Educopia Institute

The Educopia Institute, in partnership with the MetaArchive Cooperative, University of North Texas, Penn State, Purdue and Morehouse, among others, will address a national need for preserving and making available supplemental research data and complex digital objects that accompany Electronic Thesis & Dissertation (ETD) submissions. The project will produce guidance briefs on targeted digital curation topics related to data and complex digital objects; a curation workbench geared toward preservation; and an accompanying workshop series to train ETD program stakeholders (students, faculty, administrators, librarians, archivists, and IT professionals) in the use of these resources. Attitudes about and adoption of research data and digital management of Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) members will be tracked, and workshop attendees nationwide will gain knowledge and skills.