HKBU LIBRARY: Survey on Research Data Services

As a faculty member, researcher, or postgraduate student, you need to work with research data on a daily basis in the form of text, images, audio/video recordings, and various other formats to hypothesis and validate your findings.

In view of this, the University Library is considering strengthening our support for research data planning, analysis, and sharing. Before starting to design the service scope, we want to learn about your needs so that we could make informed decisions to support your research.

This survey is expected to be finished in 10 minutes. Because your opinions will form our directions, please consider the options carefully and send in your response by December 2, 2017. Thank you very much.

Thank you very much for your time. You may want to visit the HKBU Library's Digital Scholarship Service webpage to see the collaborations we did with various faculty turning their research data into interesting projects.

The Library also provides a Data Management Plan (DMP) template to help you get started.

If you have any questions about this survey or the library's planning process for research data services, please feel free to contact Ms. Rebekah Wong (Digital and Multimedia Services Librarian, HKBU Library) at rebekahw@hkbu.edu.hk.

1	Among all possible service choices, which three would be most important and useful for you? If the choices provided here cannot describe your needs, please type them in the free text boxes. *(Select one to three choices)*
	DATA PLANNING Support my development of data management plans Advise me on funder’s or publisher’s requirements on data management DATA ANALYSIS Provide tools for data mining Provide training on data analysis tools Provide training on data analysis tools for my research staff and/or postgraduate students (only faculty can select this choice) Provide consultation on quantitative study DATA RETENTION AND SHARING Provide an institutional data repository for me to share (and store) my datasets Provide tools for data visualization Provide training on data visualization tools Provide training on data visualization tools for my research staff and/or postgraduate students (only faculty can select this choice) Assist data clean-up and visualize my data for public access Other needs not mentioned above I do NOT need any research data service at all
2	Which of the following best describes the type of research data you generate or use in a typical research project? *(Select all that apply)*
	Geospatial – (e.g. raster, vector, grid) Instrument specific – (e.g. Olympus Confocal Microscope Data Format, FLIR Infrared Camera (SEQ)) Models – (e.g. 3D, statistical, similitude, macroeconomic, causal) Multimedia – (e.g. JPEG, TIFF, MPEG, MP3, Quicktime, Bitmap) Numerical – (e.g. CSV, MAT, XLS, SPSS) Software – (e.g. Java, C, Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP, R) Text – (e.g. TXT, DOC, PDF, RTF, HTML, XML) Other (e.g. discipline specific such as CIF, FITS, DICOM), please specify:
3	Any other comments or suggestions related to research data services?
	Comment:
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4	Current status at HKBU
	Professor (including Research Professor and Research Assistant Professor) Lecturer or instructor Research staff Postdoctoral fellow or scholar Research postgraduate students Taught postgraduate students Other, please specify:
5	Your department

6	Your HKBU email address, so that we can contact you if necessary (optional)

HKBU Library - Survey on Research Data Services

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