The Clermont College Library hosted a special event, For the Love of the Library, on Thursday, February 9th. The purpose of this event was to highlight the 1st floor renovations made possible by our donors and share plans for student-centered improvements to our library’s 2nd floor.
Thanks to all who celebrated with us from our community, UC’s Clifton campus, UC Libraries, and UC Clermont.
Katie Foran-Mulcahy
Library Director
Today’s Love Your Data Week’s post is by Tiffany Grant PhD, Interim Assistant Director for Research and Informatics at the Health Sciences Library (HSL) and Research Informationist.
The Big 3 of Data
Documenting, describing and defining your data are the 3 most critical components of good data management and your data legacy. If done properly, documentation ensures accurate interpretation and reproducibility of your data. Additionally, it improves the integrity of the scholarly record by providing a more complete picture of how your research was conducted.
Data Things to Do
Big 3 Data Basics
Who: Who are the contributors?
What: What kind of data was collected and what analyses were done to generate the data?
Why: Why was the project started, i.e. what questions did you hope to answer?
Where: Where did you get your data (if you aren’t the creator)? What is the physical location of the data?
How: How was your data generated?
Message of the day
Good documentation tells people they can trust your data by enabling validation, replication, and reuse.
Today’s LYD post features the thoughts of Dylan Shields, the Graduate Assistant for the Chemistry-Biology Library and Chemistry Graduate Student in Anna Gudmundsdottir’s Lab.
Welcome back to another edition of Love Your Data Week!!
The first topic for this week is going to focus on DEFINING DATA QUALITY!
So what IS data quality? Well, first off it is important to note that data quality definitions and practices can differ quite vastly depending on the field of study. However, there are a few markers of data quality that can be broadly applicable to most research. These markers include: accuracy, consistency, completeness, and accessibility.
So what are these markers and why are they important?
Randy Wilson and DAAP Library Staff partnered to create “Black By Design,” a display that showcases pioneers and youngbloods in black fashion. Many of the images in the display are from the Vogue Archive, a database of every Vogue magazine ever published. The drawings were custom created by Professor Wilson himself.
Stop by the UCBA Library and check out these new titles before they hit the shelves. You can also browse the list of books on the New Titles at Your UCBA Library guide. Visit the Borrowing & Returning page for details on borrowing these titles.
Drop the roses and the box of chocolate because Love Your Data week is almost here. All next week, the UC Libraries informationist team will be blogging loving tips about how to best care for your research data. The theme for 2017 is emphasizing data quality for researchers at any stage in their career and the daily topics are:
Feb 13th – Defining Data Quality
Feb 14th Documenting, Describing, Defining
Feb 15th Good Data Examples
Feb 16th – Finding the Right Data
Feb 17th – Rescuing Unloved Data
Follow the action or join in on Twitter using hashtags (#LYD17 #loveyourdata)
Other social media outlets will be Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest.
So much better for you and your data than a box of chocolate!
Questions and comments to AskData@uc.edu
I first met Dr. Henry Heimlich, or “Hank”, shortly after I arrived at the University of Cincinnati. To my surprise, he had expressed a strong interest in meeting me, so I eagerly invited him to join me for dinner at my home, along with Associate Dean Emeritus Steve Marine, the libraries’ Director of Development Christa Bernardo and our respective spouses. It was then that I learned of his time as a surgeon with the US Naval Group in World War II. Hank had been stationed in China, and his first stop was my hometown of Chongqing.
Sharing dinner at my home with Hank Heimlich
By: Colleen O’Brien, ARB Student Assistant
The acronym BAE does not refer to a common slang term amongst young folks or even to the Danish word for “poop.” Rather, in this instance it is a term which means Bureau of American Ethnology.
How did the Bureau of American Ethnology come to be and why is it important?
In 1879, as the discipline of anthropology was taking hold in universities across America, Congress established an agency called the Bureau of Ethnology. There is some controversy over the exact purpose for which this department was founded, but one explanation is that the Department of the Interior needed to transfer archives and other materials to the Smithsonian Institution because the two entities were set to merge shortly thereafter. Thus Congress decided to create a department to ease this change. The second reason, on the other hand, states the Bureau of Ethnology was established as a purely research division of the Smithsonian. Regardless, John Wesley Powell, the Bureau’s key founder, believed it should be used to promote anthropological research in the Americas. In fact, in 1897, the Bureau of Ethnology changed its name to Bureau of American Ethnology in order to limit geographic interests. Continue reading
On display on the 5th floor of Langsam Library, the exhibit “Uncovering Black History through Arts & Education” features prominent black writers, poets, educators and musicians. Featured in the exhibit are such notables as Rita Dove, Phillis Wheatley, Derrick Bell, Katherine Johnson, Muddy Waters and Tammi Terrell among others. A bibliography of related resources found in UC Libraries is located at the exhibit and online.
The “Uncovering Black History through Arts and Education” exhibit was curated by Meshia Anderson, acquisitions specialist in UC Libraries, and designed by Jessica Burhans, spring semester communications co-op design student from the College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning.
The exhibit was produced in coordination with an event scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017, 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., fourth floor Langsam Library in the Digital Commons Space. At the event, free and open to all, Littisha Bates, associate professor of sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences, will speak about sociology of black families. Other activities will include poetry, soulful food bites and interactive trivia based on the exhibit. Brandon Hawkins of Soul Palette, a company that creates paint party experiences, will help everyone tap into their inner artistry.
Black History Month and the National African American Read-In book display.
Stop by the UCBA Library to browse and borrow books in honor of Black History Month and the National African American Read-In (NAARI). Titles that include a yellow NAARI bookmark are written by African Americans and can be read for the NAARI event scheduled for Tuesday, February 28 at 12:00 pm in the Muntz 119 Lobby.
To see a full list of titles on display, visit the National African American Read-In guide at https://guides.libraries.uc.edu/ucba-naari.