NSF-Digital Collections Inventory

Commission on Preservation and Access

Council on Library Resources
Commission on Preservation and Access

Digital Collections Inventory Report

Preliminary Results

By Patricia A. McClung
February 1996

National Science Foundation

The NSF has recently awarded grants totaling $24.4M (over 4 years) to six universities that are leading major research and development projects. They will develop systems for collecting, storing, and organizing digital information and making it readily available via the emerging Information Infrastructure. Institutions: Carnegie Mellon, UC Berkeley, University of Michigan, Stanford, UC Santa Barbara, and University of Illinois.

Contact: Y. T. Chien, Dir. of NSF's Division of Information, Robotics, and Intelligent Systems.

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Certificate in Data Curation

A new post-masters certificate program in data curation is now available at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Geared toward practicing professionals who are responsible for digital or data curation, the program emphasizes policy and technology in an intensive and extensive two-year, 30 credit hour program. The application deadline for summer admission is March 12, 2013. More information is available at http://sils.unc.edu/programs/graduate/post-masters-certificates/data-curation.