Mind the Gap: From RDM 101 to Data Deep Dives

Thursday, May 5, 2022

10:30 AM – 11:50 AM CT

Location: 345

Primary Presenter/Session Organizer(s)

Peace Ossom-Williamson, AHIP

Associate Director
NNLM National Center for Data Services
Fort Worth, Texas

Slides Handouts

Presenter(s)

SH

Shanda Hunt

Public health librarian
Health Sciences Library
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Dorris Scott, PhD

GIS Librarian/Social Science Data Curator
University Libraries / Data Services
SG

Sara Gonzales

Data Librarian
Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Chicago, Illinois
Nicole Contaxis

Data Librarian, Lead of Data Discovery
NYU Health Sciences Library
New York, New York

Session Format:
The session will consist of a moderated panel discussion, with audience Q&A and breakout activities.

Session Objective/

Overview:
The growth of data librarianship has seen considerable development in library support for data discovery and sharing, and this comes with a need for a vast array of knowledge, skills, and abilities. To address this need, partnerships are reflected in the cross-institutional collaborations that have formed to facilitate sharing of knowledge and resources across institutions, including the Data Discovery Collaboration (DDC) and the Data Curation Network (DCN). With the upcoming NIH Data Management and Sharing requirements, these are areas of support that are likely to come to the fore in many health sciences libraries. The newly formed National Center for Data Services (NCDS) of the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM), which seeks to partner with these and other organizations to further this aim, will moderate a panel discussion to address what the center, the DDC, the DCN, and other organizations can do to build capacity and community among health sciences librarians in data sharing and data discovery to support these new requirements, as well as how to forge connections between these more advanced practitioners and those newer to data librarianship.

Methods:
The session will begin with 15 minute presentations from panelists about their roles (one senior and one newer member of both DDC and DCN). This will be followed by a Q&A of 15 minutes or so, where people can ask/vote up questions, followed by a 30 minute breakout.

Participant Engagement:
During the breakout session, participants will be asked to identify new opportunities for cross-institutional collaboration and methods they may employ for working together to build these.

Sponsor(s):
Data Caucus
Learning Objectives:
identify areas of emerging data services in which librarians can collaborate cross-institutionally
develop an infrastructure for collaboration in the provision of advanced library services
bring librarians together to expand and deepen data services and practices