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eScience Thesaurus 2.0
Tess Grynoch
Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School, [email protected]
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eScience Thesaurus 2.0
Tess Grynoch
Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Introduction
Results
 The eScience Thesaurus, first created by Kevin Read in 2013, is an
online resource which connects and defines concepts, services,
and tools relevant to librarians supporting eScience research
 The many developments within eScience since 2013 have
prompted a revision of this valuable resource
http://esciencelibrary.umassmed.edu/professional-educ/escience-thesaurus
Next Steps
 55 terms currently in the eScience Thesaurus

• 10 were identified for merging
• Find relevant literature and resources
• All the remaining Thesaurus terms were changed to nouns for consistency
• Interview subject experts
59 possible new terms were reviewed (47 terms arose from the eScience
literature search and 12 suggested by members of the Editorial Board)
 Send out groups of the revised and new term records to the Editorial Board
and additional eScience subject experts for review
• 23 new terms passed review to be added to the Thesaurus
 Move the eScience Thesaurus to the new eScience Portal Website
Current terms remaining in Thesaurus
Altmetrics
CTSA Data Services
Cyberinfrastructure
Data
Data Citation
Data Curation
Figure 1. eScience Thesaurus homepage.
 Each Thesaurus entry includes a description, relevant literature
and resources, and some entries also include a video interview
with a librarian working in eScience
 Create records for the new terms
Data Description and
Annotation
Data Dictionary
Data Interview
Data Lifecycle
Data Literacy
Data Management Plan
Data Management
Planning Tool (DMPTool)
Data Management Policy
Data Migration
Data Preservation
Data Privacy
Data Provenance
Data Publication
Data Repository
Data Reuse
Data Science
Data Security
Data Sharing
Data Transformation
Data Visualization
DataCite
Digital Curation
Digital Curation Lifecycle
Model
Electronic Laboratory
Notebook (ELN)
Embedded Librarian
e-Science
Fourth Paradigm
Informationist
Institutional Repository
Linked Data
MANTRA Data
Management Course
Metadata Extraction
Metadata
Open Data
Open Science
OpenDOAR
Persistent Unique
Identifier
Research Data
Management
Research Lifecycle
 Create stronger ties between the eScience Thesaurus and the other
eScience Portal content
New Terms
Advanced Encryption
Standard (AES)
Application Program
Interface (API)
Big Data
Biotechnology
Citizen Science
Cloud Computing
Data Access Act
Data Carpentry
Data Catalog
Data enclave
Data Interoperability
Data Mining
Data Network
Data Ownership
Data Standards
Data Stewardship
High Performance
Computing
Informatics
LOCKSS
MOOC
Open Access
ORCID
Reproducible Research
Wiki
Figure 2. eScience Thesaurus term page for Altmetrics.
Calling eScience Librarians and Experts!
Are you or someone you know an eScience librarian or expert familiar
with some of the eScience Thesaurus terms? We could use your help!
We are looking for volunteers to:
 Help review small groups of the revised term records
 Be interviewed about their work in the eScience field
If you are interested or would like to suggest someone to reach out to,
please contact: [email protected]
Acknowledgements
Methods
 Revised methodology Read, Creamer, Kafel, Vander Hart, &
Martin (2013) used to create the thesaurus
10
Current terms
remaining in Thesaurus
New Terms
• Replicated the search strategy used by Read et al. (2013) and
limited the search to articles since 2013
• Tagged relevant articles with their prominent topics
• Prominent topics outside of the current terms in the Thesaurus
were suggested as possible new thesaurus topics
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23
Current terms that
will be merged
• Current terms were suggested for merging or removal
• Current Thesaurus terms and new proposed Thesaurus terms
were evaluated by the eScience Portal Editorial Board for
inter-coder reliability
Thank you to Julie Goldman and the eScience Portal Editorial board,
Leah Honor, Hillary Miller, Laura Palumbo, and Ahlam Saleh, for
providing guidance and support for this project.
Figure 3. Composition of the current (left) and new (right) eScience Thesaurus.
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References
Read, K., Creamer, A., Kafel, D., Vander Hart, R.J., & Martin, E.R. (2013).
Building an escience thesaurus for librarians: A collaboration between the
National Network of Libraries of Medicine, New England Region and an
Associate Fellow at the National Library of Medicine. Journal of eScience
Librarianship, 2(2), 53-67. http://dx.doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.2013.1049
This project is funded by the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, under Cooperative Agreement Number UG4LM012347 with the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester.