A Scalable Approach to Data Management Education of Graduate Students

As part of the Data Information Literacy (DIL) project, funded by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the University of Minnesota (UMN) Libraries partnered with Purdue University, Cornell University, and the University of Oregon to identify:

• What data management and curation skills are needed by graduate students in the sciences to take advantage of opportunities in e-science?
• How can academic librarians contribute their expertise in information organization, dissemination and preservation to better serve modern science?

The UMN team worked with a structures research group in the Civil Engineering Department.