Case Study in Data Curation at Johns Hopkins University
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2008
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Library Trends
Abstract
At Johns Hopkins University, the institutional repository (IR) is being
developed as a component of an overall digital library architecture
that will emphasize long-term preservation. The IR represents a set
of services that will be developed to support the identified needs or
requirements of faculty and students. Given the research-intensive
environment at Johns Hopkins, one particular area of interest re-
lates to data sets from a diversity of disciplines ranging from the
humanities to the sciences. Essentially, the IR is being developed as
a “gateway” to the underlying digital archive that will support data
curation as part of an evolving cyberinfrastructure featuring open,
modular components. In addition to this technological framework,
Johns Hopkins is developing new roles and relationships between
the library and the academic community, most notably through the
development of “data scientists” or “data humanists.” These develop-
ments reflect the realization that the IR is the first step in a longer
journey and that for institutional efforts to be successful, they must
be integrated into a larger landscape of repositories that serve a
distributed and diverse academic community.
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Cyberinfrastructure, Data curation, Institutional Repository
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LIBRARY TRENDS, Vol. 57, No. 2, Fall 2008 (“Institutional Repositories: Current State and Future,” edited by Sarah L. Shreeves and Melissa H. Cragin), pp. 211–220 (c) 2009 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois