Databib: Cataloging the World's Data Repositories

Speaker : Prof. Michael Witt, Assistant Professor of Library Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

About Topic : Databib (http://databib.org) is a curated, global, online catalog of research data repositories. Librarians and other information professionals have identified and cataloged over 500 data repositories that can be easily browsed and searched by users or integrated with other platforms or cyberinfrastructure. Databib can help researchers find appropriate repositories to deposit their data, and it gives consumers of data a tool to discover repositories of datasets that meet their research or learning needs. Users can submit new repositories to Databib, which are reviewed and curated by an international board of editors. All information from Databib has been contributed to the public domain using the Creative Commons Zero protocol. Supported machine interfaces and formats include RSS, OpenSearch, RDF/XML, Linked Data (RDFa), and social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, and Google+.

About Speaker : Michael Witt is an Assistant Professor of Library Science and Interdisciplinary Research Librarian at Purdue University. Professor Witt is the project director for the Purdue University Research Repository (PURR), leading a collaboration of the Libraries, research office, and campus computing in the design and implementation of a campus data repository and supporting data services. He has presented and published in venues such as the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, International Digital Curation Conference, EDUCAUSE, Open Repositories, ASIST Research Data Access and Preservation Summit, Library Trends, Journal of Library Administration, College & Undergraduate Libraries, and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. His service to the profession includes chairing the LITA/OCLC Kilgour Award and LITA Library Hi-Tech Award committees and serving on the editorial board of Information Technology and Libraries. He is named on 17 internal and external grants in support of his research in the area of digital data curation. Witt is affiliated with the Distributed Data Curation Center at Purdue and serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Databib, an international catalog of data repositories. For more information about Professor Witt, visit http://www.lib.purdue.edu/research/witt.

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