Schedule

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Module	Topic	Slides
	Course Overview	pdf
1	Introduction to Data Curation
	Introduction to Data Curation	pdf
	Data Curation Universe	pdf
	Data Lifecycle Models	pdf
	The Curated Data Lake	pdf
	Curation Profile: GHCN	pdf
	Curation Profile: Common Crawl	pdf
2	Ethics, Law, and Policy
	Introduction to Ethics, Laws, and Policies	pdf
	Research and Data Ethics	pdf
	Privacy Laws	pdf
	De-Identification Methods	pdf
	Intellectual Property Laws	pdf
	AI Law and Data Curation	pdf
	Curation Profile: Census ACS	pdf
3	Data Abstractions - Relations
	Data Models	pdf
	The Problem	pdf
	The Relational Model	pdf
	How is the Relational Model Implemented?	pdf
	Abstraction, Indirection & Data Independence	pdf
	Relational Model and Curation Activities	pdf
	Tidy Data	pdf
4	Data Abstractions - Trees
	Text and Documents	pdf
	The Problem	pdf
	The Solution: (1) Descriptive Markup	pdf
	The Solution: (2) Trees	pdf
	Why The Solution Works	pdf
	Implementing The Solution with XML and JSON	pdf
5	Data Abstractions - Ontologies
	The Problem: Connecting Data to Information	pdf
	The Solution: Ontologies	pdf
	An ER/Ontology Example: FRBR	pdf
	Implementing Ontologies in RDF/RDFS	pdf
	Practical Ontologies with JSON-LD	pdf
6	Data Integration
	Data Cleaning, Data Integration	pdf
	Managing Heterogeneity	pdf
	Schema Integration	pdf
	Schema Integration: an example	pdf
	Example: The Curated Data Lake	pdf
7	Data Concepts
	What is data? A first attempt	pdf
	The Identity Problem	pdf
	Some Ontological Analysis	pdf
	A Way Forward: Roles and Types	pdf
	An Ontology for Data Concepts	pdf
	What is data?	pdf
8	Metadata
	What is Metadata?	pdf
	Metadata Schemas	pdf
	Common Metadata Ambiguities	pdf
	How Does Metadata Support Data Curation?	pdf
	Metadata in Practice	pdf
9	Identity
	Why is Identification Important?	pdf
	What Are We Identifying?	pdf
	How Do We Identify?	pdf
	Canonicalization	pdf
	Identifiers and Identifier Systems	pdf
10	Preservation
	Introduction to Data Preservation Challenges	pdf
	What is Data Preservation?	pdf
	The Preservation Integration Parallels	pdf
	Standard Data Preservation Strategies	pdf
	Two Data Preservation Standards	pdf
11	Standards
	Standards and Standards Organizations	pdf
	Some Standard Standards Maneuvers	pdf
	Compatibility	pdf
	Standards Organizations	pdf
12	Workflow, Provenance and Reproducibility
	Workflow	pdf
	Provenance	pdf
	Workflow Systems	pdf
	Provenance Standards	pdf extended
	Computational Reproducibility	pdf
13	Data Practices
	Data Practices	pdf
	What’s Going on in the Lab?	pdf
	Data Sharing	pdf
	Data Reuse	pdf
	Trends in Data Curation Research	pdf
14	Fall Break
15	Communication
	Communication and Data Curation	pdf
	Information Overload	pdf
	Limited Access to Research	pdf
	Research Integrity	pdf
	Beyond the PDF	pdf
16	Course Review	pdf