level. This can be the difference between a library closure and a library expansion, especially in institutions where funding can be an issue.</p>
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<p>Librarians can and should use these surveys for their own needs, both internally for library services and externally on an institution-wide scale. Whether you are a public library trying to prove why you need a larger part of the community’s budget, or a corporate library vying for that larger space in the office, the needs assessment survey can prove helpful to cementing the importance of a library as well as development of library programs.</p>
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<p>A few weeks ago, I attend the <a href="http://www.ala.org/lita/">Library Information Technology Association</a>'s <a href="http://litaforum.org/">Forum</a>. Over the 13-15th, I attended several sessions, explored Minneapolis for the first time, and met some really awesome people. I was, as always, a bit nervous attending a new conference but the organizers had some really great 101-type sessions, and even set up <a href="http://litaforum.slack.com/">a Slack channel</a> which I found to be immensely helpful throughout the day. People organized dinners, discussed sessions in real-time, posed questions, and uploaded some hysterical gifs.</p>
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<p>The first session I attended cemented to me that this conference is 1000% worth attending. <a href="https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/staff/jmcasden" >Jason Casden</a> talked about the state of open source software in the LIS community and why we are falling short of creating what he called "mature" software. He began this discussion by commending libraryland for creating and publishing a lot of open source software, but there was the big essential caveat: it has to be maintained. This becomes an issue when other institutions want to use your software, but lack prerequisite knowledge--the point is, the software is ECONOMICALLY free to obtain, but requires labour and some prerequisite hardware or software configurations you may not have and may not be free.</p>
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<p>He went into some really cool discussion about the open source community in general, of course starting with Richard Stallman and his ideas on developing standardized methods of delivering software and on creating "ideologically free software."</p>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Richard Stallman....you know. Richard Stallman << all that needs to be said about him <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/litaforum?src=hash">#litaforum</a></p>— Vicky Steeves (@VickySteeves) <a href="https://twitter.com/VickySteeves/status/665265874136342528">November 13, 2015</a></blockquote>
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<p>Now of course, Unix systems (Linux!) is widely used and increasingly popular across domains. But the central idea still remains: how can we make open source software more available in Libraryland, especially to underresourced staff? </p>
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<p>Jason made an amazing point here: we as a field need to produce more "adult" software. And no, not hentai games, but software that knows what it needs and can correct an environment to allow it to thrive--we must teach software how to create an environment in which it can thrive. Most open source library software, compared to this, is in its child stage. </p>
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<p>Again, the open source movement is super important and no disrespect to the developers spending their time creating amazing community resources. But the idea is that our field should spend some time thinking, deliberating, and creating tools that are easier to install, maintain, and evaluate. </p>
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<p class="caption"><a href="http://www.ala.org/research/sites/ala.org.research/files/content/initiatives/plftas/2011_2012/plftas12_technology%20landscape.pdf" >2011-2012 ALA Public Library Funding and Technology Access Study</a></p>
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<p>To help, Jason discussed some reasonable task performance metrics that we can apply to our own open source projects. We ideally should meet an 80% threshold of usefulness for software based on these key characteristics, assessed together using the same user group for each one, and using the same success rate for each one: </p>
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<p>Another amazing session I attended at LITA was all about "Collaborating to Deliver Better Data Management Services" from <a href="http://briannamarshall.com" >Brianna Marshall</a>, the lead in Research Data Services at University of Wisconsin, Madison, and <a href="http://dataabinitio.com/" >Kristin Briney</a>, the Data Services Librarian at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. This session focused on some really cool actionable stuff for me to take home to New York, as <a href="http://www.nmwolf.net/" >Nick</a> and I begin to think on some greater outreach campaigns for the research data management services we provide.</p>
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<p>The two started off respectively discussing the environments at their own institutions. At UW-Madison, a research institution that spends about $1.1 billion in research spending, the focus of Research Data Services is mainly education and training, consultations, and support for data management plans. UW-Milwaukee is a Carnegie high research institution ($59mil research spending) with a more demographically diverse population. Their Data Services also include DMP consultations, data management training, and data management consultations.</p>
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<p>Brianna went onto describe her initial framework for everything they did in the past year: increasing awareness, and creating buzz so researchers could see them as a valuable service. The first step was to improve <a href="http://researchdata.wisc.edu/" >the website for Research Data Services</a>: by providing a useful knowledge hub that had an updated aesthetic, they wanted to convey to users that RDS is a useful, active group. <a href="http://researchdata.wisc.edu/datapoints-the-rds-blog/" >The blog</a> attached to this site has amazingly cute RDM-themed graphics, too!!</p>
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<p>Additionally, Brianna started a research data management-themed digest as a way for them to both generate content and push users towards the new and improved RDS website. On this shared news, content, and events. These two were bolstered up by the newly created <a href="https://twitter.com/UWMadRschSvcs" >RDS twitter</a>. </p>
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<p> Brianna also discussed two in-person meetings they began this past year: <a href="http://researchdata.wisc.edu/category/brownbags/" >a brown bag talk series</a> and a data information literacy reading group. The first was all about finding really awesome researchers and putting the spotlight on them, loosely surrounding their research data management practices and workflows. The idea here was to capitalize on researcher's social capital to bring people together to talk about research workflows and management. </p>
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<p>The data information literacy reading group had about 12 participants so far, a mix of information literacy librarians, subject librarians, graduate students, library IT, and academic IT. The goal was to essentially explore the intersection between research data management and information literacy--and, create some data management evangelists on the way! This group had monthly notes as well as a teaching and learning forum talk. </p>
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<p>At UW-Milwaukee, <a href="http://uwm.edu/libraries/dataservices/" >Data Services</a> was really prompted by the 2011 NSF requirement for the inclusion of data management plans with grant applications. Again, the biggest thing at this campus was creating a marketing campaign to get the word out about this new service in the library. Data Services went to faculty meetings, created a partnership with sponsored research, etc. They've put out some sweet videos also like this one below for giving researchers and others some impetus for data managements:</p>
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<p>Kristen's vision was to get people in the room together who rarely met but were stakeholders in how researchers on campus managed their data: records managers, IT, the CIO's office, the director of networking, a compliance person, senior academic research officer/dean, IRB, and information security. The idea was to create a RDM cohort/network on campus so Data Services (and others!) could provide a research resource list, i.e. "if you have sensitive data, talk to these people" or "if you need storage options, talk to these people." This created one place for researchers to look instead of having them fumble around asking who does what on campus.</p>
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<p>Kristen described her model for Data Services as "playing around in the data sandbox," which I absolutely adored. Their focus is on interdisciplinary programming, trying to train people on skills that cut across all disciplines, so in this spirit they've created things like "Data Day!" This was a part of a larger GIS series. They are trying to connect more with digital humanities also by providing support and training on TEI, OpenRefine, and RegEx. </p>
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<p>What has been a great advantage for Data Services is their ability to try things, see what works, and possibly fail. Because it's a smaller department than the UW-Madison RDS, they have less people to get things done. For Data Services, this wiggle room has been awesome for them as they build new and kind of experimental services around data and data management. </p>
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<p>Lastly, Brianna and Kristen went over the cross-campus collaboration that went on between their departments at Madison and Milwaukee. There were some existing infrastructure that helped them think more holistically about the way that they delivered their services. The UW system is completely connection: there is one system across all the UW campuses for library services. They use Primo and Alma, there is a DPLA Wisconsin hub, so why not one data services? They each had some limited local resources and didn't want to reinvent the wheel, so the idea is that they can use what each other develops!</p>
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<p>Perhaps one of the coolest RDM-related things I had ever seen is their one of their joint projects, <a href="https://mwdatalibrariansymposium.wordpress.com" >the Midwest Data Librarians Symposium</a>. Milwaukee hosted and Madison kicked in some money for food and space. They asked a registration fee of $30 for this one day event that centered on all aspects of data librarianship. They had four facilitators who taught in four different sections: teaching data management (focus on lesson planning/curriculum building), curating data, building collaborations, and consulting. What was most exciting was that folks from other states saying they wanted to host it next year!! I really want to do this in New York. The closest thing is <a href="http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/escience_symposium/">The University of Massachusetts and New England Area Librarian e-Science Symposium</a> but I'm wondering if there is an avenue to explore for explicit RDM-type sessions. </p>
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<p>Some future projects for them include providing some liaison librarian training, producing teaching materials for others on RDM, and collecting some cool data that passes through their doors. This involves some more intellectual work, since they have to develop a collection development policy, come up with some metadata recommendations, licensing standards, and think of a role for repository. They also want to formalize these relationships on some state/system level.</p>
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<p>They closed the session going over some lessons learned from their past year building collaborations and communication between their two departments at their two campuses. The most salient for me: partnership can work on a partner-by-partner basis because personal relationships matter--most of the time, there is no top-down mandate--you have to go out and do this on your own!</p>
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<p>LITA was definitely worth my while and if the program next year is as good as this year, you can bet you'll find me there again. Plus, amazing crepes:</p>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Everyone at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/litaforum?src=hash">#litaforum</a> needs to go to Bella Crêpe on Nicollet Mall Road, I'm in actual heaven.<a href="https://t.co/V0ZNAGStVH">pic.twitter.com/V0ZNAGStVH</a></p>— Vicky Steeves (@VickySteeves) <a href="https://twitter.com/VickySteeves/status/665197978039156737">November 13, 2015</a></blockquote>
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<p>This year's Moore/Sloan Data Science Environment was in the beautiful Cascade Mountains at the Suncadia Resort in Cle Elum, Washington.</p>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">RT <a href="https://twitter.com/uwescience">@uwescience</a>: <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DSESummit?src=hash">#DSESummit</a> is off to a sunny start! <a href="http://t.co/fQi3EZpSdL">pic.twitter.com/fQi3EZpSdL</a></p>— Vicky Steeves (@VickySteeves) <a href="https://twitter.com/VickySteeves/status/651068136075198464">October 5, 2015</a></blockquote>
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<p>There were a number of sessions here that were fairly typical “data science-y:” Data Structures for DS, Astrophysics Software, and Big Data Systems Tutorial. What I thought was perhaps the most interesting at the summit was this pervasive discussion about ethics and social good. I was pleasantly surprised that the participants here were interested in engaging in topics so far outside the normal purview of coding problems, data analysis methods, and data gathering. Another testament to the great multidisciplinary field that is Data Science and the wonderful people who populate it. </p>
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<p>I was really inspired by a lightning talk on Monday morning by Ariel Rokem of University of Washington’s eScience Institute on their Data Science for Social Good program, which had its inaugural summer program this past June. Based on the program with the same name at University of Chicago, the goal of the eScience Institute DSSG program is “to enable new insight by bringing together data and domain scientists to work on focused, collaborative projects that are designed to impact public policy for social benefit.”</p>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">RT <a href="https://twitter.com/uwescience">@uwescience</a>: <a href="https://twitter.com/arokem">@arokem</a> presenting <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DSSG2015?src=hash">#DSSG2015</a> at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DSESummit?src=hash">#DSESummit</a> <a href="http://t.co/pTYrxmq7Zv">pic.twitter.com/pTYrxmq7Zv</a></p>— Vicky Steeves (@VickySteeves) <a href="https://twitter.com/VickySteeves/status/651384103749713920">October 6, 2015</a></blockquote>
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<p>The eScience Institute hosted four projects focusing on urban environments and urban science across topics such as transportation, social justice, and sustainable urban planning. Each project was assigned a mentor from the eScience Institute, and each team was populated by a project lead, DSSG fellows, and Alliances for Learning and Vision for underrepresented Americans (a post-freshman year internship) students. It was all about bringing together the Data Science fellows and faculty with project leads from industry along with undergraduate students.</p>
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<p>I had a total Twilight Zone moment on Tuesday during a session entitled “Semantics of Data: Integrating Across Tools.” I attended because I thought the discussion was surrounding how the data scientists here want to communicate their tools using standard vocabularies.</p>
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<p>I was pretty close--however my scope was off. These scientists talked for ONE HOUR AND A HALF on building standard vocabularies, ontologies, metadata schemas, json-schema. I was near-faint from surprise.</p>
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<p>I love these projects. These students are committed to improving their communities through integrating what they know about all the multidisciplinary fields that make up data science. The real-world applications of their work are just incredible. I think this speaks to almost a moral obligation of science to not only contribute to the greater body of human knowledge, but also to improve the standard of living globally. For more on this, I’d point you to a <a href="https://dssg.uchicago.edu/2015/09/18/an-ethical-checklist-for-data-science/">great article</a> by Alan Fritzler, project manager for the DSSG program at University of Chicago. </p>
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<p>I had a total Twilight Zone moment on Tuesday during a session entitled “Semantics of Data: Integrating Across Tools.” I attended because I thought the discussion was surrounding how the data scientists here want to communicate their tools, or possibly create a directory of tools cross-institutionally to track outputs of the MSDSE.</p>
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<p>I was pretty wrong. These scientists talked for AN HOUR AND A HALF on building standard vocabularies, ontologies, metadata schemas, using json-schema, and the semantic web (read: linked data). I was near-faint from surprise.</p>
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<p>However, the tone of the conversation left me wondering--where else are the overlaps between science needs and library services? We’ve identified in the LIS field that things like infrastructure (institutional repositories, etc.) are resources for research that should be housed in the library, but where are the boots on the ground librarians? These collaborations are tricky, but maybe they are starting to reach that point of critical mass where we just have to get down to it. Where are my science metadata librarians at? I smell a new field...</p>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">"my field is changes too much to use a standard vocab" feels like a cop out. Talk to librarians & let us help you make ontologies <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DSESummit?src=hash">#DSESummit</a></p>— Vicky Steeves (@VickySteeves) <a href="https://twitter.com/VickySteeves/status/651528382572662784">October 6, 2015</a></blockquote>
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<p>That tweet being said, I firmly believe that this is something where librarians (those into metadata--here’s looking at you, <a href="https://twitter.com/peggygriesinger">Peggy</a>) can collaborate with science to build these vocabularies and schemas. The plain fact of the matter is that the everyday researcher is not equipped to build these ontologies, nor do they really want to--and frankly I don’t blame them. Librarians (read: information professionals) have these skills, want to do the work, and LIS is a service industry. Take advantage of us, science!</p>
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<p>However, there was a lot of room in the schedule for hilarity. Between David Hogg’s constant delight in our “obedience” in following directions for lunch seating and another great lightning talk Monday morning on improving the quality of the field (see tweet below), the tone of this conference was jovial, scholarly, and just plain fun. I’m excited for NYU to host next years! Here’s hoping we get a place in the Catskills...</p>
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<p>Science: the final frontier. These are the voyages of Vicky Steeves. Her nine-month mission: to explore how scientific data can be preserved more efficiently at <a href="http://www.amnh.org/our-research" >the American Museum of Natural History</a>, to boldly interview every member of science staff involved in data creation and management, to go into the depths of the Museum where none have gone before.</p>
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<p>Hi there. Digital preservation of scientific data is criminally under-addressed nationwide. Scientific research is increasingly digital and data intensive, with repositories and aggregators built everyday to house this data. Some popular aggregators in natural history include the NIH-funded <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank" >GenBank</a> for DNA sequence data and the NSF funded <a href="http://www.morphbank.net/" >MorphBank</a> for image data of specimens. These aggregators are places where scientists submit their data for dissemination and act as phenomenal tools for data sharing, however they cannot be relied upon for preservation. </p><!-- TEASER_END -->
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<p>Science is, at its core, the act of collecting, analyzing, refining, re-analyzing, and reusing data. Reuse and re-analysis are important parts of the evolution of our understanding of the world and the universe, so to carry out meaningful preservation, we as the digital preservationists need to equip those future users with the necessary tools to reuse said data.</p>
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<p>Therein lies the biggest challenge of digital preservation of scientific data: the very real need to preserve not only the dataset <u>but the ability to deliver that knowledge to a future user community.</u> Technical obsolescence is a huge problem in the preservation of scientific data, due in large part to the field-specific proprietary software and formats used in research. These software are sometimes even project specific, and often are not backwards compatible, meaning that a new version of the software won’t be able to open a file created in an older version. This is counter-intuitive for access and preservation.</p>
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<p>Digital data are not only research output, but also input into new hypotheses and research initiatives, enabling future scientific insights and driving innovation. In the case of natural sciences, specimen collections and taxonomic descriptions from the 19th century (and earlier) are still used in modern scientific discourse and research. There is a unique concern in digital preservation of scientific datasets where the phrase “in perpetuity” has real usability and consequence, in that these data have value that will only increases with time. 100 years from now, scientific historians will look to these data to document the processes of science and the evolution of research. Scientists themselves will use these data for additional research or even comparative study: “look at the population density of this scorpion species in 2014 versus today, 2114, I wonder what caused the shift.” Some data, particularly older data, aren't necessarily replicable, and in that case, the value of the material for preservation increases exponentially.</p>
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<p>So the resulting question is how to develop new methods, management structures and technologies to manage the diversity, size, and complexity of current and future datasets, ensuring they remain interoperable and accessible over the long term. With this in mind, it is imperative to develop an approach to preserving scientific data that continuously anticipates and adapts to changes in both the popular field-specific technologies, and user expectations.</p>
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<p>There is a pressing need for involvement by digital preservationists to look after scientific data. While there have been strides made by organizations such as the National Science Foundation, Interagency Working Group on Digital Data, and NASA, no overarching methodology or policy has been accepted by scientific fields at large. And this needs to change.</p>
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<p>The library, computer science, and scientific communities need to come together to make decisions for preservation of research and collections data. My specific NDSR project at AMNH is but a subset of the larger collaborative effort that needs to become a priority in all three fields. It is the first step of many in the right direction that will contribute to the preservation of these important scientific data. And until a solution is found, scientific data loss is a real threat, to all three communities and our future as a species evolving in our combined knowledge of the world.</p>
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<p>I will leave you, dear readers, with a video from the Alliance for Permanent Access conference in 2011. Dr. Tony Hey speaks on data-intensive scientific discovery and digital preservation and exemplifies perfectly the challenges and importance of preserving digital scientific research data:</p>
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<p>So, for those who don't follow me on Twitter (go ahead though, <a href="https://twitter.com/VickySteeves">@VickySteeves</a>), I recently accepted a position at New York University, <a href="http://library.nyu.edu/">Division of Libraries</a> and <a href="http://cds.nyu.edu">the NYU Center for Data Science</a>, as the Librarian for Research Data Management and Reproducibility. I started August 3rd of this year, which turned out to be great because there were no students around. This may sound bad, but the prep time was invaluable. My partner-in-crime <a href="http://www.nmwolf.net/">Nick Wolf</a> came two weeks later, and together we really amped up the existing <a href="http://guides.nyu.edu/data_management">data management LibGuide</a>.</p>
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<p>When September rolled around, I was hit with a visual on just how gigantic a school NYU really is. Seeing all the students streaming into the library, I was hit with the scope of my work here. Nick and I were supposed to build up services around research data management/data management planning for literally everyone on campus, from staff to students to faculty. Of course to start we will focus on a few core user communities and build our way out, but just wow--even starting on building services for grad students, for example, is an awesome task.</p>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">It's 100% nameplate official!! If you need help managing your data, come up to the Bobst Library and visit me! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NYU?src=hash">#NYU</a> <a href="http://t.co/zLTNPbJbFP">pic.twitter.com/zLTNPbJbFP</a></p>— Vicky Steeves (@VickySteeves) <a href="https://twitter.com/VickySteeves/status/649978478763343872">October 2, 2015</a></blockquote>
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<p>However, that being said, I am absolutely in love with the work environment here. Everyone is so collaborative and service-oriented, and the office just has a really positive energy to it. I have a feeling I'm going to have many successes here simply feeding off all the forward-thinking spirit that is in the research commons.</p>
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<p>What's perhaps most interesting about my position here at NYU is that I'm a joint appointment between the NYU Division of Libraries and NYU's <a href="http://cds.nyu.edu/">Center for Data Science</a>. The CDS is a multidisciplinary center dedicated to data science training and research. Data science is an interdisciplinary field dedicated to extracting knowledge from big data, focusing on processes and systems. As such, there are many interactions between statistics, machine learning, computer science, natural science, and even social science.</p>
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<p>The CDS is a great place for me as a RDM Librarian because of the multidisciplinary nature of the work: there are so many collaborators from so many departments within NYU from anthropology to physics, and so a lot of opportunities to spread the good word of research data management, open science, and reproducible research practices.</p>
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<p>I am working directly to support the Moore-Sloan Data Science Environment, which is a grant NYU collaborates on with University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Washington. This has been a huge help to my strategic plan to integrate library services into the CDS. <a href="http://escience.washington.edu/">The eScience Institute</a> (UWashington) and <a href="http://bids.berkeley.edu/">the Berkeley Institute for Data Science</a> (UC Berkeley) are both housed in the respective libraries, so library services around data science have been integrated from the start. I'm the first librarian at NYU whose job description includes building services for the CDS, so being able to talk to the other librarians at Berkeley and Washington has been absolutely invaluable. </p>
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<p>Another thing--it feels good to be back around computer scientists. I really missed that in library school and my work at the AMNH (even though goodness knows I hung around IT a lot...). There is a purity in science that I just love to be around. It's definitely why I am a science librarian. Plus, like everyone at NYU Libraries, the people at the CDS are very open to collaborating and helping me navigate my new position in my new environment. They even got me a gift!!</p>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Today I started at my 2nd office, <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NYU?src=hash">#NYU</a> Poly! What a welcome! Excited to work on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/reproducibility?src=hash">#reproducibility</a> w/ <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MS?src=hash">#MS</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DSE?src=hash">#DSE</a> folks <a href="http://t.co/SIg7GMu0tL">pic.twitter.com/SIg7GMu0tL</a></p>— Vicky Steeves (@VickySteeves) <a href="https://twitter.com/VickySteeves/status/649317858179174400">September 30, 2015</a></blockquote>
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<p>I couldn't be happier with my choice to stay in New York and take this job at NYU. As with all major decisions, there was a nervousness about accepting that I had a hard time shaking--I'm a chronic overthinker. Even in the first two months, that has been totally assuaged. I know that being here is the right thing for me, and that peace of mind has been the best thing to come from my initial time here.</p>
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<p class="lead"> Hi! I'm Vicky Steeves. I am a librarian specializing in digital preservation & science data. On this site you can find out more about me, my work, and probably see more pictures of my cat than you ever wanted to. But he's super cute so....you decide if that's a bad thing. Welcome! </p>
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<p>I recently accepted a position at New York University Libraries as the Research Data Management and Reproducibility librarian as of August 2015! I will provide instructional and consultation services to the NYU Community in Research Data Management, as well as pilot curation practices while monitoring researcher needs across disciplines. Additionally, I will be directly involved in supporting the Moore-Sloan Data Science Environment Partnership at NYU, working on the reproducibility of scientific research data. I recently completed the National Digital Stewardship Residency at the American Museum of Natural History. My project was to gain a broad overview of the extent and status of AMNH digital assets pertaining to Science. To do so I developed a structured interview guide designed to measure and describe scientific digital assets resulting in a metric to predict ongoing data curation needs.
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<p>Other interests include: gaming (pencil & paper and PC), crafting (embroidery, sewing, knitting, crocheting, quilting, scrapbooking--you name it), animal care (especially my kitten Little Boss!), snowboarding, and hiking.</p>
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<ul><li>"A Computational Linguistics Approach to Inflection and Difference in Meaning"</li>
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<ul><li>"No Place To Go: A Discussion on LGBTQ Youth Homelessness in Boston"</li>
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<ul><li>"The Harm (or lack thereof) of Marijuana"</li>
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<ul><li>See my NDSR application video <a href="https://youtu.be/3oS4boUD9ms">here!</a></li>
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<li>Survey the Science divisions to better understand their data storage, curation, and preservation needs.</li>
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<ul><li>Provide technical instruction to students, staff, and faculty at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS).</li>
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<li>Troubleshoot hard/software issues within GSLIS for students, staff, and faculty.</li></ul>
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<li>IES Technical Sales, Contracted Web Developer; May 2013-September 2013
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<ul><li>Update the company website, developing and implementing design and operational upgrades.</li>
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<li>Assess and adapt to changing client needs through the development and deployment phase.</li></ul>
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<li>Simmons College, Tutor in Computer Science; September 2012-2013
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<ul><li>Provide one-on-one tutoring for students in computer science classes.</li>
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<li>Lead group study sessions for upcoming evaluations, tests, and projects.</li></ul>
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<li>Tutors For All, Campus Representative; January 2012-May 2012
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<ul><li>Enhance Tutors for All's social media pages through graphic design work and constant updating.</li>
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<li>Generate new leads among college campus populations through social media outreach.</li></ul>
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<li>Simmons College, Teacher's Assistant in Computer Science; 2011-2013
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<ul><li>Create classwork, homework, and quizzes for students to complete.</li>
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<li>Grade students' work and report these grades to the instructor.</li></ul>
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<li>Simmons College, Lab Monitor for Computer Science Laboratory; 2011-2013
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<ul><li>Assist students with troubleshooting soft/hardware issues.</li>
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<li>Repair and maintain computers in the computer science laboratory.</li></ul>
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<li>Not Your Average Joe's, Server; May 2011-present
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<ul><li>Communicate positively and effectively with guests and coworkers.</li>
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<li>Assimilate guest information rapidly while anticipating guests' needs.</li></ul>
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<li>Tutors For All, Lead Tutor; September 2010-May 2011
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<ul><li>Mentor and lead a group of tutors, including reviewing and editing their lesson plans and progress reports.</li>
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<li>Evaluate student performance with progress reports and communicate that progress to their guardians.</li></ul>
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<li>Cape Ann Community Theatre, Choreographer; March 2010-June 2010
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<ul><li>Choreograph dance routines for the musical "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying."</li>
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<li>Teach these routines to performers and provide dance direction throughout rehearsal process.</li></ul>
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<li>Hamilton-Wenham Regional Library, Page/Librarian's Assistant; September 2009- August 2010
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<ul><li>Re-shelve library materials after patrons have returned them.</li>
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<li>Remain flexible and assist librarians in their various projects around the library.</li></li></ul>
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<li>Safe Harbor Tang Soo Do, Instructor & Camp Counselor; May 2005-September 2009
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<ul><li>Teach a one-hour martial arts class for students ages 4-13, of all ranks.</li>
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<li>Lead the students in activities daily including arts and crafts, athletic activities, and many others.</li></ul>
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<li>Blumenthal, K.-R., Griesinger, P., Julia, Peltzman, S., & Steeves, V. (2016, October 6). <a href="https://osf.io/zndwq">What makes a digital steward: A competency profile based on the National Digital Stewardship Residencies</a>. iPres 2016: The 13th International Conference on Digital Preservation. Bern, Switzerland.</li>
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<li><a href="https://osf.io/wvrpg/" >ReproZip: Reproducibility with Ease"</a>, Steeves, V. & <a href="https://remram.fr/" >Rampin, R.</a>, <a href="https://daspos.crc.nd.edu/index.php/workshops/container-strategies-for-data-software-preservation-that-promote-open-science" > DASPOS: Container Strategies for Data & Software Preservation that Promote Open Science</a>, May 2016</li>
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<ul>Additional Roles:<li>Invited Panelist</li><li>Lead 3 breakout sessions focusing on reproducing workshop participants' work with ReproZip</li></ul>
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<li><a href="http://www.asis.org/rdap/program-2016/#poster" >"Collaborating to Create a Culture of Data Stewardship"</a> Poster presented with Andrew S. Gordon (Databrary) and Kevin B. Read (NYU Health Science Library), at the Research Data Access and Preservation Summit 2016</li>
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<li><a href="http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/escience_symposium/2016/posters/2/" >"Bridging the Gap: Improving Data Services through Cross-Campus Collaboration"</a> (2016). Poster presented with Andrew S. Gordon (Databrary) and Kevin B. Read (NYU Health Science Library), 2016 University of Massachusetts and New England Area Librarian e-Science Symposium.</li>
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<li>Steeves, V., <a href="http://escience.washington.edu/people/jenny-mullenburg/" >Muilenburg, J.</a>, & <a href="https://bids.berkeley.edu/people/erik-mitchell" >Mitchell, E.</a> (2015, December 14) <a href="http://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/RHGQ3">"Organizational Implications of Data Science Environments in Education, Research, and Research Management in Libraries"</a>. <a href="https://www.cni.org/events/membership-meetings/past-meetings/fall-2015" >Coalition of Networked Information Fall Meeting</a>. Washington D.C., USA. </li>
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<ul><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0G9JsPMEXY" >video</a></li></ul>
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<li><a href="http://www2.archivists.org/sites/all/files/MAS%20Newsletter%20Summer%202015-new.pdf" >Preserving Scientific Research Data at the American Museum of Natural History</a>, MAS Newsletter, August 2015</li>
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<li>“Managing and Preservation Data Sets” METRO Webinar, July 2015</li>
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<li>“Panel Discussion with the National Digital Stewardship NY Residents” ARLIS/NY Meeting, March 2015</li>
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<li>“The Next Generation of Digital Stewards: the NDSR Program” Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives & New England Archivists Conference, March 2015</li>
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<li>“NDSR-NY Notes from the Field: Preserving Scientific Data at the American Museum of Natural History” Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group Meeting, March 2015</li>
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<li>“The Next Frontier of Stewardship: the Value of Field Books in a Digital Age” Fieldbook Project Blog, National Museum of Natural History, February 2015</li>
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<li>“Scientific Data: A Needs Assessment Journey” American Library Association Mid-Winter Conference, January 2015</li>
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<li>“NDSR-NY Panel Discussion” METRO 2015 Annual Conference, January 2015</li>
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<li>“The Value of the NDSR: Residents and Mentors Weigh In” The SIGNAL Blog, Library of Congress, November 2015</li>
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<li>2014-2015 NDSR-NY Resident's Blog, Contributor, September 2014-June 2015
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<li>“A Computational Linguistic Approach to Inflection in Human Speech and Difference in Meaning” Simmons College Undergraduate Conference, April 2013</li>
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<li>“A Computational Linguistic Approach to Inflection in Human Speech and Difference in Meaning” Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference, February 2013</li>
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<li>“No Place To Go: A Discussion on LGBTQ Youth Homeless in Boston” Simmons College Undergraduate Conference, April 2012</li>
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<li>“The Harm (or lack thereof) of Marijuana” Simmons College Undergraduate Conference, April 2011</li>
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<li>American Library Association; September 2014-present</li>
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<li>Association for Computing Machinery; September 2012-present</li>
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</ul>
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<h4>Professional Output</h4>
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<ul>
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<li>Collaborated with Rémi Rampin to create a <a href="https://github.com/ViDA-NYU/reproducibility-news">Reproducibility RSS feed</a> to publish, in a single place, news, resources, and other links surrounding reproducibility, replication, and good and open science.</li>
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<ul><li>Wrote a Twitter bot <a href="https://twitter.com/ReproFeed">@ReproFeed</a> to automatically tweet out RSS feed as it updates.</li></ul>
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<li>Ongoing collaborations with the <a href="https://cos.io/" >Center for Open Science</a>:</li>
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<ul><li>Serve as an Open Science Framework Ambassador</li>
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<li>Participant in the 2016 SHARE Curation Associates program.</li></ul>
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<li>Participant in the 2016 eDLF Data Management Cohort.</li>
|
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<li>Created and currently maintain a soft incentives program to encourage RDM amongst library patrons, called the <a href="https://osf.io/85bnv/wiki/home/" >Research Data Management Badges</a>, where patrons can accrue points through attending Data Services classes, practicing good data management, and making their research open access to earn a badge. </li>
|
||||
<li>Redeveloped and currently maintain the new Data Services blog, <a href="http://data-services.hosting.nyu.edu/" >Data Dispatch</a>, through piloting a new web hosting service for the Digital Scholarship Services called reClaim.</li>
|
||||
<li>Organized <a href="https://reproduciblescience.org/nyu/events/reproducibility-symposium-2016/" >the NYU Reproducibility Symposium</a>, a showcase of tools to help make the reproducibility process easy. There were also keynotes and lightning talks on case studies showing how creating reproducible experiments has helped other research groups. May 2016.</li>
|
||||
<li>Created and currently maintain <a href="https://reproduciblescience.org" >reproduciblescience.org</a>, a source of information for the general community on resources, news, and tools for reproducibility.</li>
|
||||
<ul><li>Created and currently maintain <a href="https://reproduciblescience.org/nyu/" >reproduciblescience.org/nyu</a>, a source of information for the NYU community on events, resources, and expertise on campus for reproducibility.</li></ul>
|
||||
<li>Planned and executed <a href="https://loveyourdata.wordpress.com/" >"Love Your Data Week 2016"</a> at New York University with Nick Wolf, Kevin B. Read, and Alisa Surkis.</li>
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