Biography
Joel Herndon leads the Center for Data and Visualization Sciences in Duke University Libraries. The center provides consultations, training, and project support to a variety of data science, data curation, and digital scholarship communities. Joel’s recent work focuses on how universities and research libraries are responding to a growing demand for data science services and training.
Interests
- Data Science
- Research Data Services
- Data Management
Education
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PhD in Comparative Politics, 2001
Emory University
Grants and Projects
Realities of Academic Data Sharing (RADS) Project (IMLS Funded)
The US Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has awarded the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), in collaboration with Duke University, the University of Minnesota, and Washington University in St. Louis, all of whom are members of the Data Curation Network (DCN), a $741,921 National Leadership Grant to examine institutional expenses for public access to research data. This research builds upon ARL’s existing Realities of Academic Data Sharing initiative.
Realities of Academic Data Sharing (RADS) Project (NSF Funded)
In 2021 the Association of Research Libraries and six academic institutions involved in the Data Curation Network (DCN) were awarded a US National Science Foundation (NSF) EAGER grant (#2135874) to conduct research, develop models, and collect costing information for public access to research data across five disciplinary areas: environmental science, materials science, psychology, biomedical sciences, and physics.
Recent Publications
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(2022).
On the Edge: Balancing Space and Services in a Digital Scholarship Program.
In Designing Libraries for the 21st Century Edited by H. Thomas Hickerson, Joan Lippincott, and Leonora Crema.
(2021).
Data Curation Network End User Survey 2021.
Data Curation Network End User Survey Data 2021.
(2020).
Extending the Research Data Toolkit: Data Curation Primers.
International Journal of Digfital Curation.
(2018).
Data Curation Network: A Cross-Institutional Staffing Model for Curating Research Data.
International Journal of Digital Curation.
(2016).
Data Sharing Policies in Social Sciences Academic Journals: Evolving Expectations of Data Sharing as a Form of Scholarly Communication.
In Databrarianship: The Academic Data Librarian in Theory and Practice Edited by Lynda Kellam and Kristi Thompson.
Contact
- joel.herndon@gmail.com
- Duke University Libraries, PO Box 104732, Durham, NC 27708
- by apppointment
- GitHub
- Mastodon