Grants

Council on Library and Information Resources

To support the extension of the existing Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) postdoctoral program into digital curation in the sciences and social sciences

  • Amount $672,697
  • City Washington, DC
  • Investigator Charles Henry
  • Year 2012
  • Program Technology
  • Sub-program Data & Computational Research

Alongside data scientists trained in the statistical and computational methods that are integral to analysis of data at scale, there is a growing need for "digital curators," professional staff who can steward data, code, and other research products from the lab into more durable archives. Such digital curation is often discussed as one function of the future academic research library. Unfortunately, while many university libraries want to explore this new function, institutional inertia, tight budgets, and existing organizational structures have inhibited rapid change. Funds from this grant support a project by the Council on Library and Information Resources to expand its existing post-doctoral program to prepare recent science and social science Ph.D.s for positions in data curation. Grant monies will provide partial support for the development and training of a cohort of six postdoctoral students over two years. Supported students will be placed at university libraries where they will contribute to efforts to expand the institution's digital curation capabilities. Training activities funded under this grant include an initial "boot camp" that exposes participants to the current best practices in data curation, monthly professional development webinars, and an annual retreat.

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