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Thursday, 15th October 2009

Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins Awarded $20 Million by the National Science Foundation

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The Sheridan Libraries have been awarded $20 million for data curation from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

The award, which was announced last Thursday, will provide funding towards the Data Conservancy project.

The principal investigator on the project was Sayeed Choudhury, an associate dean at the library and the Hodson Director of the Digital Research and Curation Center, who called the award "an opportunity to define a blueprint for research libraries in the digital age."

"Fundamentally, this award recognizes the growing importance of data-intensive research and learning," Choudhury wrote in an e-mail to the News-Letter.

The project will be developed over the next five years to create an infrastructure that will better manage digital information. Choudhury felt that Hopkins undergraduates will see the direct results of this project.

"Eventually, through the Data Conservancy, undergraduates will be able to seamlessly discover data that they need for research or courses without having to search multiple Web sites or disparate resources," he wrote.

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The funding will be allocated over the next five years. Hopkins will share funds with nine partner institutions, including Cornell University, the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the Marine Biological Laboratory.

In addition, the libraries have received $300,000 in grants fron the NSF towards examining the creation of an open-access database for research.

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