Training in Data Curation as Service in a Federated Data Infrastructure - the FrontOffice-BackOffice Model

The increasing volume and importance of research data leads to the emergence of research data infrastructures in which data management plays an important role. As a consequence, practices at digital archives and libraries change. In this paper, we focus on a possible alliance between archives and li...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2013-09
Main Authors: Dillo, Ingrid, Rene van Horik, Scharnhorst, Andrea
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Colleges & universities
Data management
Digital archives
Information professionals
Infrastructure
R&D
Research & development
Training
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Summary:The increasing volume and importance of research data leads to the emergence of research data infrastructures in which data management plays an important role. As a consequence, practices at digital archives and libraries change. In this paper, we focus on a possible alliance between archives and libraries around training activities in data curation. We introduce a so-called \emph{FrontOffice--BackOffice model} and discuss experiences of its implementation in the Netherlands. In this model, an efficient division of tasks relies on a distributed infrastructure in which research institutions (i.e., universities) use centralized storage and data curation services provided by national research data archives. The training activities are aimed at information professionals working at those research institutions, for instance as digital librarians. We describe our experiences with the course \emph{DataIntelligence4Librarians}. Eventually, we reflect about the international dimension of education and training around data curation and stewardship.
ISSN:2331-8422