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Call for Editorial Proposals by January 15th

The ResearchDataQ Editorial Board (part of the ACRL Digital Scholarship Section) is seeking proposals for editorials that will be featured prominently on the ResearchDataQ website. We are seeking editorials that describe services, support, or related activities around research data at your institution. Topics could include:

  • Collaborative data management/services (computing infrastructure, storage, software/code, etc.)
  • Data ethics (privacy, ethical sharing, data ownership, data governance, data sovereignty, etc.)
  • AI and data
  • Data and instruction or tools built for instruction
  • Data policies, including responses or practices that institutions have put in place to respond to the OSTP memo and other recent policies (NIH DMS policy)
  • Secondary use of data: acquisitions of data, collection policies related to data
  • FAIR data in practice
  • Replication/reproducibility
  • Or anything else you want to share with the ResearchDataQ audience! 

Proposals (up to 250 words) should clearly describe:

1. The services, support, or related activities you intend to address;

2. How you implemented this and/or what would be required to implement it elsewhere;

3. How this relates to relevant existing recommendations, policies, or standards (if applicable).

Please submit proposals here by January 15th, 2024: https://goo.gl/forms/oxqIaoQ3tlGmfhil2. We expect to notify authors of accepted proposals in mid February, and we will ask authors to expand accepted proposal topics into approximately 1000-1500 word editorials (ideally by mid-April with the possibility to extend if needed). The editorials will be featured on the ResearchDataQ website on a rolling basis beginning in late spring 2024.

If you have any questions, please contact Clara Llebot Lorente (incoming Chair) at clara.llebot@oregonstate.edu.

Editorial: “Research Data Support: a Transformative Approach to Jointly Growing Services and Skills”

It is a pleasure to announce a new editorial by Karrie Peterson, Head for Liaison, Instruction & Reference Services at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Amy Nurnberger, Program Head of Data Management Services, also at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The editorial, titled “Research Data Support: a Transformative Approach to Jointly Growing Services and Skills”, describes “Digging into Data“, a recent initiative for librarians at MIT Libraries to develop skills and “to iterate forward with both learning and service development”. Read the editorial here.

Editorial: “Helping Canadian Institutions Evaluate their Research Data Management Practices”

We are excited to announce a new editorial by Jane Fry, the Data Services Librarian at Carleton University, and Chantal Ripp, Research Librarian at the University of Ottawa. In the editorial, titled “Helping Canadian Institutions Evaluate their Research Data Management Practices” the authors explain the implementation of an RDM Maturity Assessment Model in Canada (MAMIC). The MAMIC is available in French and English and can be used by any institution. The goal of the assessment is to detect gaps in RDM support, a necessary step to develop an institutional RDM strategy to comply with the Research Data Management Policy published by the Tri-Agency in 2021. Read the editorial here.

Editorial: “Making Campus Connections: Facilitating Research Computing and Data Support at NC State UniversityEditorial”

We are excited to announce a new editorial today by Moira Downey of NC State University Libraries. The editorial is titled “Making Campus Connections: Facilitating Research Computing and Data Support at NC State University” and describes the creation of a campus-wide Research Facilitation Service. The editorial gives details about the pilot that informed these services, their successes, and challenges.

Editorial: “Bespoke Research Data Management in the Age of Big Data: The Value of a Cross Unit Collaborative Data Professional Community”

We are excited to announce a new editorial today by Jordan Wrigley, Aditya Ranganath, and Ryan Caillet of the University of Colorado Boulder. The editorial is titled “Bespoke Research Data Management in the Age of Big Data: The Value of a Cross Unit Collaborative Data Professional Community,” and it describes their institution’s “model of collaborative consultation to develop bespoke workflows that address the data management needs of projects involving large and complex datasets.” Read the editorial here.

Editorial: “Generating Interdisciplinary Dialogue: A Book Discussion to Consider the Place of Data Visualization in the Classroom”

We are excited to announce a new editorial today by Shannon Sheridan and Rick Fisher of the University of Wyoming. Their editorial is titled “Generating Interdisciplinary Dialogue: A Book Discussion to Consider the Place of Data Visualization in the Classroom,” and it discusses a collaboration between the University of Wyoming’s Data Management Librarian and Director of Communication across the Curriculum (CxC) to use a book discussion group on data visualization “to challenge and extend faculty’s views about what counts as academic and disciplinary ‘communication,’ a concept that is often quite narrowly defined in classroom settings.” Read the editorial here.

Editorial: “Give Them What They Want: Graduate Student Workshops Focused on Skills, Not Theory”

The fifth and final post for 2019 in our editorial series, by Clara Llebot Lorente and Hannah Rempel of Oregon State University, shares lessons learned about tailoring workshops for graduate students to skills rather than theory. The authors “learned that offering content that is initially abstract, but which is based in practice better aligns with our audience’s learning preferences and results in more successful workshops for both attendees and librarians.” They provide best practices for designing library workshops based on their experiences and registration data, including specific recommendations for data management-focused workshops. Read the editorial here.

Editorial: “Radical Collaboration: Making the Computational Turn in Special Collections and Archives”

We are excited to announce that the third post in our series of editorials has been published. This editorial, by Justin D. Shanks, Sara Mannheimer, and Jason Clark of Montana State University, presents a case study of “radical collaboration” at their institution. They discuss the process of bringing together library employees working in data, digital scholarship, archives, and special collections so that “new ideas can be incubated and library and archives projects can be strengthened in a unified, co-located, cross-domain environment.” The editorial includes “thoughts regarding the potential of radical collaboration and the future of academic libraries, research data, and digital scholarship.” Read the editorial here.

Editorial: “What About the Little Guys?: How to Approach Supporting Research Data Management at a Small Liberal Arts College”

We are excited to announce that the second post in our series of editorials has been published. This editorial, by Rachel Walton and Patti McCall-Wright of Rollins College, explores issues with research data management support at a small liberal arts college. The authors challenge the narrative “that real research and datasets are not components of a liberal arts college”, and share what they learned from documenting and examining the many “data stories” they heard from people at their institution. Read the editorial here.

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