University of Michigan

The early career project director will investigate the migration of research data collections between data management and preservation platforms over the course of the lifespan of specific datasets. The project also investigates the factors driving (and tensions arising from) the growing adoption by libraries of "off-the-shelf," sometimes proprietary, collections management systems. The project will develop a model of migration patterns in digital collections; best practices to better support the migration of research data collections; prototypes of tools and techniques to support migration processes, particularly focusing on migration audits, metadata creation, and data schema alignment; and open access course modules based on this work.