Abstract
New interest has arisen in organizing, preserving, and sharing the raw materials-the data and metadata-that undergird the published products of research. Library and information scientists have valuable expertise to bring to bear in the effort to create larger, more diverse, and more widely used data repositories. However, for libraries to be maximally successful in providing the research data management and preservation services required of a successful data repository, librarians must work closely with researchers and learn about their data management workflows. Databrary is a data repository that is closely linked to the needs of a specific scholarly community-researchers who use video as a main source of data to study child development and learning. The project's success to date is a result of its focus on community outreach and providing services for scholarly communication, engaging institutional partners, offering services for data curation with the guidance of closely involved information professionals, and the creation of a strong technical infrastructure. Databrary plans to improve its curation tools that allow researchers to deposit their own data, enhance the user-facing feature set, increase integration with library systems, and implement strategies for long-term sustainability.
Highlights
New interest has arisen in organizing, preserving, and sharing the raw materials—the data and metadata—that undergird the published products of research
DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES Databrary is a data repository that is closely linked to the needs of a specific scholarly community—researchers who use video as a main source of data to study child development and learning
In the curation process, Databrary staff and researchers discuss the datasets and how the target contributors envision the representation of their data inside the repository. These discussions inform the ongoing development of the metadata schema, ensuring that it continues to meet the diverse needs of a wide range of individual labs
Summary
Databrary (2015a) is a web-based repository for storing and sharing videos collected as raw data for research on child development and learning. Most researchers who study child learning and development or classroom teaching collect video as raw data, but various barriers have prevented them from openly sharing these materials. Identifying information cannot be removed from video without violating the integrity of the data and reducing its potential for reuse. To realize the promise of video data sharing, Databrary has focused on reducing barriers and on forging community consensus. Through intense interactions with researchers in the developmental and learning science communities, Databrary’s library and information science experts have learned about the diverse curation requirements of datasets collected through very different lab practices, and have determined how to represent those datasets in a standard fashion for future access and reuse. We outline future enhancements to Databrary that will further this work
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