school.of.data
Research Data Access and Preservation Summit
April 19 2017
April 19 2017
Timothy Norris - Data Curation Fellow (CLIR) - University of Miami Libraries
tnorris@miami.edu
tnorris@miami.edu
follow along:
https://is.gd/rdap2017
https://is.gd/rdap2017
teaching.data
- broader context of information literacy
- libraries and classroom support
- for credit
Some Useful Abstractions
“Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
Truth is not beauty.
Beauty is not love.
Love is not music.
Music is THE BEST.”
― Frank Zappa
school.of.data
- purpose and motivation
- administrative hurdles
- curriculum development
- software carpentry
- shared open-source curriculum
- reflections
purpose.and.motivation
- 2014-15 Data Wrangling Seminars
- 2015 assessment of curation needs at UM
- 2016 design and teach course as best use of time
administrative.hurdles
- finding a home
- making the pitch
- advertising
librarians know everyone ...
curriculum.content
- data curation << library
- data wrangling / analysis << general tools
- data management << professional and personal
- all of the above
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DataONE Education Modules (2014)
https://www.dataone.org/education-module Oregon State (Amanda Whitmire - Grad 521) (2014)
http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1003834 University of Edinburgh (MANTRA) (2014)
http://datalib.edina.ac.uk/mantra/ |
Heard Library (2016)
https://github.com/HeardLibrary/ Software Carpentry (2017)
https://software-carpentry.org/ |
github.curriculum.devel
- very slick
- plain text materials (except images)
- reveal.js presentation framework
- practice what you preach
Heard Library curricula at Vanderbilt:
https://github.com/HeardLibrary
https://github.com/HeardLibrary
reflections.and.conclusions
- best way forward?
- recognized need, but ...
- student motivations?
- place in course catalog?
- curriculum development/sharing?
- success and failure
student.motivations
- student feedback:
- generally good ...
- too much reading
- needs to be more units
lecture and lab class
- elective ...?
place.in.course.catalog
- should this be a requirement, if so how?
- who teaches?
- undergrad or grad?
- what department?
- who pays?
students or departments?
curriculum.development
- is there a better curriculum sharing platform?
- is this (sharing) what we want?
- are curriculum materials stagnant?
- other resources:
- DLF Digitial Library Pedagogy Resources
https://www.diglib.org/archives/13800/ - DataCure Data Instruction Materials Repository
https://purr.purdue.edu/projects/datacure/view - Lamar Soutter Library - New England Collaborative Data Management Curriculum
http://library.umassmed.edu/necdmc/index
- DLF Digitial Library Pedagogy Resources
thanks