Reinventing Science Librarianship

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Reinventing Science Librarianship

• Education for New Roles
• Catherine Blake
• cablake_at_email.unc.edu
• http//www.ils.unc.edu/cablake
• University of North Carolina _at_ Chapel Hill

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Source The DCC Curation Lifecycle Model
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Creation

• Jupiter has moons
• Galileo, Sidereus Nuncius, 1610
• Relative sizes of the Earth, Sun and Moon
• Aristarchus's 3rd century BC
• this image - 10th century AD

Source Wikipedia
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Creation

• Little Dipper microarray processors
• Biology/pharmacology

• The first beam in the Large Hadron Collider at
  CERN1 was successfully steered around the full 27
  kilometers of the worlds most powerful particle
  accelerator

Source http//www.scigene.com/products/little_dip
per.html http//mediaarchive.cern.ch/MediaArchive/
Photo/Public/2008/0809002/0809002_01/0809002_01-A5
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Acquisition Collection

• Data acquired directly from scientists
• Heterogeneous formats
• multi-media
• annotations on a spreadsheet
• Varying quality
• experimental settings
• Student vs verified data

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Identification Cataloging

• Collectively identifying resources
• Group think
• Social bookmarking
• Participatory cataloging
• Eg UNC photographs

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Storage Preservation

• Storage
• 92 on magnetic media
• 5 exabytes of print, film, magnetic, and optical
  storage media produced about in 2002
• Preservation
• Heterogeneous
• Changing hardware
• Changing software

Image Source http//www.cray.com/products/index.h
tml http//www2.sims.berkeley.edu/research/project
s/how-much-info-2003/
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Barriers to access removed

• Environment
• New source of information providers (Scientists,
  Granting agencies)
• NIH Mandated access
• Consequences
• No single point of access
• Different levels of access required
• HIPPA compliance
• Maintaining cultural norms

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Use and Reuse

• Data and Text Mining
• Use data collected for a different purpose
• Eg a side-effect of one drug becomes the purpse
  of another
• Information Synthesis
• Combine speculative information
• Literature Based Discovery
• Uncover transitive connections from text

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Data Oriented Roles

• Data Consultant
• Share best practice regarding how to organize
  share data
• Data Distributor
• Scientists control the data, distributor makes
  the data available to others
• Data Manager
• Manager organizes and keep the data

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New Roles

• Data Service Provider
• Data conversion and pre-processing
• Data and Text Analyst
• Scientist provides the data, analyst applies
  visualization, data and text mining tools.
• Embedded Roles (Data Scientist)
• Information Work flow

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Data Oriented Roles

• Information organization
• Conceptual Modeling
• Create and understand
• ER diagrams
• UML diagrams
• Concept maps

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Reference Model For an Open Archival Information
System
Sourcenost.gsfc.nasa.gov/isoas/presentations/oais
_tutorial_200005.ppt
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Data Oriented Roles

• Conceptual ?? relational models
• Good database design
• Normalization
• Methods to enforce
• data quality
• referential integrity
• Ongoing maintenance

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New Roles

• Text Mining A case study
• All text is not created equal
• Things that in the way
• Page breaks
• Figures
• Tables
• Special characters
• Implications to preservation

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Human readable form (PDF)
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Data Services Case Study
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Machine readable form

• gtlt/TABLE
• gtltP
• gtScientists engage in the discovery process more
  than any other user population, yet their
  day-to-day activities are often elusive. The
  development of accurate models often requires
  that a scientist resolve conflicting
  evidence.lt/P
• gtltP
• gtOne activity that consumes much of a scientists'
  time is ltI
• gtsynthesislt/I
• gt, ltIMG
• SRC"/giflibrary/12/ldquo.gif"
• BORDER"0"gtthe dialectic combination of thesis
  and antithesis into a higher stage of truthltIMG
  SRC"/giflibrary/12/rdquo.gif"
• BORDER"0"gt (ltI
• gtMerriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionarylt/I
• gt, ltA
• HREF"BIB24"
• gt2004lt/A
• gt). This dictionary definition reflects the
  alternative viewpoints that often occur when
  multiple empirical studies explore the same
  phenomena. The synthesis activity results in an
  overall findingnbsp-nbspa higher stage of
  truthnbsp-nbspwhich scientists achieve by

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First phase pre-processing

• gtlt/TABLEgt
• ltPgtScientists engage in the discovery process
  more than any other user population, yet their
  day-to-day activities are often elusive. The
  development of accurate models often requires
  that a scientist resolve conflicting
  evidence.lt/Pgt
• ltPgtOne activity that consumes much of a
  scientists' time is ltIgtsynthesislt/Igt, ltIMG
  SRC"/giflibrary/12/ldquo.gif BORDER"0"gtthe
  dialectic combination of thesis and antithesis
  into a higher stage of truthltIMG
  SRC"/giflibrary/12/rdquo.gif BORDER"0"gt
  (ltIgtMerriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionarylt/Igt,
  ltA HREF"BIB24"gt2004lt/Agt). This dictionary
  definition reflects the alternative viewpoints
  that often occur when multiple empirical studies
  explore the same phenomena. The synthesis
  activity results in an overall findingnbsp-nbsp
  a higher stage of truthnbsp-nbspwhich
  scientists achieve by

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Second phase pre-processing

• Add Identifiers
• break paragraphs into sentences
• Add document, section, paragraph, sentence IDs
• Replacements
• symbols , references
• Output
• IdentifiersOne activity that consumes much of a
  scientists' time is synthesis the dialectic
  combination of thesis and antithesis into a
  higher stage of truth _BIB_24.
• IdentifiersThis dictionary definition reflects
  the alternative viewpoints that often occur when
  multiple empirical studies explore the same
  phenomena.

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Text Analytics

• Clustering
• Categorization
• Association Rules

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Visualization
NCI-funded research 1995-2001
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Embedded Roles
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Embedded Roles

• Workflow
• Deep understanding
• Data formats
• Access norms
• Reward structures
• Custom pre-processing

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Closing Remarks

• Not everyone will have every skill
• Existing skills that will remain critical
• Strong ties to faculty
• Strong negotiating skills
• Knowledge of standards and resources
• The roles exist, its not clear where they will
  live within an institution

The ability to think like someone within a
discipline