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Curating for Convergence: Data Stewardship for Interdisciplinary Inquiry

Palmer, Carole L.; Cragin, Melissa H.

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Title
Curating for Convergence: Data Stewardship for Interdisciplinary Inquiry
Author(s)
  • Palmer, Carole L.
  • Cragin, Melissa H.
Issue Date
2023
Keyword(s)
  • Linda C. Smith
  • Festschrift
Date of Ingest
2023-12-20T04:03:18-06:00
Abstract
Advances in data infrastructure are often led by disciplinary initiatives aimed at innovation in federation and sharing of data and related research materials. In library and information science (LIS), the data services area has focused on data curation and stewardship to support description and deposit of data for access, reuse, and preservation. At the same time, solutions to societal grand challenges are thought to lie in convergence research, characterized by a problem-focused orientation and deep cross-disciplinary integration, requiring access to highly varied data sources with differing resolutions or scales. We argue that data curation and stewardship work in LIS should expand to foster convergence research based on a robust understanding of the dynamics of disciplinary and interdisciplinary research methods and practices. Highlighting unique contributions by Dr. Linda C. Smith to the field of LIS, we outline how her work illuminates problems that are core to current directions in convergence research. Drawing on advances in data infrastructure in the earth and geosciences and trends in qualitative domains, we emphasize the importance of metastructures and the necessary influence of disciplinary practice on principles, standards, and provisions for ethical use across the evolving data ecosystem.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Illinois School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Series/Report Name or Number
Library Trends 71 (1). August 2022
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Genre of Resource
article
Language
eng
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2023.0007
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Copyright 2023 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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Library Trends 71 (1) August 2022: Library and Information Science, Interdisciplinary Perspectives: A Festschrift in Honor of Linda C. Smith [Restricted Access] PRIMARY
Library Trends 71 (1) August 2022: Library and Information Science, Interdisciplinary Perspectives: A Festschrift in Honor of Linda C. Smith. Edited by Anita S. Coleman and Martha Kyrillidou.