University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
The Data Curation Education Program (DCEP) at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS)at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is a concentration within our ALA-accredited Master of Science in Library Science degree program. The DCEP contentraion offers a focus on data collection and management, knowledge representation, digital preservation and archiving, data standards, and policy. Data curation is the active and on-going management of data through its lifecycle of interest and usefulness to scholarship, science, and education. Data curation activities enable data discovery and retrieval, maintain its quality, add value, and provide for re-use over time, and this new field includes authentication, archiving, management, preservation, retrieval, and representation. Our program will provide a strong focus on the theory and skills necessary to work directly with academic and industry researchers who need data curation expertise.
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