(e-Science… where to begin?)

Sally channels Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart (Jacobellis v. Ohio, 1964)…

This is Sally

This is Justice Stewart

Don’t know much about e-Science?

(what a wonderful world this could be)

Sally Gore, MS, MS LIS

Head, Research & Scholarly Communication Services

Lamar Soutter Library

University of Massachusetts Medical School

nce upon a time, in a laboratory far, far away…O

Image from the lab book of Alexander Graham Bell, 1876, American Treasures of the Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr002.html

AHA! I see you, you

little RNAi bugger.

Copyright © University of Massachusetts Medical School 2006 Photo: Robert Carlin

"Courtesy Argonne National Laboratory."

SOMETHING NEW MEANS…

…we need a new WORD

E-Science

e-Science

eScience

e~Science

DATA

NETWORKS

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What is the need?

Management What? How? Where? What are they doing with it today? What about tomorrow? Is it safe? Data Management = the entire life cycle of data

DATA

What is the need?

Storage How much of this stuff are you generating?

Megabytes / Terabytes / Petabytes / “Yoda”bytes (1024) / “Zebbiebytes” (treats for my dog?)

DATA

What is the need?

Access, Sharing, “Find-ability”

Data Management Plans

Data sharing requirements

Supplemental material requirements

DATA

What is the need?

Preservation & Curation

What is the historical value of data?

DATA

Data Management MIT, UMMS / WPI, MSU (NIH, NSF)

Storage Cornell – “DataStaR”

Access, Sharing, “Find-ability” Institutional Repositories HHS Open

Preservation & Curation CDC BRFSS

Some Examples

Think of all the ways we communicate today: Phone, email, Skype Print & digital sources Social networking Letters and stamps?

Smart phones, iPads, iPods and iCanNeverKeepUp

NETWORKS What is the need?

Technical Tools and Toys

Clinical Translational Science

NETWORKS What is the need?

Collaborators

Clinical translational research is more than basic science’s relationship with clinical practice. It also involves: Personal health habits Injury prevention Environmental policy Worksite health School health Parenting And more…

NETWORKS What is the need?

Information to Foster Collaboration

E-SCIENCE FOR LIBRARIANS:WHAT IS OUR NEED?

What do we have now?

Knowledge / Skills Information Mgt Cataloging / metadata Searching Archiving Resources

“Intangibles” Objectivity History – Mission Sense of helping

What do we need? Subject knowledge? Research methods Statistics Database design Entrepreneurial skills

Public speaking Sales Creativity

This is Dan

e~Science in New England

Professional Development (annual events) Science Boot Camp for Librarians Professional Development Day

Networking E-Science Symposium (annual event) E-Science Portal for New England Librarians

UMMS Institutional repository CTSA – profiles product IMLS Planning Grant

?Thank You!Questions?