Most
of the research data currently produced by graduate students in the course of
conducting the research associated with their thesis or dissertation is lost to
the university upon graduation. At best, it is stored on hard drives or servers
without metadata or other information to describe what the data consists of,
how it is structured, or how one might use it. It is therefore unavailable for
validation and reuse by other scientists via the internet. This year, the
Center for Digital Scholarship and Services (CDSS) at OSU Libraries interviewed
Posted - October 25, 2012