LibGuides: Data Services: Library's Role in RDM

Librarian Role

Data Life Cycle	Research Data Management Needs	Librarian's Role
Plan	Research Data Management Plan	Assist in writing data management plan (DMP) Provide Guidance on Funder requirements on your DMP Recommend tools and resources to creating the DMP Offer Best Practices for a DMP
Collect	Data Collection	Locate data sets to reanalyze for research Suggest data repositories to search for data set Qualtrics Support
Assure	Data Quality Control	Assist with naming conventions and data formatting Create a data table to ensure quality Advise on Versioning of files Recommend proper file formats for preservation and sharing data Prepare datasets for a wider audience with data clean up and removing PHI Offer Best Practices for data collection
Describe	Documentation and Metadata	Locate relative metadata standards for research project Assist in creating metadata Map terms to proper vocabulary or terminology Consult on documentation to allow others to reuse or interpret results
Preserve	Preservation plans for data	Locate a data repository to preserve data Upload Data sets to a repository Provide guidance on funder or publisher's repository requirements Assist in making data sets more discoverable in repository Offer Best Practices for Storage and Back ups
Discover	Sharing Data	Create a doi or persistent id for discoverability Help measure citation impact Recommend metadata standards for increased discoverability Recommend repositories for sharing data Assist in Funder requirements for sharing data Ensure data meets FAIR data principles Locate a data journal to submit dataset Offer Best Practices on sharing data
Integrate	Integrate multiple data sets	Assist in Documentation to explain how multiple files fit together
Analyze	Convert an observation from a derived data product	Assist in documentation or planning for data analyzation Offer Guidance on reproducibility