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Michael Witt

Michael Witt is an associate professor of library science and the head of the Distributed Data Curation Center (D2C2) at the Purdue University Libraries. The D2C2 focuses on the extension of library services, practices, standards, and tools as well as the application of library science principles to research data curation.

While our RDA Data Repository Attributes Working Group (DRAWG) is currently in maintenance mode, many of us are continuing to do outreach and promote adoption of our Recommendation. Two recent examples are: Kathleen and Matt contributed presentations to the workshop, “Data Repository Descriptive Metadata: Recommendations & Resources“, put on by the World Data System on January […]
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February 22, 2025
The re3data.org registry has been in operation for over 10 years and provides a curated index of over 3,000 research data repositories around the world from all disciplines. New repositories are identified and reviewed by an international editorial board who bring different subject, language, and cultural backgrounds to catalog and represent a diverse and ever-growing […]
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February 29, 2024
________________________________ Zoom link: https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/93795817709 Collaborative notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fz6jFQEwidgH-GYWD8Sy9KlDFIrbCfFPJLVm… Michael Witt is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: RDA Data Repository Attributes Working Group Monthly Call Time: Aug 17, 2023 08:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Every month on the Third Thu, 3 occurrences: Aug 17, 2023 08:00 AM Sep 21, 2023 08:00 AM […]
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November 7, 2023
Zoom link: https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/93795817709 Collaborative notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fz6jFQEwidgH-GYWD8Sy9KlDFIrbCfFPJLVm… Michael Witt is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: RDA Data Repository Attributes Working Group Monthly Call Time: Aug 17, 2023 08:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Every month on the Third Thu, 3 occurrences: Aug 17, 2023 08:00 AM Sep 21, 2023 08:00 AM Oct […]
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November 7, 2023
Dear all, just a reminder for those attending International Data Week in Salzburg and participating remotely that our plenary session takes place today, immediately after lunch, in the Europa Hall. You can see the agenda and help us take notes this collaborative Google Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16QH4O_zVKItB4WE1G8bOAWEnrfWIqwrfccbj… Please take a moment to “add to agenda” in the […]
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October 23, 2023
Dear DRAWG, We will meet tomorrow to wrap up some loose ends before P21 in Austria next week–depending on questions and discussion, it may be a short meeting. We will hear an update from the sub-group that has gone through the exercise of creating examples of their own repositories and wrap up some loose ends […]
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October 18, 2023
Dear DRAWG, Just a reminder of our call tomorrow: Zoom: https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/93795817709 Agenda/Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fz6jFQEwidgH-GYWD8Sy9KlDFIrbCfFPJLVm… The main item on our agenda will to review together and discuss the structure and content of the repository examples that we’re developing as our supporting output. A draft of an example is linked in the agenda if you want to peek […]
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September 20, 2023
Just a reminder that we have a different link for today’s meeting! Zoom link: https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/93795817709 – Michael Witt Associate Professor of Library Science Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies http://www.lib.purdue.edu/research/witt
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August 17, 2023
Dear RDA DRAWG, just a reminder of our call tomorrow. The focus of our discussion will be on the supporting output, which is to be a selection of examples of data repositories that illustrate different approaches currently being taken by data repositories to express and expose attributes about themselves for both human and machine consumption. […]
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August 16, 2023