Slides from presentation by Lori Jahnke at the 2011 DLF Forum

1. Understanding Data Curation
Practices Among Scholars
The CLIR/Sloan Research Project
CLIR project team: L.M. Jahnke, A. Asher, S. Keralis, E. Shore, R. Frick, and
C. Henry

2. Understand scholarly workflows
Identify unmet researcher needs
Make policy and funding recommendations

3. Emerging Themes
No Formal Training Proximate Goals Rule
Learn on the Job Publish or Perish Environment
Data Sharing Technical Issues Abound
Philosophy vs. Practicalities Academic Nomad

4. Technical Issues Abound
Academic Nomad
“…one of the things that’s really helped us in the very recent
past is, is being able to store all of our data…on a server
somewhere...
…the infrastructure has to be there….in order to be able to even
begin to organize yourself…
…it’s a combination of, sort of people and, and hardware that
has to, um, be there in order to facilitate someone like me who
has a lot of data being able to manage those data effectively.”

5. Data Sharing
Philosophy vs. Practicalities
“…people don’t hesitate, at all, to share data with collaborators
that they trust…
If you provide a mechanism for collaboration, um, even if it’s just
Google Docs or something, you know, people share data easily
and freely. It’s when it becomes an anonymous process that
they seem to get balky.”

6. Career Path
Emeritus variable
Full Professor variable
Associate variable
Professor
Assistant Professor 7 yrs
Early Career/Postdoc 3-5 yrs
Graduate Training 5-10+ yrs
Undergraduate

7. Career Path
Data Practices
Emeritus variable
Full Professor variable
Associate variable
Professor
Assistant Professor 7 yrs
Early Career/Postdoc 3-5 yrs
Graduate Training 5-10+ yrs
Undergraduate

8. Career Path
Mobility
Emeritus variable
Full Professor variable
Associate variable
Professor
Assistant Professor 7 yrs
Early Career/Postdoc 3-5 yrs
Graduate Training 5-10+ yrs
Undergraduate

9. Workflow
Staying Feasibility Research
Researc
Current Define Problem
h idea
Teachin Scope
g Active
Research
Project Design
Seek Collaborators Data
Presentation Seek Funding
Publication Active Research
Data Collection
Analysis
Interpretation

10. Research Context
Single Research Team Major Research
Researcher Initiative

11. Research Context
Single Research Team Major Research
Researcher Initiative

12. Thank You
ljahnke@collegeofphysicians.org
Funding provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation