Data Services Committee
Meeting Minutes
Monday, February 16, 2015
11:00-12:00
Main Library 428
Members:
□ Karen Hogenboom, chair
□ Jenny Johnson
□ Joanne Kazcmarek
□ Dawn Owens-Nicholson
□ Carissa Phillips (on sabbatical)
□ Beth Sheehan
□ Sarah Williams
□ Christie Wiley
□ Maryalice Wu
□ James Whitacre
1. Notetaker: James Whitacre
2. Committee membership roster: replacement for Sarah S.
• Heidi Imker, Director of Research Data Service, very interested (affirmative nods all
around!)
• Karen will write a note to executive committee to notify them of the change
3. New service model for data services: status and assessment
a. Referrals
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Atlas has seen a few people (2-3 people) needing data/stats assistance
ATALS will keep in contact with SC when non-LAS requests come in
Maryalice will discuss at next consultant meeting about what data to collect from
people coming into ATLAS. This will track the type of people seeking help.
Joann Jacoby no longer available for AtlasTI consultations
ATLAS can cover AtlasTI requests. Maryalice please with their level of expertise.
NVivo licenses – need to talk with Andre Krabbe at WebStore
b. Projects
• Text mining options
• Working with Harriett Green, has text files that could be used for
• SAS, SPSS, and AtlasTI can text mine
• Have ATLAS track hours for Data Services time
• Joanne may have more text files that could be used for text mining
4. New types of data and data analysis
a. Clickstream
• From online courses: Coursera, Moodle
b. Social media
c. Other?
• Hadoop from CyberGIS
• Email files semi-structured text; email to xml work at other institutions
• Social network analysis on social media – email could looped in
• Geocoding – Library starting ArcGIS server
Tableau
• Conversation about licenses
5. Update on data purchase applications
• $15,000 on Data Quick
• $5,000 on ‘cleaned’ up data
• American Hospital Survey
6. Announcements
• Digital Humanities Symposium
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