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<h1 class="p-name entry-title" itemprop="headline name"><a href="." class="u-url">Goals for 2016 and How I'll Make Them Happen</a></h1>
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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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bit of an adjustment period where I just spent the majority of my time introducing
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myself to my colleagues, getting to know what my daily workflow would look like, and
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brainstorm with <a href="http://nmwolf.net/">Nick</a> about what our <a href="http://guides.nyu.edu/data_management/services">services</a> will look like, some good
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groups for targeted outreach, and what <a href="http://guides.nyu.edu/DS_classes">classes</a> we are going to teach as a part of
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<a href="http://guides.nyu.edu/c.php?g=277095&p=1848849">Data Services typical
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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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new for something not project based. This was just trying to assess my own growth, not
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necessarily the growth of a project I'm working on.</p>
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<p>In the end, I made 7 goals for this 2015-2016 academic year:</p>
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<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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really like to finalize and publish at least one of these projects this year into a
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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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reproducibility and possible applications or crossover with library services.</li>
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<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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taught before, I've never attended classes or the like on the actual practice of
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instruction, evaluating instruction, active teaching, diversity in instruction, etc.
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I think that I would benefit from taking some workshops on teaching. I'm going to
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attend at least three of these sessions by the end of the academic year at a
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minimum.</li>
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<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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<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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<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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<span class="c1">Improving the <a href="http://guides.nyu.edu/data_management">Libguide</a></span>: I'm really interesting
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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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update the LibGuide and add instructional and informational offerings.</li>
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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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listed under these goals, and that's the <a href="https://osf.io">Open Science
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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="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="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>
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<img src="../../images/osf_DS.png" alt="OSF Projects" height="85%" width="85%"><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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and how we are maintaining all the different aspects of our RDM outreach and
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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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style it like any other Wiki page. As someone who lives for striking out tasks, this
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was honestly one little tiny feature I just absolutely adored.</p>
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<img src="../../images/osf_ToDo.png" alt="OSF Projects" height="85%" width="85%"><p class="caption">Nick and I are super productive, as you can see ;)</p>
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<p>The second one is strangely analog. I always make a plan in my <a href="http://passionplanner.com">Passion Planner</a> to make sure I keep my behind in gear
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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="https://www.facebook.com/thepassionplanner/">Facebook</a> and <a href="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>
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<img src="../../images/jan20_planner.jpg" alt="Passion Planer" height="85%" width="85%"><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="http://www.passionplanner.com/downloads/">download it for free</a> as a
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pdf!</p>
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<img src="../../images/passion_planner.png" alt="Passon Planner" height="85%" width="85%"><p class="caption">Image from <a href="http://www.passionplanner.com/what-is-it/">Passion Planner website</a></p>
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