April 17, 2018

Purdue Libraries to host research infrastructure talk on April 26

Purdue Libraries will host G. Sayeed Choudhury, associate dean for research data management and Hodson Director of the Digital Research and Curation Center at Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, at 10 a.m. on April 26 in Stewart Center, Room 320.

Choudhury will give a presentation titled "Research Infrastructure for Open Scholarship." The event is free and open to the public.

This talk offers an opportunity to hear about the Sheridan Libraries as a case study within the broader context of open scholarship and research infrastructure.

Choudhury, a President Barack Obama appointee to the National Museum and Library Services Board, is a member of the Executive Committee for the Institute of Data Intensive Engineering and Science based at Johns Hopkins. He also is a member of the board of the National Information Standards Organization and a member of the advisory board for OpenAIRE2020.

He has been a member of the National Academies Board on Research Data and Information, the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research council, the DuraSpace Board, Digital Library Federation advisory committee, Library of Congress’ National Digital Stewardship Alliance Coordinating Committee, Federation of Earth Scientists Information Partnership Executive Committee and the Project MUSE Advisory Board.

Additionally, he has served as Senior Presidential Fellow with the Council on Library and Information Resources, a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins and a research fellow at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

He is the recipient of the 2012 OCLC/LITA Kilgour Award. For more information about Choudhury, see www.library.jhu.edu/staff/g-sayeed-choudhury/ and https://members.educause.edu/sayeed-choudhury.

The event is sponsored the Purdue Libraries Seminar Committee.


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