Tuesday, 28 February 2017

Curating Research Data - in two volumes

ACRL has posted the open access editions of the two-volume set titled Curating Research Data on their website at http://www.ala.org/acrl/publications/booksanddigitalresources/booksmonographs/catalog/publications
Edited by Lisa R. Johnston:

  • Volume 1 is a traditional edited volume with 12 chapters and explores the variety of reasons, motivations, and drivers for why data curation services are needed in the context of academic and disciplinary data repository efforts.  
  • Volume 2 is a how-to handbook of data curation techniques presented in 8 steps (from receive to reuse) and includes 30 case studies written by practitioners at institutional and disciplinary data repositories. 

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