Presentationshttp://hdl.handle.net/10106/252142024-03-29T15:59:26Z2024-03-29T15:59:26ZWhat is "Data"? Collaborations Between Special Collections and Research Data ServicesWilliams, IsaacEscobedo, PriscillaOssom-Williamson, Peacehttp://hdl.handle.net/10106/297092021-03-30T08:22:19Z2020-03-12T00:00:00ZWhat is "Data"? Collaborations Between Special Collections and Research Data Services
Williams, Isaac; Escobedo, Priscilla; Ossom-Williamson, Peace
The Dallas Death Map Project originated from a collection of death information built by a Special Collections Archivist at The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) who compiled the data using death certificates, newspaper articles and obituaries, and other historical resources. Through a collaboration with this archivist and UTA’s Data Visualization Librarian, this record was visualized as a publicly-accessible, browsable map that can help researchers answer questions about historical disease, death, and Dallas. The Dallas Death Map provides an interactive display of deaths from 1915-1920.
What is also noteworthy is that this collaboration between Special Collections and Research Data Services departments yielded important insights, including communication between two people in different fields who draw from different bodies of knowledge. In this poster, we describe challenges encountered when developing the project. We describe the way we, as data librarians, improved our communication because people who do not primarily work with data think of their data differently than do those who work with data day in and day out. We also learned that in order to effectively collaborate with non-data colleagues, we had to change the way we thought and talked about data and set project expectations. All of the connections possible through the map itself (including research) were predicated on successful connections and collaboration between colleagues with different levels of data experience. This poster shares insights about this process in the hopes of helping other librarians who collaborate across departments and disciplines.
2020-03-12T00:00:00ZPublic health campus outreach: Facilitating a student-powered prediabetes awareness campaignhttp://hdl.handle.net/10106/290592020-04-19T08:23:38Z2016-01-01T00:00:00ZPublic health campus outreach: Facilitating a student-powered prediabetes awareness campaign
2016-01-01T00:00:00ZPubMed as a Public Interface for MEDLINE: Assessing Whether PMC Has Changed PubMed’s CompositionOssom Williamson, PeaceMinter, Christianhttp://hdl.handle.net/10106/280512019-05-17T08:11:06Z2019-05-05T00:00:00ZPubMed as a Public Interface for MEDLINE: Assessing Whether PMC Has Changed PubMed’s Composition
Ossom Williamson, Peace; Minter, Christian
Objectives: Questions have arisen about the quality of PubMed due to PubMed Central (PMC) as a growing component of PubMed. We tested claims that content in PMC is of low quality and affecting PubMed’s reliability by evaluating the proportion of PubMed records indexed in MEDLINE over time and evaluating whether this aligns with the proportion of PMC records indexed in MEDLINE.
Methods: The authors retrieved the following via the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) interface: the percentage of MEDLINE-indexed records added to PubMed in 1990 and in the years between and including 2000 and 2017, and the percentage of MEDLINE-indexed records added to PMC between 2000 and 2017. We performed a descriptive analysis of trends via z-test comparing the two resources and across all years of data collected.
Results: Over 90% of PubMed records are indexed in MEDLINE; however, since the launch of PMC, the percentage of MEDLINE-indexed records added to PubMed each year has slowly decreased. This trend aligns with an increase in PMC content, which differs significantly from PubMed content in regards to MEDLINE composition. The largest impact comes from PMC full participation journals not indexed in MEDLINE, not from author manuscripts submitted to PMC in compliance with public access policies. Author manuscripts in PMC continue to be published in MEDLINE-indexed journals at a high rate (85%), but only comprise 2% of PubMed.
Conclusions: The differing scopes of PMC and MEDLINE will likely continue to affect their overlap, and further emphasis by the National Library of Medicine on PubMed’s components will make PubMed users more clear about its scope. According to NLM, the aim is not to maintain a certain proportion of MEDLINE records in PubMed or PMC; the hope is that more MEDLINE-indexed journals will be deposited in PMC for long-term preservation and broader access. The authors also conclude that quality control exists in the maintenance and facilitation of both resources, but further research assessing article quality using critical appraisal methodology is needed.
2019-05-05T00:00:00ZModifying a Project Memorandum of Understanding for ReuseRafia Mirza, Southern Methodist Universityhttp://hdl.handle.net/10106/269372018-07-10T08:08:23Z2017-01-01T00:00:00ZModifying a Project Memorandum of Understanding for Reuse
Rafia Mirza, Southern Methodist University
University of Texas Arlington Libraries developed a flexible template and workbook for the use of Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) in Libraries. The MOU team felt the time was right for development of the template and workbook due to the shift from transactional work to long term projects occurring in many libraries and the resulting need to document project plans, timelines and expectations for all involved parties. We have found the adoption and writing of a MOU between the Libraries and external partners helps to alleviate tensions and set reasonable expectations. By clarifying those expectations and timelines, the library is able to continue to provide exemplary service to all of our patrons and partners. As hoped, the MOU has been modified for reuse to fit particular project needs. The workbook is available through UTA’s Research Commons. The workbook collection includes a general MOU template, templates for particular projects, a workflow, and instructions for each. This poster will address the benefits, challenges and lessons learned in adapting this template for new uses/projects.
Poster presented at the 6th annual Digital Frontiers Conference | Exploring the Edges, Pushing the Boundaries, September 2017 at the University of North Texas
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