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6 - From a Data Archive to Data Science: Supporting Current Research
- Edited by Joel Herndon
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- Data Science in the Library
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- Facet
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- 28 April 2022
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- 20 December 2021, pp 99-110
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Summary
Introduction
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Library Data Science Center (DSC) is a research and education unit supporting faculty, researchers and students through consultation, instruction, co-curricular programming and data infrastructure. It provides a wide range of researcher support and development in data and computationally intensive scholarship, geospatial analysis and emerging technologies. Since 2018, the DSC has developed services that provide education and support for the increasingly complex research landscape.
This chapter outlines the process used to create the new services. It gives context to the Center's origins as the Social Science Data Archive (SSDA) that provided social science data services at UCLA from the 1970s. The chapter examines how integrating the SSDA into the Library in 2014 led to a shift of focus toward a service that supports data creation, interpretation and publication regardless of discipline or methodology. It articulates the drivers for change on the UCLA campus that led to the redesign of service offerings and describes how the DSC's involvement with the Carpentries movement expanded its ability to teach data and coding skills. The chapter also reflects on the challenges faced in establishing a service profile that is non-traditional for a library while focusing on building an inclusive community that democratizes data science tools and their research applications.
UCLA: context
UCLA is a public research institution located in Los Angeles, California. UCLA has a diverse community of scholars that encompasses nearly 30,000 undergraduates pursuing 125 majors, 13,000 graduate students in 59 research programs and over 7,000 faculty members. To support its research activities, the University deployed a department-based research support infrastructure. Research data support has been heavily siloed across campus, depending on when and where departments can access resources to support these endeavors. Several distinct groups have emerged that provide different support layers for other disciplines. For example, researchers in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields have ready access to course-integrated resources in campus units such as the UCLA Collaboratory in the Institute for Quantitative and Computational Biology and the Office of Advanced Research Computing. These institutes have large staffs and support thousands of researchers annually.
In contrast, departments in social sciences, humanities and arts lack access to similar institutes or infrastructure. However, data-intensive research is a part of nearly every discipline's research workflow.
TEMPERATURE AND DROUGHT STRESS EFFECTS ON GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF BAMBARA GROUNDNUT (VIGNA SUBTERRANEA L.)
- IBRAHEEM AL SHAREEF, DEBBIE SPARKES, SAYED AZAM-ALI
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- Experimental Agriculture / Volume 50 / Issue 1 / January 2014
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- 26 June 2013, pp. 72-89
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The effect of drought and temperature on the growth and development of bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.) was studied in controlled environment glasshouses in the United Kingdom. There were two landraces, S19-3 (from a hot, dry environment; Namibia) and Uniswa Red (from a cool, wet environment; Swaziland), two temperature regimes (23 °C and 33 °C) and three watering regimes (2006; fully irrigated), 2007 (drought imposed at 77 days after sowing (DAS)) and 2008 (drought imposed at 30 DAS)). Bambara groundnut responded to drought by slowing the rate of leaf area expansion and reducing final canopy size and total dry matter (TDM). Drought also caused significant reductions in pod dry matter, pod numbers and harvest index (HI), leading to a decrease in final yield that was different between landraces. Throughout the three growing seasons, landraces grown at 33 °C produced more TDM than the landraces grown at 23 °C. The two landraces differed in their phenology; S19-3 exhibited a reduced phenology where leaf numbers started to decrease before Uniswa Red at both temperatures, while Uniswa Red maintained the longest life cycle. The lowest pod yield was produced by Uniswa Red in 2008 at 33 °C (maximum of 35.5 gm−2), while S19-3 produced a minimum pod yield of 56.6 gm−2 at 33 °C, also in 2008. However, both landraces produced considerably more pod yield at 23 °C throughout the three growing seasons (minimum of 151 gm−2 and 162 gm−2 for Uniswa Red and S19-3, respectively). Under moderate drought, S19-3 at 33 °C gave the highest pod yield (365 gm−2) among the treatments throughout the three growing seasons and maintained HI better under drought. Despite being from a hot, dry environment, S19-3 also performed well at low temperature, which indicates the adaptation of S19-3 to low temperature that it also experiences in the country of origin.