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The increasing volume and importance of research data leads to the emergence of research data infrastructures in which data management plays an important role. As a consequence, practices at digital archives and libraries change. In this paper, we focus on a possible alliance between archives and libraries around training activities in data curation. We introduce a so-called FrontOffice–BackOffice model and discuss experiences of its implementation in the Netherlands. In this model, an efficient division of tasks relies on a distributed infrastructure in which research institutions (i.e., universities) use centralized storage and data curation services provided by national research data archives. The training activities are aimed at information professionals working at those research institutions, for instance as digital librarians. We describe our experiences with the course DataIntelligence4Librarians. Eventually, we reflect about the international dimension of education and training around data curation and stewardship.
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Personal communication Henk Koning, former Technical Archivist at DANS.
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The 3TU.Datacenter – a network organization of the university libraries of Delft University of Technology, Eindhoven University of Technology, and the University of Twente – offers facilities for the preservation and the sustained availability of technical research data, similar to the services at DANS (see http://data.3tu.nl/repository/).
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The following colleagues have been involved in the DataIntelligence4Librarians course. Nicole Potters, Marina Noordegraaf, Madeleine de Smaele, Ellen Verbakel (from the 3TU.Datacenter) and Rene van Horik, Caroline van Zuilekom, Marion Wittenberg, Ingrid Dillo (from DANS).
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Dillo, I., van Horik, R., Scharnhorst, A. (2014). Training in Data Curation as Service in a Federated Data Infrastructure - The FrontOffice–BackOffice Model . In: Bolikowski, Ł., Casarosa, V., Goodale, P., Houssos, N., Manghi, P., Schirrwagen, J. (eds) Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries -- TPDL 2013 Selected Workshops. TPDL 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 416. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08425-1_23
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