Charleston Seminar: Introduction to Data Curation
Join us for the inaugural event of the Charleston Seminar series taught
by faculty from UNC Chapel Hill School of Information & Library Science.
Register now! http://bit.ly/chs14data
When: Monday, November 3 (all day) and Tuesday, November 4 (half day)
Where: The Francis Marion Hotel (387 King Street, Charleston, SC 29403)
Abstract: Libraries and archives are increasingly responsible for
curation of digital data. This includes not only acquiring and managing
data but curation within the context of libraries and archives. It will
be an interactive event, include a combination of lecture, discussion
and also engagement with data creators and facilitating new forms of
research through data use. This workshop will provide participants with
an introduction to the primary opportunities, challenges, principles and
strategies for addressing data practical exercises.
Instructors:
Jon Crabtree -
Jonathan Crabtree is Assistant Director for Archives and Information
Technology at the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at UNC
Chapel Hill. As assistant director, Crabtree completely revamped the
institute’s technology infrastructure and has positioned the institute
to assume a leading national role in information archiving. His current
efforts include working with the University of Michigan, the Institute
for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University and preservation
partners across the country to create a national preservation strategy
for social science data and shaping the institute’s geospatial analysis
program to introduce geospatial methods into social science research at
UNC Chapel Hill. Crabtree’s twenty two years of experience in
information technology and networking as well as his engineering
background bring a different perspective to his current role.
Crabtree joined the institute twenty years ago and is responsible for
designing and maintaining the technology infrastructure that supports
the institute’s wide array of services. Before moving to the social
science side of campus he was an information systems technologist for
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine. His
grounding in medical information technology adds to his education and
training in electrical engineering, computer science, economics,
information & library science, geographic information systems, hydrology
and geomorphology. In addition to his work at the institute he is
working part time on an advance degree in the School of Information &
Library Science here at UNC. He has local roots here in the Chapel Hill
area and is active in the volunteer community. His recent efforts
include chairing the building committee for Woods Charter School which
has resulted in an exciting new educational facility for the community
as well as volunteering as a scoutmaster in a local Boy Scout troop.
Christopher (Cal) Lee - Christopher (Cal) Lee is Associate Professor at
the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill. He teaches courses on archival administration;
records management; digital curation; understanding information
technology for managing digital collections; and digital forensics. He
is a lead organizer and instructor for the DigCCurr Professional
Institute, and he teaches professional workshops on the application of
digital forensics methods and principles to digital acquisitions.
Cal’s primary area of research is the curation of digital collections.
He is particularly interested in the professionalization of this work
and the diffusion of existing tools and methods into professional
practice. Cal developed “A Framework for Contextual Information in
Digital Collections,” and edited and provided several chapters to I,
Digital: Personal Collections in the Digital Era published by the
Society of American Archivists.
Cal is Principal Investigator of BitCurator, which is developing and
disseminating open-source digital forensics tools for use by archivists
and librarians. He was also Principal Investigator of the Digital
Acquisition Learning Laboratory (DALL) project and is Senior Personnel
on the DataNet Federation Consortium funded by the National Science
Foundation. Cal has served as Co-PI on several projects focused on
digital curation education: Preserving Access to Our Digital Future:
Building an International Digital Curation Curriculum (DigCCurr),
DigCCurr II: Extending an International Digital Curation Curriculum to
Doctoral Students and Practitioners; Educating Stewards of Public
Information for the 21st Century (ESOPI-21), Educating Stewards of the
Public Information Infrastructure (ESOPI2), and Closing the Digital
Curation Gap (CDCG).
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