professional media

摘要

The amount of digital research data being created and stored in repositories has burgeoned over time, increasing opportunities for its scholarship, collaboration, sharing, and reuse. Along with the volume, scope, and complexity of data, these trends call for action on the part of those managing data repositories to ensure ' it remain accessible. In Volume 1, editor Johnston (librarian, Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Data Information Literacy) presents a collection of entries by librarians, data managers, research scientists, and others that discuss motivations, current practices, challenges, and other topics surrounding the curation of research data. These writings provide an excellent introduction to data curation while encouraging data managers and those offering research data services to consider ideas and techniques in strategic planning, current and emerging issues, and practical opportunities for policy development and executino. For example, readers will find a discussion of survey results and interview responses from academic institutions on outreach and promotion of their data repositories and curation services. This chapter also features insight on current practices, successful (and less so) outreach, lessons learned, and more.