IU seeking specialists to preserve collected research

IU is joining forces to make further advances in preserving substantial amounts of collected data and research.

The University, with the Data to Insight Center and IU Libraries, was selected as a partner institution in the Council on Library Federation Data Curation Program.

The program is funded by a $679,827 grant  on behalf of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

“The scientific data projects we work on with the IU Libraries are complex, large and valuable in science when taken collectively and over time,”  said Beth Plale, director of the Data to Insight Center and managing director of the Pervasive Technology Institute, in a press release.  “The preservation and curation of this data is critical to advancing science.”

CLIR is recruiting six data curation fellows.  Those eligible will come from partner institutions: IU-Bloomington, Lehigh University, McMaster University, Purdue University, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Michigan, according to a press release.

— Michael Majchrowicz