The Graduate School of Library and Information Science has launched the Data Curation Education Program (DCEP). This program has dual objectives: to develop a data curation concentration within our ALA-accredited master of science, and to develop "best practices" materials for the LIS and museum communities. The master's degree offers a focus on data collection and management, knowledge representation, digital preservation and archiving, data standards, and policy. Our program will provide the theory and skills necessary to work directly with academic and industry researchers who need data curation expertise. The program is establishing educational collaborations with premier science data centers across the country, and is intended to prepare a new generation of library and information science professionals to curate materials from databases and other formats. 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. With the support of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), we are able to provide internships with stipends at our partner organizations’ sites. In addition, there will be a limited number of fellowships available for qualified students. We anticipate that our graduates will be employed across a range of information-oriented institutions, including museums, data centers, libraries and institutional repositories, archives, and private industry. Admissions Information
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