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FINDING DATA Big Data, Little
Data: Having it AllOctober 3, 2013
Denise Bennett, Marston Science
Library
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George A. Smathers Libraries
Marston Science Library
LOOKING FOR OTHERS’ DATASETS?* To reuse* To serve as model for your data
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http://library.ufl.edu/datamgmt
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Choose “idea” from the data life cycle
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Link to Datasets guide
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Datasets guide
What do you mean by “data”?
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Strategies for finding datasets
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Finding datasets within journal articles
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Multidisciplinary repositories
Let’s start with Dryad
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Repository example: Dryad
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Dryad.org – search results
Search for “size,” get 966 datasets
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Dryad.org – search results
See major subjects of resulting datasets
See journals where articles were published
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Dryad entry
See individual files; 17 for this project
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Dryad entry: citation
See how to cite the article and the data package
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Dryad dataset: in Excel, ready for re-use
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Back to Multidisciplinary repositories
Let’s look at Databib
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Repository example: Databib
603 data repositories total in Databib.
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Databib: search results
A search for “climatology” shows 53 groups
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Databib entry
See info about the group and a link to its website
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Databib leads to website
Data Access links
Recent Data Activities noted
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back on the Datasets guide
Choose any subject category to see discipline-specific repositories
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Citing datasets
See examples and recommended practices
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back to Datasets home
Scroll down for Tips & Tricks
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