The central role of metadata in a science data literacy course
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...Qin and D’Ignazio (2010b), for instance, stress the importance of scientific data management in future science workforce training and propose a term, science data literacy (SDL), defined to be “the ability to understand, use, and manage science data,” which entails “skills in collecting, processing, managing, evaluating, and using data for scientific inquiry....
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...Qin and D’Ignazio (2010b), for instance, stress the importance of scientific data management in future science workforce training and propose a term, science data literacy (SDL), defined to be “the ability to understand, use, and manage science data,” which entails “skills in collecting,…...
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...Along lines similar to those drawn by Qin and D’Ignazio (2010b) and Carlson et al. (2011), the Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School and the George C. Gordon Library, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, developed a set of Frameworks for a Data Management Curriculum (2012)…...
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...Qin and D’Ignazio (2010b), for instance, stress the importance of scientific data management in future science workforce training and propose a term, science data literacy (SDL), defined to be “the ability to understand, use, and manage science data,” which entails “skills in collecting, processing, managing, evaluating, and using data for scientific inquiry.” Their Science Data Management undergraduate course at Syracuse University, designed from input provided by a group of STEM teaching staff, consists of the following modules and topics (2010a): – Fundamentals of science data and data management: science data life cycle, databases, types of data, data sets description and data management – Managing data in aggregation: data collections, data and users, organizational planning – Broader issues in science data management: archiving practices, data curation, enabling technologies, data presentation, and data sharing....
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...One example on the data level is data formats (Gray et al., 2005)....
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...…widely accepted in the scientific research community, where applicable, in which the lowest level (level 0) is defined as “reconstructed unprocessed instrument data at full resolutions” and the highest level (4) is the “model output or results from analyses of lower-level data” (Bose & Frew, 2005)....
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...This type of metadata can alert researchers to data quality or usability issues related to types of instruments used and issues in performance or calibration (Brown & Brady, 2007)....
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...As Schield points out, data literacy should include understanding a wide variety of tools for accessing, converting, and manipulating data (Schield, 2004)....
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