Anna Sackmann
Data Services Librarian
University of California, Berkeley
Lynne Grigsby
Head Library IT
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California (UC), Berkeley Library has been purchasing and licensing data for research, teaching, and learning for years, but managing this data was challenging for the library. Moreover, discovering and finding licensed data for use in teaching, research, and learning was an opaque process for users. To address this problem, the Library developed a local instance of Dataverse. Dataverse was designed and is most frequently used as a repository for researcher generated data; however, use of the repository at the UC Berkeley Library illustrates how Dataverse’s infrastructure can be leveraged to enable the discovery and access of library licensed and managed data. Dataverse and UC Berkeley’s data acquisition process ensures timely ingest of licensed data into the repository for discovery by researchers. The presentation will explain how Dataverse better informs users of each dataset’s terms of use and overview the workflows and procedures developed by Library IT and the data services librarian to manage the repository.
https://datasets.lib.berkeley.edu/