Data Conservancy presentation agenda  @ JHU

 

 

 

 

Overview

Headquartered at the Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University, the Data Conservancy (DC) community includes university libraries, national data centers, national research labs and information science research and education programs.

 

Initially funded by the National Science Foundation’s DataNet program, DC has made significant advances in four major areas:

1.     A focused research program that examined research practices both broadly across multiple disciplines as well as deeply in selected disciplines in order to understand the data curation tools and services needed to support the interdisciplinary research community;

2.     An infrastructure development program that developed a cyberinfrastructure base on which these data management and curation services could be layered; and

3.     Data curation educational and professional development programs aimed at developing a deeper understanding of data management within the research community as well as workforce development within the library community.

4.     Development of Sustainability models for long term data curation.

 

The common theme of Data Conservancy’s efforts is recognizing the need for institutional and community solutions to digital research data collection, curation and preservation challenges.  DC tools and services incentivize scientists and researchers to participate in these data curation efforts by adding value to existing data and allowing the full potential of data integration and discovery to be realized.