Graduate School of Library and Information Science
Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Data Conservancy Led by: Carole Palmer (UIUC), Sayeed Choudhury overall at John's Hopkins University The Data Conservancy is a $20 million initiative led by Sayeed Choudhury at the Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries. The five-year award, one of the first two in the NSF’s DataNet program, is building infrastructure for the management of the ever-increasing amounts of digital research data. The CIRSS team will receive approximately $2.9 million for their contributions to multiple aspects of the project. The Data Practices team (Palmer, Cragin, MacMullen, & Chao) is investigating expectations and requirements across the scientific communities served by Data Conservancy, establishing criteria for deposition, sharing, and quality control of data sets. The focus is on the ‘long tail of small science,’ and how to support collecting and sharing of the highly variable types of data produced by individual scientists and small research groups. The Data Concepts team (Renear, Dubin, & Sacchi) is developing formal terminology and identity conditions for fundamental data concepts. This work will provide the foundation for standardizing how Data Conservancy datasets are identified, described, related, and organized. The CIRSS research activities and other Data Conservancy efforts are feeding directly into two professional training programs at GSLIS—the Data Curation specialization in the Master's of Library and Information Science and the Biological Information Specialists master’s in the campus-wide bioinformatics program, as well as professional development in data curation principles, processes, and technologies.
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| CIRSS Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 501 E. Daniel Street, MC-493, Champaign, IL 61820-6211 USA cirssinfo@cirss.lis.uiuc.edu | (217) 333-1980 | [fax] (217) 244-3302 |
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