<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default">The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) invites original student submissions for a research paper competition on data curation. </div>
<div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">The competition encourages and highlights exemplary student research on data curation, including, but not limited to, such topics as:</div><div class="gmail_default">
<ul><li>Data management planning<br></li><li>Support of the data curation lifecycle<br></li><li>Metadata<br></li><li>Data confidentiality<br></li><li>Preservation<br></li><li>Cost modeling<br></li></ul></div><div class="gmail_default">
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.<br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">
This contest is new in 2014 and was initiated with the help of longtime ICPSR Official Representative Libbie Stephenson.</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">The first-place winner receives $1,000; second place, $750.</div>
<div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">The submission deadline is <b>May 30, 2014</b>.</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><b>Additional Information</b></div><div class="gmail_default">
<div class="gmail_default"><ul><li>For details and entry forms, visit the ICPSR <a href="http://tinyurl.com/curation-papers">paper competition web page</a> (<a href="http://tinyurl.com/curation-papers">http://tinyurl.com/curation-papers</a>).<br>
</li><li>Download the <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/files/ICPSR/prize/2014-data-curation-competition-web.pdf">promotional flyer</a> for display on your campus (<a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/files/ICPSR/prize/2014-data-curation-competition-web.pdf">http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/files/ICPSR/prize/2014-data-curation-competition-web.pdf</a>).<br>
</li><li>Have questions? Contact <a href="mailto:lyle@umich.edu">Jared Lyle</a> (<a href="mailto:lyle@umich.edu">lyle@umich.edu</a>).<br></li></ul></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div></div></div>
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