Legacy Research Data Management for Librarians: A Case Study Tina Qin Science Librarian Michigan State University

The Data Steward A group of library science students No formal data management training Possess few data management resources Self-trained from free available online resources

The Dataset Public Health Data A legacy Dataset created by Dr. Smith 856 Data Files and two descriptive documents* Data spanned several decades * One document is a Microsoft Word file created by Dr. Smith to explain the names of the folders. The second document is a ReadMe text file with information gathered during the data management librarian's interview with Dr. Smith.

Data:.dat,.txt,.0000,.0001,.ask,.def,.mick,.fix, some no extensions Input:.sps,.george,.orig,.fix, some no extensions Output/Print Out:.out,.inf,.put,.tab, some no extensions Copies:.old,.save,.fixed,.back Plain Text/Other:.info,.com,.jnl, some no extensions Software compatibility General lack of knowledge of old software and systems Understanding context Naming complexity Difficulty understanding language within files Identifying Desiderata Understand the Dataset

Identify the Issues Organize the data Provide context for the data Storage and access

Organizing and Providing Texts Metadata options Naming convention for the folders Data Curation Profiles (DCP) Toolkit folderName_originalName_sourceName_sourceFormat [questionnaire or data file] Examples: IndianaUniversityStudy2001_slisclass_PHQ_questionnaire IndianaUniversityStudy2001_sliswrit_slisclass_data

Storage and Access Storage platforms  Institutional repository  Institutional server Access issues  Users  Public health subject

Recommendations Education Documentation Leverage Existing Resources Licensing and Access Sustainable Policies

Digital Scholarship Collaborative at Michigan State University

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