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Texas Data Repository featured in OCLC research data report

Cover for Building Research Data Management Capacity: Case Studies in Strategic Library Collaboration

TDL is proud to have been part of the recent OCLC publication, Building Research Data Management Capacity: Case Studies in Strategic Library Collaboration. The report shares valuable tips to help make research data collaborations more successful and sustainable.

Thanks to our fabulous Texas Data Repository members for participating in the case study interviews.

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Posted in Texas Data Repository, Texas Digital Library


A Journey through Geospatial Metadata in the Texas Data Repository

By: Ima Oduok, Digital Librarian

It’s GIS Day on Wednesday, November 15! To celebrate, we want to share a bit about a geospatial data project being worked on within the TDL community. 

The Geosteer project is a Python toolkit which allows users to transform their geospatial metadata for the Aardvark schema,

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Posted in GIS Interest Group, TDL Blog, Texas Data Repository


Texas Data Repository Webinars

Texas Digital Library and the Texas Data Repository Steering Committee present a webinar series showcasing topics in research data management and hosted by research data experts in academic libraries throughout North America.

All the webinars in this series are free and open to anyone who is interested. 

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Posted in Data Management, Events, Texas Data Repository


Dataverse Reports for TDR Liaisons Now Available on GitHub

The Texas Digital Library has created bi-weekly reports for our Texas Data Repository (TDR) institutional liaisons. The TDR hosts 11 Texas Institutional Dataverses. Researchers at those institutions use the TDR as a platform for publishing and archiving datasets and other data products created by faculty,

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Posted in Data Management, News, Texas Data Repository


Free Training Available for Texas Data Repository Users

Texas Digital Library has produced a set of five introductory training videos for users of the Texas Data Repository. The video series can be accessed on YouTube here, and is based on a similar video set created by the Odum Institute.

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Posted in Data Management, Texas Data Repository, training


Texas Digital Library Advances Texas Research to Global Stage

Texas Digital Library (TDL) has joined the Global Dataverse Community Consortium as a Phase I member. In our role as charter members, Texas Digital Library will assist in governance, planning, and creation of the Consortium’s mission and vision statements.

Formed in 2018,

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Posted in Data Management, Texas Data Repository


TDL 2017 Holiday Wish List

In between snacking, sleeping, skiing, or [insert your favorite relaxing holiday fun], help TDL fulfill our wishes during this year’s holiday break.

Further Your Career

TDL will offer lots of professional development next semester. Take advantage of the winter break to further your career with these opportunities:

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Posted in Conferences, digital preservation, Institutional Repositories, News, TCDL, TDL Awards, Texas Data Repository, Vireo


Recordings of TDL webinar series now available: “Laying the Foundation for Research Data Services”

Session 1. Getting Started with the Texas Data Repository and Data Competencies

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Session 2. Teaching Data: Developing Data Instruction Using a Multi-Level Competency Model

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Session 3. Learning By Example: Connecting Data Competencies with the Texas Data Repository

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Visit the TDL.org webinar site for more information: 

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Posted in Data Management, News, Texas Data Repository


Building the Data Environment at the University of Texas at Austin Libraries

photo of Jessica Trelogan

Originally posted January 27, 2017 in Tex Libris, Office of the Director, University of Texas Libraries.

Jessica Trelogan was brought in last year to fill the new position of Data Management Coordinator in order to build, maintain and enhance the data services deployed by the Libraries.

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Posted in Member Story, News, Texas Data Repository


Announcing the official launch of the Texas Data Repository

AUSTIN, TEXAS – The Texas Digital Library is pleased to announce the official launch of the Texas Data Repository. The TDL-hosted Texas Data Repository is a platform for publishing and archiving datasets created by faculty, staff, and students at Texas higher education institutions. The repository is built in the open-source Dataverse platform,

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Posted in News, Texas Data Repository, Texas Digital Library


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