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Page Count

100

Language

English

Description

Filled with actionable guides and real-world examples, Stewards of Data: A Practical Handbook for Undergraduate Researchers in Engineering and Applied Sciences allows readers to utilize the provided templates and guides almost immediately. In today’s world, data is ubiquitous and AI is growing exponentially. Practicing ethical data management is, therefore, crucial. Ensuring that data is findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable is essential. This book is an interdisciplinary effort aimed at embedding ethical data life-cycle management education into undergraduate research. The authors present a Data Steward Framework, which serves as a guide for undergraduate researchers, the graduate students who mentor them, postdocs, and faculty. The toolkit prompts mentors and undergraduates to reason through ethical considerations, future consequences, and trade-off decisions as they plan, collect, describe, manage, visualize, curate, and share their data.

ISBN

9781626713918

Publication Date

Fall 10-15-2026

Publisher

Purdue University Press

City

West Lafayette

Keywords

data management plan, data dictionary, research management plan, FAIR data, metadata, intellectual property concerns, data privacy matters, data-driven projects, capstone design experiences, lab onboarding practices, mentoring conversations, experiential learning programs, instructional designers, archivists, sponsored research offices, model predictions, proprietary information, mathematical foundations, computational foundations, statistical foundations, data description and visualization, data modeling and assessment, workflow and reproducibility

Disciplines

Computer Sciences | Data Science

Comments

Open access publication of this title is supported by Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies.

Stewards of Data: A Practical Handbook for Undergraduate Researchers in Engineering and Applied Sciences

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