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Byline: TCALDWELL

academia's

buried treasure

Data created in the course of research often goes unpublished and is soon buried in departmental or even individual systems. Yet the amount of data generated is rising at such a rate that institutions have realised that they need to do something about it. Moves are afoot to tame the data deluge and harness it so that it can be an accessible and shared resource.

University librarians have had little access to research data in the past but now they need to make it their business. If data is to be a reusable and shareable resource it has to be managed, indexed and archived. Who better to do ...

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