Beginning Monday, Jan. 22, UNMC researchers can gain expanded, expert support for data curation and sharing.
The University of Nebraska Consortium of Libraries is piloting a data curation and sharing service through its Research Data Services team. This one-year pilot program is open to researchers at all NU campuses who are interested in sharing research data and will allow the consortium’s Research Data Services team to assess the needs of all NU system campuses.
Data curation currently exists at UNMC, and this program extends those current data curation services, which will continue after the pilot program.
“Data curation is the organization, compilation and integration of data for sharing, reuse and archiving,” said Lisa Chinn, PhD, data services librarian at McGoogan Library and member of the UNCL Research Data Services team. “Researchers may need such services to compile, organize and preserve data from past projects or to share it to meet sponsor or publication requirements.”
The pilot effort is for all UNMC researchers who are interested in efficiently sharing research data.
Why use this service?
- Data curators get the work done quickly and will support researchers in future data curation efforts.
- Data curation allows for cross-institutional collaboration.
- To ensure researchers are getting digital object identifiers minted for their data as it is deposited into a data repository.
- To mitigate storage solution problems by working with the consortium’s Research Data Services team and starting the data curation process as soon as a research project has started.
Librarians will work with researchers to determine data curation needs and identify an appropriate repository for sharing. To learn more or find out if a project’s data is eligible for participation, contact Dr. Chinn.