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 Investigating Data Curation Profiles Across Multiple Research Disciplines

Project Overview

Investigators from the Distributed Data Curation Center in the Libraries at Purdue University and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are addressing the question, "Which researchers are willing to share data, when, with whom, and under what conditions?"

The goals of the project are: (1) enriching understanding of access to (or sharing of) data and related curation by conducting case studies of researchers' data practices; (2) translating and comparing needs for archiving and sharing data in curation profiles; and (3) converting the results into formalized policies that can be used by repositories to enhance curation and access to data collections. Specific outcomes include determining if there are differences in the levels or types of data that might be shared throughout the data lifecycle across disciplines and determining whether librarians have a role in the facilitation of sharing in a number of ways.

This project is supported by a National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.