Role of Libraries in Data Curation

While big science often has its data curation needs met outside the library, the library needs to be prepared to respond to the need for local dataset management, to look beyond derivative data, to include the source data, and to help researchers manage the entire data lifecycle.

Following input from the 2008 RLG Partnership meeting, members of the RLG Research Information Management Interest Group indicated which four of eleven proposed activities were most important to their institution. This one was in the top four. A working group has been formed to define and advance the work.

Details

This work is just getting underway. More detail will be provided as available.

• Ricky Erway (lead)

Working Group:

• Jeff Belliston, Brigham Young University
• Niamh Brennan, Trinity College Dublin
• Elizabeth Brown, Binghamton University, State University of New York
• Rowan Brownlee, University of Sydney
• Faye Chadwell, Oregon State University
• Patricia Cruse, California Digital Library
• Robin Green, University of Warwick
• Allen Jones, The New School
• MJ Romaniuk, University of Alberta
• Sally Rumsey, University of Oxford
• Anna Shadbolt, University of Melbourne

Project lead: Ricky Erway

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