Seeding the Commons at USYD Staff forum. eResearch and the University of Sydney. Rowan Brownlee & Belinda Norman University of Sydney Library 30 September, 2011

Seeding the Commons 2 Origins… ›What if we had a collection of collections? -Online access to [information about] research data collections -Collaboration -Reuse -Research assessment exercise -Funding ›An Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC)

Seeding the Commons 3 Government money to get things started ›Seed development of an Australian Research Data Commons -Make collections discoverable ›Seed development of services supporting the ARDC -Help researchers & institutions manage research data

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Seeding the Commons at USYD 5 Project focus at USYD ›Collections -How do we make them visible? ›Website -What information would help researchers manage data? -Data management planning tutorial ›Policy -What do we need to decide to enable service development?

Seeding the Commons at USYD 6 ›Not a technology project ›Working with people. Negotiating relationships ›Assisting people manage research data ›Building USYD expertise in support of data management ›Seeding services which the University will maintain

Seeding the Commons at USYD 7 ›Belinda Norman -Research Data Manager ›Kate Stanton -Research Data Management Coordinator

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University of Sydney research data ›The Seeding the Commons project needs to identify and catalogue research data collections at the University of Sydney. ›What does data look like? a stack of paper surveys, tissue samples, spreadsheets, artworks, jars of sand. ›How can we find it? 10

Research data management: it’s a team effort Supporting researchers Library Faculty Liaison Librarians Research Portfolio Research support officers ICT Relationship managers 11

University of Sydney Library Strategic Plan ›The University of Sydney Library will be a vibrant, innovative centre for excellence that advances the teaching, learning and research of the University's diverse community 12

Research support at the University of Sydney Library 13 Information skills Publishing and copyright Information resources EndNote Measuring impact Data management

What kinds of skills and qualities are needed? 14 Strong client relationships Excellent service delivery Digital content creativity Teaching and training Communication Building partnerships Collection management trustreach Knowledge of research cycle innovation

How to get involved ›Do you know of any researchers in your School or Faculty who are innovators? ›Do you know of any datasets that could be showcased? ›Are you aware of data management activities in your client groups? 15