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First off, congrats on the new position...sounds like it will be challenging. I know that provenance and workflow modeling of scientific datasets is a hot topic of research right now in certain circles. I dug out this link sent to a preservation list I am on concerning a toolkit that just received NSF funding: http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/6951.html Good luck, ~Matt Nathan Vack wrote: > OK, Code4Libbers, here's a question for y'all: > > I've taken a new job at a brain imaging lab on campus. The details > are still to be defined (they haven't had anyone in this position > before), but the problems they're trying to solve are things like > "Our researchers need to do a bunch of junk in Unix to process their > data; that's hard for them" and "Researchers are generating all kinds > of versions of data and it's filling the disk and five years later no > one knows which copies were used in this publication." > > In short, I'll be helping researchers collect, catalog, analyze, and > archive study data. It's not a 'library' position, but the more I > think about it, the more it seems like a place the libraries could > excel. Most labs can't afford someone to do this kind of work... but > from the grad students I've talked to, the need is HUGE. > > So, my question: Are research libraries out there doing this kind of > work? If not, do you have plans to start? Is Code4Lib still a good > place for me to hang out? > > Cheers, > -Nate > UW - Madison -- Matt Cordial Research Programmer University Library Digital Services and Development University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign