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This Wed — a special visitor is coming to campus. Dr. Beth Plale will be talking about archives for scientific data and her topic has interdisciplinary interest. This talk is of special interest for those interested in academic libraries, archives and/or scientific information. I know this is a very busy week but I hope some of you can join us!

Who: Dr. Beth Plale
What: Workflows and Provenance: The Bridge from Active to Archived
When: Wed, Dec 10. 10-11:30 AM
Where: Hodges Library Presentation Room 220-E

More details:
About Dr. Beth Plale:
Professor Plale has broad research and governance interest in long term preservation and access to scientific data, and enabling computational access to large-scale data for broader groups of researchers. Her specific research interests are in tools for metadata and provenance capture, data repositories, cyberinfrastructure for large-scale data analysis, and workflow systems. Plale is deeply engaged in interdisciplinary research and education and has substantive experience in developing stable and useable scientific cyberinfrastructure.
Professor Plale is Research Data Alliance<http://rd-alliance.org>-US Technology Co-Chair
Co-PI and IU lead on NSF DataNet Sustainable Environments-Actionable Data (SEAD) project
Co-Director, HathiTrust Research Center<http://hathitrust.org>
ACM Senior Member and IEEE Member; DOE Early Career Awardee; past Fellow of the CIC Academic Leadership Program
Editorial board for Journal of Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience.

About the presentation:
Workflows and Provenance: the Bridge from Active to Archived Data
Libraries have a critical role to play in the deluge of data emerging from scientific and scholarly activities. The libraries "get"
preservation better than any one else, a key to the longevity and availability of data. But the sheer amount and variety of data
Emerging today from computationally driven science on top of considerable attention to improving science reproducibility requires us to think in new ways about data curation, data quality, and data reuse. Workflows and data provenance are two key bridges between the active generation of science and scholarly activity and its ultimate publication and Archival.

Suzie Allard, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Research, College of Communication & Information
Professor, School of Information Sciences
Director, Center for Information & Communication Studies