[ICPSR] [OR-Announce] Submissions Sought for Student Data Curation Research Paper Competition

Mark Thompson-Kolar mdmtk at umich.edu
Thu Feb 20 15:16:41 EST 2014


The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
invites original student submissions for a research paper competition on
data curation.

The competition encourages and highlights exemplary student research on
data curation, including, but not limited to, such topics as:

   - Data management planning
   - Support of the data curation lifecycle
   - Metadata
   - Data confidentiality
   - Preservation
   - Cost modeling

It is open to all undergraduate, master's, or PhD students, and recent
graduates who graduated on or after April 1, 2013. Entrants may be from the
US or outside the US.

This contest is new in 2014 and was initiated with the help of longtime
ICPSR Official Representative Libbie Stephenson.

The first-place winner receives $1,000; second place, $750.

The submission deadline is *May 30, 2014*.

*Additional Information*

   - For details and entry forms, visit the ICPSR paper competition
web page<http://tinyurl.com/curation-papers>(
   http://tinyurl.com/curation-papers).
   - Download the promotional
flyer<http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/files/ICPSR/prize/2014-data-curation-competition-web.pdf>for
display on your campus (
   http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/files/ICPSR/prize/2014-data-curation-competition-web.pdf
   ).
   - Have questions? Contact Jared Lyle <lyle at umich.edu> (lyle at umich.edu).
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