David
Lowe
Job Title
Research Data Management Librarian
Department
Office Building
Staff Email
dlowe@lsu.edu
Responsibilites
Facilitating access to campus research data, working with faculty to ensure their projects’ datasets are kept in optimal places to make them findable, accessible, interoperable, and reproducible.
Experience
- Texas A&M University: Digital Collections Management Librarian
- Florida Institute of Technology: Data Librarian
- University of Connecticut: Data Management Librarian
Education
- University of Michigan, MILS, 1996
- University of Texas, MA, Russian Literature, 1987
- Rice University, BA, English and Russian, 1985
Publications
- Lowe, David B. and Wendi Arant Kaspar, "The Space Between Data Producers and Consumers: Mediation Strategies for Researchers," Journal of Information Ethics, Vol. 32, No. 2 (Fall 2023)
- Lowe, David B., Dollinger, Ian, Koster, Tristan, & Herbert, Bruce E. (2021). “Text Mining for Type of Research Classification.” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 59(8), 815–834. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2021.1998281
Presentations
- Lowe, David B., Jeannette Ho, Dong Joon Lee, and Bruce E. Herbert, “Integrating VIVO and the Campus Repository: Representing Curated Teaching Materials in Scholarly Profiles of Faculty in Different Career Tracks,” 11th Annual International VIVO Conference (May 2020). https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/188198
Research Interests
- Machine Actionable Data Management Plans
- Contributor Role Attribution with the CRediT taxonomy
- Digital Collections as Data
- Text Mining in Digital Collections
- Digital Humanities and Cultural Analysis
- Institutional Repositories
- Open Scholarship and Open Access
- Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Awards
- 2022 Texas Digital Library Scholarly Communication Award
ORCID ID URL
Phone Number
225-578-0309
Staff Role
Research Guides URL
