Getting Started with File Naming Conventions
Submitted by: Jake Carlson, Associate Professor of Library Science/Data Services Specialist, Purdue University, jakecarlson@purdue.edu, @jrcarlso Recently I had the pleasure of co-teaching a group of...
View ArticleIDCC 15 – Part 2 (It’s a big conference)
Last week in her blog post, Margaret discussed the twitter feed from the International Data Curation Conference (IDCC) that took place on Feb 9th to the 12th. I was fortunate enough to be able to...
View ArticleLost in Translation?
I think one of the most challenging aspects to being a data librarian is figuring out how to talk to people about what you do and the services that you provide. Metadata, curation, archiving all mean...
View ArticleData Librarians and a Stacked Deck
Submitted by Jake Carlson, Research Data Services Manager, University of Michigan, jakecar@umich.edu I recently came across three opinion pieces that got me thinking on the current state of data...
View ArticleThreshold Concepts and Data Information Literacy
One of the things I’m working on currently is developing a semester long data information literacy course with some of my colleagues for graduate students in the College of Engineering here at the...
View ArticleData Literacy for High School Students
I am very fortunate to be a part of the research team of an IMLS funded project examining data literacy in High Schools and possible roles for school librarians in developing educational programming on...
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