Training workshops were hosted at various venues across the United States in 2011, and then again in 2012. The scope of these workshops was to train participants in the application and use of the Data Curation Profile Toolkit.
Librarians, professors, researchers, or any other data creator that requires the resources to understand characteristics of metadata and of a dataset, life cycles of data, and how to enable machine readable data within a research project so that information can be shared openly across disciplines and hence increasing the reusability of data.
Development of the Data Curations Profiles toolkit began in August 2010. There are no current updates or improvements that have been announced.
The creators of this tool include, Purdue University Library, University of Michigan Library, Institute of Museum and Library Services, Distributed Data Curation Center. The Profile was created due to the rising inquiry to the changing environment of scholarly communication, especially concerning the possibility of researchers increasing access to data.
The Data Curation Profiles is a toolkit that provides librarians, professors, researchers, and any information expert with the resources necessary to describe the characteristics of a data set, including but not limited to: the origin of the data collection, key elements of the data, and the life cycle of that data that exists within the research project. This toolkit was designed to address the issues with researchers sharing data with others, facilitating scholarly communication. According to the creators of the Data Curation Profiles, this toolkit “is meant to help launch discussions between librarians and other information professionals at their institutions.” This tool enables data creators to: 1) Guide a discussion about data with other researchers, 2) Gain insight into areas of attention in data management, 3) Assess information needs related to data collections, and 4) Create a starting point for curating and preserving data.
The Data Curation Profiles is a toolkit that provides librarians, professors, researchers, and any information expert with the resources necessary to describe the characteristics of a data set, including but not limited to: the origin of the data collection, key elements of the data, and the life cycle of that data that exists within the research project. This toolkit was designed to address the issues with researchers sharing data with others, facilitating scholarly communication. According to the creators of the Data Curation Profiles, this toolkit “is meant to help launch discussions between librarians and other information professionals at their institutions.”