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Data Curation Education In Research Centers Poster, Christopher Eaker, Erica Johns, Kayla Siddell
Data Curation Education In Research Centers Poster, Christopher Eaker, Erica Johns, Kayla Siddell
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The volume of scientific data is growing exponentially across all scientific disciplines. Competent information professionals are needed to sort, catalog, store, and retrieve this data for future research and education requirements. In response to this need, the goal of the Data Curation Education in Research Centers (DCERC) project is to develop curriculum to educate information science students in the critical field of scientific data curation. Three masters degree students at University of Tennessee (UT) and three doctoral students at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign are completing year one of the program. Each brings to the field of data curation skills …