Data Curation Profile Toolkit
http://www4.lib.purdue.edu/dcp/

This website is an environment where academic librarians of all kinds, special librarians at research facilities, archivists involved in the preservation of digital data, and those who support digital repositories can find help, support and camaraderie in exploring avenues to learn more about working with research data and the use of the Data Curation Profiles Tool. A Data Curation Profile is essentially an outline of the “story” of a data set or collection, describing its origin and lifecycle within a research project. The Profile and its associated Toolkit grew out of an inquiry into the changing environment of scholarly communication, especially the possibility of researchers providing access to data much further upstream than previously imagined. Data Curation Profiles can: a) provide a guide for discussing data with researchers; b) give insight into areas of attention in data management; c) help assess information needs related to data collections; d) give insight into differences between data in various disciplines; e) help identify possible data services; and f) create a starting point for curating a data set for archiving and preservation. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.