Description: Lecture, three and one half hours. Designed for MLIS and PhD students. Survey of landscape of data practices and services, including data-intensive research methods; social studies of data practices; comparisons between disciplines; management of data by research teams, data centers, libraries, and archives; practices of data sharing and reuse; and introduction to national and international policy for stewardship of data. Assessment of data archiving needs of one research community and group project to develop real data management plan in partnership with UCLA researchers in other academic departments. Letter grading.

Units: 4.0