Steinhart, Gail

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Steinhart, Gail Research Data/Environmental Sciences Librarian

Positions

Gail Steinhart is Research Data & Environmental Sciences librarian at Albert R. Mann Library.  Her interests are in research data curation and cyberscholarship.  At Mann Library, she is responsible for developing and supporting new services for collecting and archiving research data, and serves as a library liaison for environmental science activities. She has also held the position of GIS librarian at Mann Library. She holds M.S. degrees in Library and Information Science (Syracuse University) and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (Cornell University), and worked for nearly 15 years in environmental research before becoming a librarian.

Overview

related websites

  • DataStaR: a Data Staging Repository for Digital Research Data

Affiliation

Research

keywords

  • cyberinfrastructure
  • data curation
  • e-research
  • e-science
  • scholarly communication

Publications

selected publications listing

  • Steinhart, Gail. 2011. DataStaR: A Data Sharing and Publication Infrastructure to Support Research. Agricultural Information Worldwide 4(1):16-20. Online: http://journals.sfu.ca/iaald/index.php/aginfo/article/view/199

    Khan, Huda, Brian Caruso, Brian Lowe, Jon Corson-Rikert, Diane Dietrich and Gail Steinhart. 2010. DataStaR: Using the Semantic Web approach for Data Curation. Proceedings of the 6th International Digital Curation Conference. December 6-8, 2010. Chicago, IL.

    Steinhart, Gail. 2010. DataStaR: A Data Staging Repository to Support the Sharing and Publication of Research Data. 31st Annual IATUL Conference - The Evolving World of e-Science: Impact and Implications for Science and Technology Libraries. June 20-24, 2010. West Lafayette, IN. Online: http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul2010/conf/day2/8/

    Steinhart, Gail, Dianne Dietrich, and Ann Green. 2009. Establishing Trust in a Chain of Preservation: The TRAC Checklist Applied to a Data Staging Repository (DataStaR). D-Lib Magazine 15(9/10). Online: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september09/steinhart/09steinhart.html.

    Steinhart, Gail, John Saylor, Paul Albert, Kristine Alpi, Pam Baxter, Eli Brown, Kathy Chiang, Jon Corson-Rikert, Peter Hirtle, Keith Jenkins, Brian Lowe, Janet McCue, David Ruddy, Rick Silterra, Leah Solla, Zoe Stewart-Marshall, Elaine L. Westbrooks.  2008.  Digital Research Data Curation: Overview of Issues, Current Activities, and Opportunities for the Cornell University Library.  Report of the Cornell University Library Data Working Group.  Online: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/10903.

    Woodbury, P.B., R.W. Howarth, and G. Steinhart.  2008.  Understanding Nutrient Cycling and Sediment Sources in the Upper Susquehanna River Basin.  Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education (139): 7-14.

    Steinhart, G.S. 2006.  Libraries as Distributors of Geospatial Data: Data Management Policies as Tools for Managing Partnerships. Library Trends 55(2): 264-284. Online: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/3562.

    Steinhart, G.S., G.E. Likens, and D. Soto. 2002. Physiological Indicators of Nutrient Deficiency in Phytoplankton in Southern Chilean Lakes. Hydrobiologia 489: 21-27.

    Steinhart, G.S., G.E. Likens, and P.M. Groffman. 2000. Denitrification in stream sediments in five northeastern (USA) streams. Internationale Vereinigung fur Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie, Verhandlungen 27: 1331-1336.

    Steinhart, G.S., G.E. Likens, and D. Soto. 1999. Nutrient limitation in Lago Chaiquenes (Parque Nacional Alerce Andino, Chile): Evidence from nutrient enrichment experiments and physiological assays. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 72(4): 559-568.

    Cole, J.J., M.L. Pace, N.F. Caraco, and G.S. Steinhart. 1993. Bacterial biomass and cell size distributions in lakes: More and larger cells in anoxic waters. Limnology and Oceanography 38(8): 1627-1632.

talks and presentations

  • Khan, Huda, Gail Steinhart, Brian Lowe, Brian Caruso, Dianne Dietrich, Jon Corson-Rikert. 2011. DataStaR: An Ontology-Based Approach to Representing Metadata for Research Datasets. VIVO Conference. August 24-26, 2011. Washington, DC.

    Steinhart, Gail. 2011. Ahead of the Curve: Mentoring for Emerging Careers in eScience Librarianship. Poster presented at the 2011 Association of College and Research Libraries National meeting. March 30-April 2, 2011. Philadelphia, PA.

    Steinhart, Gail. 2011. Institutional Support for Data Management Requirements. Presentation at the spring meeting of the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation. March 16-18, 2011. Arlington, VA. (Invited).

    Steinhart, Gail. 2010. Small is Beautiful: Data Curation for the Rest of Us. Presentation at the SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting. November 8-9, 2010. Baltimore, MD. (Invited).

    Steinhart, Gail. 2010. An Institutional Perspective on Data Curation: The View from Cornell University Library. University of Illinois Graduate School in Library and Information Science Summer Institute on Data Curation. May 17-20, 2010. Champaign, IL. (Invited).

    Steinhart, Gail. 2009. Academic Libraries and Data Curation: Mega-opp? NorthEast Regional Computing Program (NERCOMP): Science Librarians in an e-Science World. October 9, 2009. Southbridge, MA. (Invited). Online: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/15034

    Steinhart, G.S. and B.J. Lowe. 2007. Data Curation and Distribution in Support of Cornell University's Upper Susquehanna Agricultural Ecology Program. DigCCurr2007, an international symposium on Digital Curation, April 18-20, 2007. Chapel Hill, NC.

    Steinhart, G.S. 2005. Distributing Geospatial Data on the Web: Lessons from CUGIR. Presentation at the American Library Association Map and Geography Round Table session: Options of Making Maps and Geospatial Data Accessible Online. June 27, 2005. Chicago, IL. (Invited).

Service

current professional activities

    • Program Committee, 2012 International Association for Social Science Information Services & Technology (IASSIST) Conference
    • Program Committee, 2012 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL)
    • Editorial Board, Journal of eScience Librarianship
    • Cornell University Library Data Executive Group
    • Cornell University Library Visual Resources Working Group

Background

educational background

    • M.S. in Library and Information Science, May 2005. Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY. Recipient, Joseph and Marta Dosa scholarship (2004).
    • M.S. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. May 1996. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Thesis: Nutrient Limitation of Primary Production and Nutrient Deficiency in Phytoplankton in Southern Chilean Lakes.
    • B.S. in Geology and Geophysics, Zoology. May 1989. University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.

awards and distinctions listing

  • SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Librarianship (2010)