RF1 - Pecha Kucha: Augmenting Repositories to Showcase Research Data
Channel: OpenRepos2012
Date: 2012-07-11

This talk was a Pecha Kucha from Session RF1 at Open Repositories 2012 (http://or2012.blogs.edina.ac.uk/). 

"Augmenting Repositories to Showcase Research Data" - Stephen Abrams, California Digital Library, United States of America.

This paper was originally proposed by: Stephen Abrams, Patricia Cruse, John Kunze, California Digital Library, United States of America.

Information technology and resources have thoroughly transformed the conduct of the scholarly enterprise, particularly with regard to data-intensive scholarship. Ubiquitous connectivity (e.g., Wifi, 4G, etc.), high-level web discovery (Bing, Google, Yahoo, etc.), and new modes of online discourse (social media) have reset the expectations of the scholarly community for the use of research data in teaching, learning, and publication, not just for the physical sciences, but for the social sciences and humanities as well. Many memory institutions are facing new challenges to respond effectively to the demands of their user constituencies to support services appropriate for today's -- and tomorrow's -- dynamic information environment.

The University of California Curation Center (UC3) of the California Digital Library (CDL) has a broad mission to provide a comprehensive suite of strategic services focused on the long-term management, curation, use, re-use, and re-purposing of the University's research output. In order to respond to the diverse requirements of data-intensive scholarship, UC3 is augmenting its repository and ancillary services to provide a higher level of data-related function. As an organizing principle for its workplan, UC3 uses a data lifecycle approach to determine the major functional capabilities necessary for the new scholarship data paradigm.