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GSLIS to Hold Summer Institute for Humanities Data Curation

January 28, 2009

The Data Curation Education Program (DCEP) at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) will hold a Summer Institute for Humanities Data Curation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from May 18 through 22, 2009.

The Institute will be directed by Allen H. Renear, associate professor and associate dean for research at GSLIS, and sessions will be conducted by leading specialists in the various fields that are involved in the curation of humanities data.

Data curation is the active and on-going management of research data through its lifecycle of interest and usefulness to scholarship, science, and education. With support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, GSLIS has been a pioneer in the development of data curation education within library and information science. Last year's institute focused on data curation for science data. This year’s workshop focuses on data services and curation activities for humanities data, particularly in academic libraries.

Topics to be covered include: metadata, text encoding, format and encoding management, technical aspects of data repository systems, day-to-day digital preservation, support for tools and applications, and resource requirements for a data curation program that includes humanities data.

Participants will learn:

• what skill sets, resources, and collaborations are necessary to develop and implement a data curation program in an academic library or research project;
• the principles and best practices for implementing and doing humanities data curation;
• the components of a repository development plan (goals, institutional commitment, responsibility, collection development policy, preservation plan, data management plan).

A particular focus of this year's institute will be managing textual data, including textbases, repositories, XML text encoding, preservation, metadata, and tools for analysis.

Invited session leaders include: Julia Flanders (Brown University), Syd Bauman (Brown University), Dorothea Salo (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Michael Sperberg-McQueen (MIT/W3C), Carole Palmer (University of Illinois), John Unsworth (University of Illinois), and other faculty from the University of Illinois. A keynote will be presented by Lorcan Dempsey, Vice President and Chief Strategist of OCLC.

The institute will run from Monday morning, May 18, through noon Friday, May 22. Rooms at the Hilton Garden Inn and Homewood Suites in Champaign have been reserved for Sunday, May 18, through Thursday (night), May 21, 2009, ($119/night). There will be shuttle service to and from campus. Thanks to support from IMLS, no tuition will be charged for the institute. In addition, a small number of lodging bursaries are available and will be awarded based on need.

Applications are now being accepted from practicing academic librarians and other information professionals who want to learn more about data curation services in academic libraries. Up to three people from a single institution may apply. The Institute will be limited to 24 participants.

Applications are due by March 7, 2009. The form is available online.

For more information, contact Institute Coordinator "Lauren Teffeau"-teffeau, at illinois.edu- by email or (217) 333-1980.

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