DataUp at ACRL 2013

Carly  Strasser    California  Digital  Library    @carlystrasser  

ACRL  April  2013  

DataUp:    Helping  

manage  &  archive  data    

From  Flickr  by  Spatial  Mongrel  

Hurdles  to  Data  Stewardship  

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•  Cost  •  Confusion  about  

standards  •  Disparate  datasets  •  Lack  of  training  •  Fear  of  lost  rights  or  

benefits  •  No  incentives  

Intercept  researchers  where  they  already  work  

Facilitate  

Archiving  

Sharing  

Publishing  

Data  management  &  organization  

Data  Reuse  &  Reproducibility  

$$  and  advice  

$$  and  developers  

Requirements  gathering  Project  management  Outreach  

Requirements  gathering  Project  management  Outreach  

What  do    scientists  need?  

Asked  ~200  scientists  How  do  you  use  Excel?  

What  is  your  workflow?  

How  do  you  capture  metadata?  

Plans  for  saving  &  sharing  data?  

Scientist  Responses  

•  No  data  preservation  – Unaware  of  archives  – Resistant  to  sharing  

•  Poor  data  documentation  •  90%  use  Excel  w/  other  programs  

Features  Best  practices  check  

Generate  metadata  (EML)  Generate  identifier  +  citation  

Post  data  to  repository  

Requirements  

Open  Source  Tool   Add-­‐in  &  Web  

Application  

Earth,  environmental,  

ecological  researchers  

?

Add-­‐in    •  Software  you  download  &  install  •  Appears  as  “ribbon”  in  Excel  •  Works  for  Windows  Excel  2007+  

Web-­‐based  application    •  Website  that  does  something  with  user’s  files  

•  Any  platform  •  But…  new  user  interface  

DataUp  Web  App  

Web  App  

Web  App  

Web  App:  Best  Practices  Check  

Web  App:  Metadata  

Web  App:  Citation  

Web  App:  Posting  to  repository  

DataUp  Add-­‐In  

Add-­‐in:  Ribbon  

Add-­‐in:  Metadata  tab  

Main  site:  dataup.cdlib.org  

Code  site:  bitbucket.org/dataup/main  

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