Data Life Cycle | Research Data Management Needs | Librarian's Role |
Plan | Research Data Management Plan |
Assist in writing data management plan (DMP) |
Collect | Data Collection |
Locate data sets to reanalyze for research |
Assure | Data Quality Control |
Assist with naming conventions and data formatting |
Describe | Documentation and Metadata |
Locate relative metadata standards for research project |
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 |
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 |