2. Data stewardship life cycle
Data Discovery
Data Repurposing
Data Repository
Data Production
Data Dissemination

3. Data Production Data Production Potential data services activities:
Consult with local data producers on metadata standards for data documentation;
Offer training on DDI;
Help project managers develop a data plan incorporating the data life cycle;
Provide data preservation services throughout the data production stage;
Assist with literature and data searches in the study design stage

4. Data Production Data Production Potential data services activities:
Provide research projects collecting data on human subjects with statements and documentation for ethics approval;
Provide researchers with supporting statements on data management in grant applications

5. Data Dissemination Potential data services activities:
Consult with local data producers on the products and formats most desired;
Manage licenses with data distributors;
Order data and metadata from data distributors;
Develop and maintain the level of security required to access data;
Develop and maintain local access to data providing formats appropriate for local needs

6. Data Dissemination Potential data services activities:
Provide data dissemination services for researchers on campus;
Provide data anonymization services for human-subject data collected on campus;
Coordinate the deposit of research data with the ICPSR;
Support infrastructure for disseminating data online

7. Data Repository Potential data services activities:
Develop and apply a collection development plan;
Appraise, select and ingest data originating on your campus into the repository;
Appraise, select and ingest data from data distributors into the repository;
Ensure authenticity of the data;
Managing the collection of data and metadata, refreshing digital media, migrating data to new digital media;

8. Data Repository Potential data services activities:
Transform non-standardized metadata to conform to standards (e.g., DDI)
Wrap specialized metadata in IR metadata (e.g. METS)
Coordinate activities with the Institutional Repository;
Achieve and maintain “trusted” repository status;
Provide services to support the use of data, such as help with data extractions, reformatting and subsetting

9. Data Discovery Potential data services activities:
Provide reference services to assist patrons in their search for data;
Produce and maintain metadata services to help find data (may involve metadata production, loading ICPSR records in you local OPAC, supporting Nesstar or Dataverse service, etc.);
Conduct data literacy training for colleagues and establish the grounds for informed referrals to data services;

10. Data Discovery Potential data services activities:
Conduct data literacy training for patrons;
Contribute to the development of new tools to exploit metadata
Promote data citation practices on your campus as part of the ethics of academic integrity
Mainstream instruction, services, finding aids

11. Data Repurposing Potential data services activities:
Provide services to help patrons reshape data from multiple sources for new purposes;
Develop tools to mine metadata to discover ways of repurposing data;
Integrate the production of metadata into data repurposed practices;
Support new ways of exploiting metadata

12. Across all stages
Work with data producers on campus to establish roles and responsibilities for the long-term access and preservation of data by clarifying stewardship roles.
Work to ensure that information gaps don’t occur throughout the life cycle, such as files getting stranded on hard drives.