Abstract
This paper identifies a sample of research data curation and management courses available at American Library Association-accredited Library and Information Science (LIS) Programs in North America.
Highlights
Research data management is a relatively new field for librarians
A content analysis curricula, descriptions, and syllabi related to research data management offered to students at 58 ALA accredited Library and Information Science (LIS) programs in North America was performed
The Pratt Institute is rolling out a Cultural Heritage Access Research and Technology (CHART) certificate program and the University of North Texas and its iCURATE program offers courses on Digital Curation and Data
Summary
Research data management is a relatively new field for librarians It involves managing, preserving, providing, or helping to provide storage and access to large data sets accumulated by researchers. It strives to provide ways for these data to be made available to other researchers. Similar to Varvel et al (2012) and an analysis of biomedical and health informatics programs by Kampov-Polevoi and Hemminger (2010), the researchers complemented the analysis with a keyword search on each program’s website These keywords were: data curation, data management, data science, data sets, data librarianship, eScience, research data, and scientific data. The researchers reviewed the final sample of courses using Creamer et al.’s (2011) data management competencies as a framework to identify courses that included assignments and lessons that required students to practice these identified competencies: evaluating data formats and provenance, citing data sets, using metadata to describe data sets, preserving and storing data sets, and performing data interviews and developing a data management plan
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