“You made it, you take care of itâ€: Data Management as Personal Information Management
This study explores how researchers at a major Midwestern university are managing their data, as well as the factors that have shaped their practices and those that motivate or inhibit changes to that practice. A combination of survey (n=363) and interview data (n=15) yielded both qualitative and qu...
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University of Edinburgh
2011-07-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Digital Curation |
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| description | This study explores how researchers at a major Midwestern university are managing their data, as well as the factors that have shaped their practices and those that motivate or inhibit changes to that practice. A combination of survey (n=363) and interview data (n=15) yielded both qualitative and quantitative results bearing on my central research question: In what types of data management activities do researchers at this institution engage? Corollary to that, I also explored the following questions: What do researchers feel could be improved about their data management practices? Which services might be of interest to them? How do they feel those services could most effectively be implemented?
In this paper, I situate researchers’ data management practices within a theory of personal information management. I present a view of data management and preservation needs from researchers’ perspectives across a range of domains. Additionally, I discuss the implications that understanding research data management as personal information management has for introducing services to support and improve data management practice. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-44c5b9925d8b4652bd724310bfb191e62023-12-12T23:52:12ZengUniversity of EdinburghInternational Journal of Digital Curation1746-82562011-07-0162“You made it, you take care of itâ€: Data Management as Personal Information ManagementKathleen FearThis study explores how researchers at a major Midwestern university are managing their data, as well as the factors that have shaped their practices and those that motivate or inhibit changes to that practice. A combination of survey (n=363) and interview data (n=15) yielded both qualitative and quantitative results bearing on my central research question: In what types of data management activities do researchers at this institution engage? Corollary to that, I also explored the following questions: What do researchers feel could be improved about their data management practices? Which services might be of interest to them? How do they feel those services could most effectively be implemented? In this paper, I situate researchers’ data management practices within a theory of personal information management. I present a view of data management and preservation needs from researchers’ perspectives across a range of domains. Additionally, I discuss the implications that understanding research data management as personal information management has for introducing services to support and improve data management practice.https://129.215.67.1/ijdc/article/view/190 |
| spellingShingle | Kathleen Fear “You made it, you take care of itâ€: Data Management as Personal Information Management International Journal of Digital Curation |
| title | “You made it, you take care of itâ€: Data Management as Personal Information Management |
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| title_short | “You made it, you take care of itâ€: Data Management as Personal Information Management |
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