Research Data Management, Edited by Joyce M. Ray

Joyce M. Ray. Research Data Management: Practical Strategies for Information Professionals. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2014. 436 pages. ISBN 9781557536648.

This isn't a full-fledged review of Research Data Management; rather, it's just a short introduction to this book. Joyce Ray, currently a visiting professor at the Berlin School of Library and Information Science at Humboldt University, has edited this volume containing nineteen essays and case studies  which discuss how research data might be managed. The book is organized into six parts, addressing policy issues, planning, managing project data, archiving data in repositories, assessment, and in the sixth part, presenting four case studies. Clifford Lynch provides a concluding essay. The chapters are written by many of today's leaders and thinkers, all well-qualified to write on this topic.

Over the next week or two I will be discussing Research Data Management in this blog space. My university administration has just announced a forum on research data to be held in early May, so this book is very timely.