Research Data Management

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Introduction

A productive faculty like LSU’s can face a potentially overwhelming set of challenges in the pursuit of upholding FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) over the lifecycles of research projects and their related data. LSU Libraries provides just such needed support for planning, storing, preserving, and accessing research data for our campus.

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LSU Scholarly Repository

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Open access to LSU scholarship including articles, dissertations & theses, research data, and more.

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Data Management Plans

Research Guide

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Assign Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

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LSU Libraries can assign Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to datasets to ensure that research...

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ORCiD at LSU

Research Guide

ORCiD provides researchers with a unique identifier and a way to link their research outputs and activities to their ORCiD iD. ORCiD is integrated into many systems used by publishers, funders, institutions, and other research-related services.

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Research Data Storage

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LSU has several research data storage options available to on-campus researchers.

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Research Data Management Planning Consultation Form

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This questionnaire is used to help determine how a patron's data management can be addressed.

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Research Tools

Research Guide

An index of useful tools and software for the research process.

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David Lowe

Research Data Management Librarian

David Lowe

Research Data Management Librarian

https://lib.lsu.edu/staff#davidlowe

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Responsibilities

Responsibilites

Facilitating access to campus research data, working with faculty to ensure their projects’ datasets are kept in optimal places to make them findable, accessible, interoperable, and reproducible.

Experience

Texas A&M University: Digital Collections Management Librarian
Florida Institute of Technology: Data Librarian
University of Connecticut: Data Management Librarian

Education

University of Michigan, MILS, 1996
University of Texas, MA, Russian Literature, 1987
Rice University, BA, English and Russian, 1985

Presentations

Lowe, David B., Jeannette Ho, Dong Joon Lee, and Bruce E. Herbert, “Integrating VIVO and the Campus Repository: Representing Curated Teaching Materials in Scholarly Profiles of Faculty in Different Career Tracks,” 11th Annual International VIVO Conference (May 2020). https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/188198

Publications

Lowe, David B. and Wendi Arant Kaspar, "The Space Between Data Producers and Consumers: Mediation Strategies for Researchers," Journal of Information Ethics, Vol. 32, No. 2 (Fall 2023)
Lowe, David B., Dollinger, Ian, Koster, Tristan, & Herbert, Bruce E. (2021). “Text Mining for Type of Research Classification.” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 59(8), 815–834. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2021.1998281

Awards

2022 Texas Digital Library Scholarly Communication Award

Research Interests

Machine Actionable Data Management Plans
Contributor Role Attribution with the CRediT taxonomy
Digital Collections as Data
Text Mining in Digital Collections
Digital Humanities and Cultural Analysis
Institutional Repositories
Open Scholarship and Open Access
Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

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