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2018 R & I Annual Report
Griffin, Julie; Hilal, Amr E.; Brown, Anne M.; Petters, Jonathan L.; Porter, Nathaniel D.; McMillan, Gail; Cross, Carrie; Pannabecker, Virginia; Smith, Erin M. (Virginia Tech, 2018)
This is the 2018 annual report for the Research & Informatics division at University Libraries.
2023 Spring Open Forum: Connecting the Opens: Open Access, Open Data, Open Educational Resources, and Establishing Your Online Scholarly Presence
Walz, Anita R.; Young, Philip; Petters, Jonathan L.; Miles, Rachel A.; Surprenant, Aimée (Virginia Tech, 2023-02-20)
Join the University Libraries for a presentation for future professors regarding open access, open educational resources, open data, and establishing an online scholarly presence. University Libraries’ faculty Philip Young, Anita Walz, Jonathan Petters, and Rachel Miles will provide a brief overview of each topic, with discussion to follow.
An Assessment of VTechData with respect to the CoreTrustSeal Repository Certification Requirements
Pisharoti, Naina; Petters, Jonathan L. (2019-02)
This report provides a brief internal assessment as to how well the current status of VTechData (“The Repository) meets the CoreTrustSeal repository certification requirements. VTechData has seen substantial development and improvements from when the first dataset was published in May of 2016 to the present day. However, this internal assessment shows that VTechData does not yet meet the CoreTrustSeal certification requirements.
Auditing an Institutional Data Repository With Respect to the CoreTrustSeal Certification Requirements
Petters, Jonathan L.; Pisharoti, Naina (2019-10-25)
J. Petters presented how Curation Services in Virginia Tech University Libraries used the CoreTrustSeal repository certification requirements to conduct a self audit of their institutional data repository VTechData. This presentation highlighted some of the issues faced by galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAMs) in undergoing certification.
Connecting the Opens: Open Access, Open Data, Open Educational Resources, Establishing Your Online Scholarly Presence
McNabb, Kayla B.; Young, Philip; Petters, Jonathan L.; Walz, Anita R.; Surprenant, Aimée (Virginia Tech, 2023-10-23)
The 2023 Open Access Forum features presentations on open access, open data, open educational resources, and establishing an online scholarly presence, followed by Q&A.
Connecting the Opens: Open Access, Open Education, Open Data
Potter, Peter J.; Walz, Anita R.; DePauw, Karen P.; Jhangiani, Rajiv; Artiles, Mayra S.; Abbas, Montasir M.; Petters, Jonathan L.; Young, Philip (Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2018-03-19)
Open practices represent opportunities to align scholarly and instructional processes with scholarly ideals, ethical stances, real work impacts, and aspirations for a more just and equitable world. There are many types of “open.” The three we will discuss, open access, open education, and open data practices may appear distinct and siloed from each other; This is only a surface-level view. In reality, these open practices areas have tremendous areas of overlap. Their underlying values reflect similar aspirations for the common good, and aims of overcoming some shared problems found in research and instruction in higher education and in society in general. This panel features students, faculty, and administrators with wide range of expertise in the three areas of open access, open education, and open data. Join us for a stimulating conversation in which we come to understand the differences and similarities between the opens, their purposes, and their potential. Presenters: Peter Potter, Anita Walz Panelists: Karen DePauw, Rajiv Jhangiani, Philip Young, Jon Petters, Mayra Artiles, Monty Abbas This event was part of Virginia Tech’s Open Education 2018 Symposium and was attended by many graduate students from Preparing the Future Professoriate. Video credit: Abram Diaz-Strandberg
Data Curation and Metadata Completeness - An Institutional Repository Perspective
Petters, Jonathan L. (2021-07-07)
Presentation on how Data Management and Curation Services in the Virginia Tech University Libraries works to improve the quality of published research datasets through its curation actions.
Eglin AFB Field Projects Data Management Training Curriculum
Petters, Jonathan L.; Haas, Carola A.; Brooks, George C.; Smith, Jennifer (2017-09-15)
A one-and-a-half day customized data management training curriculum for wildlife conservation research. includes material to help motivate the importance of research data management, selected modules and parts of modules from the DataONE educational modules, and a proposed framework for more formal data management principles, roles and responsibilities within a research group.
Enhancing Collaboration Across the Research Ecosystem: Using Libraries as Hubs for Discipline-Specific Data Experts
Ogier, Andrea; Brown, Anne M.; Petters, Jonathan L.; Hilal, Amr E.; Porter, Nathaniel D. (2018-07-24)
Computationally-intensive, cross-disciplinary research collaborations are difficult to create and maintain over time, though many yield impressive results. The need for researchers to share, maintain, and manage data is increasing, while also integrating new tools and approaches to make their work more impactful. The University Libraries at Virginia Tech has a team of disciplinary data and informatics consultants working to connect research environments on campus with emerging library services enabling collaboration across disciplines. Partnerships with university-level research service providers, such as high-performance computing (HPC) services and statistical data consulting, have presented interesting use cases and innovative solutions to common problems. While traditional library services may not overlap with high performance computing environments, new library services (such as data management, publishing, curation, archiving, and preservation) provide new avenues for collaboration and situate the libraries in a unique position in relation to research ecosystems. Moving large datasets from HPC environments into research environments present significant barriers to research data sharing between collaborators; working with libraries to make these datasets better organized and documented lowers some of these barriers. Discipline-specific informatics consulting allows researchers to integrate new tools and approaches to solve research questions. Here, we highlight the utilization, need, and scope of informatics and research data management services in and around libraries, while also providing examples of how these services have created new collaborations and adoption of improved research practices surrounding data management and integration of computationally intensive techniques (e.g. bioinformatics, humanistic informatics, etc.). This work lays the foundation for these services in an academic setting and the influence of such on the practice and experience of understanding data.
Geospatial Data Services in the University Libraries: Recommendations for Development
Coleman, R. Shane; Brooks, Edwin L.; Petters, Jonathan L. (2019-06)
For many years University Libraries Geospatial Services has provided support for researchers and instructors in finding and providing access to geospatial data. More recently University Libraries Geospatial Services has also provided other forms of research and instructional support, including geospatial application-centered support. This past fiscal year we in the University Libraries Geospatial Services worked to develop a plan for further development for the near future, including recommendations to the University Libraries for resource and staffing needs.
The Impact of Targeted Data Management Training for Field Research Projects - A Case Study
Petters, Jonathan L.; Brooks, George C.; Smith, Jennifer A.; Haas, Carola A. (2019-05-21)
We present a joint effort at Virginia Tech between a research group in the Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation and Data Services in the University Libraries to improve data management for long-term ecological field research projects in the Florida Panhandle. Consultative research data management support from Data Services in the University Libraries played an integral role in development of the training curriculum. Emphasizing the importance of data quality to the field workers at the beginning of this training curriculum was a vital part of its success. Also critical for success was the research group’s investment of time and effort to work with field workers and improve data management systems. We compare this case study to three others in the literature to compare and contrast data management processes and procedures. This case study serves as one example of how targeted training and efforts in data and project management for a research project can lead to substantial improvements in research data quality.
(Initial) Assessment of Research Data Services Through Client Interaction Records
Petters, Jonathan L. (Virginia Tech, 2022-04-12)
In this presentation we provide an internal assessment of consulting reach and effectiveness for our Data Services provided by the University Libraries at Virginia Tech and using client records from 2016 to 2020. Through this assessment, we explore how service growth and reach across Virginia Tech has evolved with time. We also look more closely at these aspects for one college and discuss how we will use this data to assess the impact of our services. Finally, through the lens of client outcomes, we examine the trends of client interactions over the term of the study.
Open Access Forum 2021: Virginia Tech's New Open Access Policy + Intros to Open Data and Open Educational Resources
Young, Philip; Petters, Jonathan L.; McNabb, Kayla B.; Surprenant, Aimée; Suber, Peter; McGuire, Kevin J.; Sanchez, Thomas W.; Pannabecker, Virginia (Virginia Tech, 2021-10-25)
This year's Open Access Forum features a presentation on Virginia Tech's new open access policy, with a Q&A afterward with OA expert Peter Suber and members of the working group. Short introductions to open data and open educational resources follow.
Open Access Forum 2022: Connecting the Opens
Joseph, Heather; Potter, Peter J.; Young, Philip; Petters, Jonathan L.; McNabb, Kayla B.; Surprenant, Aimée; Walters, Tyler (Virginia Tech, 2022-10-24)
The 2022 Open Access Forum features a presentation by Heather Joseph on the recent OSTP memo (aka Nelson memo) requiring immediate access to research funded by federal agencies, with a Q&A afterward. Short introductions to open access, open data, and open educational resources follow.
Open Education Forum 2022: Connecting the Opens: Open Access, Open Educational Resources, and Open Data
Walz, Anita R.; Young, Philip; Petters, Jonathan L.; McNabb, Kayla B.; Surprenant, Aimée ; Binks, Andrew P.; LeClair, Renee J. (Virginia Tech, 2022-02-21)
Join the University Libraries and invited guests for a panel discussion for future professors regarding open access, open educational resources, and open data. University Libraries’ faculty, Philip Young, Anita Walz, and Jonathan Petters will provide a brief overview of each of the three topics. Selected Virginia Tech faculty will be invited to share about their career development and how they have incorporated open practices into their teaching and scholarship. And, we will moderate a robust conversation among attending graduate students.
Open Research/Open Data Forum: Transparency, Sharing, and Reproducibility in Scholarship
Potter, Peter J.; Chen, Daniel; DePauw, Karen P.; Morton, Sally C.; Petters, Jonathan L.; Radcliffe, David H.; Sands, Laura P. (Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2017-04-10)
Join our panelists for a discussion on challenges and opportunities related to sharing and using open data in research, including meeting funder and journal guidelines: Daniel Chen (Ph.D. candidate in Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology) Karen DePauw (Vice President and Dean for Graduate Education) Sally Morton (Dean, College of Science) Jon Petters (Data Management Consultant, University Libraries) David Radcliffe (English) Laura Sands (Center for Gerontology)
Public Access: A Driver for Preservation and Discovery of Datasets at a US Land-Grant Institution
Ogier, Andrea; Petters, Jonathan L.; Pannabecker, Virginia; Settledge, Robert; Grant, Elizabeth J.; Harden, Samantha M.; Griffin, Julie; Walters, Tyler (2019-08-24)
Public access to federally funded research data ensures preservation and discovery of datasets to promote translation of research evidence into meaningful outcomes. However, historical policy and concerns regarding making data publicly accessible impede realization of implementing public access to data. These concerns include worry over the treatment of intellectual property, the cost (in time and money) of making research publicly accessible, and the danger of accidentally releasing human subjects data. To overcome these issues, a Public Access to Data Committee was established at a public university in rural southwest Virginia. In this paper we review the history of federal public access provisions, share goals, and describe the committee’s process to ultimately engage faculty and administrators in this critical link from research to practice.
Report: Public Access to Research Data at Virginia Tech
Ogier, Andrea; Petters, Jonathan L.; Pannabecker, Virginia; Public Access to Research Data Committee (University Libraries, Virginia Tech) (2019-11-07)
Recent reports and recommendations from AAU/APLU and National Academies of Science charge public universities, especially those with a land grant mission, to provide needed infrastructure and guidance that will enable researchers to more easily share the data supporting their research. In brief, the AAU/APLU Public Access Working Group states: “In light of governmental mandates and the scientific benefits of making data accessible to the public, universities will need to adopt new institutional policies, procedures, and approaches that actively support and promote research data sharing, while at the same time ensuring rigor in the research process and the veracity of its intellectual outputs.” Virginia Tech has resources to support public access to research data in the Office of Vice President of Research and Innovation, University Libraries, and Division of Information Technology; however, there are gaps in communication, policy, training, and implementation that make data sharing difficult and confusing for busy researchers. In response to a few of these identified gaps, the Public Access to Data Committee makes the following recommendations:

Policy 130015 should be revised to provide more pertinent information to researchers on how and where to obtain support for both restricting access to data and/or publicly sharing data,

The University Libraries should work with the Office of Sponsored Programs to create guidance for PIs who are working on grant applications and processes for ensuring that Data Management Plans are updated and followed over the lifetime of the grant,

The University Libraries, Division of IT, and Research Compliance Office should work together to create guidance helping researchers know when they can and should publicly share their data, and when they can and should keep the data secure.
Ultimately, we recommend the creation of a standing Data Security and Sharing Committee reporting to the Commission on Research to consider, create, and maintain this guidance to better support researchers at Virginia Tech.
The TRUST Principles for digital repositories
Lin, Dawei; Crabtree, Jonathan; Dillo, Ingrid; Downs, Robert R.; Edmunds, Rorie; Giaretta, David; De Giusti, Marisa; L'Hours, Herve; Hugo, Wim; Jenkyns, Reyna; Khodiyar, Varsha; Martone, Maryann E.; Mokrane, Mustapha; Navale, Vivek; Petters, Jonathan L.; Sierman, Barbara; Sokolova, Dina, V.; Stockhause, Martina; Westbrook, John (2020-05-14)
As information and communication technology has become pervasive in our society, we are increasingly dependent on both digital data and repositories that provide access to and enable the use of such resources. Repositories must earn the trust of the communities they intend to serve and demonstrate that they are reliable and capable of appropriately managing the data they hold.
Virginia Tech University Libraries’ Data Service Pilot with the College of Engineering
Miller, Chreston; Ogier, Andrea; Coleman, Shane; Petters, Jonathan L. (2017-06-01)
This report describes the results of our data needs assessment of the College of Engineering (CoE). With the growing focus on data, the needs of researchers can be unclear if not studied at the source. This led to the creation of this study in which the investigators interviewed faculty from across multiple departments within CoE. This focused study provided information and insight into the daily research practices related to data. The results of our study provided several categories and trends of data related needs and recommendations going forward as to how to better support the needs identified.

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