The "Master of Science--Concentration in Data Curation" from GSLIS at
the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign is interesting in this
context.
http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/programs/ms/data_curation.html
From the blurb:
"The Data Curation Education Program (DCEP) concentration within our
ALA-accredited master of science offers a focus on data collection and
management, knowledge representation, digital preservation and
archiving, data standards, and policy. Data curation is the active and
on-going management of data through its lifecycle of interest and
usefulness to scholarship, science, and education. Data curation
activities enable data discovery and retrieval, maintain its quality,
add value, and provide for re-use over time, and this new field includes
authentication, archiving, management, preservation, retrieval, and
representation. Our program will provide a strong focus on the theory
and skills necessary to work directly with academic and industry
researchers who need data curation expertise."
Lorcan
http://orweblog.oclc.org
-----Original Message-----
From: Repositories discussion list
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Alma Swan
Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 5:44 AM
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Subject: Digital data management skills
JISC is currently funding two projects that are looking at various
aspects
of data management skills in the research, repository and library
communities. The projects are:
1. The Digital Curation Centre's Summer School project:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitalrepositories2007/dcc_su
mmer
_schools.aspx
2. Skills and careers of data scientists and curators:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitalrepositories2007/data_s
kill
s_careers.aspx
Part of the information-gathering work for these projects is to be done
by
means of an electronic questionnaire. Those of you who are working with
data
yourselves, or are involved in training others to manage their research
data
effectively, are invited to help these studies by spending a few minutes
completing the questionnaire online at:
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/jisc/data_projects_questionnaire
We would also be grateful if you would pass this message to colleagues
and
researchers who you think may be willing to help, too.
Thanks for your participation.
Alma Swan
Key Perspectives Ltd
Truro, UK
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