(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012-10)
Parham, Susan Wells; Doty, Chris
As of January 2011,the National Science
Foundation (NSF) has required a data
management plan (DMP) as part of all
grant proposals.Georgia Tech’s librarians
and information technologists presented
DMP development guidelines to support
the requirement and later examined 181
plans submitted in the first eight months
of 2011.
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012-01)
Parham, Susan Wells; Bodnar, Jon; Fuchs, Sara
The management and preservation
of research data is of growing importance
to institutions, and provides a juncture
where librarians can work with researchers
and other campus professionals to develop
research data curation services.
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010)
Westra, Brian; Ramirez, Marisa; Parham, Susan Wells; Scaramozzino, Jeanine Marie
Networked, data-intensive computational approaches to science play an increasingly important role across research disciplines, and this technology-rich environment alters both the content and modes of scholarly communication (Wright et al. 2007). The sheer volume of digital data produced in the sciences is staggering, presenting challenges to researchers and to publishers, funding agencies, and others both within and external to the academic community (Borgman, Wallis, and Enyedy 2007). The curation of digital research data and the development of related infrastructure are of great significance to the research community, as evinced by the National Science Foundation's DataNet Program. The program will ultimately fund five large-scale projects which will include new types of research organizations (DataNet Partners) to focus their research efforts in these areas. The curation of research data is defined as "stewardship that adds value through the provision of context and linkage: placing emphasis on publishing data in ways that ease re-use and promoting accountability and integration" (Rusbridge et al. 2005). According to Sayeed Choudhury, the implications of research data curation for libraries include: "Data as collections; data as services; librarians as data scientists; data centers as the new library stacks" (Choudhury 2009). As such, research libraries are developing services to support the intake, preservation and reuse of this digital content, and exploring new roles for libraries and librarians. A growing number of institutions have undertaken "collaborative action by cross-section partnerships of academe, government, industry and others" to develop new data curation resources, including case studies, standards and tools, policies, and training (Gold 2010). The resources listed below are reflective of the current state of knowledge, which will likely undergo significant changes as curation services and technology continue to evolve.