Browsing by Subject "Data retrieval"

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    Developing incentives for data stewardship and sharing: Library engagement beyond liaison relationships
    (2014-06-05) Coates, Heather L.; Polley, David E.
    Many of the obstacles slowing the adoption of more democratic dissemination of scholarly products are cultural, not technological. While libraries have extended their technological capacity to new methods of dissemination, we have been less proactive in fostering the cultural change necessary for significant adoption. Two particular groups of constituents and communities of practice have been engaged with the library profession, but the personal contact between faculty and librarians at the institutional level is inconsistent and often hinges upon liaison relationships. This poster will describe opportunities for librarians to engage with institutional units and research communities extending beyond institutional boundaries to advance incentives rewarding new forms of dissemination, including data as a valued community resource. Examples of relating changes in dissemination to various community missions will be provided.
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    Improving user engagement in a data repository with web analytics
    (http://connect.ala.org/node/213972, 2013-11-09) Durrant, Summer; Coates, Heather L.
    A goal of data curation activities is to enable discovery and reuse of valuable data sets. How well repositories facilitate these activities is difficult to measure with existing metrics. In this presentation we will discuss how to utilize usage statistics from DSpace (Apache SOLR) and Google Analytics to better understand how researchers discover, access, and use datasets archived in an institutional repository. Our focus will be on data analysis to explore the information seeking needs and behavior of data repository users. Ultimately, this analytic approach will inform the outreach, marketing, and impact evaluation of data repositories.