SPEC Kit 354: Data Curation (May 2017)
This SPEC Kit explores the infrastructure that ARL member institutions are using for data curation, which data curation services are offered, who may use them, which disciplines demand services most, library staffing levels, policies and workflows, and the challenges of supporting these activities.
It includes examples of data repository web pages, descriptions of services, infrastructure, workflows, metadata schemas, and policies, and job descriptions.
Hudson-Vitale, Cynthia, Heidi Imker, Lisa R. Johnston, Jake Carlson, Wendy Kozlowski, Robert Olendorf, and Claire Stewart. Data Curation. SPEC Kit 354. Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, May 2017.
Table of Contents
SPEC Kit 354: Data Curation (May 2017)
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SPEC Kit 354 Data Curation (May 2017)
I1
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Data Curation frontmatter
III3
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Survey Results
19
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Representative Documents
6371
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Data Repositories
6472
- British Columbia Research Libraries’ Data Services 6573
- University of California, Irvine Libraries 6674
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library 6775
- University of Michigan Library 6876
- University of Minnesota Libraries 6977
- Rutgers University Libraries 7078
- Scholars Portal 7179
- Texas Digital Library 7280
- Virginia Tech University Libraries 7482
- Washington University in St. Louis Libraries 7583
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Data Curation Services
7684
- University of California, Irvine Libraries 7785
- University of California, Santa Barbara Library 7987
- Johns Hopkins University Libraries 8088
- University of Michigan Library 8189
- University of Minnesota Libraries 8290
- University of Notre Dame, Hesburgh Libraries 8391
- Rutgers University Libraries 8795
- Virginia Tech University Libraries 93101
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Data Curation Infrastructure
94102
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Data Curation Workflows
100108
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Data Models and Metadata Schemas
106114
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Data Deaccessioning Policies
116124
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Data Curation Job Descriptions
124132
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Data Repositories
6472
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Selected Resources
131139
- Data Curation Practices and Treatments (multidisciplinary) 132140
- Humanities Data Curation 133141
- Scientific Data Curation 133141
- Social Science Data Curation 134142
- Researcher Assessments for Data Curation 134142
- Data Curation Training and Education 134142
- Data Repository Development and Requirements 135143
- Data Copyright and Citation 135143
- Additional Resources 135143

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SPEC Kit 354: Data Curation (May 2017)