Fact Sheet / Overview on Data Management Support from the UF Libraries with the IR@UF & More

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Page 1 of 2 Overview For data management f or data that can be openly available and accessible to the world, is of a reasonable size for the a vailable infrastructure, and is to be retained permanently t he UF Smathers Libraries have m any supports i n place for data access and preservation The Libraries provide support for data w ith Liaiso n Libraries who are available for consultat ion and s upport on data management the SobekCM Open Source Technology and ongoing collaboration s ( with UF Research Computing and many other groups ) for building capacity and adding new supports whenever possible Examples of Existing Data Examples of data and data processes for data management that already s upported by the UF Libraries i nclude : Institutional Repository or IR@UF Supplemental data for UF theses and dissertations is included within the IR@UF : http://ufdc.ufl.edu/l/contains/?t=%22Data+related+to+thesis+/+dissertation%22&f=SU Research data (alone, and with accompanying reports and publications) o M ost often submitted through the online self submittal process: http://ufdc.ufl.edu/ ufirg/irsub mithelp o Guide for d ata too large for the online interface: http://ufdc.ufl.edu/ AA00017119/00016/pdf S ubject based repositories or collections from UF within the UF Digital Collections Jaqi Language Archive Database developed as part of an Endangered Language Grant included within the IR@UF and the Jaqi Digital Collection which includes related research ma t e rials to accompany the database : ht tp://ufdc.ufl.e du/ UF00103162/00001/downloads C ollaborative projects ho sted by UF for UF and partners, as wit h the D i gital Library of the Caribbean ( d LOC www.dloc.com ) Research data (alone, and with accompanying reports and publications) Anony mized survey data Historical data

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Page 2 of 2 Plans for Future Enhancements The UF Libraries are major contributors to the SobekCM Open Source Software The UF Libraries have been collaborating with others to b egin adding data support for specific data archiving (with versioning) needs, including t o add support for usable/actionable database functionality online for small data sets, specifically planning how to best s upport for queries, searches, sort s, report generation, and other actions with online accessible and archived data in SobekCM Information on current support and next ste p plans from the end of 2013 are explained in this document: http:/ /ufdc.ufl.edu/ AA00017907/00001/pdf which incl udes links to several p rototypes : Prototype for final display of datasets (dataset with a single datatable): http://ufdc.ufl.edu/IR00003504/00001 Prototype for dataset with multiple tables: http://ufdc.ufl.e du/AA00017819/00001 Prototype for dataset codebook: http://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00017819/00001/dscodebook Additional information is also available in this presentation proposal on the plans for leveraging XSDs f or reflective, live dat aset support in i nstitutional repositories : http:// ufdc.ufl.edu/ AA00019155/00001/pdf More Information and Contact Us For more information on Data Management Support at UF, please see the Data Management website: http:// l ibrary .uf l.edu/datamgmt/ Please contact the Data Team with questions, concerns, and ideas: datamgmt l@lists.ufl.edu