Data Conservancy CyberInfrastructure Early Development Case Study

This case study focuses on lessons learned during the Data Conservancy (DC) architecture and infrastructure development in its initial phases from 2009-2011. This study explores how the Infrastructure Research and Development team functioned, what the architecture underlying the DC infrastructure was, what compelling issues presented themselves during the project, and how those issues were resolved in terms of the context and reasoning of decisions made in the initial phases of the DC infrastructure development.NSF Award Number OCI-0830976unpublishednot peer reviewe

Google Digital Humanities Awards Recipient Interviews Report

As input into the development, design, and improvement of the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC), recipients of Google’s Digital Humanities Grants were interviewed to identify issues encountered during their projects. This project was guided by the following goals: - Increase empirical understanding of how to identify materials for use by scholars. - Increase empirical understanding of how to provide better access to materials for use by scholars. - Identify meaningful characteristics of content that affect identification, retrieval, and other parameters. - Identify data preprocessing and transformation issues encountered by scholars. - Provide input to inform the architecture of the HTRC related to representation of collections, faceted browsing, identifiers, etc.unpublishednot peer reviewe

Social Engineering Effects on Instructors and Students in an Elearning Environment

The University of Illinois through the Illinois Online Network has been offering an 8-week fully online course titled, Online Learning: An Overview, as part of the award winning Making the Virtual Classroom a Reality (MVCR) program for nine years. This course was specifically designed as an interactive student-led discussion-centered elearning experience as is typical for the distance education field in the United States. However, analysis of the history of distance education as well as current global course offerings shows that less social means of distance education have been and still are viable educational alternatives to the traditional classroom. Furthermore, evaluations completed for this course as well as final program evaluations in MVCR show that a significant portion of students would prefer an independent-study model. This study questions the dominant U.S. distance education paradigm by analyzing the same course taught at the same time by the same instructor under two activity-different but content-equivalent instructional designs. Variables analyzed through experiential case study, content analysis, an instructor journal, and surveys include student satisfaction and self-perceived learning, instructor satisfaction, instructor time requirements, and depth or level of student demonstrated knowledge

Studies of FliY Bacillus subtilis chemotaxis protein and construction of a glutathione S-transferasel/FliY fusion protein

Thesis (B.S.) in Biochemistry--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1993.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 22-25)U of I OnlyTheses restricted to UIUC community onl

Data Curation Education in Research Centers Internship Evaluation

One of the primary aspects of the Data Curation Education in Research Programs (DCERC) program is the incorporation of a data internships or field experiences into the educational program. The internship experiences will be evaluated and analyzed in three ways. First, an end-of-event survey was voluntary completed by the students and mentors. Second, anecdotal input by students and faculty will be integrated into the on-going case study. Third, the internship is being formally evaluated by an external evaluator through a focus group. The first aspect of this evaluation informed in parts by the other aspects is reported on here.IMLS RE-02-10-0004-10unpublishednot peer reviewe

Data Curation Education in Research Centers Workshop Evaluation

The Data Curation Education in Research Centers (DCERC) Summer Workshop was held at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, CO prior to the start of the student internship experiences (the beginning of the Masters students’ on-site research experience) and at the start of their first summer in the program. This report gives an overview of the results from a survey evaluating this workshop.IMLS RE-02-10-0004-10unpublishednot peer reviewe

Report on the Data Curation Research Summit

The Data Curation Research Summit consisted of four sessions, which followed opening contextual remarks provided by the organizers of both the DCRS and the previous Bloomsbury workshop. The first session was focused on current directions in research from the perspective of LIS faculty. The second session was devoted to approaches and challenges studying scientific data practices and needs. The third session covered current directions in research from the perspective of research libraries, and the final session returned to the original themes of the Bloomsbury conference with perspectives from the publishing community. This report provides a synopsis of the presentations as well as the broader group discussion of the summit. More specifically, this report highlights key emergent themes and concludes with recommendations for strategic research directions for advancing the state of knowledge and practice in the curation of research data. Briefs of the individual presentations are provided at the end of the report.Institute of Museum and Library Servicesunpublishednot peer reviewe

Analyzing Data Curation Job Descriptions (Poster & Abstract)

In developing the Data Curation Education Program (DCEP) at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, we have been engaged in a continuous, multi-faceted needs assessment of the range of data service needs for scientists and scholars across domains to inform curriculum development. The DCEP is training LIS professionals for employment across a range of information-oriented institutions, including data centers, libraries and institutional repositories, museums, archives, and private industry. As the data curation field matures, it is essential to assess required skill sets in relation to current jobs, as well as emerging or anticipated roles. This study uses current job postings as a source for analyzing the types of jobs emerging, the kinds of institutions looking for professionals with data curation skills, education requirements for current positions, and expectations for different categories of skill sets.published or submitted for publicatio