Creative commons

Creative commons website offers a great deal of information about sharing and utilising resources legally. The organisation itself has help initiate other projects, notably the links to academic and scientific creative commons websites. These contain more discussion, white papers, etc about how data could be shared and how collaborative projects could be conducted within that setting. This is reflective of how the overall recognition of the potential to share and utilise resources is growing rapidly overseas. This is in line with New Zealand's own digital strategy, however at this stage, I appear to be finding a great deal more information about what is taking place overseas rather than in New Zealand at this stage.

Introduction and Notes

This is the beginning of my INFO 580 project for completion of my MLIS.

I am very interested in exploring the possibility of New Zealand researchers data curation practices.

ROUGH NOTES:
Although there are many repositories established within academic institutions, I am intrigued by the amount of data researchers must have to manage as well as the possibilities which might exist, not only for data curation, but how researchers might share or collaborate on these.

"New Zealand researchers' data curation practices

Institutional repositories have become popular in the tertiary sector as a way of making academic research more widely available, and also preserving it for the future. There is growing interest in making research data available in a similar fashion, but we currently know little about how New Zealand researchers manage their data, and what data curation services may be needed." - SUPERVISOR

Questions:

Do researchers want to make academic research data more widely available? how do they want to preserve data? Issues involved?
How will this be done? Methods of data curation?
What would be the implications for collaboration?
Use of academic research data by students? Implications?