Browse Data Curation Education Program (DCEP) by Title

  • Analyzing Data Curation Job Descriptions (Poster & Abstract) 
    Cragin, Melissa H.; Palmer, Carole L.; Varvel, Virgil E., Jr.; Collie, Aaron; Dolan, Molly (2009-12-04)
    In developing the Data Curation Education Program (DCEP) at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, we have been engaged in a continuous, multi-faceted ...

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  • Data Curation Education 
    Smith, Linda C.; Cragin, Melissa H.; Palmer, Carole L.; MacMullen, W. John; Heidorn, P. Bryan (2008-06-20)
    Data curation is the active and ongoing management of research data through its lifecycle of interest and usefulness to scholarship, science, and education. The Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the ...

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  • Data Curation Education and Biological Information Specialists 
    Heidorn, P. Bryan; Palmer, Carole L.; Cragin, Melissa H.; Smith, Linda C. (2007-04-20)
    Abstract Scientific data problems do not stand in isolation but are part of a larger set of challenges associated with the expansion of scientific information gathering capacity and changes in scholarly communication ...

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  • Data Curation Education for the Humanities: Principles and Challenges 
    Renear, Allen H.; Muñoz, Trevor; Trainor, Kevin (2010-11)
    Data curation has been described as the active and ongoing management of data throughout its entire lifecycle of interest and usefulness to scholarship. Curation activities enable data discovery and retrieval, maintain ...

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  • Data Curation in LIS Education and Libraries 
    Cragin, Melissa H. (2009-07-13)
    Presentation for the ALA Annual Meeting, July 13, 2009, for the ACRL Science and Technology Section panel: Big Science, Little Science, E-Science: The Science Librarian’s Role in the Conversation

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  • An Educational Program on Data Curation 
    Cragin, Melissa H.; Heidorn, P. Bryan; Palmer, Carole L.; Smith, Linda C. (2007-06-25)
    Several models of service are emerging in academic and research libraries for the collection and management of scientific data – an important segment of an institution’s total scholarly production. As libraries work to ...

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  • Extending an LIS Data Curation Curriculum to Include Humanities Data 
    Renear, Allen H.; Teffeau, Lauren C.; Hswe, Patricia; Dolan, Molly; Palmer, Carole L.; Cragin, Melissa H.; Unsworth, John (2009-04)
    We describe an IMLS-funded project to extend an existing data curation curriculum to include humanities data.

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  • Purposeful Curation: Research and Education for a Future with Working Data 
    Palmer, Carole L.; Renear, Allen H.; Cragin, Melissa H. (2008-12-02)
    It has been suggested that digital libraries are more like archives than libraries and that library science cannot provide a theoretical foundation for handling digital data. We assert, however, that library and information ...

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  • Shedding Light on the Dark Data in the Long Tail of Science 
    Heidorn, P. Bryan (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008-10)
    One of the primary outputs of the scientific enterprise is data, but many institutions such as libraries that are charged with preserving and disseminating scholarly output have largely ignored this form of documentation ...

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  • Towards a Cross-Disciplinary Notion of Data Level in Data Curation 
    Renear, Allen H.; Dolan, Molly; Trainor, Kevin; Cragin, Melissa H. (ASIS&T, 2009-11-11)
    Originally focused on scientific data, the data curation community is now taking up the curation problems of humanities data as well. Sharing concepts and terminology across these domains should be valuable for both the ...

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