University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Data Curation Education for the Humanities: Principles and Challenges

Renear, Allen H.; Muñoz, Trevor; Trainor, Kevin

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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/17421

Description

Title
Data Curation Education for the Humanities: Principles and Challenges
Author(s)
  • Renear, Allen H.
  • Muñoz, Trevor
  • Trainor, Kevin
Contributor(s)
  • Cragin, Melissa H.
  • Palmer, Carole L.
Issue Date
2010-11
Keyword(s)
  • Data Curation
  • Curriculum
  • digital humanities
  • LIS
Abstract
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 quality, add value, and provide for re-use over time. Originally conceptualized as an e-Science problem precipitated by large amounts of data in digital formats, data curation is an emerging problem for the humanities as well, as both data and analytical practices become increasingly digital. Research groups working with cultural content, as well as libraries, museums, archives and other institutions, are all in need of new expertise.
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/17421
Sponsor(s)/Grant Number(s)
Institute of Museum and Library Services

Owning Collections

Data Curation Education Program (DCEP) PRIMARY
Presentations, publications, and curriculum material for the DCEP at the iSchool