An opportunity to further develop systematic information search skills, records management skills, SharePoint design skills and information analysis and reporting skills.

The University of Leicester’s Data to Knowledge (D2K) Research team requires a centralized approach to managing research records (data and documents) created by and for its various projects.  The team currently holds several medium to large grants in support of harmonizing the use of data held by international biobanks and cohort studies. The transdisciplinary research encompasses topics including genetic epidemiology, software/middleware technologies, data access and privacy, and the communities of scientific knowledge.  The D2K projects are overseen by Dr Joel Minion, Senior Research Manager.

This work will explore whether records and information management principles applied to SharePoint 2010 records centre and in place records management features might provide structure for a solution.

The student will prepare a syllabus and then take a stepwise planned approach to:

1. Self-directed reading maintaining an annotated list of completed readings
2. Conducting a systematic search of the research literature related to research team records management.  The search will follow methods as described in Booth et al. (2012). Systematic Approaches to a Successful Literature Review.  These will include:
3. Examine up to four existing commercial research data/records management systems to see whether they address service outcomes
4. Design an approach to records management for the Data to Knowledge (D2K) Research Group using SharePoint records centre and in place records management function
5. Summarize reading course work as an academic poster.

• the framed search question
• the mapped concept(s) associated with the search questions
• a scoping search report to include charts describing publication timeline and size of the literature by subject domain
• Searches of up to four sources, including commercial databases and grey literature resources
• Documentation of search methods
• Search results organized within a Refworks Refshare folder

 

This reading course will allow a student to apply and further develop skills gained in INFO5515 Organization of Information, INFO 5530 Information Sources and Retrieval and INFO 6730 Records Management.  These include:

• Client engagement
• Records management
• SharePoint 2010 and Reference management software
• Health databases, library and information science databases, grey literature.

 

Please refer to MLIS Reading Courses: Policy and Procedures (INFO 6700/6710) http://sim.management.dal.ca/Courses/MLIS%20Courses%20Offered/Reading_Courses.php, then contact Dr. Jacqueline MacDonald: jacqueline.macdonald@dal.ca for more information.