Minnesota Water Research Digital Library
Published on Nov 18, 2015
Information about the MN Water Research Digital Library, www.mn.gov/water-research-library
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
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Your Work--->
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Minnesota's Water Health
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Today's agenda
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Live Demo
Results include
- Peer-reviewed & grey literature
- Minnesota relevance
- Diverse water topics
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User Scenario
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User: Engineering Consultant
Works with Cities with MS4 stormwater permits.
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Challenge 1) Designs projects without always understanding the effectiveness of the wide range of stormwater Best Management Practices (BMPs).
What really works?
Challenge 2) New scientific research is expanding our knowledge base almost every day. Is it relevant to Minnesota?
"The Minnesota Water Research Digital Library is an important factor in providing our cities with useful access to this new research...make our work...more cost-effective and safer for the environment."
Breakout: having easier access to _________would help me.....
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Collections: Sharing in Common...
- Author
- Organization
- Journal
- Publication Series
Author: UM Professor David Mulla
Organization - Might work best for smaller orgs such as the Minnesota Corn Growers. For really large orgs like MPCA or DNR, an “org” could be a an individual division, section or unit. Key point: many orgs have a repository of their own research on their web site.
Journal: Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, Journal of Extension – key point is that a Curator for a given journal would identify articles from past and current issues that fit the Library’s scope.
Pub Series: USGS ___ series (look up one of their series so you can name it specifically).
Organization - Might work best for smaller orgs such as the Minnesota Corn Growers. For really large orgs like MPCA or DNR, an “org” could be a an individual division, section or unit. Key point: many orgs have a repository of their own research on their web site.
Journal: Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, Journal of Extension – key point is that a Curator for a given journal would identify articles from past and current issues that fit the Library’s scope.
Pub Series: USGS ___ series (look up one of their series so you can name it specifically).
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Collections
- Program
- Repository
- Main Topic
- Subtopic
Program: (MPCA’s) Industrial Stormwater Permit Program; UM National Center for Earth-Surface Dynamics program; MDH Contaminants of Emerging Concern program
· Repository: UM Digital Conservancy (note that a U librarian has already offered to curate this “collection” for us which is a great opportunity for coordination with other UM “collections” such as WRC, etc. (see below about coordination and the “nesting” concept
· Main Topic- quite broad- we'll show youSubtopic: Aquatic Invasive Species – involving DNR and statewide committee with local government and other representatives. (involved Filtration Membranes (offered to us by a water technology company)
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· Repository: UM Digital Conservancy (note that a U librarian has already offered to curate this “collection” for us which is a great opportunity for coordination with other UM “collections” such as WRC, etc. (see below about coordination and the “nesting” concept
· Main Topic- quite broad- we'll show youSubtopic: Aquatic Invasive Species – involving DNR and statewide committee with local government and other representatives. (involved Filtration Membranes (offered to us by a water technology company)
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Governance & Partners
Steering Team
- Buffalo-Red Watershed District Board
- Board of Water and Soil Resources (BWSR)
- Department of Natural Resources (DNR)
- Freshwater Society
- MN Department of Agriculure (MDA)
Steering Team (CONT.)
- MN Department of Health (MDH)
- Metropolitan Council
- Mississippi Watershed Management Organization
- MN Corn Growers Assocation
- MN Pollution Control Agency (MPCA)
Steering Team (CONT.)
- Pelican River Watershed District
- U of M Libraries
- U of M Water Resources Center
- U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
- Washington County Conservation District
Partners
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Curators
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Subject matter experts and caretakers for collections.
Enter their own and other’s publications.
that eligibility decisions still need to be made.
Affiliate Websites
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Host articles or publication series on their websites.
User Feedback Group
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Helps improve the Library through taking surveys,
focus groups, submit content, and more.
Governance & Partners
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Erik Anderson,
Washington Conservation District
Ann Lewandowski, Minnesota Water
Resources Center
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1. Does the Minnesota Water Research Digital Library primarily hold data?
1. False,the Library primarily holds research articles.
Monitoring and Assessment reports (containing analysis and interpretation of the data) but not the raw data. You should also probably mention MPCA’s proposed data portal project: when developed, it will be the go-to place for accessing raw data.
2. Which Partnership Opportunity involves subject matter experts working as caretakers for collections?
A) Data Entry
B) Curators
C) Affiliate Website
D) All of the Above
2. B, Curators
3. How do I find out more?
A) Visit "About" on mn.gov/wrl
B) Email Mn.Wrl@state.mn.us
C) Call Christine
D) All of the Above
3. D, All of the Above
Christine.Yaeger@State.mn.us
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