In 2008, the heads of the major campus service providers at UC San Diego recognized the need to streamline and enhance access to technology services on campus. With strong resource support from the Chancellor’s office, the team of service providers formed the Research Cyberinfrastructure Initiative, a campus program designed to centralize access for faculty to the abundance of technology services on campus, which included storage, networking, and high performance computing. One of the major new thrusts of this initiative was to commission the Library to develop a Research Data Curation Program (RDCP). The RDCP was formed at the end of 2013 to support the data management, publishing, and preservation needs that faculty would imminently need to address as a part of their research activities. The program now has a staff of 10 librarians and analysts, in partnership with other Library programs, to support data curation services on campus for faculty, staff, and students. These services include administration of online tools for writing data management plans and minting persistent identifiers, management of a data repository for sharing research data publicly, long term digital preservation, training classes, and consultation services.

Research data curation services at UC San Diego library

251st National Meeting (2016)

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