Finished June post & updated blog pages

This commit is contained in:
Vicky Steeves 2016-06-30 18:33:33 -04:00
parent 207e36da7b
commit c2edc1abba
13 changed files with 398 additions and 122 deletions

View File

@ -75,10 +75,10 @@
<div class="col-sm-8 blog-main">
<!-- FIRST POST -->
<!-- FIRST POST
<div class="blog-post">
<h2 class="blog-post-title">TITLE</h2>
<p class="blog-post-meta">April 20, 2016 by <a href="../../about.html">Vicky Steeves</a></p>
<p class="blog-post-meta">April 20, 2016 by <a href="../../resume.html">Vicky Steeves</a></p>
<a href="posts/2016/apr20.html">Read More →</a>
@ -86,22 +86,28 @@
<!-- SECOND POST -->
<div class="blog-post">
<h2 class="blog-post-title">Getting Use Cases is Hard</h2>
<p class="blog-post-meta">March 20, 2016 by <a href="../../about.html">Vicky Steeves</a></p>
<h2 class="blog-post-title">France</h2>
<p class="blog-post-meta">June 27, 2016 by <a href="../../resume.html">Vicky Steeves</a></p>
<a href="posts/2016/mar20.html">Read More →</a>
<p>I just got back from the most BEAUTIFUL two week vacation in France with my SO, Rémi. Look at all the places we went!!</p>
<a href="posts/2016/jun27.html">Read More →</a>
</div><!-- /.blog-post -->
<!-- THIRD POST -->
<div class="blog-post">
<h2 class="blog-post-title">#LYD16 Recap</h2>
<p class="blog-post-meta">February 16, 2016 by <a href="../../about.html">Vicky Steeves</a></p>
<h2 class="blog-post-title">So. Many. Conferences.</h2>
<p class="blog-post-meta">May 15, 2016 by <a href="../../resume.html">Vicky Steeves</a></p>
<p>This past week, February 8-12th, was <a href="https://loveyourdata.wordpress.com/ " target="_blank">Love Your Data Week</a>!! Is there a more perfect holiday for data librarians, especially right before Valentine's Day??</p>
<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>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23LYD16&src=tyah" target="_blank">#LYD16</a> was a social media event coordinated officially by 27 academic and research institutions, of which both <a href="https://twitter.com/nyudataservices" target="_blank">NYU Data Services</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/NYU_HSL" target="_blank">NYU Health Sciences Library</a> were a part. The idea behind this social media blitz was to raise awareness of research data management and the support/resources for RDM at each individual institution.</p>
<ol>
<li>NYU Reproducibility Symposium</li>
<li>RDAP Summit</li>
<li>DASPOS Workshop on Containerizing Science</li>
</ol>
<a href="posts/2016/feb16.html">Read More →</a>
<a href="posts/2016/may15.html">Read More →</a>
</div><!-- /.blog-post -->
<nav align="center">
@ -117,6 +123,7 @@
<li><a href="blog4.html">4</a></li>
<li><a href="blog5.html">5</a></li>
<li><a href="blog6.html">6</a></li>
<li><a href="blog7.html">7</a></li>
<li>
<a href="blog2.html" aria-label="Next">
<span aria-hidden="true">&raquo;</span>
@ -136,6 +143,7 @@
<div class="sidebar-module alert alert-dismissible alert-success">
<h4>Archives</h4>
<ol class="list-unstyled">
<li><a href="posts/2016/jun27.html">June 2016</a></li>
<li><a href="posts/2016/may15.html">May 2016</a></li>
<li><a href="posts/2016/apr20.html">April 2016</a></li>
<li><a href="posts/2016/mar20.html">March 2016</a></li>

View File

@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
<ul class="nav navbar-nav">
<li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="resume.html">Resume</a></li>
<li><a href="blog.html">Blog</a></li>
<li class="active"><a href="#">Blog</a></li>
</ul>
<ul class="nav navbar-nav navbar-right">
@ -75,37 +75,42 @@
<div class="col-sm-8 blog-main">
<!-- FIRST POST -->
<div class="blog-post">
<h2 class="blog-post-title">Goals for 2016 & How I'll Make Them Happen</h2>
<p class="blog-post-meta">January 15, 2016 by <a href="../../about.html">Vicky Steeves</a></p>
<h2 class="blog-post-title">FORCE2016</h2>
<p class="blog-post-meta">April 20, 2016 by <a href="../../resume.html">Vicky Steeves</a></p>
<p>If youve been following this blog for a while, or even took a quick look on my <a href="resume.html">resume</a> page, youll see I havent been at my position at NYU for very long. January 3rd marks the fifth month (to the day!) that Ive been NYUs official “Research Data Management and Reproducibility Librarian.” There was a bit of an adjustment period where I just spent the majority of my time introducing myself to my colleagues, getting to know what my daily workflow would look like, and brainstorm with <a href="http://www.nmwolf.net/" target="_blank">Nick</a> about what our <a href="http://guides.nyu.edu/data_management/services" target="_blank">services</a> will look like, some good groups for targeted outreach, and what <a href="http://guides.nyu.edu/DS_classes" target="_blank">classes</a> we are going to teach as a part of <a href="http://guides.nyu.edu/c.php?g=277095&p=1848849" target="_blank">Data Services typical course offerings</a>.</p>
<p>W.O.W.</p>
<p>This was all well and good, but since I started in August I missed the goal-setting timeline that is typical for my colleagues. As such, I wanted to make some, and my supervisor in the library thought it would be a good way to measure growth besides. Plus, since Im pretty early career, setting goals for a measurable outcome was kind of new for something not project based. This was just trying to assess my own growth, not necessarily the growth of a project Im working on. </p>
<p>So, I kind of am in love with the <a href="https://www.force11.org/meetings/force2016" target="_blank">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>
<a href="posts/2016/jan15.html">Read More →</a>
<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 eveverything 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>
<a href="posts/2016/apr20.html">Read More →</a>
</div><!-- /.blog-post -->
<!-- SECOND POST -->
<div class="blog-post">
<h2 class="blog-post-title">Presenting at CNI</h2>
<p class="blog-post-meta">December 16, 2015 by <a href="../../about.html">Vicky Steeves</a></p>
<h2 class="blog-post-title">Getting Use Cases is Hard</h2>
<p class="blog-post-meta">March 20, 2016 by <a href="../../resume.html">Vicky Steeves</a></p>
<p> This month was excellent as it marked my first ever professional presentation as a NYU Librarian :) </p>
<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" target="_blank">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>
<p>Last year during NDSR, it seemed like I was giving a presentation at a conference, professional organization meeting, webinar, etc. every other week. Its 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>
<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>
<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" target="_blank">Jenny Muilenburg</a> and <a href="http://bids.berkeley.edu/people/erik-mitchell" target="_blank"> Erik Mitchell</a>. </p>
<a href="posts/2015/dec16.html">Read More →</a>
<a href="posts/2016/mar20.html">Read More →</a>
</div><!-- /.blog-post -->
<!-- THIRD POST -->
<div class="blog-post">
<h2 class="blog-post-title">My First LITA</h2>
<p class="blog-post-meta">November 20, 2015 by <a href="../../about.html">Vicky Steeves</a></p>
<h2 class="blog-post-title">#LYD16 Recap</h2>
<p class="blog-post-meta">February 16, 2016 by <a href="../../resume.html">Vicky Steeves</a></p>
<p>A few weeks ago, I attend the <a href="http://www.ala.org/lita/" target="_blank">Library Information Technology Association</a>s <a href="http://litaforum.org/" target="_blank">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/" target="_blank">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>
<p>This past week, February 8-12th, was <a href="https://loveyourdata.wordpress.com/ " target="_blank">Love Your Data Week</a>!! Is there a more perfect holiday for data librarians, especially right before Valentine's Day??</p>
<a href="posts/2015/nov20.html">Read More →</a>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23LYD16&src=tyah" target="_blank">#LYD16</a> was a social media event coordinated officially by 27 academic and research institutions, of which both <a href="https://twitter.com/nyudataservices" target="_blank">NYU Data Services</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/NYU_HSL" target="_blank">NYU Health Sciences Library</a> were a part. The idea behind this social media blitz was to raise awareness of research data management and the support/resources for RDM at each individual institution.</p>
<a href="posts/2016/feb16.html">Read More →</a>
</div><!-- /.blog-post -->
<nav align="center">
@ -121,6 +126,7 @@
<li><a href="blog4.html">4</a></li>
<li><a href="blog5.html">5</a></li>
<li><a href="blog6.html">6</a></li>
<li><a href="blog7.html">7</a></li>
<li>
<a href="blog3.html" aria-label="Next">
<span aria-hidden="true">&raquo;</span>
@ -140,7 +146,8 @@
<div class="sidebar-module alert alert-dismissible alert-success">
<h4>Archives</h4>
<ol class="list-unstyled">
<li><a href="posts/2016/may15.html">May 2016</a></li>
<li><a href="posts/2016/jun27.html">June 2016</a></li>
<li><a href="posts/2016/may15.html">May 2016</a></li>
<li><a href="posts/2016/apr20.html">April 2016</a></li>
<li><a href="posts/2016/mar20.html">March 2016</a></li>
<li><a href="posts/2016/feb16.html">February 2016</a></li>

View File

@ -76,36 +76,36 @@
<div class="col-sm-8 blog-main">
<div class="blog-post">
<h2 class="blog-post-title">Moore-Sloan Data Science Environment Summit: A Recap</h2>
<p class="blog-post-meta">October 10, 2015 by <a href="../../about.html">Vicky Steeves</a></p>
<h2 class="blog-post-title">Goals for 2016 & How I'll Make Them Happen</h2>
<p class="blog-post-meta">January 15, 2016 by <a href="../../resume.html">Vicky Steeves</a></p>
<p>This year's Moore/Sloan Data Science Environment was in the beautiful Cascade Mountains at the Suncadia Resort in Cle Elum, Washington.</p>
<p>If youve been following this blog for a while, or even took a quick look on my <a href="resume.html">resume</a> page, youll see I havent been at my position at NYU for very long. January 3rd marks the fifth month (to the day!) that Ive been NYUs official “Research Data Management and Reproducibility Librarian.” There was a bit of an adjustment period where I just spent the majority of my time introducing myself to my colleagues, getting to know what my daily workflow would look like, and brainstorm with <a href="http://www.nmwolf.net/" target="_blank">Nick</a> about what our <a href="http://guides.nyu.edu/data_management/services" target="_blank">services</a> will look like, some good groups for targeted outreach, and what <a href="http://guides.nyu.edu/DS_classes" target="_blank">classes</a> we are going to teach as a part of <a href="http://guides.nyu.edu/c.php?g=277095&p=1848849" target="_blank">Data Services typical course offerings</a>.</p>
<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>&mdash; Vicky Steeves (@VickySteeves) <a href="https://twitter.com/VickySteeves/status/651068136075198464">October 5, 2015</a></blockquote>
<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<p class="caption">Look how beautiful that is. Wow.</p>
<p>This was all well and good, but since I started in August I missed the goal-setting timeline that is typical for my colleagues. As such, I wanted to make some, and my supervisor in the library thought it would be a good way to measure growth besides. Plus, since Im pretty early career, setting goals for a measurable outcome was kind of new for something not project based. This was just trying to assess my own growth, not necessarily the growth of a project Im working on. </p>
<a href="posts/2015/oct10.html">Read More →</a>
<a href="posts/2016/jan15.html">Read More →</a>
</div><!-- /.blog-post -->
<div class="blog-post">
<h2 class="blog-post-title">Debrief: My First Two Months at NYU</h2>
<p class="blog-post-meta">September 21, 2015 by <a href="../../about.html">Vicky Steeves</a></p>
<h2 class="blog-post-title">Presenting at CNI</h2>
<p class="blog-post-meta">December 16, 2015 by <a href="../../resume.html">Vicky Steeves</a></p>
<p>So, for those who dont 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>, 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>
<p> This month was excellent as it marked my first ever professional presentation as a NYU Librarian :) </p>
<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>
<p>Last year during NDSR, it seemed like I was giving a presentation at a conference, professional organization meeting, webinar, etc. every other week. Its 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>
<a href="posts/2015/sep21.html">Read More →</a>
<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" target="_blank">Jenny Muilenburg</a> and <a href="http://bids.berkeley.edu/people/erik-mitchell" target="_blank"> Erik Mitchell</a>. </p>
<a href="posts/2015/dec16.html">Read More →</a>
</div><!-- /.blog-post -->
<div class="blog-post">
<h2 class="blog-post-title">Preserving Scientific Research Data at the American Museum of Natural History</h2>
<p class="blog-post-meta">August 14, 2015 by <a href="../../about.html">Vicky Steeves</a> or the SAA Museum & Archives Section Newsletter. <a href="http://www2.archivists.org/sites/all/files/MAS%20Newsletter%20Summer%202015-new.pdf">See original posting here.</a></p>
<h2 class="blog-post-title">My First LITA</h2>
<p class="blog-post-meta">November 20, 2015 by <a href="../../resume.html">Vicky Steeves</a></p>
<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>
<p>A few weeks ago, I attend the <a href="http://www.ala.org/lita/" target="_blank">Library Information Technology Association</a>s <a href="http://litaforum.org/" target="_blank">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/" target="_blank">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>
<a href="posts/2015/aug14.html">Read More →</a>
<a href="posts/2015/nov20.html">Read More →</a>
</div><!-- /.blog-post -->
<nav align="center">
@ -121,6 +121,7 @@
<li><a href="blog4.html">4</a></li>
<li><a href="blog5.html">5</a></li>
<li><a href="blog6.html">6</a></li>
<li><a href="blog7.html">7</a></li>
<li>
<a href="blog4.html" aria-label="Next">
<span aria-hidden="true">&raquo;</span>
@ -140,6 +141,7 @@
<div class="sidebar-module alert alert-dismissible alert-success">
<h4>Archives</h4>
<ol class="list-unstyled">
<li><a href="posts/2016/jun27.html">June 2016</a></li>
<li><a href="posts/2016/may15.html">May 2016</a></li>
<li><a href="posts/2016/apr20.html">April 2016</a></li>
<li><a href="posts/2016/mar20.html">March 2016</a></li>

View File

@ -76,37 +76,36 @@
<div class="col-sm-8 blog-main">
<div class="blog-post">
<h2 class="blog-post-title">So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Adieu</h2>
<p class="blog-post-meta">June 2, 2015 by <a href="http://ndsr.nycdigital.org/2014-2015-residents/">NDSR 2014/15 Cohort</a> for the NDSR-NY Residents' Blog. <a href="http://ndsr.nycdigital.org/so-long-farewell-auf-wiedersehen-adieu/">See original posting here.</a></p>
<h2 class="blog-post-title">Moore-Sloan Data Science Environment Summit: A Recap</h2>
<p class="blog-post-meta">October 10, 2015 by <a href="../../resume.html">Vicky Steeves</a></p>
<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>
<p>This year's Moore/Sloan Data Science Environment was in the beautiful Cascade Mountains at the Suncadia Resort in Cle Elum, Washington.</p>
<div align="center"><img src="img/cohort.jpg" height="30%" width="30%" alt="Marian the Librarian">
<p class="caption">The NDSR-NY 2014-15 cohort.</p></div>
<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>&mdash; Vicky Steeves (@VickySteeves) <a href="https://twitter.com/VickySteeves/status/651068136075198464">October 5, 2015</a></blockquote>
<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<p class="caption">Look how beautiful that is. Wow.</p>
<p><strong>Shira:</strong> Ive learned so much over the past 9 months that its hard to know where to begin. When I think back to when we began this residency Im amazed at what weve managed to accomplish since September: between the 5 of us weve 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 thats not to mention all the project deliverables themselves! Im 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. Im thankful for the wisdom, words of encouragement, and advice you have given to me over the course of this residency, and Im truly sad to be saying goodbye.</p>
<a href="posts/2015/jun2.html">Read More →</a>
<a href="posts/2015/oct10.html">Read More →</a>
</div><!-- /.blog-post -->
<div class="blog-post">
<h2 class="blog-post-title">So you've decided to apply to NDSR....</h2>
<p class="blog-post-meta">May 1, 2015 by <a href="http://ndsr.nycdigital.org/2014-2015-residents/">NDSR 2014/15 Cohort</a> for the NDSR-NY Residents' Blog. <a href="http://ndsr.nycdigital.org/so-youve-decided-to-apply-to-ndsr/">See original posting here.</a></p>
<h2 class="blog-post-title">Debrief: My First Two Months at NYU</h2>
<p class="blog-post-meta">September 21, 2015 by <a href="../../resume.html">Vicky Steeves</a></p>
<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 theyre very exciting (like wed 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/" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a>.</p>
<p>So, for those who dont 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>, 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>
<a href="posts/2015/may1.html">Read More →</a>
<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>
<a href="posts/2015/sep21.html">Read More →</a>
</div><!-- /.blog-post -->
<div class="blog-post">
<h2 class="blog-post-title">Project Update: DONE WITH ANALYSIS</h2>
<p class="blog-post-meta">April 14, 2015 by <a href="../../about.html">Vicky Steeves</a> for the NDSR-NY Residents' Blog. <a href="http://ndsr.nycdigital.org/project-update/">See original posting here.</a></p>
<h2 class="blog-post-title">Preserving Scientific Research Data at the American Museum of Natural History</h2>
<p class="blog-post-meta">August 14, 2015 by <a href="../../resume.html">Vicky Steeves</a> or the SAA Museum & Archives Section Newsletter. <a href="http://www2.archivists.org/sites/all/files/MAS%20Newsletter%20Summer%202015-new.pdf">See original posting here.</a></p>
<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>
<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>
<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 Museums 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>
<a href="posts/2015/apr14.html">Read More →</a>
<a href="posts/2015/aug14.html">Read More →</a>
</div><!-- /.blog-post -->
<nav align="center">
@ -122,6 +121,7 @@
<li class="active"><a href="#">4</a></li>
<li><a href="blog5.html">5</a></li>
<li><a href="blog6.html">6</a></li>
<li><a href="blog7.html">7</a></li>
<li>
<a href="blog5.html" aria-label="Next">
<span aria-hidden="true">&raquo;</span>
@ -141,6 +141,8 @@
<div class="sidebar-module alert alert-dismissible alert-success">
<h4>Archives</h4>
<ol class="list-unstyled">
<li><a href="posts/2016/jun27.html">June 2016</a></li>
<li><a href="posts/2016/may15.html">May 2016</a></li>
<li><a href="posts/2016/apr20.html">April 2016</a></li>
<li><a href="posts/2016/mar20.html">March 2016</a></li>
<li><a href="posts/2016/feb16.html">February 2016</a></li>

View File

@ -76,32 +76,37 @@
<div class="col-sm-8 blog-main">
<div class="blog-post">
<h2 class="blog-post-title">NMNH, METRO, & Outsourcing, oh my!</h2>
<p class="blog-post-meta">March 24, 2015 by <a href="../../about.html">Vicky Steeves</a> for the NDSR-NY Residents' Blog. <a href="http://ndsr.nycdigital.org/outsourcing/">See original posting here.</a></p>
<h2 class="blog-post-title">So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Adieu</h2>
<p class="blog-post-meta">June 2, 2015 by <a href="http://ndsr.nycdigital.org/2014-2015-residents/">NDSR 2014/15 Cohort</a> for the NDSR-NY Residents' Blog. <a href="http://ndsr.nycdigital.org/so-long-farewell-auf-wiedersehen-adieu/">See original posting here.</a></p>
<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/" target="_blank">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>
<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>
<a href="posts/2015/mar24.html">Read More →</a>
<div align="center"><img src="img/cohort.jpg" height="30%" width="30%" alt="Marian the Librarian">
<p class="caption">The NDSR-NY 2014-15 cohort.</p></div>
<p><strong>Shira:</strong> Ive learned so much over the past 9 months that its hard to know where to begin. When I think back to when we began this residency Im amazed at what weve managed to accomplish since September: between the 5 of us weve 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 thats not to mention all the project deliverables themselves! Im 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. Im thankful for the wisdom, words of encouragement, and advice you have given to me over the course of this residency, and Im truly sad to be saying goodbye.</p>
<a href="posts/2015/jun2.html">Read More →</a>
</div><!-- /.blog-post -->
<div class="blog-post">
<h2 class="blog-post-title">code4Lib 2015!</h2>
<p class="blog-post-meta">February 12, 2015 by <a href="../../about.html">Vicky Steeves</a> for the NDSR-NY Residents' Blog. <a href="http://ndsr.nycdigital.org/code4lib-2015/">See original posting here.</a></p>
<h2 class="blog-post-title">So you've decided to apply to NDSR....</h2>
<p class="blog-post-meta">May 1, 2015 by <a href="http://ndsr.nycdigital.org/2014-2015-residents/">NDSR 2014/15 Cohort</a> for the NDSR-NY Residents' Blog. <a href="http://ndsr.nycdigital.org/so-youve-decided-to-apply-to-ndsr/">See original posting here.</a></p>
<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/" target="_blank">code4Lib 2015</a>, and since today is the last day of the conference, I thought Id give everyone a bit of a report about what went on here.</p>
<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 theyre very exciting (like wed 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/" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a>.</p>
<p>First, I want to talk about the format of presentations at code4Lib. Its absolutely unlike any other conference Ive 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! Ill talk a little bit more about the actual presentations later on.</p>
<a href="posts/2015/feb12.html">Read More →</a>
<a href="posts/2015/may1.html">Read More →</a>
</div><!-- /.blog-post -->
<div class="blog-post">
<h2 class="blog-post-title">Library Advocacy</h2>
<p class="blog-post-meta">January 14, 2015 by <a href="../../about.html">Vicky Steeves</a> for the NDSR-NY Residents' Blog. <a href="http://ndsr.nycdigital.org/library-advocacy/">See original posting here.</a></p>
<h2 class="blog-post-title">Project Update: DONE WITH ANALYSIS</h2>
<p class="blog-post-meta">April 14, 2015 by <a href="../../resume.html">Vicky Steeves</a> for the NDSR-NY Residents' Blog. <a href="http://ndsr.nycdigital.org/project-update/">See original posting here.</a></p>
<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" target="_blank">Jim Matarazzo</a>, my corporate libraries professor back at <a href="http://www.simmons.edu/slis/" target="_blank">Simmons</a>. He really drilled it into my head that if a library cant prove that its worth having, it will be the first thing cut from a budget. And it scared me into constantly thinking about it. Thanks, Jim!</p>
<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>
<a href="posts/2015/jan14.html">Read More →</a>
<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 Museums 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>
<a href="posts/2015/apr14.html">Read More →</a>
</div><!-- /.blog-post -->
<nav align="center">
@ -117,6 +122,7 @@
<li><a href="blog4.html">4</a></li>
<li class="active"><a href="#">5</a></li>
<li><a href="blog6.html">6</a></li>
<li><a href="blog7.html">7</a></li>
<li>
<a href="blog6.html" aria-label="Next">
<span aria-hidden="true">&raquo;</span>
@ -136,7 +142,6 @@
<div class="sidebar-module alert alert-dismissible alert-success">
<h4>Archives</h4>
<ol class="list-unstyled">
<li><a href="posts/2016/may15.html">May 2016</a></li>
<li><a href="posts/2016/apr20.html">April 2016</a></li>
<li><a href="posts/2016/mar20.html">March 2016</a></li>
<li><a href="posts/2016/feb16.html">February 2016</a></li>

View File

@ -65,6 +65,7 @@
</nav>
<div class="blog-header">
<h1 class="blog-title">Data, Science, & Librarians, <br /> Oh My!</h1>
<p class="lead blog-description">My thoughts as I navigate the world of data librarianship.</p>
@ -75,32 +76,32 @@
<div class="col-sm-8 blog-main">
<div class="blog-post">
<h2 class="blog-post-title">Party on, AMNH!</h2>
<p class="blog-post-meta">December 18, 2014 by <a href="../../about.html">Vicky Steeves</a>for the NDSR-NY Residents' Blog. <a href="http://ndsr.nycdigital.org/party-on-amnh/">See original posting here.</a></p>
<h2 class="blog-post-title">NMNH, METRO, & Outsourcing, oh my!</h2>
<p class="blog-post-meta">March 24, 2015 by <a href="../../resume.html">Vicky Steeves</a> for the NDSR-NY Residents' Blog. <a href="http://ndsr.nycdigital.org/outsourcing/">See original posting here.</a></p>
<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>
<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/" target="_blank">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>
<p>Just about every day of the week, starting from the 10th of December to the 19th, there is a party at the AMNH. Each department has their own parties, some are small and attended mostly by people within the department; others are all staff events with food, drinks, and music.</p>
<a href="posts/2015/aug14.html">Read More →</a>
<a href="posts/2015/mar24.html">Read More →</a>
</div><!-- /.blog-post -->
<div class="blog-post">
<h2 class="blog-post-title">Prove Yourself: Needs Assessment Edition</h2>
<p class="blog-post-meta">November 10, 2014 by <a href="../../about.html">Vicky Steeves</a>for the NDSR-NY Residents' Blog. <a href="http://ndsr.nycdigital.org/prove-yourself-needs-assessment-edition/">See original posting here.</a></p>
<h2 class="blog-post-title">code4Lib 2015!</h2>
<p class="blog-post-meta">February 12, 2015 by <a href="../../resume.html">Vicky Steeves</a> for the NDSR-NY Residents' Blog. <a href="http://ndsr.nycdigital.org/code4lib-2015/">See original posting here.</a></p>
<p>What Ive come to love about the library science field (which after years of waiting tables youd think Id 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>
<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/" target="_blank">code4Lib 2015</a>, and since today is the last day of the conference, I thought Id give everyone a bit of a report about what went on here.</p>
<a href="posts/2014/nov10.html">Read More →</a>
<p>First, I want to talk about the format of presentations at code4Lib. Its absolutely unlike any other conference Ive 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! Ill talk a little bit more about the actual presentations later on.</p>
<a href="posts/2015/feb12.html">Read More →</a>
</div><!-- /.blog-post -->
<div class="blog-post">
<h2 class="blog-post-title">Science: The Final Frontier</h2>
<p class="blog-post-meta">October 23, 2014 by <a href="../../about.html">Vicky Steeves</a> for the NDSR-NY Residents' Blog. <a href="http://ndsr.nycdigital.org/science-the-final-frontier/">See original posting here.</a></p>
<h2 class="blog-post-title">Library Advocacy</h2>
<p class="blog-post-meta">January 14, 2015 by <a href="../../resume.html">Vicky Steeves</a> for the NDSR-NY Residents' Blog. <a href="http://ndsr.nycdigital.org/library-advocacy/">See original posting here.</a></p>
<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" target="_blank">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>
<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" target="_blank">Jim Matarazzo</a>, my corporate libraries professor back at <a href="http://www.simmons.edu/slis/" target="_blank">Simmons</a>. He really drilled it into my head that if a library cant prove that its worth having, it will be the first thing cut from a budget. And it scared me into constantly thinking about it. Thanks, Jim!</p>
<a href="posts/2014/oct23.html">Read More →</a>
<a href="posts/2015/jan14.html">Read More →</a>
</div><!-- /.blog-post -->
<nav align="center">
@ -114,10 +115,11 @@
<li><a href="blog2.html">2</a></li>
<li><a href="blog3.html">3</a></li>
<li><a href="blog4.html">4</a></li>
<li ><a href="blog5.html">5</a></li>
<li class="active"><a href="blog6.html">6</a></li>
<li><a href="blog5.html">5</a></li>
<li class="active"><a href="#">6</a></li>
<li><a href="blog7.html">7</a></li>
<li>
<a href="#" aria-label="Next">
<a href="blog7.html" aria-label="Next">
<span aria-hidden="true">&raquo;</span>
</a>
</li>
@ -135,6 +137,7 @@
<div class="sidebar-module alert alert-dismissible alert-success">
<h4>Archives</h4>
<ol class="list-unstyled">
<li><a href="posts/2016/may15.html">May 2016</a></li>
<li><a href="posts/2016/apr20.html">April 2016</a></li>
<li><a href="posts/2016/mar20.html">March 2016</a></li>
<li><a href="posts/2016/feb16.html">February 2016</a></li>

189
blog7.html Normal file
View File

@ -0,0 +1,189 @@
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<meta name="description" content="">
<meta name="author" content="">
<link rel="icon" href="favicon.png">
<title>VIS: Blog</title>
<!-- Bootstrap core CSS -->
<link href="css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
<!-- IE10 viewport hack for Surface/desktop Windows 8 bug -->
<link href="css/ie10-viewport-bug-workaround.css" rel="stylesheet">
<!-- Custom styles for this template -->
<link href="css/vis.css" rel="stylesheet">
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<!-- Static navbar -->
<nav class="navbar navbar-inverse">
<div class="container-fluid">
<div class="navbar-header">
<button type="button" class="navbar-toggle collapsed" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#bs-example-navbar-collapse-2">
<span class="sr-only">Toggle navigation</span>
<span class="icon-bar"></span>
<span class="icon-bar"></span>
<span class="icon-bar"></span>
</button>
<a class="navbar-brand" href="index.html">VICKY STEEVES</a>
</div>
<div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="bs-example-navbar-collapse-2">
<ul class="nav navbar-nav">
<li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="resume.html">Resume</a></li>
<li><a href="blog.html">Blog</a></li>
</ul>
<ul class="nav navbar-nav navbar-right">
<!--dropdown-->
<li class="dropdown"><a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" aria-expanded="false">Data<span class="caret"></span></a>
<ul class="dropdown-menu">
<li><a href="https://osf.io/7mj2q/" target="_blank">Open Science Framework</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/steevesv/" target="_blank">GitHub</a></li>
</ul>
</li><!--end dropdown-->
<!--dropdown-->
<li class="dropdown"><a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" aria-expanded="false">Social Media<span class="caret"></span></a>
<ul class="dropdown-menu">
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/VickySteeves" target="_blank">Twitter</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.instagram.com/vickysteeves/" target="_blank">Instagram</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoriaisteeves" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a></li>
</ul>
</li><!--end dropdown-->
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</nav>
<div class="blog-header">
<h1 class="blog-title">Data, Science, & Librarians, <br /> Oh My!</h1>
<p class="lead blog-description">My thoughts as I navigate the world of data librarianship.</p>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-sm-8 blog-main">
<!--FIRST POST-->
<div class="blog-post">
<h2 class="blog-post-title">Party on, AMNH!</h2>
<p class="blog-post-meta">December 18, 2014 by <a href="../../resume.html">Vicky Steeves</a>for the NDSR-NY Residents' Blog. <a href="http://ndsr.nycdigital.org/party-on-amnh/">See original posting here.</a></p>
<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>
<p>Just about every day of the week, starting from the 10th of December to the 19th, there is a party at the AMNH. Each department has their own parties, some are small and attended mostly by people within the department; others are all staff events with food, drinks, and music.</p>
<a href="posts/2015/aug14.html">Read More →</a>
</div><!-- /.blog-post -->
<!--SECOND POST-->
<div class="blog-post">
<h2 class="blog-post-title">Prove Yourself: Needs Assessment Edition</h2>
<p class="blog-post-meta">November 10, 2014 by <a href="../../resume.html">Vicky Steeves</a>for the NDSR-NY Residents' Blog. <a href="http://ndsr.nycdigital.org/prove-yourself-needs-assessment-edition/">See original posting here.</a></p>
<p>What Ive come to love about the library science field (which after years of waiting tables youd think Id 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>
<a href="posts/2014/nov10.html">Read More →</a>
</div><!-- /.blog-post -->
<!--THIRD POST-->
<div class="blog-post">
<h2 class="blog-post-title">Science: The Final Frontier</h2>
<p class="blog-post-meta">October 23, 2014 by <a href="../../resume.html">Vicky Steeves</a> for the NDSR-NY Residents' Blog. <a href="http://ndsr.nycdigital.org/science-the-final-frontier/">See original posting here.</a></p>
<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" target="_blank">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>
<a href="posts/2014/oct23.html">Read More →</a>
</div><!-- /.blog-post -->
<nav align="center">
<ul class="pagination">
<li>
<a href="blog6.html" aria-label="Previous">
<span aria-hidden="true">&laquo;</span>
</a>
</li>
<li><a href="blog.html">1</a></li>
<li><a href="blog2.html">2</a></li>
<li><a href="blog3.html">3</a></li>
<li><a href="blog4.html">4</a></li>
<li ><a href="blog5.html">5</a></li>
<li><a href="blog6.html">6</a></li>
<li class="active"><a href="#">7</a></li>
<li>
<a href="#" aria-label="Next">
<span aria-hidden="true">&raquo;</span>
</a>
</li>
</ul>
</nav>
</div><!-- /.blog-main -->
<!--blog sidebar -->
<div class="col-sm-3 col-sm-offset-1 blog-sidebar">
<div class="sidebar-module sidebar-module-inset alert alert-dismissible alert-danger">
<h4>About</h4>
<p>A blog chronicling my career mostly, with some scattered pictures of my cat.</p>
</div>
<div class="sidebar-module alert alert-dismissible alert-success">
<h4>Archives</h4>
<ol class="list-unstyled">
<li><a href="posts/2016/apr20.html">April 2016</a></li>
<li><a href="posts/2016/mar20.html">March 2016</a></li>
<li><a href="posts/2016/feb16.html">February 2016</a></li>
<li><a href="posts/2016/jan15.html">January 2016</a></li>
<li><a href="posts/2015/dec16.html">December 2015</a></li>
<li><a href="posts/2015/nov20.html">November 2015</a></li>
<li><a href="posts/2015/oct10.html">October 2015</a></li>
<li><a href="posts/2015/sep21.html">September 2015</a></li>
<li><a href="posts/2015/aug14.html">August 2015</a></li>
<li><a href="posts/2015/jun2.html">June 2015</a></li>
<li><a href="posts/2015/may1.html">May 2015</a></li>
<li><a href="posts/2015/apr14.html">April 2015</a></li>
<li><a href="posts/2015/mar24.html">March 2015</a></li>
<li><a href="posts/2015/feb12.html">February 2015</a></li>
<li><a href="posts/2015/jan14.html">January 2015</a></li>
<li><a href="posts/2014/dec18.html">December 2014</a></li>
<li><a href="posts/2014/nov10.html">November 2014</a></li>
<li><a href="posts/2014/oct23.html">October 2014</a></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="sidebar-module alert alert-dismissible alert-info">
<h4>Elsewhere</h4>
<a class="twitter-timeline" href="https://twitter.com/VickySteeves" data-widget-id="615910359816384512">Tweets by @VickySteeves</a>
<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+"://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");</script>
</div>
</div>
<!-- /.blog-sidebar -->
</div><!-- /.row -->
</div><!-- /.container -->
<footer class="blog-footer">
<p><a href="mailto:victoriaisteeves@gmail.com">Email Vicky</a> | <a href="#">Back to top</a></p>
<p><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/4.0/88x31.png" /></a><br /><span xmlns:dct="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" property="dct:title">Data, Science, & Librarians, Oh My!</span> by <a xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" href="http://victoriaisteeves.com/blog.html" property="cc:attributionName" rel="cc:attributionURL">Vicky Steeves</a> is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License</a></p>
</footer>
<!-- Bootstrap core JavaScript
================================================== -->
<!-- Placed at the end of the document so the pages load faster -->
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>window.jQuery || document.write('<script src="../../assets/js/vendor/jquery.min.js"><\/script>')</script>
<script src="js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<!-- IE10 viewport hack for Surface/desktop Windows 8 bug -->
<script src="js/ie10-viewport-bug-workaround.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

BIN
img/rdap-poster.png Normal file

Binary file not shown.

After

Width:  |  Height:  |  Size: 559 KiB

BIN
img/reproroundtable.jpg Normal file

Binary file not shown.

After

Width:  |  Height:  |  Size: 1.2 MiB

BIN
img/reprosymp_regStatus.png Normal file

Binary file not shown.

After

Width:  |  Height:  |  Size: 29 KiB

Binary file not shown.

After

Width:  |  Height:  |  Size: 17 KiB

0
posts/2016/.Rhistory Normal file
View File

View File

@ -79,20 +79,80 @@
<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>
<br/>
<h3>NYU Reproducibility Symposium</h3>
<p>My first time organizing a conference-ish thing! I helped to organize the <a href="" target="_blank">2016 NYU Reproducibility Symposium</a>.</p>
<p>My first time organizing a conference-ish thing! I helped to organize the <a href="https://reproduciblescience.org/nyu/events/reproducibility-symposium-2016/" target="_blank">2016 NYU Reproducibility Symposium</a> which took place May 3, 2016 in the Jacob's room of <a href="http://cusp.nyu.edu" target="_blank">The Center for Urban Science + Progress</a>. This was an initiative of the <a href="http://msdse.org/" target="_blank">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/" target="_blank">schedule</a> packed with folks who work in fields like computer science, psychology, libraries, physics, maths, and more.</p>
<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>
<div align="center"><img src="../../img/reprosymp_speakerAffil.png">
<p class="caption">A breakdown of the institutional affiliation of the Symposium. I generated this via Google Forms.</p></div><br/>
<p>The people who registered were also pretty diverse. The top 5 positions who had the most registrations:</p>
<ol>
<li>Faculty</li>
<li>Doctoral Candidate</li>
<li>Masters Student</li>
<li>Postdoc</li>
<li>Staff or Adminsitrator</li>
</ol>
<div align="center"><img src="../../img/reprosymp_regStatus.png">
<p class="caption">A breakdown of the status of those registered for the Symposium. I generated this via Google Forms.</p></div>
<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/" target="_blank">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>
<div align="center"><img src="../../img/reproroundtable.jpg" height=100% width=100%>
<p class="caption">A photo I took of our roundtable!</p></div><br/>
<p>Big props also to my fellow organizers:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://vgc.poly.edu/~juliana/" target="_blank">Juliana Freire</a>, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Data Science; Executive Director, NYU Moore-Sloan Data Science Environment</li>
<li><a href="http://www.cs.nyu.edu/shasha/" target="_blank">Dennis Shasha</a>, Professor of Computer Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU</li>
<li><a href="http://theoryandpractice.org/" target="_blank">Kyle Cranmer</a>, Associate Professor of Physics, NYU College of Arts and Sciences</li>
<li><a href="http://vgc.poly.edu/~fchirigati/" target="_blank">Fernando Chirigati</a>, PhD Student, NYU Tandon School of Engineering</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/remram44" target="_blank">Remi Rampin</a>, Research Engineer, NYU Tandon School of Engineering</li>
<li><a href="http://guides.nyu.edu/prf.php?account_id=51726" target="_blank">Margaret Smith</a>, Physical Sciences Librarian, NYU Division of Libraries</li>
</ul>
<br/>
<h3>RDAP</h3>
<p><a href="" target="_blank">LINK</a></p>
<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/" target="_blank">RDAP Summit</a>! It had a <a href="https://www.asis.org/rdap/program-2016/" target="_blank">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>
<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>
<div align="center"><img src="../../img/rdap-poster.png" height=100% width=100%>
<p class="caption">"Collaborating to Create a Culture of Data Stewardship" Vicky Steeves, Kevin Read & Drew Gordon</p></div>
<br/>
<h3>DASPOS</h3>
<p><a href="https://osf.io/y9mpx/" target="_blank">Container Strategies for Data and Software Preservation Workshop</a></p>
<p>My last conference of May was the <a href="https://osf.io/y9mpx/" target="_blank">Container Strategies for Data and Software Preservation Workshop</a>, a two day workshop organized by the NSF-funded <a href="http://daspos.org/" target="_blank">Data and Software Preservation for Open Science</a> (DASPOS) project, hosted at the University of Notre Dame.</p>
<a href="https://osf.io/view/containerstrategies/" target="_blank">all the presentations</a>
<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" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">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>
<a href="https://osf.io/aqztf/" target="_blank">ReproZip OSF component</a> & <a href="https://github.com/daspos/Docker-Workshop-Use-Case-2/tree/master" target="_blank">accompanying GitHub repro</a>.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/remram44">@remram44</a> &amp; 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>&mdash; Vicky Steeves (@VickySteeves) <a href="https://twitter.com/VickySteeves/status/733299002175848448">May 19, 2016</a></blockquote>
<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<p>The DASPOS organizers used <a href="https://osf.io" target="_blank">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/" target="_blank">ReproZip OSF component</a> to take notes and centralize materials and <a href="https://github.com/daspos/Docker-Workshop-Use-Case-2/tree/master" target="_blank">accompanying GitHub repro</a> where people could deposit any examples or use-cases. And we actually got one! <a href=" http://bertini.nd.edu/" target="_blank">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 depositer has made a great <a href="https://osf.io/wq8td/" target="_blank">README</a> with instructions and also provided a <a href="https://osf.io/43kmq/" target="_blank">.rpz package</a> so others can reproduce his work!</p>
<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/" target="_blank">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>
<ul>
<li>"Your science doesn't belong to you" <em>-- this one got a lot of attention from the researchers in the room...</em></li>
<li>"If you have to spend 3 months cleaning up your data or code before you publish it [following a journal publication], then why should I trust your paper?" <em>-- I got crickets with this one...no one said a word until the next question...</em></li>
<li>"Science no longer requires evidence. This is an ideal we need to return to as a general body." <em>-- this prompted some debate about the role of publishers in promoting open science...</em></li>
</ul>
<p>And of course, the one stolen one from Philip Stark:</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a href="https://twitter.com/philipbstark">@philipbstark</a> &#39;s &quot;hacking the culture&quot; 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>&mdash; Vicky Steeves (@VickySteeves) <a href="https://twitter.com/VickySteeves/status/733399298793078784">May 19, 2016</a></blockquote>
<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<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/" target="_blank">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>
</div><!-- /.blog-post -->