Preserving the Stuff of History

Gruman, Gerald J.

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“…Harvard Professor Gerald J. Gruman (1958) made a plea in a letter to Science that scientific papers should be archived to provide context for research, giving the example of a key figure in American science from the turn of the century whose papers had already disappeared. Reingold (1955) also described the absence of an archival tradition for scientists, in comparison to the relationship between other depositors such as military or federal agencies, using the US National Archives.…”

Section: Research Data In the Custody Of Archivesmentioning

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Recordkeeping and research data management: a review of perspectives

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2017

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2014 survey of archivists working in American university research libraries indicates that 49% of respondents are involved with research data management and preservation for their institution (Noonan and Chute, 2014). Dooley (2015) argues that archivists have unique skills which should be applied to material with less obvious archival characteristics, including research data. The international Research Data Alliance also facilitates an Interest Group for Archives and Records Professionals [ii] as well as libraries [iii]. It appears that the recordkeeping community is engaging with research data management, and that records professionals are addressing the challenges and opportunities associated with research data. Despite this, no survey or existing review were identified which investigate theory and practice in the area to date. This literature review aims to address this gap by exploring the subject of research data and its management, and how records professionals have engaged with it in the 20 th and 21 st centuries. 1 1 In discussing the relationship or perspective of records managers and archivists to research data management, the term "records professional" is used to encompass both roles; and "recordkeeping" to refer to the activities undertaken by records professionals in their management and archiving of records. Referencing the International Council on Archives' Multilingual Terminology, "records manager" may be defined as "a person, professionally educated, trained and experienced, responsible for the effective and efficient delivery of records management Methodology This literature review represents a section of the author's preliminary Doctoral research, undertaken in 2014, on the topic of records professionals and research data. The initial review was conducted in two phases, firstly investigating definitions of research data in academic writing, practical handbooks, textbooks and manuals, and policy documentation. The second phase examined how records professionals engage with research data. This paper focuses on this second topic. Two main electronic databases were used to identify the literature discussed below: University College Dublin's Library OneSearch, and Google Scholar. As the author's Doctoral research focuses on Irish policy and practice, the Irish Open Access portal RIAN.ie was also interrogated. The review aimed to investigate literature written by records professionals regarding research data, and also to identify other perspectives on research data and its management, and whether consensus exists as to the professional skills necessary to tackle this area. Initially, peer-reviewed academic journals relating to the archives and records management professions were interrogated. These included Archival Science, American Archivist, The Records Management Journal and Archivaria. The compound terms "research data" and "research data management" were used initially to identify articles. This yielded relevant results, but the use of simple terms (for example "research", "data" and "science...

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Section: Research Data In the Custody Of Archivesmentioning

confidence: 99%