Aligning with D2I's key thrust, scientific data preservation, the Center is please to announce two courses in managing and archiving data.

CSCI B669, Scientific Data Management and Preservation. This course will be offered through the School of Informatics and Computing and taught by Professor Beth Plale. The second course, SLIS 31401, is a new Topics in Library and Information Science course on Digital Curation and is being taught by Stacy Kowalczyk.

CSCI B669: Data Management and Preservation - Professor Beth Plale, School of Informatics and Computing and D2I Director

In Informatics East, Wednesday evenings from 5:30-8:o0 p.m. offered through the School of Informatics and Computing.

As supercomputers and modern scientific instruments allow scientists to generate data on everything from the human genome to the origin of distant planets and the changing climate of our own planet, we find ourselves awash in computational data - a problem often referred to as the data deluge. Data produced by these technologies are precious and irreplacable, holding the potential for greater scientific knowledge and understanding in perpetuity. In this seminar course we will explore multiple dimensions of scientific data management including issues at-scale and preservation and archiving.

• Provenance and metadata collection
• Linked data; semantics and ontologies of
• Scientific workflow systems and repositories at scale
• Secure enclaves, trusted repositories: the handling of sensitive data
• Principles of data preservation
• Performance monitoring and implications of alternate compute architectures (clouds, GPUs on data-centric computing)
• Data centric computing in earth and environment, and health and well being

The course utilizes lectures, presentations and discussions. If student interst and background merits, students will get hands-on experience with research tools and web services around a class project. See PTI's website for kinds of research tools to be explored. A full course description is available online.

SLIS 31401: Topics in Library and Information Science course on Digital Curation - Stacy Kowalczyk, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Data to Insight Center

3 credit-hour course on Tuesday evenings from 5:45-8:30 p.m.

Preserving digital materials, ensuring continued access, has emerged as a major initiative for academic libraries. Providing long-term access to digital materials has a number of challenges. Digital materials require constant and perpetual maintenance. Technologies change; equipment ages; software is superseded. Digital materials are not fixed and can easily be changed, either intentionally or unintentionally. This course provides an overview of the research in curating and preserving digital data, provides practical experience in working with digital materials, and will develop the skills necessary to create digital curation plans. A full course description is available online.